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The C(s) of E
The C of E is tiptoeing towards gay marriage – Telegraph Blogs:
A veddy British slash-and-burn about the "Anglican" brand as
"simply an attempt to sanctify pragmatism."
Dominican friar Aidan Nichols book, The Panther and the Hind, makes clear that within the so-called "Church of England" there have always been three churches corralled uncomfortably together in the State structure: the (non-Roman) Catholics, the (Puritan/Evangelical) Protestants and the (rationalist/culture-adapting) Liberals.
Accomodation is a short step from incoherence.
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More Franciscan antics
Pope breaks with protocol by bowing to Queen Rania of Jordan - Telegraph:
Every time he enacts some new form of "humility", he just draws more attention to himself.
And bowing to a Muslim woman.
What a clown.
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One of the GayPatriot guys, whom I have met, is a bright Libertarian. This means he is not a Conservative, but Conservatives are the only people who give Libertarians the time of day. He told me that seeing humans in terms of race is a dead-end.
He's right.
But not in the way he meant it. He wants to transcend things like race and ethnicity because they stand in the way of his political philosophy, an ideology based on the absolute primacy of the free and ethical individual.
Race is a dead end because there is no way out of it.
My ruminations of late lead me to suspect that the American people once existed because the American people were White Christians...especially and foundationally White Protestants. Blacks were the eternal problem children, a troubled and troublesome minority. Minority.
Once White America gave up the ghost and accepted "Dr"** King, the Black Trojan Horse, into their city, they surrendered their status, their self-confident right to determine what "American" meant, their sense that it was, after all, their country. They all --Liberals and Conservatives alike...at least the "decent" Conservatives-- accepted the suicidal meme that Burnham's Law describes: in the presence of a group they consider less well-off than themselves, they are morally disarmed. The "decent" majority had to dance to the tune of the "suffering" minority. This dance continues to the present day and it is, for us as a people, a Dance of Death.
And now, fifty years later, we have Barack Hussein Obama. Twice. And his travelling menagerie of Holder and Michelle and Susan Rice and the NAACP and SharptonJackson and all their enablers. And the growing Hispanic Invasion that we have given up our moral right to resist. Or even to notice, much less protest, our replacement.
If you look at how things have actually unfolded --not stuck in some Laputan illusion of color blind America where what counts is the content of your character-- it is just as unlikely for Blacks (or, in their wake, Latinos) to really think of themselves as Americans as you'd expect Arabs in Israel to think of themselves as Israelis or as the Irish --even after centuries of inclusion into Great Britain-- to think of themselves as part of the UK or Hungarians to think of themselves as full members of the AustroHungarian Empire, or the Serbs, Bosnians, Croats to think of themselves as Yugoslavians...or the Tibetans to think of themselves as part of China.
Huntington's clash of civilizations is true, both globally and intra-nationally. If you turn Clausewitz on his head, American politics is racial war carried on by different means.
Once the containing lid of White self-confidence and dominance was undone in the second half of the 20th century, what was America began to unravel and what we have now, I suspect, is the formation of eventual new countries based on race. They are alien nations artificially bound by a single government. Unfortunately, they are hugely intertwined, but the only group with any residual allegiance to America are the Whites, and not even all of them.
The experiment was, I now sadly suspect, doomed from the start. Race is indeed a dead end, that is, a limit you can't pass.
**During his life he was usually Rev. That's where a lot of his power came from. Now the Blacks like to call him Dr. Makes him sound smart. And do you think for one minute that if Ex Cathedra had plagiarized his Phd Thesis that he'd still have his doctorate? Yeah, sure.
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Alternative Renaissance
A funny thought.
The Renaissance was largely the re-integration by the Christian West of its Greco-Roman pagan roots. Who leads Dante through the Inferno? Virgil. Two of the three traitors eternally chewed in Satan's mouth there (the third being Judas) are the kilers of Julius Caesar. Even on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, in a supporting but visible role, we find the Sybils, pagan female shamans who foretold the future in ecstatic trances. Not unlike the Delphic Oracle herself. The Sybil is even mentioned in the great medieval death-chant, Dies Irae...dixit David cum Sybilla...the Jewish and the Gentile prophets mixed together.
What if the Renaissance had begun in the North instead? Would we have chapels mixing Isaiah with the Norns. Country houses with Odin and Thor painted on the ceiling? Would our classics scholars be studying Norse and quoting wisely from the Edda?
Funny to think it.
A fantasy question
I dropped some of my thinking on the comments box* over at Gay Patriot yesterday. Sort of a farewell to conservatism. Not, of course, to submit to Liberalism, but because conservatism does not seem strong enough to oppose it. Contemporary American conservatism is too infected with liberalism, especially their blind adherence to "equality" as a sacred trumps-all value. Their terror at being labelled "racists" --a lost cause-- and their consequent ritual worship of faux-Doctor Martin Luther King, the Black Trojan Horse, is emblematic.
The question behind my comments takes the form of a fantasy (as does so much of Ex Cathedra):
At a press conference some weeks after the 2012 catastrophe presidential election, Mr Romney is on the dais with the other heavies in the Republican Party leadership, Ryan, Boehner, etc. A young reporter gets up and speaks:
Mr. Romney, in the recent election, fully 90% of your votes came from White Americans. 90%. Nine out of ten. And just shy of 60% of White America supported you and your party, a clear majority of that race. And, if only White votes had been counted, you would have won about 40 states out of 50.
Why then, especially in view of our race's approaching minority status in mid-century, will you and your party not take this as a mandate and embrace the important role of being the only mainstream group who can advocate for our race, for White Americans?
*PS. The comment, here:
I don't comment much here, especially in the last year, because I can't really call myself a gay conservative anymore and I don't want to abuse GayPatriots' hospitality.
Conservatism –and by that I do not mean the head-shakingly feckless and useless GOP–has come to seem to me just a rear-guard stalling and losing action hobbled by its acceptance of earlier forms of liberalism, including an attachment to the obsolete and pie-in-the-sky notion of a "colorblind society." The only people trying to be color-blind are nice White people –The Most Foolish People On The Planet– who are blind to the dynamics of their dispossession and displacement.
The desire to claim some kind of connection with an imagined color-blind MLK and his "dream" is part of it: conservatives' terror of facing up to the insolubility of the race issue and forever trying to escape from the inescapable accusation of "racism." (Which is just like trying to prove you're not a witch.)
90% of Mitt Romney's votes came from White people. 90%. Because conservatives have renounced their original sin of "racism" –the Liberal equivalent of "witchcraft"– they are unable even to think of this as any kind of mandate to advocate for the only people who vote for them, instead pathetically "reaching out" to alien Latinos who resent and will never trust them. "Conservatism" has no electoral base at all outside Whites. The only people who acknowledge that are our enemies. Doesn't make it any less true.
"Dr" King –who plagiarized most of his PhD thesis, btw– led a movement that has slipped a knife into the heart of this nation, getting Whites to see themselves as without any moral standing or self-confident racial status, so that they can be manipulated into self-erasure, becoming a plundered minority in the land that their people created.
"MLK" only cared about his own people. All his sanctimonious blather about "America" was just a means to an end. He has been stunningly successful, especially as a martyr: a once great nation commits suicide over the 13% who have proved themselves, in the last 50 years of vast sums spent and a huge networks of laws and entitlements for them enacted, unable to do much more than self-destruct and blame others for it.
"Martin" doesn't belong to you. He belongs to Barack and Oprah and Foxx and Sharpton and Jackson and the NAACP and the Black Caucus. Let him go and look for your own heroes.
Barack Hussein Obama, twice elected by the "American" people, as loathsome as he is, is just a symptom of a much deeper collapse. "Conservatism" is wholly unable to fix that.
Archetypal Man
▶ Happy People A Year in the Taiga (2011) Russia, Siberia - Video Dailymotion:
What life has been like, more or less, --adjusting for geography--for most of the human race for most of its history til the advent of farming 10 or 20 thousand years ago.
Lots of the manly virtues: strength, courage, skill and honor.
I watched this in a clearer subtitled version on Netflix, but this is a free online version.
