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Category: Time Travel
Book Review: The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver – by Shawn Inmon
On December 24, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Time Travel, Two and a Half Stars2 Comments
In 1976, Thomas Weaver is a sophomore student at Middle Falls High School. He is a socially awkward kid with mediocre grades. His father abandoned the family several years before. His mother raises him and his brother Zack, a senior, as a single mom working as a nurse. Zack is a star of the high school athletic team and one of the most popular kids in school.
One day Zack invites his younger brother to a party. There is heavy drinking going on, and Zack passes out cold. Thomas drags him into the passenger seat of Zack's Camaro. Even though he only has a learner's permit, he decides to drive the two of them home. Due to Thomas' inexperience as a driver, the car spins out of control, flips a few times and when it's all over, Thomas walks away and his brother, who was flung out of the car during the flips, is dead.
Neither Thomas nor his mother ever get over the loss. He ends up an alcoholic without a job at age 54 and decides to end it all by a massive overdose of pain pills.
And then – he wakes up in his 15-year-old body in the spring of 1976 in his old bedroom. After the initial shock, he realizes that he has a chance to do it all over again, and his most important goal is not to kill Zack this time around. But the business of changing history is not that simple.
I enjoyed reading this story. When I was done, I realized that the author has made a series out of this concept of people reliving their lives, and there are 18 standalone books, all part of the Middle Falls series, apparently all based on this premise. I am sure many of them will be quite entertaining. But one is enough for me.
Book Review: Split Second – by Douglas E. Richards
On September 22, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Two StarsLeave a comment
A brilliant physicist discovers that he can transport matter back in time, but only by 45.15 millionths of a second. That does not seem like a capability a that has any practical applications. However, as soon as the physicist sends an email to a close associate asking him to check his math, he and his girlfriend are abducted by a black operations team.
While that does seem like really bad news, it quickly gets worse, when the government team gets attacked on route by another force, which results in a gun battle that kills everyone but the girlfriend, who barely escapes. She hires a private detective to help her figure out what is going on.
What could possibly be so important that the government is literally willing to kill for it in cold blood?
Douglas E. Richards knows how to write page turners. His heroes are the most brilliant in their fields in the world. His villains are the most ruthless.
The concept of time travel in Split Second is based on leaving a copy of an object in the same space, while the earth moves to a different space in a given time interval. The earth rotates in 24 hours, which means that any point on its surface moves faster than a jet plane toward the east. The earth also circles around the sun in 365 days. The sun circles around the center of the galaxy once in about 250 million years. And our entire galaxy moves in yet another direction in space. Physicists have determined that this means that you and I move about 242 miles per second. This means that we, and any object, move about 58 feet in 45 microseconds. With the technology these guys invented, you can make a duplicate of any object and have it appear 58 feet away from where you copied it. It's all very complicated and makes for a good story.
But somehow the author glossed over the minor point that the direction of the duplication always needs to trail the movement of the earth in the universe, which is in a constant direction. So as the earth rotates, this can be up, or down, or towards the west or east or anything in between. It can't be controlled.
Yes, this is science fiction and you just have to accept that there is some magic tech involved. However, it bothered me that a book based on this much Einsteinian thought experimentation left this minor detail out of the equation. It kept getting in my way as I followed the plot.
Richards lives in San Diego, and so do I. This means that many of the locales he uses are very familiar to me and I can actually almost follow along, from Torrey Pines to San Ysidro, from Camp Pendleton to Orange County. Most importantly, I have spend a lot of time hiking and off-roading on Palomar Mountain, which is an important location in the plot of this story, and I therefore had very vivid and clear pictures in my head as I read the book.
I enjoyed Split Second enough to read it within a few days while traveling. I bought the second book in the series titled Time Frame since I was sure I'd want to know how the story continues. But after reading a few dozen pages into the sequel I quickly lost interest. I am sure it's also a very fast-paced plot but I just wasn't interested in reading more about this specific cast of characters and I decided not to read the next one after all.
Book Review: Sea of Tranquility – by Emily St. John Mandel
On July 24, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Pandemic, Time Travel, Two StarsLeave a comment
Sea of Tranquility is a misleading title for this book. This is a book about a pandemic (which came out just in April of 2022) which is meaningful as we all have learned a thing or two about pandemics in the last few years. It's a book about time travel with an unusual twist, and of course it was the time travel part that got my attention first. It has very little to do with what we associate with the Sea of Tranquility, the location of the Apollo 11 moon landing, other than there are several moon bases near that location by the year 2200, two of which play a major role in the plot.
It's also about the idea or concept that our entire world is just a simulation, an elaborate video game that someone or something else is playing.
The story starts in 1912 with the hapless son of a British aristocrat who has been sent to exile in British Columbia, and plays in part in the late 20th century, and then again in early 2200 and 2400.
There really is not one single protagonist to follow. It's a group of people and it takes some time for the tale's threads to get woven together into a consistent tapestry, but in the end it all makes sense.
It made me marvel about what it would be like to live on the moon and it provides some good and descriptive passages. It's a quick read, and I enjoyed the book.
Movie Review: The Adam Project (2022)
On May 29, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Movies, One Star, Time TravelLeave a comment
In 2050, time travel exists, and fighter jets can travel in time. Adam Reed is a pilot, trying to get to 2018, to save the future, but he crash-lands in 2022, conveniently in the backyard of his childhood home, where he meets his 12-year-old self. The two set out to fix a complicated future.
None of this makes much sense. The movie is an excuse for lots of Matrix-like action and video game scenes. There are even storm troopers who are wearing silver suits instead of white ones, but who are also just expendable ray gun fodder.
I was tempted to turn it off and leave it, but when I was half-way through, since it was, after all, a time travel flick, I stayed and watched it to the end.
Guess what, Adam fixed the future by fixing the past.
Book Review: Timeline – by Michael Crichton
On April 30, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Two and a Half StarsLeave a comment
Timeline was first published in 1999 and, having read most of Crichton's books, I head read it right away. I remembered it vaguely as a time travel thriller. So I picked it back up again a couple of weeks ago.
In France, a group of archeologists are studying a medieval village, complete with two castles and a monastery. All the buildings are ruins, of course, but they have a rich history dating back to the 14th century, while the Hundred Years' War was raging, and England was routinely attacking and invading France.
Their research is being funded by a multinational corporation. The company is led by a self-obsessed science tycoon in his mid thirties. It has developed a technology based on quantum science that allows them to travel in time. When one of the archeologists goes back to 1357 and does not come back, the company coerces some of the young scientists to follow him and bring him back.
To avoid anachronisms, they are not allowed to bring any technology, modern weapons or any objects from the future. When they arrive, practically in the middle of a battle, trouble starts quickly and the race to get back home begins.
Timeline is less of a time travel novel, and more a historical novel. The majority of the story takes place during a mere 39 hours starting on April 7, 1357. The protagonists have to battle knights, solve riddles, and play the opposing parties of the war. The whole thing is reminiscent of an episode of the modern television series The Amazing Race: "And now the contestants have to invent gunpowder to impress Lord Oliver. They only have two hours to do it or they'll be thrown in the dungeon and miss their chance to make it to the next stop."
Timeline is a historical thriller with a neat plot twist, where scientists get to visit the heyday of the castles, the ruins of which they study in the 21st century.