(Not a fan of Werner Herzog's voice, but, hell, it's his film.)
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The Dream speech
Today America slobbers over the primary martyr-saint of its Liberal civil religion, a half-century after his Sermon on the Mall. Ex Cathedra --who watched the original on B&W TV as it happened and was a longtime supporter of the cause-- views the unfolding of the whole business with the jaundiced eye of realism. To me it now embodies the central illusion of the country.
Conservatives fruitlessly try to claim him as one of their own. A pathetic attempt to bulwark themselves against the charge that they are racists. That is an unwinnable fight. As soon as any White accepts the existence of "racism", then he can only be in a defensive, apologetic, anxious and losing position. And historical butt-kissing to King only makes us look pitiable.
Like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi, other sanctified soliders against the Whites, this particular sacred cow was, at the very best, a thoroughly ambiguous character.
And to continue the animal metaphor, King has proven to be the racial Trojan Horse for America. Here we have this one sainted example, one we are all supposed to bow down and adore, inexplicably followed by a horde of followers who seem not to have understood St. Martin's elevated and scriptural post-racial message. Funny how that happens. Makes you wonder about the source of it all.
It's really not my party. At all.
On a different note
I have been watching a British show, Restoration Home. Each season it follows the fates of a half dozen dilapidated but historic buildings in Britain as they are restored by their new owners. Most of these folks have access to capital but most of them also do a lot of the work on their new homes themselves. Both couples and families with children, they clearly love these old buildings. Some of the combinations of grit and adventure, risk, time and energy and physical endurance involved are pretty damn amazing.
A young couple buys an old Baptist meeting house and turns it into a home, with incredible effort and perserverance. The episode on turning St Peter's Barn into a home, a one-man project from start to finish, is really impressive. This dude does absolutely everything. And smiles about it.
There's a historian and an architecture expert to add their perspectives. Even the matronly hostess, herself a lover and restorer of old buildings, is appealing (despite the UK overuse of extraordinary! marvelous! fantastic! and amazing!). Seeing native Brits caring about their own heritage and making over these beautiful structures for themselves, with passion and sweat: It's inspiring.
You elected him, America.
Down with racism!
The fundamental purpose of the Liberal state is to deprive traditionally successful groups of their status, power and resources and transfer it to traditionally less successful groups.
The notable exception to this program is the Liberal elite, who derive their status and power and resources from their commitment to "equality."
Since the straight white male Christian* wealth-creator and patriot has been the historically successful one, liberalism is aimed directly at plundering and humbling him and all he represents. All the language of liberalism is merely a cover --and a wildly successful cover--for this war against him.
Consequently, Ex Cathedra rejects not only the philosophy but the very language of liberalism, it being suicidal to adopt it or even to oppose it on its own terms, since it is a rigged game. The point is to deny that the word racist means anything other than "Shut up and apologize."
Racist has the same meaning and purpose as witch once did in pre-modern times or as capitalist running dog did in Marxist regimes.
Racism functions in exactly the same way as, for example, Islamophobia. (And all the other isms and phobias.) The Liberal thought regime forbids you to take a negative or even critical attitude toward any of its Sacred Victim Groups, no matter what the reality. When it comes to their constituents, you must be silent, be sorry or be supportive. No other alternative is allowed. The only safe attitude is mindlessly supportive. Which is what they want.
To declare oneself either guilty or innocent of these words does nothing but legitimize their continued use, since it leaves the term intact and intensifies its moral status as real and meaningful.
Any White who denies that he is a racist simply embeds himself more deeply into the thought-regime that seeks his destruction.
If you are White and you accept that "racism" exists and that it is bad, then you have already lost the game. The only way past this is to deny the word any validity at all. Like "witchcraft."
So, down with "racism."
*Although Jews are a hugely wealthy, successful and influential group, they came very late to the game in America, creating a financial and power base only after the post-1880 mass Ashkenazi immigrations. Plus, the ideology of anti-Semitism = Nazism, especially after WWII, has hugely protected them. And it is sadly true that they, as a group, are vastly disproportionate players in the game of Liberal elitism and its strategy of White/Male dispossession.
Shocka
My friend Bill, who worships dogs but loathes rich people, had to be reminded yesterday, when he expressed shock that his Republican brother in law once offered to pay for Bill's mother's medical bills out of his own pocket, that conservatives are happy to give their money voluntarily to people they care about but not willing to have it taken from them by force and given to strangers they dislike.*
A fundamental crack in Bill's worldview. He's a bizarre combo of libertarian loner and big government supporter who naturally thinks that "Republicans" don't like big government and high taxes because they are stingy and greedy by nature.
When I pointed out that studies show, unambiguously, that conservatives are far more generous donors to charity than liberals, he looked at me as if I'd just contradicted the second law of thermodynamics.
Liberalism is a trance and a thought disorder.
*This is almost a run-on sentence. I could have edited it into three shorter ones. But this is my blog and this is how I actually think sometimes, in paragraphs.
Organized Blackness at work
NAACP Pres: 'We Will Pass Trayvon's Law from Coast to Coast':
"Mandating law enforcement data collection on homicide cases involving people of color."
Cool. That way everyone will know that 93% of Blacks who die violently are killed by other Blacks.
Just for starters.
This is a group which is entirely unwilling to take any responsibility for their miserable condition. Eternally blaming Whitey.
More bad thoughts
on a beautiful August Sunday afternoon.
Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations asserted what seemed obvious to most humans prior to the Great Liberal Enlightenment: that the human race bases its real and powerful identities in race and tribe, culture and religion. These are primary and enduring.
If you extrapolate Huntington to America, for example, then you get a political entity, a governmental fence around a set of tribes artificially named "Americans." But the real tribes are the subsets of this increasingly artificial identity, the races.
The non-White tribes show strong and consistent tribal identity. Their voting patterns are evidence of this. The common way in which we speak of "the minorities" accurately describes their identity, which is racial. These groups are massively encouraged to identify as such. And do. In a liberal regime, it is the source of all their power.
The only tribe which is significantly split, at war with itself, is the White one, which is forbidden to have a racial identity except when taking blame or repenting. It not only watches its power, wealth and status fade away --transferred to inimical others-- but celebrates this and participates in it.
What we have inside America is a clash of civilizations. But only one of them is committing suicide.
OBTW
Clowns, pirates*, gambling, drugs, lesbians.
Themes which, if movies are centered on them, make me fall asleep.
*One exception: Johnny Depp's acting skills are such that I happily watched him as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.. His ability to combine flamboyant feyness with convincing heterosexuality deserves an Oscar.
LGBT Tyranny
SANTA FE, N.M.: Court rules against photographer in gay bias case - Business Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com:
This stomach-turning decision supports Ex Cathedra's current feeling is that all anti-discrimination laws should be repealed.
Diversity is our Strength!
The English Newspeak* version of Arbeit macht frei.
*commonly referred to as "politically correct."
BTW, who is this our, this implied we, whose strength diversity is?
I know who it's not.
How dare you speak for me!
While the pork roast is resting, I wonder
"Given the metastatic nature of Liberalism, could there be a non-Liberal state which was not consciously and vehemently and constitutionally anti-Liberal?"
Given the levels of Liberal penetration into the Western brain, such a State would appear monstrous.
Next day: The pork roast was excellent. I marinated it overnight in garlic, rosemary and toasted sesame oil. We had it with rice and beans, Italian peas. Klondike bars for dessert and a shot of brandy.
If I am correct --and being Ex Cathedra, I must be, by definition-- that the complexes within the seven-spoked wheel of Liberal ideology are driven by bottomless victimist/egalitarian hatred, resentment and envy, then the only way to oppose them is by force.
And by force I mean --primarily but not exclusively-- the State, which is legal coercion backed up by actual violence, threatened or actual. And in this case, an anti-Liberal regime. What Liberals would call "fascist", their name for anything to the Right of their current party line.
Suppose, for example, that Iceland, with its 300k people and very tight ethnic bonds, were suddenly to declare that Iceland was for Icelanders and arranged the departure of the immigrant foreigners there. This would be proclaimed a "human rights" tragedy. Because, as we know, it is a "human right" for anyone to immigrate to a White country if they feel like it. Perhaps even the Pope would mourn this evil turn of events as he mourned the invading dead Africans at Lampedusa.