Book Review: Conrad's Time Machine – by Leo Frankowski
On April 14, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, One and a Half Stars, Science Fiction, Time TravelLeave a comment
The friends and former roommates with the strange names of Tom Kolczyskrenski (try to pronounce that), Ian McTavish and Jim Hasenpfeffer get together for a motorcycle cruise across the country.
Tom is an Air Force grunt with a genius IQ and an affinity for electronics.
Ian got his degree in mechanical engineering and has a lucrative job with GM.
Jim got his Ph.D. in behavioral science and is studying the social interactions of motorcycle gangs.
When the three are on the road, they hear an explosion nearby and happen to be the first ones at the scene, before any rescue services arrive. They find a perfectly hemispherical hole in the ground where a house used to be, and the former contents of the hole appearing in the surrounding area over time.
Long story short, they discover the plans for a technology that eventually ends up creating a time machine. And thus the three misfits decide that they are going to get very rich.
Frankowski is a good story teller. It's a lighthearted tale that does not take itself too seriously. The characters are funny and a bit cartoonish. They talk with each other like no real people would talk. Either the author intends it that way, or he is really poor with creating dialog. I think it's the former.
This book is full of casual time travel stunts in everyday life. It creates a new universe, of course so there can be more books in the series. Frankowski writes a lot of books in series, but the naming conventions are somewhat confusing. For instance, there is no Conrad in this book at all, and I can't quite understand where the title comes from.
In summary, it's a fun, lighthearted read with a lot of speculative science ideas and perfected time travel. The story is enjoyable, a crack-up even, albeit a bit hokey.
You might enjoy it. I myself won't be reading any more Frankowski books, though.
Book Review: Farnham's Freehold – by Robert A. Heinlein
It's the early 1960ies somewhere in Colorado near a military facility.
Hugh Farnham is a fifty-ish former soldier with an alcoholic and self-indulgent wife and two grown children. Like many of his contemporaries during the cold war, he is worried about nuclear war and has built a fully stocked bomb shelter under the ground in his back yard. One evening, when both his children are home, and his daughter brought a girlfriend, they play Bridge when suddenly the alarm is broadcast. There are incoming ballistic missiles. "This is not a test!"
Hugh and his family and friends, along with their negro house employee, move into the bomb shelter just in time to avoid the first nuclear blast right above them. Now Hugh's planning and survivalist skills come into play.
** Minor Spoilers Follow **
There are several blasts. The last is the most severe, and somehow the bomb shelter along with all its occupants is catapulted some 2,000 years into the future. American (or what's left of it) society at that time is very, very different. Eventually the Farnhams find themselves taken prisoner and enslaved. In the effort of trying to cope with their hopeless situation, they learn more and more about the local customs, traditions, science and history. Hugh is a free spirit who never gives up hope, and he meticulously plans his escape.
I read Farnham's Freehold many years ago, but I had forgotten just about everything about it. A friend recommended it as a classic Heinlein with time travel (albeit involuntary) as a central plot construct. We all know that Heinlein was a master of his craft, and Farnham's Freehold is no exception. In typical Heinlein style, there is very little exposition. The characters talk constantly, and through dialog Heinlein tells the story. Everything comes to life. Of course, there is some nudity and sex – there always seems to be in Heinlein novels. The plot is meticulously crafted.
Have you ever found yourself reading the beginning of a book sort of absentmindedly, because you can't get into it, but as you progress, you get pulled in? And then, when you get toward the end, you realize you missed something at the beginning, so you stop where you are and start over again? Well, that's exactly what happened to me. Once I got to page 322, I just had to check the beginning, and I went back to read the first 40 pages again, and sure enough, there were significant events there that contributed to the story that I had missed. Generally, when that happens to me with a book, it's a pretty good one.
Farnham's Freehold is an apocalyptic tome, a survivalist story, a time jump into a distant future with a very alien culture, and a neat plot twist at the end that makes it all worthwhile.
Book Review: Time Tunnel: The Eclipse – by Richard Todd
On March 31, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, History, One and a Half Stars, Science Fiction, Time TravelLeave a comment
It is 1890. Annika finds herself without a transponder, which is the device she needs to return home to her own time in 2008. Stranded in time, with no way to go home, she makes the best of her situation and fights for the Sioux. She has a little help, because Kyle left his backpack on the counter in a bar when it disappeared. The bag contained his laptop which had basically all human knowledge as of 2008 on its hard drive (go figure how that would be possible).
This is book three out of three in the Time Tunnel series by Richard Todd. There is a little time travel plot twist here, but otherwise it's just an alternate history story reminiscent of the trilogy by S.M. Stirling starting with Island in the Sea of Time.
I can recommend that series highly. In comparison, Time Tunnel: The Eclipse is a simple-minded tale of alternate history in a world where the United States disintegrates from internal strife and Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan rule the world outside of America.
Todd's character development devolves in this third book. Most of the characters do stuff and react in ways that do not make much sense and seem very unrealistic. I got the feeling that the author just wanted to hurry and wrap this series up.
I finished reading this book simply because I had invested time in the first two of the series and I wanted to learn what would happen to Annika. However, the third book didn't add anything new other than a neat plot twist at the end.
Book Review: Time Tunnel: The Empire – by Richard Todd
On March 28, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Two and a Half StarsLeave a comment
Kyle Mason changed world history in Book 1 when he prevented 9/11. His wife Padma, who had died in 9/11, was alive again when he returned. Since Kyle and Padma knew the future between 2001 and 2008, they started a company and became fabulously wealthy by playing the stock market (Apple, for example) and capitalizing on the 2008 market crash. Padma and Kyle were the world's first and only trillionaires. Padma, the face of their company, essentially "bought" the U.S. government and the country openly called her the Empress of America. She was running things.
That backdrop raised authoritarian opposition, ending in an eventual coup d'etat in America and totalitarian rule. One day emperors, the next day fugitives, Padma and Kyle retrenched to the time tunnel complex in Las Vegas. As government forces chased them down, they hurriedly escaped into time. Without proper navigation, they ended up in 1890 in South Dakota, just before the massacre at Wounded Knee. It was time for Kyle to change the nation's history again.
Most of the story takes place in Sioux country. The plot, while sometimes contrived, kept me turning the pages. When I was done, I picked up Book 3 right away.
Book Review: Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers – by Richard Todd
The story starts in the morning of September 10, 2001 in New York City. Kyle Mason, a major in the Special Forces, has just married Padma Mahajan, who works on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. She is an investment banker for Cantor Fitzgerald. They are staying in a hotel in SoHo, and out their window they can see the Twin Towers. Padma leaves to get Starbucks, while Kyle takes a shower. When he gets out, a mysterious figure appears in the mirror behind him.
Vignettes reach back to 1947 when supposedly UFOs crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There are episodes of the story in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and through the years, culminating in 2008 when a handful of brilliant scientists, sheltered and covered by the U.S. Army in Area 51, finally develop a working time machine.
Richard Todd is a good story teller and he creates credible characters, with good realistic dialog, and a fast-paced plot. I enjoyed reading this book until the last sentence, at which time I decided to buy Book 2 of the 3-book series.
Book Review: Time of Death – by Nathan Van Coops
On January 23, 2022 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Two and a Half StarsLeave a comment
A young widow hires Greyson Travers, a private detective, to investigate the suicide of her husband. Since she does not believe her husband would commit suicide, she thinks it was murder, but she has no proof. Travers has a great reputation for solving crimes, so she hires him to figure out what happened.
What she does not know, of course, is that Travers is a time traveler. Rather than figuring out what might have happened, he simply goes back to the time and place of the crime and watches it happen. What could be simpler?
He quickly realizes that the crime is much more complicated than it appears, and there are other time-traveling criminals involved. He quickly finds himself ensnared by the mob and some very dangerous characters who use time travel to commit crimes.
Greyson Travers is the son of Ben and Mym Travers of Van Coops' In Time Like These series of books, all of which I found highly readable. It is not necessary to read those books before enjoying Time of Death. It stands alone, and the author slowly introduces the concepts of time travel of the In Times Like These universe without it getting in our faces.
I have read all of those books, and if you're interested, here is a summary of my reviews. You can click on the titles to jump right to them.
Nathan Van Coops Agent of Time Fiction Time Travel 2 Dec 13, 2020
Nathan Van Coops The Warp Clock Fiction Time Travel 3 Oct 9, 2018
Nathan Van Coops The Day after Never Fiction Time Travel 2 Jan 2, 2017
Nathan Van Coops The Chronothon Fiction Time Travel 3 Dec 3, 2016
Nathan Van Coops In Times Like These Fiction Time Travel 3 Oct 31, 2016
Time of Death is basically a murder mystery and it deals with a heist.
There was only one issue I had with the plot. The mob figures in the story have the ability to travel in time, but they organize this weird heist to collect cash from a casino. Seriously, if I were a time traveler, it would be so much easier to get rich, without hurting anyone, without cheating anyone else. Why not go back to 1980 and buy some Apple stock? Then come back to 2022 and enjoy the fruits of that decision. Oh well, there would be no murder mystery then.
I enjoyed all of Nathan Van Coops' books, and I rated them all between 2 and 3 stars. They are always very readable and fast-paced. Time of Death is a fairly short book and a quick, fun read.
Book Review: Seven Rules of Time Travel – by Roy Huff
On April 12, 2021 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Books (not finished reading), Time TravelLeave a comment
This story tries to speculate what it would be like to change the past. Quinn Black wakes up one morning, goes to work, and along the way witnesses a terrible accident in which is boss and friend dies in front of his eyes.
The next day, he wakes up again at the same time, and makes small changes, but can't avoid the inevitable outcome. Groundhog Day – they made a movie about this decades ago.
Quinn realizes that he can just will himself to any day or time, generally in the past that he can remember, and relive it. However, when he goes back to his youth to meet up with his best friend, he is not the old Quinn, he is the old Quinn in the young Quinn's body of that time.
The "rules" of time travel are very nebulous in this story, and it's not very scientific.
I simply got bored and lost interest. I read 104 out of the 307 pages, stopped at 33%, never to go back.
I usually force myself to finish a book, but some are so bad, I can't do it. That's why I have a category "books not finished reading" that you can search and see all the other ones.
Consistent with my own rules for reviews, I do not rate a book I didn't finish.
As far as time travel stories are concerned, I recommend you skip this book, and its sequel. There is nothing original or even remotely interesting here.
Book Review: Agent of Time – by Nathan Van Coops
On December 13, 2020 By Norbert HauptIn Books, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Two StarsLeave a comment
It's 1985 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Rookie Special Agent Stella York is one of the first female FBI agents, and she does not have the support of her peers or her superiors. Yet, the case she is put on is completely baffling.
Two dead men are found in a van that crashed into a power pole, yet the power pole does not show any damage, while the van is totaled. The van is a GMC model nobody has ever heard of in 1985. Furthermore, the license plate expiration sticker shows "10."
One of the dead men's fingerprints are an exact match with those of a prison guard at a local prison – which is impossible. Then, during a chase on I-275 North, she witnesses the gory death of a suspect in a car accident, yet, she runs into him very much alive a day later. Nothing makes sense, until one of the witnesses opens up to her and tells her that she's dealing with time travelers. From the chronological point of view, events seem to happen out of order.
Agent York is losing all her professional credibility when she approaches her superiors with her theory.
Agent of Time plays in Nathan Van Coops' universe of the In Times Like These, a series of books I have read. See the reviews here:
In Times Like These
The Chronothon
The Day After Never
The Warp Clock
More specifically, Agent of Time plays within the In Times Like These story. I have read prequels to successful books before, and they are usually entertaining, because I know the world that comes after the prequel ends. But I have never read a book that plays "within the original story."
If you have read the hugely famous Harry Potter series of books, you will understand what "Muggles" are. In Harry Potter, the action takes place among people who are involved in magic: wizards, sorcerers, and the like. Everyone knows that magic is real, and understands its rules. Muggles are the regular people, like you and I, who do not have magical talents and in almost all cases do not believe in magic and do not know it's going on all around us – well – at least in the Harry Potter universe.
In Nathan Van Coops' books, the action takes place among people who routinely travel in time. They take it for granted, and they use it creatively. But the rest of us, the time-Muggles, have no idea time travel is possible, it's happening, and it's routine for some people. Agent of Time plays parallel to the story of In Times Like These, but it is told from the point of view of time-Muggles like Stella York. What would it look like if there were time travelers amongst us, doing their things, and what would it be like if there were time traveling criminals?
You don't need to have read In Times Like These to understand Agent of Time, but you will enjoy it MUCH more if you have. I would recommend that you read In Times Like These first, then read Agent of Time, and you'll have the best experience.
Agent of Time is a short book of only 137 pages. It was free on Amazon. I literally read the whole thing in one day, yesterday. The author probably was in a rush to get it out, because it fell kind of short. The ending was somewhat abrupt, probably setting us up for the next Stella York story, the time-Muggle. But it's a good addition to the series, and Van Coops is still, in my opinion, one of the strongest writers in the genre.
Movie Review: 41
On December 7, 2020 By Norbert HauptIn Time Travel, Two StarsLeave a comment
41 is a pretty bad movie title for an amateur movie. You have to actually watch it to understand what it is.
Aidan is a college student to seems to go through the motions in his life without a lot of enthusiasm. One morning, after class, somebody that looks like himself, walks up to him and tells him not to go to the Heathscape Hotel.
Of course, that's like somebody telling you not to think of a yellow elephant. So Aiden ends up going to the Heathscape Hotel and through a few strange events discovers that in room 41 (hence the title of the movie) in the bathroom, there is a time-portal. All he has to do is pull back the linoleum in the corner of the bathroom, climb into the hole for a moment, pull himself back out, and he arrives – yesterday.
Since it's yesterday, he can now leave the room, if he makes it past any potential occupants in the hotel room itself, walk downstairs and find himself. After all, he should remember what he did yesterday, and then find himself. However, if there is somebody in the room and he can't leave the bathroom – no problem – just climb back under the floor for a second, come back out yesterday again, which, of course, is now the day before yesterday of the original day.
By going back in time, he is trying to prevent the death of his girlfriend in a gruesome car accident while he was driving, but he does not seem to succeed.
41 is actually a pretty good time travel story, albeit with one plot problem: If you can only travel back, you create another copy of yourself every time you do it, and you really never come back to the present. This conundrum isn't solved in this movie, but it has a pretty neat twist at the end that makes it a worthwhile story, so much so, that you'll be tempted to want to watch it again to make sure what you saw was what actually happened.