Who would dare stand up for the ethnic survival of a bunch of blond northern White people? They would be framed as fascists.
Meanwhile, check out the membership of the UN human rights commission...
Part of my move from conservatism to reaction is noting that even conservatives would be powerless to support the Icelanders once the rhetoric of rights got going. Otherwise they'd fear being called racists.
After all, as some young traditionalists have asked, what social or cultural battle has the Western Right won in the last thirty years? Make a list...
a bishop manages not to pontificate.
Cardinal George of Chicago:
"Jesus is merciful," the cardinal warned. "But he is not stupid."
Dr Martin Luther Burke
Mr Edmund Burke's general comment on the unintended outcomes of reforming schemes
...very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.
could have been his remarks on the civil rights movement and its wake.
Female BS
LCWR leaders announce 'honest sharing of views' with Vatican delegate, but no plans for reform : News Headlines - Catholic Culture:
I continue to be astonished at the empty BS rhetoric that these women specialize in. Such inflated language.
"a resolution of this situation that maintains the integrity of LCWR and is healthy for the whole church."
"a profound and honest sharing of views."
"extraordinarily rich and deeply reverent conversation."
"As women of the Church, we will discern how to move through the turbulent aftermath of the doctrinal assessment…
"The processes of inclusion and dialogue needed today may demand great suffering on our part as we work to create such processes…
"We are privileged to live in a time of unprecedented challenges and grace."
"In deep solidarity with each other, our sisters in other countries beyond our own and our other lay sisters and brothers around the world, we hear the call to respond to the God of the future, who invites us into waters of new life. This places us in situations of possibility and peril at every turn."
"Our fidelity to and love of God's people and our commitment to the Gospel and our vocation directs our path and that our way of being in the world is one of compassion and love. Thus, in the next three years, the critical issue before us is to be who we say we are and who God calls us to become, for the life of the world, keenly aware of the costly graces."
This is all about feelings and bloviating and nothing about substance, all about process and not ideas. The bad feminine.
What group
most deserves the prize for Millstone Around The Neck Of The Nation?
Ex Cathedra is taking nominations.
Buchanan blames de-Christianized nation for Chris Lane death | The Daily Caller:
Nice try, Pat. But Ex Cathedra has a darker surmise. That Blacks kill Whites like this because they are no longer afraid of us.
Once upon a time, something like this would have brought down retributive overkill on the local Blacks. Kill one of us and we'll take down a dozen of you. Including yo mama.
Now they have nothing to fear and so they hunt us down. A regular Black Intifada. Check out the right hand and lower left hand columns here especially. Things the media will never tell you about. Happen all the time.
[And, of course, they kill each other on a daily basis. 93% of Blacks who die by homicide are killed by other Blacks.]
As an "African-American" gentleman of my acquaintance once mumbled under his breath when observing some of the more appalling antics of his brethren, Not all the slaves shoulda been freed.
I repeat, I could give a shit about Trayvon Martin.
So groovioso
Mexican artistas...so edgy. Emerging. Indigenous ideologies. Contemporary practice.
Who could resist?
Ms Paglia opines
"It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party's best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She's certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts.
I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. In saying "I take responsibility" for it as secretary of state, Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was.
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. It's even a key motif in "King Lear." As far as I'm concerned, Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, "What difference does it make what we knew and when we knew it, Senator?" Democrats have got to shake off the Clinton albatross and find new blood. The escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular West will win."
Scattershots
The calendar for my niece's new school, a petri dish for making rich NY liberals, lists Jewish holidays by name, but erases Christmas and Easter into Winter and Spring celebrations. Not an accident.
An in-flight trivia game tells us that the king who "allegedly" slaughtered the innocents of Bethlehem was King Herod.
My neighbor on the flight offered me her pretzel snacks because, as she said, "I'm gluten-free." Thanks for sharing.
Although the seats on Delta flights are irksomely uncomfortable for a man of my size, I have to say that the Delta employees, every one of them, were very affable and helpful. (Oh, and the touch screens on their planes suck.)
Watched some Jewel In The Crown while on the plane. Have it on my laptop, thanks to The Pirate Bay. Another aspect of the story which I had largely missed is that two of the heroic Brit characters, Sarah and Guy, --both blondes, btw--who disdain the Raj and its racism are perfectly happy with their class-based contempt for fellow White Ronald Merrick, the overt, but not the real, villain of the piece.
I forget, because SFO is really so compact, that getting from the front door of a terminal at JFK, through the maze of security and to your gate, usually requires walking a half mile or more. At least it feels that way.
I just recently installed the Find My iPhone app on my phone and on my PC. So when I discovered the phone gone yesterday at the airport, I was able to locate it pretty exactly, inside the huge Delta terminal. A big thanks to my ex Thomas, who helped me install the app. (And once again, to B, for his generous bday gift.)
More moronic liberalism from its Popess
Episcopal Leader: Membership Losses Are 'Spirit's Way of Pruning for Greater Fruitfulness':
The dying nuns' orders play the same game.
I guess "The Spirit" pruned the Shakers into "greater fruitfulness", too.
They keep up their self-image by blaming their decline on their noble attachment to "social justice" when in fact they have sold out entirely to a cultural Marxism that mandates their self-erasure.
Liberalism is indeed the ideology of Western suicide, brought to you by Whites, --and White wymyn at that--
The Most Foolish People On The Planet©
'via Blog this
PS. When Pope Benedict suggested that a smaller and more orthodox Church might be providential future, Catholic liberals yelled "Elitist!". I am sure Episcopalian liberals are feeling the same way...not.
The Propaganda Machine Works
My mother, a dedicated watcher of Fox News, estimated --when I asked her-- that America is 40% Black and 17% Gay.
The real numbers are 12% and 3%ish.
The icon of decline
If you look closely at this image, you can see pretty well everything that's wrong with Western civilization now.
You think the Holocaust was bad?
The Claremont Institute - Blood-soaked History:
Try a little Chinese Marxism on for size.
Try as I might
there is almost always at least one incident of SV&U in my visits home.
SV&U is B's shorthand for "small, venal and uncharitable", the reaction grown adults have when their parents --mothers especially--push their ancient childhood buttons.
No details. Only to say that small, simple and uncomplicated things become dramatic, frustrating and complex in a nanosecond. And one goes from being a senior on Medicare to an 8 year old. Just that it still amazes me how visceral it is.
As the health care worker said to me, Your mother treats all her children like babies.
View of Sasquatch
From Nassau Point, the other side of Peconic Bay
Poor me. Forced to spend another afternoon by the pool, as I contemplate the decline of the West.
I think of myself as a 5th-century Roman patrician on his farm hearing about the arrival of the Visigoths. Except that in our case the Visigoths are already in charge. O(doacer) sits on his throne in Washington. Or at the moment, in Martha's vineyard.
Edifice complex
I have no problem with great religious buildings. On the contrary. But here's two nut-job proposals:
Christianity's billion dollar tomb...
trying to recreate the 14th century in Wyoming...
Plus, a free extra, an already-build African riff on St Peter's, put up in the middle of nowhere by an African Big Man to memorialize himself, to the tune of 300 million dollars in the 80's.
"White Privilege" is a fraud.
Along with all the other "privileges": male, abled, English-speaking, tall and, my favorite, "cisgendered."
If a group really had privilege, that is, group status, then no one would dare point it out, much less feel free to use it as an accusation or expect the members of this group to take you seriously, even more astoundingly, force you to go through a de-programming course about it.
We can be accused of racism on the slightest pretext and immediately have to go into defense mode, with the outcome clear. As with witchcraft --which is the pre-modern equivalent of "racism"-- once you are accused, you are guilty, even if you escape the pyre.
The three pillars of group success are wealth, power and status. Whites still hold (and create) most of the wealth, and even though they implicitly accept that they don't deserve it and acquiesce to its loss, most of the power. But Whites have completely surrendered their status. It is a Potemkin village status, very much like the status of a dying and unloved rich old uncle or a termite-infested wooden house.