The acting is poor, the production is skimpy, and the plot is full of major holes, but there is one hole in a bathroom in room 41 that makes it all worthwhile.
Movie Review: Alistair1918
On December 5, 2020 By Norbert HauptIn Movies, Time Travel, Two and a Half StarsLeave a comment
It's 2015 in Los Angeles. Poppy (Annie K. McVey) and her film crew are working on a documentary of homelessness in Los Angeles. As they walk the streets and parks where homeless people abound, they get approached by a man in an antique woolen brown uniform who speaks with an English accent. His name is Alistair (Guy Birtwhistle). He asks for their help. He is quick, in a nonchalant way, to tell his story: The last thing he remembers was being in the trenches in World War I in 1918, when a grenade hit. He flew through the air, and ended up landing on top of a shipping container in an industrial section of Los Angeles. He's been here for a month and literally learned to live off the land, mostly by trapping squirrels in the park, which he roasts and eats.
He has a wife and a life in 1918, and he wants to get back. The film crew has a hard time believing him, and for the most part think he is a mentally ill person with a fantastic imagination. Only Poppy wants to believe him. She starts taking him in and tries to help him on his journey back.
Alistair1918 is a simple time travel story with an unlikely and far-fetched plot. But it works. Alistair acts like a man catapulted 100 years into the future, although he picks up modern skills astonishingly quickly. He seems to teach himself typing and learning how to use a computer and the Internet in record time. Cameras seem to come naturally to him. He is an excellent map reader and he seems to be able to figure calculations on the movement of worm holes (which are needed for time travel) very quickly. While the time travel technology is somewhat hokey, it works in this movie. The ending is surprisingly satisfying.
This is definitely a low-budget film, and as such quite successful. It was completed in 2015. Guy Birtwhistle wrote and produced the movie, and also starred as the male lead, Alistair. Annie K. McVey directed the movie, and also starred as the female lead, Poppy. With only a handful other actors, and very simple scenery, I would say Alistair 1918 is a successful, quirky, but enjoyable time travel movie.


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Seeger takes first in 300 hurdles at State Open
June 13, 2018 - Sports, Track and Field - Tagged: Naugatuck High School, track and field, Woodland - no comments
Track and field athletes from across Connecticut came together at Willow Brook Park in New Britain on June 4 for the State Open to decide a champion in each of…
Commitment carries Naugatuck's Seeger
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Greyhounds run at Class L meet
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Woodland wraps up another title
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'Hounds run well despite conditions
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SEYMOUR — Despite steady rain that didn't end until the final race of Tuesday's Naugatuck Valley League outdoor track and field championships, Naugatuck coach Ralph Roper was pleased with the…
Woodland girls keep track title streak alive
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Hawks in position to vie for title
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Naugy looks to surprise at NVLs
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Siblings create family atmosphere for Naugatuck
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Natural Balance Organic Dog Food gets the Advisor's mid-tier rating of 3.5 stars.
The Natural Balance Organic product line lists one dry dog food claimed to meet AAFCO nutrient profiles for all life stages.
The first ingredient in this dog food is organic chicken. Although it is a quality item, raw chicken contains about 80% water. After cooking, most of that moisture is lost, reducing the meat content to just a fraction of its original weight.
The second ingredient is organic brown rice, a complex carbohydrate that (once cooked) can be fairly easy to digest. However, aside from its natural energy content, rice is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
The third ingredient is chicken meal. Chicken meal is considered a meat concentrate and contains nearly 300% more protein than fresh chicken.
The fourth item lists organic oats. Oats are rich in B-vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber.
The fifth ingredient is organic millet, a gluten-free grain harvested from certain seed grasses. Millet is hypoallergenic and naturally rich in B-vitamins and fiber as well as other essential minerals.
The sixth item is organic barley. Barley is a starchy carbohydrate supplying fiber and other healthy nutrients. Unlike grains with a higher glycemic index, barley can help support more stable blood sugar levels.
The seventh ingredient is organic sorghum. Sorghum (milo) is a starchy cereal grain with a nutrient profile similar to corn.
The eighth ingredient lists organic peas. Peas are a quality source of carbohydrates. Plus (like all legumes) they're rich in natural fiber.
The ninth ingredient lists organic potatoes. Potatoes can be considered a gluten-free source of digestible carbohydrates. Yet with the exception of perhaps their caloric content, potatoes are of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
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Greg Johnson on Homosexuality
Posted By: Hunter Wallace July 2, 2013
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Editor's Note: I had originally deleted this article, but several of you saw it while it was up and requested that I restore it, so here goes.
In a new article he will probably later regret writing, Greg Johnson has waded into the gay marriage thicket at Counter-Currents.
1.) It is natural and normal to marry and reproduce with someone of the same race, but the American elite promotes miscegenation because it hates White Christian America, and celebrating miscegenation is a way to normalize race-mixing, promote perversion, and undermine the culture of the despised White Christian majority.
2.) The American elite actively promotes "gay marriage" (as opposed to "tolerates") for the same reason it promotes interracial marriage. It is a means to the end of leveling and destroying hierarchical institutions like the White nuclear family that are seen as "reactionary" and standing in the way of "equality" and "progress."
3.) Just as homosexuality exists in nature, the same is true of miscegenation, adultery, sexual promiscuity, polygamy, and pedophilia, but we once had social conventions like anti-miscegenation laws and anti-sodomy laws that stigmatized and criminalized this behavior and promoted and privileged White heterosexual monogamy as America's normative cultural ideal.
4.) We already know from bitter experience that the American elite's promotion of miscegenation, homosexuality, adultery, and sexual promiscuity has successfully undermined America's traditional sexual mores and the White nuclear family even within White Nationalist circles.
5.) While it may not be possible to dismantle "heteronormativity" and "patriarchy" as an innate biological tendency within the human species, the American elite has already succeeded – as the recent Supreme Court rulings have shown – in undermining "heteronormativity" and "patriarchy" as America's privileged cultural ideal.
The American elite has succeeded in moving America from "Leave It To Beaver" and the "Andy Griffith Show" to "Sex In The City" and "Will and Grace" and "Girls" and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians." They have succeeded in promoting bisexuality and homosexuality and miscegenation among impressionable teenage girls.
6.) It is normal and natural for human beings to love their own children, but we live in a society where there have been almost 50 million abortions since 1970. It is normal and natural to dislike outsiders and love your own ethnic group, but we live in a society that systematically redistributes wealth from Whites to blacks and where it is taboo for Whites alone to express pride in their race and culture.
7.) Many a White American husband knows from America's divorce laws that changing the law has already changed the stability of social conventions like marriage. Since the anti-miscegenation laws were changed, interracial marriage has skyrocketed.
8.) The same people who have been pushing feminism and miscegenation and abortion for decades are now behind the push for "marriage equality." The push for "gay marriage" (like the push for the legalization of miscegenation) in no way implies that particular form of attack is the only or even the most successful way in which the White nuclear family has been undermined.
9.) If we really want to defend marriage and strengthen the family, we could do all the things that Greg Johnson suggests, and we could also stigmatize homosexuality and ban "gay marriage" and restore heterosexual marriage to its traditional privileged role in our culture like the Russians are already doing.
10.) Greg Johnson attacks a straw man argument that a homosexual cabal is behind the push for gay marriage. Just like interracial marriage and feminism, the push for "gay marriage" is driven by leftwing ideology and animus toward America's White Christian majority; the welfare and "civil rights" of the blacks and homosexuals is an afterthought to the people who are behind this.
11.) Vice President Joe Biden recently told the world that the Jews did gay marriage. It would be strange then if opposition to "gay marriage" – something which is supported by 76% of Jews in America – is really a conspiracy to "misdirect and dissipate Right-wing dissent lest it give rise to a genuine populism."
12.) While it is true that abortion in the South is a net racial tailwind, it would be strange if a people who are supportive or indifferent to the abortion of their own posterity would simultaneously be moved to care about something as abstract as the future racial composition of the United States.
13.) If we were serious about "saving our race," among other things we would support traditional marriage, criminalize abortion among Whites, stigmatize homosexuality and miscegenation, ban "gay marriage," rewrite the divorce laws, and change the tax laws to promote high fertility among young White couples.
14.) I'm convinced that opposition to "gay marriage" is just the predictable response to the issue by a traditional Christian culture.
15.) Alternatively, we could be "intolerant" and jettison liberalism, which would free us of the guilt of "discriminating" in law and custom in favor of White heterosexual monogamy and marriage, which is the ideal way to "save our race."
16.) Dissolving the Union would separate the South from the culture that has given us abolition, civil rights, feminism, women's suffrage, and now "gay marriage." The Left defeats the Right, not because it wins "metapolitical battles," but solely because it is the dominant force in the majority section of the United States.
The Left lost the "metapolitical battle" on "gay marriage" in the South and Interior West. Every Southern state has passed a constitutional ban on "gay marriage." In the 1960s, 95 percent of Southerners in Congress voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but because of the existence of the Union, Jim Crow was crushed from Washington by federal power and resistance collapsed when its supporters were demoralized.
The lawsuits are already being filed to overturn gay marriage bans in Arkansas and Alabama. The issue will go to the federal courts where a federal judge will strike down the law. The same thing happened with Alabama's HB 56.
17.) I also believe that "gay marriage" like illegal alien amnesty, affirmative action, gun control, "global climate change," abortion, and Obamacare is a distraction from the real issue – the existence of the Union – which is the only reason we are even debating these matters.
In an independent Southern Republic, "gay marriage" would be a non-issue. Heterosexual marriage would be restored to its traditional privileged role in our culture. The anti-sodomy laws would be restored. There would be a sea change in taboos overnight as the Christian majority reasserted its preferences.
Because of the existence of the Union, the tastes and attitudes of the Northeast, West Coast, and Upper Midwest will keep being imposed on the rest of the country. These people never really "win" the argument. They never won the argument on abortion or segregation. They resort to force.
Hunter Wallace
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Occidental Dissent
52 Comments on "Greg Johnson on Homosexuality"
DixieGirl | July 2, 2013 at 11:19 am |
Idk, I couldn't very far in that article.
Anybody who thinks the 'nuclear' (what a thing to call a family, LOL) family is "hierarchical" probably is from the northeast and didn't really have a mommy and daddy in the same house, or if they did, it was northeast mommies and daddies who maybe really do come from that.
If you ACTUALLY WERE FROM america, and therefore had lived, in Jamestown, or Mass. Bay, or the old Port Tobacco and got sick of it, too, and moved out to what became Kentucky, Ohio, PA, etc, THEN you know those women did quite a lot on the old pioneer frontier. And well… we always have had Queens and they are pretty powerful.
It was a much more BIBLICAL kind of relation in the protestant america (HELPMATE RELATIONS), so it wasn't that there was a HEIRARCHY but that the women DID DIFFERENT jobs, things they were more suited for, and that were deeply and completely AS NECESSARY as what the men did.
It just shows you're not from protestant america, not really, if you say things like that—-since you obviously then DO NOT HAVE EARLY AMERICANS in your history, who were the epitome of sharing responsibilities (and intelligently dividing the work in accordance with what they were good at).
They were not "heirarchical" city people, whose fat wives shop and have asians do their nails while the husband does some corrupt job on wall street or whatever… whose IDEAL is the geisha girl thing, a non-entity as a wife.
Pioneer women had LOADS of personality, and could weild shotguns just fine. They just did different things in a very real and active relationship. Not a "heirarchy" in the city sense of it.
Southern women have always been like that, too.
Anyone who thinks a southern woman does not have some form of power is seriously deluded. Any real southern man knows that. The others have never been in a room with such ladies
Mosin Nagant | July 2, 2013 at 11:44 am |
Re: "criminalize abortion among Whites":
…but not for others? Do you recommend that government (taxpayers) pay all costs of abortions and "family planning", and sterilisation, for all NON-Whites regardless of income? If that doesn't work, the next step would be FORCED sterilization, correct? Southern Christians who read this site will not support a secular independent Dixie movement that plans to do such things.
Re: "the tastes and attitudes of the Northeast, West Coast, and Upper Midwest will keep being imposed on the rest of the country":
…unless something is done to ban or block all airwave and electronic transmissions, and live performances, of UNWHITE music and other entertainments, coming from both INSIDE (where did jazz, blues, rap, rasta reggae and rock originate but the dear old Golden Circle?) and outside the region. Music is the universal language indeed. Most Whites have had their natural ethnic tastes corrupted by constant exposure.
Finally, your response never mentions that sodomy is condemned in the Bible, where it is not a biological abnormality but an ABOMINATION, a mortal sin that WILL bar anyone from Glory without thorough, complete repentance!
Dixiegirl, that was an excellent comment on the woman's role in the normal, rural white Christian family and household, whether Protestant or Anabaptist. She is indeed the Queen.
I have also seen a few real life examples of the Talmudic "heirarchial" model, in which the white wife is under constant direction, "kept" in fear as well as luxury.
PDK | July 2, 2013 at 12:05 pm |
As far as white liberal promoted miscegenation goes, my olfactory senses out mulattoism as the most probable, long term, desired materialization.
With all gene pools melded into one, and therefore with all from the same gene pool, that population will make for a very congenial, herdable flock followers the liberal shepherds want for their socialist democracy to work.
Further, if the GLBT people would mature up to the point of keeping their lifestyle in their own house, no one would care one way or the other about them. However, being immature as all liberals are they want to force their private business upon our collective, at our collectives expense.
Worse, many of them are child predators hunting our children, while "pretending it is their right" to do so.
America is a dead man walking. Time for non-liberals to talk secession. Thank you.
PS, to the moderator, I seem unable to post a direct link to my blog as others do, any suggestions? Thank you.
Hunter Wallace | July 2, 2013 at 12:07 pm |
Re: DixieGirl
I live in Alabama.
Where do you live? In the Deep South, it was always traditional for the man to be the head of the household, and his wife and children were subordinate to his authority. This was recognized in both law and custom.
The man was subordinate to God. The wife was subordinate to her husband. Children were subordinate to their father. That's the way things used to be done.
Wayne | July 2, 2013 at 12:08 pm |
Mosin: per the Bible, homosexuality is just a classification of sexual sins, no worse than adultery.
Re: Mosin Nagant
Women's suffrage and feminism were considered radical Northeastern ideas in the 19th century South.