Otherwise why would we condescend to pay attention to the manipulative whinings of an Oprah Winfrey about her $38,000 purse*, or accept that a White rodeo clown be punished for wearing an Obama mask while thousands of our fellow Whites are being slaughtered by Black savages in South Africa?
We have lost our status because we are The Most Foolish People On the Planet (c).
*Or pay money to see The Butler, which will once more drag out the Passion Play of noble and wise Black victimization and White evil. Regular readers will know that ExC sees these films --like The Help-- as nothing more than propaganda decoys, sermonizing past grievances in order to keep White Guilt alive so that the complete and self-induced meltdown of Blacks in America may continue to be compulsorily ignored. This is Black Privilege, granting moral highground victim status on the basis of skin color, wholly apart from any personal achievement. Scam 101.
The bigger town 3 miles from "Sasquatch."
People born in the 1600s are buried here.
The railroad station
So I feel at home..;)
As my very civilized friend Gloria said
after watching Hannibal, where the doctor forced the bad guy to eat part of his own brain, sauteed in butter, for dinner, "Now that was very satisfying."
Another occasion for such a pronouncement (even if this little short is too PC for my taste):
The Most Foolish People On The Planet, continued
DailyKenn.com/blog: Why are white people so gullible?:
And I am supposed to give a shit about Trayvon Martin?
Rule by minorities, continued
California Gov. Brown signs transgender-student bill | Fox News:
Victims rule!
In the homeland
Been in New York for the last few days and am now at "Sasquatch", which is Mr B's name for the tiny North Fork village where my mom lives. Population 349, of whom 325 are White. This little place is where my siblings and I actually think "home" is, even though it is the place we spent our summers.
For me, it is the other extreme, coast-wise, from San Francisco. Pacific-Atlantic, mountains and surf, lowlying fields and bays; the last edge of America, its first settlements, closest to Europe.
Had a bizarre and alarming dream,which is why I am awake so early. Strange conversations with South African Boer women I do not know, and winding up totally lost --without my iphone!-- in a strange SA city. Woke me up.
Part of the shock of coming home is watching TV news with my mother, an avid Fox fan. Even the hearty right-wingers of Fox seem strangely unreal to me. I give Bill O'Reilley for zeroing in on Black youth crime and the dissolution of the Black family. He will not be thanked for saying that truth. But does Mark Levin actually think that there is a hope in hell for a set of constitutional amendments to save the country?
And the commercials...
But the wild salmon I made on the grill last night....mmmm. Mom said it was the best meal she'd had in weeks.
What color is your elephant?
Instapundit » Blog Archive » K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: A lengthy cri de couer from a reader: I've thought about this and thoug…:
Is it merely Ex Cathedra's inherent evil that makes him think that the one item not mentioned at all in this piece is in fact the real heart of the matter?
What could that be? Hmmmm.
Maybe the same one at the center of this hysteria?
(Let me remind my readers that Ex Cathedra's complete change of heart on this issue stems almost entirely from the fact that his country is being run into the ground because of an utterly false set of ideas and attitudes about this issue in particular and the suicidal buy-in of a majority of The Most Foolish People On The Planet (c).)
Their continuing, even accelerating, self-destruction is not your fault. Not.
BBC News - Outrage as Swiss move to segregate asylum-seekers:
Why the hell are they even there in the first place!?
Now my day is ruined!
BBC News - Oprah Winfrey 'was victim of racism' in Switzerland:
Plus, Samuel L Jackson tells "the young brothers" it's Open Season
Eternally victims. No clue as to their own role in the game.
True Tween
I no longer watch True Blood, but I do watch the trailers and the episode summaries. That's bad enough.
But I notice a weird commonality between TB and the tweener hit series, Twilight. Both of them star a girl who is the object of the insane passion of two competing males.
Female vanity. It explains a great deal of our post-feminist culture. Galaxies of unreality designed to make girls feel better about themselves.
And, of course, given my orientational diversity (!), I fail to see the attraction. Bella always was a dud. Sookie had some spark but now she is what the Blacks and Gays call "a hot mess."
As usual, I think Jacob and Edward, and Eric and Bill would make better couplings, sans the girls
Actually, Jacob and Eric...or Jacob and Alcide...or Alcide and Jason.
Go back to sleep, ExC.
Potemkin PC
Leaving for a trip to see the family in NY soon and this always gives me jitters, so I am wide awake in the middle of the night. It's not the family especially, but leaving home for any kind of trip usually stirs up my stomach for a few days prior. Separation anxiety.
Anyhoo, I am watching Star Trek Enterprise. I like Scott Bakula, and his connection with his engineer is a kind of bromance I enjoy. But what I am noticing now is the crew.
Of course, as always with Star Trek, the human crew of the ship is multiracial. Part of Star Trek's bogus vision of the utopian future. But we have the same hothouse, or Potemkin, multiculturalism that we see in the Harry Potter series. Aside from their names, their food preferences and the color of their skin, all these "diverse" characters are all actually White.
There is no racial tension, no troublesome differences in behavior or attitude, no sense of group loyalty, hostility or conflict. As with Rowling's world, the pretense of "moving beyond race" means that the other races are moral window dressing and everyone acts White. It is a funny liberal form of White supremacy.
That would be just fine with me, but it's not the reality on actual Earth in the 21st century.
Did U know?
That if only White votes had been counted in 2012, Obama would only have won 10 states. And if only White men's votes had been counted, just seven? Out of 50?
And the Republican Party --90% of whose votes in 2012 came from Whites--is hysterically (and fruitlessly) seeking to woo the Latinos.
Car lust
My Isuzu Rodeo was sideswiped into oblivion about four years ago...God, I can't believe that...and I have been car-less since. Frankly, it is emasculating. That loss was just one of several that took quite a few chunks out of me in 2010.
Anyway, it's summer here and even though I have objective reasons to be gloomy, I've done quite enough of that over the past couple of years. At the moment, even though I believe that America and the West are sinking, I am in a fairly good mood.
And one of the oddities is that, even though buying a car is out of financial reach, I find myself looking at them with desire.
I do like the look of the Ford Escape. Sturdy SUV --all the taxi companies in town use it--and classier than the Isuzu.
But today I came across a car I would really love to have. I mean, really love to have. Their marketing totally hooked me. Can you have a midlife crisis at 65 and want a car aimed at the youth market? The Nissan Juke.
The Nissan site has the come-on here and this video gives the walk-around. God, if I had the money I think I'd be down at the dealer's tomorrow.
I even like the name.
The US dropped nukes on Hiroshima this day in 1945. Even that was not enough to make the Japanese surrender. Nagasaki followed.
It saved many American lives that would have been lost in an invasion of the home islands.
And people like to forget the extreme savagery of the Japanese in that war. Makes Abu Graib look like a kindergarten.
Good idea, then, the bomb. No regrets.
Thanks to Marx
About a year ago, I noted my appreciation of the Marxist notion of mystification.
Mystification: plausibly mis-representing forms of exploitation as forms of benevolence. The exploiters use mystification to lull the exploited group into feeling at one with them, feeling gratitude to them and feeling evil or even insane to think of opposing them.
I continue, morally unimproved and even worse after a year, to see White Liberals as victims of racial mystification, their erasure embraced by them as a form of participation in a higher cause.
The higher cause is represented by Obama, but its real faces, among others, are Holder, Sharpton and Detroit.
Even in sleep
Ex Cathedra is producing infallible truth.
At the end of some dream narrative, a voice --mine or another's, I don't know-- said:
The human species is inherently tribal, territorial, hierarchical, competitive and conflictual. Anyone who tries to build a society by forgetting that is lost.
Just in case you forgot.
Gene splicing
I've been grudgingly accumulating official tokens of my seniority in the last few months: Medicare, a discount card for the subway, the right to sit in those front seats reserves for seniors and the disabled, discounts at the movies and at national parks.
I was cleaning out my storage closet today and found my old racquetball racket. I loved that game. Maybe the only sport I ever really did. I haven't played in over 25 years, but I guess I kept the racket just in case.
Well, I will never play that game again. Not with my knees. So it went out into the pile that's leaving for good. Nice memories of those games.