PDK: …and endless expansion of government to house, clothe, educate and medicate the herd.
Here's an excerpt from the Shifting Grounds review in the archives:
"For a range of nonfictional southern spokesmen as well, civilization itself rested on appropriate gender roles and relations. While the slave South was maintaining the proper order of things, the North and sometimes the rest of the Western world, was not. In his 1856 graduation address to the Virginia Military Institute, George Rumbough explained that free society was foolish to question the natural, divinely ordained order of things. Listing the dangerous "isms" he saw to the north, Rumbough included women's rights, Bloomerism, and Free-Loveism, along with socialism, atheism, and abolitionism. The North's distorted ideas about slavery were not only tied up with its misguided ideas about religion, liberty, and government, but also with its foolish misconceptions of manhood and womanhood. Rumbough contrasted the South, "where woman, the most powerful, the purest, noblest element of society, is considered as an object of love," with the North, "where woman "is viewed as an object of distrust, and far from beautifying, transcends the boundaries of modesty and decency, and sighs for an MD suffix or the transcendent reputation of a philanthropic lecturer." One of many advantages of basing a society on slavery rather than free labor, according to Rumbough and others, was that the institution safeguarded hierarchies of gender as well as of race.
Southern fears about gender proprieties illustrate how urgent the sectional conflict could become when it appeared to enter the realm of the home and family. One Virginia farmer, writing to a local newspaper in 1854, expressed just such fears. Responding to rumors that a female preacher had been plying her trade in the area, the farmer expressed disbelief then sharp anxiety. "Some hundreds are right uneasy about their wives," he wrote. "They are afraid that some of them women's rights folks, from the N., are traveling among us, and that some wives are encouraging them." Even an antislavery fanatic would be more acceptable than a feminist, though the letter-writer. "One would spoil our negroes, but the other would spoil our wives and sweethearts, and either, would be made a bad piece of property." Perhaps intending that his readers should take the loaded word "insurrection" with a grain of salt (the word was strongly associated with slave revolts in the antebellum South) the farmer concluded: "It is feared that there will be an insurrection among the women, and that they will begin to chew tobacco and drink whiskey." Likewise, the North Carolina congressman David Outlaw recoiled at the apparent immorality of the society he encountered in Washington, D.C. In Outlaw's eyes, it was the behavior of northern women there that caused moral deterioration. "There is a boldness," he wrote to his wife, "a brazenfacedness about Northern city women, as well as a looseness of morals which I hoped may never be introduced south." In this way white southerners who worried about such matters sectionalized anxieties about moral decline, projecting those anxieties onto their image of the North."
Earl Butz | July 2, 2013 at 12:15 pm |
@DixieGirl
In general the wife outlives the husband by at least 7 to 10 years. After his death the wife then controls the money the husband has made, plus whatever she made or inherited. So in general women are the real money power, a lot of folks don't get this fact of life. In lots of cases the wife outlives the husband by 20 or more years!
That's why someone like you needs to breathe life back into the UDC, Southern Clubs etc. If the League of the South, CofCC etc. are smart they will make a move in that direction too—natural outreach.
In the egalitarian Quaker model, the White man is on the same level as the negro, and his wife and children.
…but not for others? Do you recommend that government (taxpayers) pay all costs of abortions and "family planning", and sterilisation, for all NON-Whites regardless of income?
Obviously, if abortion were illegal in most cases among Whites and contraception was deterred and a healthier attitude was cultivated toward posterity and the tax code was changed to promote White family formation rather than the proliferation of negroes, we would be much better off than we are today.
I don't think it is practical for the state to sterilize all non-Whites. I think that is an absurd, unrealistic scenario. I do believe that abortion is a net racial tailwind for Southern Whites. I wouldn't ban ALL abortion or birth control. I would just discourage it within our own community.
If negroes want to abort their own children, well, that's on them.
If that doesn't work, the next step would be FORCED sterilization, correct? Southern Christians who read this site will not support a secular independent Dixie movement that plans to do such things.
I'm not sure where you are getting this from. I didn't say anything about sterilization above. You are just making shit up at this point. I think sterilization is called for in some cases, but not in others.
That's something that could easily be done without the ACLU and the federal courts. There is ample precedent for it in our own history.
That's probably because I wasn't making a theological argument.
Metal Gear / Iceman | July 2, 2013 at 12:42 pm |
You really are a forgiving person, Hunter, lol. Let's not forget what Jim Giles said earlier, about the man who sticks up for a certain group.
Jagdflieger | July 2, 2013 at 12:56 pm |
Excellent analysis as usual Hunter. I have been telling my family and friends the same thing; this sudden push for sodomite "marriage" is just another arrow in the left's quiver to be used towards their ultimate goal, the destruction of 2,000 years of Western culture and civilization. At heart they don't give a damn about marriage, which they consider a bourgeois formality anyways, they simply want to reduce the institution of marriage to a meaningless mockery of what it once was meant to be and undermine what little is left of the Christian values that once were imperative.
haroldcrews | July 2, 2013 at 1:06 pm |
Let's see women in the Old South could not vote, hold office or own land. Additionally as mentioned or implied earlier women were kept out of the professions. This included medicine, the law and clergy. There were a few institutions of higher education for women in the South but certainly not on the same level or number as existed for men. Let's be clear the family was hierarchical and male dominated. Women were subordinated to their fathers and husbands. Only a loon would think otherwise. This doesn't mean that Southern women were weak but only that the direction their strength was expressed was limited in comparison to men. Were there exceptions? Yes of course but that doesn't negate the general rule of patriarchy.
Besides the above chivalry in the South was real. Women could not simultaneously be on the pedestal and side by side with men.
But Hunter, come on admit it. Dixiegirl has your number doesn't she? You like Palmetto Patriot are actually a crypto-papist aren't you? You don't come from 'real' Protestants do you? Though to be honest I'm not quite sure what the distinction is between a 'real' Protestant is from a regular Protestant.
Mark | July 2, 2013 at 1:29 pm |
I had originally deleted this article
Some people think it's a benign issue and it's not, anyone who knows this sociopathic pervert and his sycophants can easily see that they are subverting WN in a subtle way for their own agenda.
This idea that we should blindly go along with anyone that professes WN is naive.
I'm thankful that we do have the South and Old Europe, that we do have alternatives to these numerous despicable, mentally ill people that infest American WN. If that were our only choice I'd say we do deserve to be destroyed.
Why is saving our race in quotes? We're under legitimate long-term threat and race is real.
In most cases we already have all of the legal precedents that we need, they were previously legal and enforced. Reinstitute anti-miscegenation laws, immigration restriction favoring Northern European and those of Northern European descent (the founding population of America and the South), Whites-only citizenship, etc.
The more violent idea of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and/or mass sterilization are all unnecessary and would not only be impractical but they are not in our nature to do such things. I ask the people here, could you personally do it? Could you harm women and children? I certainly hope not, you would be a psychopath. No one is advocating harming innocent people to achieve our goals.
Aggressive measures aren't necessary, with secession and laws that are pro-White, non-Whites would naturally seek more liberal pastures where they can exploit willing Whites. There would be a voluntary mass exodus.
Of course, we will encounter violence even with ideas of secession and racial preservation, and self-defense is our legal right.
Douglas | July 2, 2013 at 1:30 pm |
Yes a federal judge will render the state bans on gay marriage unconstitutional. But how will they force anyone to marry gays? The only power the federal government will be able to use I. Reality is the power of the dollar. If the state has any guts this is what they will do. Refuse to go along with the court ruling and refuse t recognize the marriages. When the government fines the state and withholds federal funds, the state can withhold funds from social programs that specifically target minorities.
No-man | July 2, 2013 at 1:33 pm |
Take your time around the bases, Mr. Crews.
"Frontier feminism" is a popular myth in academia that obviously DixieGirl is unaware of, any truth to it occurred after settling, driven by the wives of industrialists in Flyover Country who had cash/free time without roots/culture. When white men were highly mobile marauders it was a worse crime to steal a horse than spoil a chunga..
Earl Butz | July 2, 2013 at 1:37 pm |
@ Hunter @harold
What do you mean could not hold (own) land. What planet was this on? Ever heard of a widow, like Martha Washington the wealthiest woman in Virginia? Or any prohibition on a spinster/unmarried woman inheriting, buying & selling, or owning property.
Also, in those days it was felt that the husband voted for the wife, and her vote would be redundant.
Metal Gear / Iceman | July 2, 2013 at 1:39 pm |
no-man,
Greg Johnson himself is a fag. Jim Giles and Alex Linder revealed this, Fade denied it, but then regretted denying it. Now he's back to denying it again.
Robert in Arabia | July 2, 2013 at 1:41 pm |
Very good article.
In the Judeo-Quaker model the White man is below them, as he is a historical oppressor and does not have victim status.
Hunter Wallace | July 2, 2013 at 1:49 pm |
Re: Mark
1.) Several reasons … tired of the issue and on the road, mainly. I didn't have time to finish my thoughts before I left the house.
2.) This is another illustration that WN is too broad to work. We've been over this issue with Greg several times before.
3.) As Palmetto was saying last night on Facebook, we need to focus on getting the ball moving here in Dixie.
4.) I was just noting the irony of all this talk about "saving our race" in the context of an article about homosexual marriage. You know, it would seem like homosexual marriage would be transparently ridiculous to someone interested in promoting racial preservation.
5.) Yes, this is not hard. If we could only get out of the Union, our traditional culture would naturally reassert itself.
6.) Mosin is just trolling for a reaction.
7.) Yes, we could easily create incentives for them to move to greener pastures in the Northern states. Almost half of them live there now.
8.) Pretty much.
Greg Johnson has waded into the gay marriage thicket
Greg Johnson doesn't "wade" into anything. He knows how to make an entrance, fabulous!
That's right, women did own land from inheritance, as long as they weren't married. When married legally the husband and wife were considered one person with the husband as the leader. Coverture in English common law gave all rights and ownership to the husband, until new laws were passed that allowed women to retain their property ownership.
Here's how Colin Woodard introduces the founding of Quaker Pennsylvania in American Nations:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb40EosBr90C&q=excrement
"Ironically, its beginnings were far from ordinary. Like Yankeedom, the Midlands were intended to be a model society, a utopia guided by the tenants of an unorthodox religion. In fact, Pennsylvania was created by perhaps the most controversial religious cult of the era, a group contemporaries accused of undermining "peace and order" and "sowing … the seeds of immediate ruin of religion, Church order … and … the state." Difficult though it may be to understand today, the Quakers were considered a radical and dangerous force, the late seventeenth century equivalent of crossing the hippie movement with the Church of Scientology."
Pennsylvania was created as a religious utopia like Massachusetts.
"Quakers spurned the social conventions of their day, refusing to bow or doff their hats to social superiors or to take part in formal religious services of any sort. They rejected the authority of church hierarchies, held women to be spiritually equal to men, and questioned the legitimacy of slavery."
Does this sound like anyone we know?
"Their leaders strode naked on city streets, or, daubed with excrement, into Anglican churches in efforts to provide models of humility; one Quaker rode naked on a donkey into England's second largest city on Palm Sunday in an unpopular reenactment of Christ's entry into Jerusalem. Overcome with rapture, they would fall into violent fits, or "quakes," that frightened non-believers. Many embraced martyrdom, repeatedly marching into unfriendly neighborhoods or onto New England town greens to preach or challenge ministers, reveling in the imprisonment, whippings, tongue borings or executions that followed."
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I agree, reminds me of Kevin MacDonald's claim that homosexuals have racial interests too. Oh really? A common slur used by homosexuals at heteros is to call us "breeders." As if reproducing civilization is some kind of a negative, it's irrational and laughable.
Instinctively they don't have any sort of racial interest. They're just in it for themselves.
Re: Iceman
I'm not denying anything.
There was some speculation at the time that Greg was interested in propagating his race. Feel free to ask him about it.
American Nations is a must-read.
Their leaders strode naked on city streets, or, daubed with excrement, into Anglican churches
DixieChick would consider this protestant ecumenism. She often hurts herself thinking about why Anglicans and Catholics seem to take eachother seriously while selectively ignoring less cultured denominations.
Jim Giles gets information from others, he didn't reveal anything.
Mischling Linder previously worked with fag Johnson, he allowed him to write movie reviews under the transvestite pseudonym The Cat Lady at his degenerate website. Only after having disagreements then did he "reveal" this out of spite. It wasn't out of moral principles, as he has none.
Hunter did know about it and collaborated with fag Johnson for a time, but people make mistakes and he learned from it. Others, such as "Dances with Fags" Injun Matt, don't learn from their mistakes.
Dances With Fags … LOL
Lew | July 2, 2013 at 2:51 pm |
Some truly pathetic comments here. You look like fools. The intellectual step down from Greg Johnson to the rest of you is more than enough to make informed people bust out laughing at your stupidity.
I urge any neutral people reading this to give Counter Currents and Greg Johnson's work a fair chance. It's being misrepresented here.
Greg knew what he was doing when he tossed this fireball out into cyberspace.
Didn't mean you. You make your points in a straightforward way. Not true for many of these other ones.
I technically agree with what he's saying – homosexuality is basically sex that is completely recreational without even the possibility of procreation.
On the other hand, let's not give him a chance, because he's in bed with phoraphaggots.
It was considered midwest radicalism on the east coast.
"Women's stories are noticeably absent from the master narrative of the Populist and Progressive movements, where their struggle for civil rights was more evident in the Midwest than any other region in the country. This collection of eleven biographical essays highlights women leaders in the Midwest who challenged gender, racial, class, and ethnic boundaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not only were these midwestern women powerful orators and active leaders, they were influential in shaping the culture in their communities.
These pioneering women include Amanda Berry Smith and Carry Nation who helped lay the groundwork for the Progressive Era, Esther Twente who helped develop higher education, Elfrieda von Rohr, Mary Sibley, and Linda Slaughter whose religious affiliations gave them leadership opportunities for political and social influence, Frances Dana Gage who contributed to women's rights and temperance issues, Marietta Bones who championed the women's suffrage movement, Alice Moore French who was American War Mothers founder and first president, socialist Genora Dollinger who spoke out for quality of life and rights in organizing a strike at a General Motors plant, and Harriett Friedman Woods who held various state political offices and a national office."
http://tsup.truman.edu/item.asp?itemId=418
All setting the stage for Betty Friedan, the mid-west jewess.
I hate the midwest and its people.
Iceman,
Is Jockstrap really a phora phag?