Creepy faggots
Hey, if Blacks can say Nigger, then I can say Faggot. Ain't that right, bitch?
This queen is gonna sue the CofE because she's sooooo upset that she's not getting the lavish ceremony that she wants.
The whole liberal agenda in one sentence: I am still not getting what I want!
The PJ Tatler » Gay Couple to Sue Church of England to Force It to Perform Gay Weddings:
I'd rather have a beer with the Hell's Angels than sit in the same room with these queers.
My previous post, which took powerful minorities and corralled them into single states, based simply on numbers, reminds me that numbers are not as important as placement.
Americans would consider it ridiculous to give such lopsided power to minority groups if they were geographically limited, --making it apparent how numerically small they are. But the fact that these groups are distributed all over the country AND most importantly, in cities, with consequent access to the central institutions of media and government power shows that this placement is what really matters. It gives them the appearance of huge numbers.*
In a recent poll, a lot of Americans thought that 25% of the country was gay!
Even in nature smaller creatures artificially inflate themselves to fool bigger enemies
*In the Alternate Commonwealth, perhaps legislative representation should include variations based on population density rather than on states: city, suburban and rural.
coming home to Roosskie.
Lots of agitation in the gaysphere about new anti-gay laws in Russia, especially in light of the Winter Olympics to be held there at Sochi.
I certainly don't blame gays for the homegrown dislike of homos in Russia. But if you are a Russian not of the Davos Man persuasion and see what effects the LGBT movement has had in the West, --- to say nothing of Pussy Riot's desecration of a highly symbolic Moscow Cathedral--why would you not put your foot down early and hard?
You should welcome gay liberation when you know that down the road ordinary businesspeople will be sued for not wanting to photograph samesex weddings or make samesex wedding cakes, or fined and silenced for hatespeech for quoting the Bible? The Church of England is now being sued to force it to hold gay weddings. If you learn anything about gay politics, --or any liberal grievance victim group--it is that it is never enough: each step won is only preliminary to the next one. So why not nip the whole thing in the bud?
LGBTs in America constitute between 3-4% of the population, no more by the latest info.That's the gay men and the lesbians and the bisexuals and the transgenders all together. You could put us all into the state of Pennsylvania and the rest of the country would be completely empty of LGBTs. Can you imagine one state having this much power? And for this tiny demographic, think of all the legal changes in the last decades.
[While I'm at it with my theme of minority dominance, you could fit all the Jews (2%) into the state of Washington. All the Blacks (12%) into California. All the Muslims --less than 1%-- into Arkansas.]
Really, boyz and girlz, how can you be surprised that the Rooskies (among others) have decided to respond so negatively?
Scattershots in August
My cousin the nun put up a share on FB showing an Indian chief in Brazil breaking down in tears because the Brazilian President --a female who is apparently not a worshipper of Gaia-- just approved a huge hydroelectric dam which will flood a million acres and displace 40k Indians.
What the post is pulling for is guilt and outrage, etc. The culprit of the piece is "globalism" which does not honor "diversity". I am unmoved. Why? Because the displacement of the Western Hemipshere's aboriginals was fated when Europeans first set foot in their "New World." Only an unavailable and mass preternatural awareness of the future could have moved them to take unprecedented steps to drive us out while we were still few in numbers.
The message I take away is not what I am supposed to take away. This incident tells me a) to resist with all your might becoming a minority in your own land and b) do not become so attached to your habitual traditional way of doing things that you cannot adapt to change. The flora and fauna that go extinct are the ones who are far too well adapted to their local environment and cannot handle change.
To me, the fate of the Indians is not a source of guilt, but a warning sign of what will happen to my tribe if we don't wake up.
Comedian Tim Allen recently took his life in his hands and gave an interview in which he defended Eeevil White Racist Chef Paula Deen and decried the prohibition on saying The N Word, along with a whole host of other words that the ideological descendants of the Free Speech Movement now forbid us to utter. Well, forbid Whites to utter. Allen remarked that in his movies with Martin Lawrence, Lawrence used "niggah" constantly, while Allen was forbidden to say it. As ExC notes, this is an exercise in dominance, no different from the old South custom of calling a Black man boy and him having to call a White man sir.
I suddenly thought of Harry Potter and He Who Must Not Be Named. As Hermione smartly pointed out, defending Harry when he refused to abide by the ban, fear of the word increases fear of the thing. So the Good Guys eventually all start saying Lord Voldemort. Is the prohibition on saying Nigger really any different?
My reading of JK Rowling's great work of imagination is in the ballpark of what Harold Bloom calls misprision, a creative mis-reading. As I've noted, while the central war of the books and its central moral issue, the Pure Bloods vs the Mixed Bloods, can be lazily read as a promotion of a multiracial and egalitarian Britain, the Rowling's Wizarding World itself accepts and relies on the very differences, animosities, dominances, exclusions and inequalities such a Liberal reading would shriekingly condemn.
I notice the same thing in Star Trek, whose underlying liberalism I have come to see clearly and roll my eyes over. But even there, the "evils" prohibited on the utopian Earth are projected out into the cosmos as the condition for having any story to tell at all!
While the Earthlings have achieved blissful sex and race and class parity, --thanks mostly to Vulcan technology--what goes unnoticed is the inter-species racism of Spock, a halfbreed like Voldemort, who holds the human race --with the exception of his friend Jim-- in contempt. If you made Spock a White-identified White-Black halfbreed and transferred his attitude toward Homo Sapiens to "African-Americans", you'd have a liberal's nightmare of unabashed racism. But Spock is the noblest character in the series, completely Tefloned against such low suspicions.
Sometimes even when you lie, you have to tell the truth.
Acts au naturel
Acts au supernaturel
De mortuis nil nisi bonum, except...
Remembering the Dead, from Selma | VDH's Private Papers:
An essay both personal and professional by VDH. He makes an exception to the rule of not speaking ill of the dead in the case of Gore Vidal. Understandable.
Rotten to the core
John Boot laments the four Lefty Lies that ruin Hugh Jackman's X-Men movie Wolverine: animal rights trump human rights, gays are continuingly victimized in our society, women are as strong as men and liberalism is all about tolerance.
I beg to differ. The X-Men franchise has been ruined from Day One. Its very premise is its problem: that a new species of super-powerful humanoids must be seen as victimized outsiders oppressed by the discriminatory ignorance and fear-based hatred of the human race.
The truth is, as is the case in True Blood, that the victimized outsiders really do constitute a mortal threat to the human race and should be exterminated. Would Hollywood make a movie chastising the Aztecs for their racist and selfish attacks on the Spanish? (Oh, wait. They didn't attack them. They took a fatalistic wait-and-see approach and were wiped out.)
The whole premise of the movie series is to teach people yet again --certain people especially-- to make reaction formation their default mode of thinking. Reaction formation is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one embraces and expresses attitudes that are directly contrary to how one really feels, because one's real feelings are so deeply unacceptable; they are repressed and replaced by their polar opposite.
These movies teach us, as do so many organs of our suicidal culture, that when we confront strangers who are powerful and invasive, the very last thing we have the right to do is suspect them, reject them or, God forbid, expel them. That would be the worst of sins: discrimination. This schema demonizes our instincts for group survival and makes automatic submission to aliens the highest act of morality.
Hugh Jackman may be a physical marvel as Wolverine, but as an actor in this film he serves a narrative that is anything but marvelous.
Damn but this boy can write
Another Chick And The Wall | Chateau Heartiste:
Not nice. At all. But the English language on steroids.
More hyphens
Found this little history piece on the emergence and use of Judeo-Christian in American religious parlance.
For my own reasons, I have decided not to use it anymore.
De meanings of demeanings
My regular commentor Sean raised the issue of masculinity, dominance and inferiority. Reminded me of an incident back in my sacerdotal days. A way in which men and women are fundamentally different.
The group of Dominican friars I lived with had a group of Dominican sisters who lived across the parking lot. We did a lot of work together. And one of the sisters wanted to be a priest. Very badly. She even went so far one day as to say that if the friars had Mass together in our priory without a woman present, the Mass was invalid because half the human race was missing. On other days, she said we should refuse to have Mass altogether until women could be ordained. She was smart and personable in some ways, but clearly, on this issue, nuts.