He's a sympathizer.
When he and Hunter were fighting, he brought the thing up.
Back to the substantial issue here … we don't want or need homosexual marriage in a Southern Republic. The only reason we are even debating this crazy idea is because of the existence of the Union
We need to return to the Old South model on all of these issues: the husband is the head of the household, the wife and children are subordinate to the husband, abortion and sodomy are illegal, ladies and gentlemen, divorce is rare, men are men and women are women, etc.
Obama has appointed a gay white guy named "Wally" as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
http://noticias.lainformacion.com/asuntos-sociales/homosexuales/la-designacion-de-un-embajador-gay-para-la-republica-dominicana-desata-la-polemica_nPndJncbIAvBADl3UZlY32/
Maxfield Parrish | July 2, 2013 at 3:27 pm |
Metal Gear / Iceman says: "Greg Johnson himself is a fag."
Common homos are indeed 'fags'. However, erudite, credentialed homos are 'fawgs', as in: "I say, Jeeves, I do believe our Greggy looks absolutely ravishing today. He truly is a credit to all we upper-crust fawgs in the WN movement."
And for anyone who has visited Counter-Currents for any period of time, Johnson's fellow 'fawgs' – such as writer James O'Meara and ankle-biter "Donar Van Holland", among others, should now be familiar.
As an aside, Harold Covington seems to have more than a casual relationship with Johnson, contributing jacket blurbs for Counter-Currents books, among other things – despite the fact that HAC calls for the systematic murder of homos once "the revolution" begins.
Some truly pathetic comments here. You look like fools.
You're pathetic, you're a fool, you're anti-intellectual, and you're just another spineless, sycophantic imp sucking up to a fag. You're the lowest of the low. Fuck you, you piece of shit.
If we ever had sterilization laws, you and those like you would be at the front of the line.
Matt Parrott | July 2, 2013 at 3:31 pm |
Others, such as "Dances with Fags" Injun Matt, don't learn from their mistakes.
I'm less than 1/32 Amerindian, and now I'm "Injun Matt"?
Tough crowd!
I don't wish to be inflammatory here, but is "Lew" himself a fawg – or just a sympathizer?
The same thing happened with Alabama's HB 56.
If we're going to name the Jew, we should name all of those involved.
Those who filed lawsuits against HB 56 included the DOJ, SPLC and a group of Christian clergy from Alabama. Reminds me of Hitler's statement that one can either be German or Christian.
In their complaint, clergy members from the Episcopal, Methodist, and Roman Catholic churches allege that HB56 "runs counter to the Christian spirit of compassion. The law is unconstitutional and a direct affront to the recognized and accepted Word of God. Because Alabama citizens are entitled to freely exercise their religion to show mercy to all people regardless of their immigration status."
The gravamen of the complaint in Parsley v. Bentley is the conflict between Christian duties of hospitality and the statute's mandate to be "inhospitable" to immigrants.
For example, the complaint alleges that if enforced, "Alabama's Anti-Immigration Law" will "make it a crime to follow God's command to be Good Samaritans" citing Luke 10:25-37 and "will place Alabama church members in the untenable position of verifying individuals' immigration documentation before being able to follow God's Word to 'love thy neighbor as thyself'" citing Matthew 22:39.
More specifically, the complaint raises particular instances that might result in the prosecution of clergy or church members.
If we now allow 1/32 wagon-burners into our fold, then those with 1/32 Jew should also be allowed in, because such a Jew-tainted person is actually whiter than a 1/32 tomahawk-thrower.
@Hunter
DixieGirl said, and I couldn't agree with her more: Anyone who thinks a southern woman does not have some form of power is seriously deluded. Any real southern man knows that. The others have never been in a room with such ladies.
"Dances With Fags"
… Speak of the devil and he appears.
Give me one good reason why I should see 'Lone Ranger', Tonto Parrott. And it better not be to write a "pro-white" review for "our volk."
When you say make sodomy illegal, I assume you mean between males? Men and women do that sex act too.
Homosexuality is a fact of reality. There have always been homosexuals. The issue is how to society should handle them. How would an anti-sodomy law be enforced? Enforcing a law like that would require a amount of government intrusiveness into private affairs that is incompatible with Southern perspectives on small government.
I don't support gay marraige, civil unions, or any form of legal recognition for homosexuals, or upholding homosexuality as a norm, or the contemporary gay agenda. It doesn't mean it's rational to persecute them.
The notion that homosexuals don't have an interest in the community is false. They can work and contribute taxes, and do needsd jobs. They will always have parents, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, friends and therefore a direct interest in building communities and nations that will help them.
Homosexuals have contributed to western high culture (Wilde, Michaelangelo). This is well known.
Finally, there is nothing more Jewish in spirit or practice than aggressive anti-homosexuality. Greece and Rome didn't obsess over homosexuality, but the penalty for homosexuality in the Jewish Torah is death. Aggressive anti-homosexuality has been part of the Jewish worldview for mellennia.
Finally, there is nothing more Jewish in spirit or practice than aggressive anti-homosexuality.
To my knowledge, the Jews are aggressively pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-feminist, except for Orthodox Jews, who are the least problematic.
This topic was explored at length here months ago Lew. Wilde and Michelangelo were not "homosexuals". Please stop.
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We've spent plenty of time obsessing over Rihanna's fashion in (and, well, everything Rihanna-related about) DJ Khaled's music video for "Wild Thoughts." However, in spite of our diligent rewatching of, note-taking during, and think-piece-penning about Bad Gal's appearance in the three-and-a-half-minute clip, we apparently missed a huge announcement from the performer, designer, and soon-to-be beauty mogul: Vogue reports that the crystal-embellished footwear Rihanna donned in the video actually belonged to her latest, yet-to-be-released capsule for Manolo Blahnik.
Though she's designed plenty of incredibly popular shoes for her Fenty label with Puma, Rihanna announced she'd be collaborating with the legendary luxury shoe brand on a trio of themed collections. The first one drew from her love of denim (and her own tattoos); the second was dubbed "Savage," and included a subtle homage to J.Lo; the third and final series made its surprise debut in "Wild Thoughts"—and, save for a tag on her Instagram, there were little additional details about the launch.
Now Vogue has learned the collection is titled "So Stoned," because of the gem-coated lucite decorating the heels. It's composed of four styles—two types of mules, a pair of strappy sandals, and stiletto-heeled gladiators—which will be priced between $1,265 and $2,325. If you're trying to cop Rihanna's exact "Wild Thoughts" look, though, you won't have much time to save up: The capsule hits Manolo Blahnik shelves on July 6.
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Persson's photos are collected on the website of the Center For Danish Jazz History. Persson's photos, instead of the more stylish pictures of Francis Wolff, have a kind of rugged quality, catching the artists in performance but also in ordinary, off-stage situations. Find the website here. It's fantastic to browse through the collection.


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1. Maintaining a safe, clean, attractive senior center building for seniors to congregate.
2. Maintain building and furnishings in best condition possible.
1. Educational – High school diploma preferred; must demonstrate ability to read/follow product labels and instruction and measure cleaning chemicals.
2. Experience- Experience in cleaning public areas preferred.
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r) Deep clean spaces as assigned during month.
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7. Performs all duties as assigned by supervisor.
8. Work with other staff in duties that enhance the agency's mission.
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