Anyway, one of the friars was a newly ordained deacon. At the parish Mass the next Sunday, it was his role to read the Gospel and preach. The ceremony is done as follows: at the right moment, the deacon takes the Book of the Gospels from the altar, bows, then carries it with him to stand before the presiding priest, who remains at his chair. He bows before the priest and asks his blessing. Still bowed, with head and shoulders down, he receives it in the Sign of the Cross and thee words: May the Lord be in your heart and on your lips that you may worthily proclaim his Holy Gospel.
In the ancient rite, he kneels and the priest stands in front of the altar.
The deacon then stands upright, goes to the pulpit and does this. The public reading or chanting of the Gospel at Mass, btw, is strictly reserved to ordained men.
The nun was sitting next to me that day, watching this. She whispered to me, I could never do that bowing. It is so demeaning.
That, lady, is because you are a woman and why you don't understand men. Or the priesthood.
I know, from having been both a deacon and a priest in that ritual, that there is nothing at all demeaning in it. For a man, anyway. On the contrary, it is really about mutual recognition, bonding and respect, about courtly dignity and a shared sense of sacred order. To arrive at a place in the priestly hierarchy where you have an honored role within it, and show your place in it and are recognized by a more powerful member of it as belonging within it...that is far indeed from demeaning. It is an honor for a male. The fundamental task of the male is to find his proper place within the masculine tribe, a tribe which is always hierarchical. The worst fate is not to be on a lower rung, but to be on the outside of it entirely.*
As I learned from Anthony Stevens, the heart of the masculine archetype is rank and the heart of the feminine archetype is affiliation. And as I then saw myself: men use rank to create affiliation and women use affiliation to create rank.
Who is more savagely hierarchical than a group of girlfriends? Guy that I am, I much prefer the former for its honesty.
And while we are on the subject of religion, it seems to pass unnoticed by liberals and by feminists, that Christ's entire mission and centrality is wholly based on his obedient submission to the will of his Father. The Trinity, a deeply masculine image, asserts a root psychological truth: that the Father is First and the Son is Second, that the Son proceeds from the Father, and that both are equally God. A doctrine only a man could have imagined.
(And continuing, if you take the most deeply patriarchal and male-driven religion in the world, what does its name and program, its fundamental form of affiliation, mean?)
*That, btw, is the base wound of gay men: not to be considered lesser men but not to be considered men at all.
The Mighty Whities
That's what Jack Donovan calls the White Nationalists.
When I first took a cyber-peek into that world, I had a sense of transgression that I have not felt since I first listened to Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura on the radio in my car. But ramped up even more.
I am a rather reactive transgressor when it comes to intellectual boundaries. Tell me that I may eat of all the fruit of the Garden save one, and that one suddenly becomes the most interesting fruit in the garden. So if you tell me that I can investigate --and I have-- the Nation of Islam, Satanism, the Khmer Rouge, Haitian Voodoo, Westboro Baptist Church, androphobic lesbianism, fundamentalist Judaism, even the current epitome of evil, German National Socialism, but on no account should I be caught reading vdare or The Occidental Observer, or worse, I demur.
I will read what I goddamn well please.
The bigger the taboo, the more interested I become, even if I feel some trepidation about it. And apart from paedophilia (perhaps), I can think of no bigger taboo than White Nationalism.
The rabbis developed a conscious strategy for protecting their religion in the mad flux of the Greco-Roman world: build a fence around the Torah. It is the very opposite of the modern idea of clinging to the essentials only and letting the "peripherals" go. The rabbis concentrated heavily on the peripherals so that you'd never even think of transgressing an essential. Is it a sin to work on the Sabbath? If writing is a form of work, then, say, forbid Jews even to touch a pen after sundown on Friday. A theological broken windows policy. It worked for a very long time.
Liberalism functions similarly. Even going near the boundaries of The Egalitarian Faith elicits outcries, shrieks and attacks. "Witchcraft! Witchcraft!" Inconvenient truth, --now known as "a hate fact"--is, as in contemporary Canada, no defense.
Nevertheless...therefore?...I investigate. And learn.
A long prologue to my point: a battle, in this tiny all-male world, between Traditions: the pagans vs the Christians. Though fascinating, at this point it makes them seem more tighty than mighty.
An RC liberal wake up?
When does our hope for Francis become denial? | National Catholic Reporter:
At least one Catholic liberal is waking up to the facts. Pope Francis is a different style than Benedict...or lots of others in the lineage...but he's pretty damn orthodox. Which is kinda what the job description calls for. I see him as an attention-hungry and imprudent blabbermouth, (aka, an extravert feeling type) but he's a very Roman Catholic.
Catholics are not very End-Time oriented. No Left Behind interests, unless the Virgin Mary appears to peasant children with secrets and threats. After waiting around for 2000 years for Jesus to return in glory, they figure, like the Orthodox, that that'll happen when it happens and they have other things to do in the meanwhile. They look down on apocalyptic groups who are always expecting The Rapture or some such silly thing. And especially on groups who have a timetable. Which, of course, is always wrong, but which seems often to increase the believers' faith rather than end it.
But liberal Catholics are very much like these guys. At every papal election they are always waiting for John XXIII to return in glory. At least their cartoon version of him. And he never does. Or will. Always let down. Pope Francis is now the object of their frantic projections, hoping in their hearts that it would be he who would redeem the Church from its sinful structures. But, hey, kids. As this lesbian is telling you, he's cool on the outside --if you like that kinda guy-- but on the inside he's just as heteronormative and patriarchal as the rest.
The other funny thing is the leftist habit of fixing all their hopes on The Great Man. For a group of egalitarian populists, they sure do love their Kings.


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W!LDBRAIN is a Los Angeles and New York-based animation studio. It was created in 1991 under the name BIG Pictures as a subsidiary of the in 1976 founded (Colossal) Pictures. BIG Pictures took on the name W!LDBRAIN in 1994. In 1999, (Colossal) Pictures shut down, leaving W!LDBRAIN to go on independently until it was purchased by DHX Media in September 2010.
The company has created itself an admirable portfolio throughout the years. From about 1995 to 2005, it offered web-based flash animation series on its site and was one of the first companies to do so. Among the series W!LDBRAIN contributed to are Freakazoid!, I Am Weasel and Yo Gabba Gabba!. Other products W!LDBRAIN are (short) films and commercials.
From 2010 to 2012, W!LDBRAIN has been the company creating Mattel's Monster High cartoon series, first delegating part of the work to Caboom and later to Top Drawn Animation. Originally, the company took care of both the webisodes and the TV specials, but since 2012 Nerd Corps Entertainment has been contracted for the TV specials' animation. W!LDBRAIN also provided the art for the games on the official website. The company's choice of visual style is loosely based on the profile art of the toys, rather than the toys themselves. Starting 2013, Six Point Harness took over from W!LDBRAIN.
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What a wild weekend that was, Friday night quickly stretched into Saturday morning and by the time I got all my jobs done it was time to load the bike into the van and head off for the meet point with the film crew.
How did the ride go? It was amazing but first I want to detail the effort that it took to get the bike there. When I got home from work Friday night I firstly concentrated on the water tank, this was a last ditch effort to have something that would emulate a radiator and allow me to test the bike properly, not only that I wanted the frame design to be 100% finished on the Friday night so I fabricated up an alloy tank that held the shape and the mounting points that the new radiator will have. Once the water tank was finished I made up some insulated mounts that weld to the chassis making the radiator more simple and insulated from the vibrations of the frame.
Next up I needed to mount the rear brake locating pin, this welds to the chassis and holds the rear brake calliper off the frame, it's a simple M10 boss that has a 10mm thick tab bolted to it. While I was out the back of the bike I welded up some M10 bungs in 2 pieces of 100mm long 1" chromoly tube that will be the foot pegs, I couldn't be sure where I wanted these so I made tabs that bolt to the chassis and welded those on instead. Speaking of tabs I also welded on the seat mount that doubles as a fuel tank mount, I stepped back looked at the bike and I knew it was getting close.
The last job to do was to add some strength into the neck area, a simple 5/8" chromoly X that runs from the radiator mount to the neck and then back to the top radiator mount finished the frame off.
Before I tore the bike down I wanted to build a small race stand to support the bike on the ground, possibly the most elegant look a bike can have is the rear wheel hovering above the ground while its sitting in its front heavy state. I took some 5/8 mild bright steel off the rack and bent it up in a matter of 20 minutes.
It was 1am and I was ready to disassemble the bike ready for final welding. It took roughly 15 minutes to tear the bike down to the bare frame, once it was I could put it back on the jig table ready for weld, I would say the frame weighs less than 5kg and is extremely strong and light, I haven't used chromoly much but I am blown away with its strength, just trying to bend the 1" tube is a workout for my 3 tonne tube bender.
I worked from the bottom to the top, the front to the back and in around two hours had the frame completely welded, It was a struggle at times but I am glad I packed everything into this tight time frame, I may have overthought a lot of components if I had of.
So its roughly 3am and I am reassembling the frame, the motor goes in, the battery, the fuel tank, the wiring, the front end and then the wheels, I roll the low resistance non" o ring" chain over the sprockets and I am glad it clears, it's the final piece, its 4am and all I need to do is bleed the brakes and clutch, the lines were brand new so it took ages to get the air out, I ended up sucking the fluid through the lines with my mouth, by the time the rear brake was bled it was time to go, I started to bleed the clutch but I was out of time, Cinifly (the drone operators) where already at our morning location, Dean was on his way and I had not even loaded the van yet, I lifted the bike into the Econoline (it seriously weights about 70kg) and then took off out the road bound for Mt Mercer a wind farm with quiet yet smooth and long road that would be the test location.
After driving an hour to the location the sun started to rise as I lifted the bike from the van, I was tired but I didn't feel it, the excitement of the bike being out of the shed and finished was enough to keep me awake. As it rocked back on the race stand in the middle of the road, the morning sun reflecting off the bare chromoly, stainless and aluminium I could fully appreciate the amount of back breaking hours I had put into this over the last two weeks.
It looked amazing just sitting there, I topped up the fuel, made sure the water tank was full, checked the oil level in the motor and hit the button to fire it into life, it ran and everyone who was there that morning had a smile on their face, I have spent a lot of time with this bike as a dirt bike and essentially it's the exact same bike, it's just all laid out a lot differently now and you wouldn't even know. The resemblance to my inspiration of the 1972 Revell Drag Triumph plastic kit bike can be seen, but it's taken on its own style and I love where it's going.
I throw a leg over it rock it forward as I didn't have time to bleed the cutch I run along and select first gear, it lumps along as the gearing is so fast, in first gear I get a feel for it, its stable and the faster I go the more stable it gets, the front suspension is stiff as its some 20 degrees more raked than what it was, the frame feels really solid, the tires are soft and they do a great job of taking the small bumps out of my back, I hit the kill switch and get ready to turn around.
As I run next to it I can't believe the lack of rolling resistance, the lack of weight, the non O ring chain, the smooth tyres and fresh wheel bearings just offer very little friction, perfect for its intended purpose, I fire it up, select first gear and rev it out, then second, then third and the speed it carries makes my vision blurred, I hit the throttle and it launches forward, the seat offers little in the way of support so you need to hang on, I lay down on the frame and I can feel the engine pulse beneath my heart, the pipe screams and its nowhere near its peak power RPM, I can't imagine how fast it's going to be with a never ending layer of salt in front of me.
My feet are numb, I have been in these boots for two days straight, my hands are dry, I have burns all over me but it's all worth it, the bike is perfect, there's nothing I would change and there's nothing it compares to, it blows me away that just two weeks ago it was the perfect bike for hitting big jumps on a supercross track and now it looks like nothing I have ever seen. The bike literally came to life in front of me, again I didn't draw anything, I had a wheelbase, a motor position and a heap of fun ideas that eventuated in a successful build.
As I drive back home in the Econoline, the passenger seat folded up and the front wheel of the bike up against the dash I can't stop looking at it, I can't wait to show the world, I believe it will change people's perception on what's possible in every way.


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Aurora police faced a 61% spike in officers leaving the force in 2020 compared to 2019
A former Aurora Police Department, who asked to remain anonymous, said morale is low at the department.
DENVER — The number of officers who left the Aurora Police Department increased 61% from 2019 to 2020, according to data gathered by human resources.
The top reasons officers left in 2020 was retirement, working conditions and overall leadership, according to data collected from a departure survey.
In 2021 so far, 13 officers retired, nine resigned and two were fired.
A former Aurora police officer who recently quit spoke with Denver7 on conditions on anonymity.
"Most people when I told them I was leaving said, 'Good for you. I'm a little bit jealous,'" the former officer said.
On a scale of one to 10, she rated morale at the department a three. When asked how she would grade Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson's leadership, she gave her an F.
"They really need a police chief that's leading the department ,and I don't think they have that," the former officer said.
She blames the high turnover rate on faulty policies that fail to protect officers and a new hands-off approach to policing.
"There is not support for us," the former officer said.
Wilson has been very vocal about increasing transparency in the department and mending a broken trust between the community and the police department. Denver7 reached out to request an interview with Wilson. She declined and released the following statement about officers leaving the force:
"Policing during a period of reform presents many challenges for a community, agency and the officers. Every year many members of the Aurora Police Department become eligible for retirement and choose to do so for a variety of reasons. As with any profession, some will become disinterested, especially during a period of change, and make the difficult decision to resign. Regardless of their reason to leave, I am thankful for their dedication and service to community. Additionally, I am encouraged by the courageous officers who remain on the force and by the many officers in our academy who despite these challenging times stand ready to serve."
There are currently 734 officers employed at the Aurora Police Department, which meets a consent signed between the Aurora Police Association and the city in 2016.
The former officer accuses Wilson of being an extension of the Aurora City Council.
The officer turnover rate at the department will be reviewed Thursday by city leaders.


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"Ultra Violet" – an album by Ultra VIolet
April 23, 2015 rockdoc999	1 Comment
Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935-2014) was born and educated in France but moved to New York aged about 18 to live with a sister. She met Salvador Dali and became his lover. Dali introduced her to Andy Warhol in 1963 and, at Warhol's suggestion, she took the moniker "Ultra VIolet" – a reflection of her habit of dying her hair violet of purple. She was an artist in her own right and an author, publishing an autobiography entitled Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol in 1988.
One aspect of her career that Wikipedia fails to mention is the recording of an LP in 1973. Capital Records A & R man Jeffrey Cheen heard Ultra Violet singing in a club and approached her after the show to suggest she record an LP. According to the interview Paul Maréchal had with her in 2008, she took singing lessons after the invitation to make the record and these significantly altered her singing style, much to Cheen's disappointment. He felt her voice before the singing lessons had a more natural feel. Ultra Violet designed the cover at The Factory. Warhol had taken a number of Polaroid pictures for the cover but Ultra Violet and Warhol could not agree as to which to use, so Ultra Violet chose a photograph taken in 1967 by photographer/jazz record producer Lee Kraft, which showed Ultra VIolet's profile poking her tongue out. One of Warhol's Polaroid pictures was placed on the back cover.
Back cover of Ultra Violet's 1973 album with Warhol's Polaroid picture.
Ultra Violet, in her interview with Paul Maréchal said that the album was never officially released, but copies were pressed and packaged and a number have found their way into collectors' hands. Almost half of these copies have holes punched through the cover at top right, indicating that these albums are cut-outs, that could be sold at a lower price that the official $5.98 retail price. Some experts suggest that the hole indicates that the album was a promotional copy, but I doubt this.
Ultra Violet cover with cut-out hole at top right.
No one knows how many copies of the record exist. There are sixteen listed on Popsike.com, seven of which have the cut-out hole. There are only two copies catalogued on http://www.rateyourmusic.com, so I would hazard a guess that less than fifty copies in total have come to light, making this one of the rarest covers associated with Andy Warhol.
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Congratulations Richard, sometimes the words "holy grail" are overused but certainly not when it comes to this cover. I'm very happy for you that you got a hold of it. And hope you enjoy your tap water and noodles for months to come… 😉


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Berkshire Partners Acquires Accela
Berkshire Partners LLC, a Boston-based investment firm, has completed its acquisition of Accela, Inc. Accela is a leading provider of civic engagement software solutions for state, county and municipal governments. Abry Partners, an existing shareholder, will remain an investor in the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "Accela's platform can transform how local and state governments interact with businesses and other constituents," said Tom Kuo, Managing Director at Berkshire Partners. "We believe the
Accela Acquires PublicStuff Bringing Millions of Citizens to the Accela Civic Platform
Mobile App Connects Citizen Directly with City Hall to Fulfill Service Requests Faster and with Greater Transparency -- Accela, the leading provider of cloud-based civic engagement solutions for government, announced today it has acquired PublicStuff, based in New York City. The acquisition makes Accela one of the largest providers of service request and citizen relationship management (CRM) in the industry, giving citizens a channel to communicate directly with their government using the Accela Civic Platform.
Accela Acquires Springbrook Software to Offer Cloud-Based Financial Software for Local Government and Softright for Municipal Efficiency
Acquisitions Make Accela the Largest and Most Robust Software Platform for Government, Being Used by More Than 2,000 Agency Customers Worldwide -- Accela, innovators of civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has acquired Springbrook Software, based in Portland, Oregon, and SoftRight, based in Westford, Massachusetts. Springbrook's nationally renowned solutions will anchor the Finance & Administration solution suite on the Accela Civic Platform with SoftRight's regionally specialized products bolstering the offering. The Accela
Accela Closes $143.5 Million in New Funding to Accelerate Civic Platform Development and Global Sales Reach
ABRY Partners Leads Equity Financing in Conjunction with Landmark Partners, J.P. Morgan Private Equity and Karlani Capital -- Accela, the leading provider of cloud-based civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has closed $143.5 million in new financing. Accela will deploy the new capital to round out its cloud offering, expand the capabilities of the Civic Platform, and scale sales efforts for its worldwide installed base. The Civic Platform is transforming how governments
Accela Acquires Decade Software to Offer Off the Shelf Environmental Health and Safety Solution for Government
New Solutions Extend Civic Platform to Manage Environmental Health Programs and Processes While Regulating the $1.5 Trillion Hospitality Industry. -- Accela, the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has acquired Decade Software, a provider of environmental health and safety solutions to Health Departments in the United States and abroad. The solution empowers Directors, Program Managers, Administrators, Inspectors and Public Constituents by giving them the tools, training and expertise to
Accela Acquires Government Outreach, Embarks on Offering Citizen Relationship Management Capabilities to Government Agencies
New Solutions Extend Civic Platform to Streamline Communication, Save Time and Engage Citizens -- Accela, the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has acquired Government Outreach, a Pleasanton, California-based provider of citizen relationship management (CRM) and Code Enforcement solutions to cities and counties across the United States. This first acquisition in the CRM segment will enable two-way communication between agency and citizen anytime, anywhere, on the device of their
Accela Acquires Kinsail to Offer Innovative Recreation and Resource Management Solutions
New Civic Platform Offering Streamlines Recreation Operations, Certification and Compliance Programs for Federal and State Agencies. -- Accela, the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has acquired Kinsail, a Virginia-based provider of recreation and resource management solution for more than a dozen Federal and State agencies and hundreds of sites across the United States. Kinsail solutions, which will be renamed Recreation and Resource Management, empower agencies to improve business
Accela Acquires Envista to Offer Right of Way Management Capabilities
New Solutions Extend Civic Platform to Enhance Coordination Between Municipalities, Utilities and Agencies of All Sizes and Provide Real-Time Information to Government and Citizens. -- Accela, the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has acquired Envista, a Massachusetts- based provider of right-of-way management solutions that help more than 120 customers better manage more than 160,000 projects in the United States. The acquisition extends the value of the Accela Civic
Accela Acquires IQM2 to Offer Cloud Based Legislative Management Capabilities for Government Agencies of All Sizes
New Solutions Extend Civic Platform to Streamline Public Meetings and Board Governance, Enhance Government Transparency and Engage Citizens. -- Accela, the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government, announced today that it has acquired IQM2, a New York-based provider of legislative solutions to more than 250 customers in the United States. IQM2's complete cloud solution unifies the entire experience of preparing, deciding and sharing the results and content of public meetings online. The acquisition
Accela acquires GeoTMS, Massachusetts-based Municipal software provider
Acquisition bolsters growing portfolio of government agency customers leveraging the Accela Civic Platform. -- Accela, Inc., the leading provider of civic engagement solutions for government agencies, announced today that it has acquired GeoTMS, a provider of municipal software solutions to more than 100 agencies in the United States. The acquisition of GeoTMS bolsters Accela's growing portfolio of government agency customers leveraging the Accela Civic Platform for land management solutions including permitting, inspection, code enforcement, planning


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Will Biden's Stance on Chinese Businesses Lead to Tik Tok's Ban? | Laissez-Passer
Will Biden's Stance on Chinese Businesses Lead to Tik Tok's Ban?
China's Cybersecurity Law, Tik Tok, US Ban on Chinese Businesses
Pres. Biden recently made clear his intention to thwart China's use of U.S.-based Chinese businesses as potential sources of intelligence data. Although the new POTUS appears to be upholding ex-president Trump's ban by expanding the scope of Chinese businesses affected by the exclusions, Tik Tok is absent from the new list announced last June 04, 2021.
President Biden approved the move to apply restrictions on dealings and investments with 59 China-based entities, led by Huawei, Greatwall, China Telecom Corporation and other Chinese companies. The basis for their ban is their link to Chinese military-industrial complexes and vulnerability to China's cybersecurity law of supplying user information to the Chinese Communist Party as needed, or upon request.
In addition to concerns over the threats posed to national security, President Biden deplores the use of Chinese surveillance systems and technology outside of China, as means to facilitate repression, or to commit dire human rights abuses, since they constitute extraordinary and unusual threats.
Could Tik Tok's New Privacy Policy Draw Further Scrutiny from the New Administration?
Although Tik Tok is not included in the current list of banned Chinese businesses, it's still possible that it's app and data-collection systems will be reassessed in a forthcoming stage.
Tik Tok's new provision in the customer's privacy policy will allow the app to collect biometric information and identifiers such as faceprints and voiceprints. These are actually the technical information required by the CCP from any Chinese-owned company and therefore could revive the issues raised by the Trump administration against Tik Tok.
It is also possible that the new Tik Tok provisions will draw the attention of some lawmakers in Congress. Mainly because the new ban issued by President Biden could heighten the existing tension between the U.S. and China. What about Oracle and Microsoft's bid to acquire ownership of North-America-facing Tik Tok operations, could affect pursuit of negotiations.


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BAS > Data > Explore polar data > Our publications > Reliability Case Notes No. 7. Risk assessment of the hot-water drilling system for accessing subglacial Lake Ellsworth
Reliability Case Notes No. 7. Risk assessment of the hot-water drilling system for accessing subglacial Lake Ellsworth
The exploration of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth is a high profile project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. Clean access to the lake will be provided by a hot-water drilling (HWD) system developed by the British Antarctic Survey. The HWD system is designed to provide a 36 cm diameter borehole through 3.2 km of ice. Drilling to this depth with the HWD system has never been attempted before. This report aims to quantify the risks of the HWD system deployment. A formal assessment of the technical risks is presented. Our analysis was conducted in two parts. First we estimated the probability of failure for all components and processes that take part in each phase of the deployment. In the second part we estimate the availability of the HWD system in light of all potential failure modes. Availability is the probability of the system being available given that it is needed at a given moment. Seventy five potential failure modes have been identified. The assessments for all these failure modes are presented in this report. The probabilities of failure for the top three critical failure modes are: • Boiler failure at 0.048; • Damaged surface hydraulic pipes at 0.0185; • Driller reeler human error at 0.0168. Our availability analysis concluded that, once water circulation has been established, the probability of successfully creating the main hole is 0.83. This will enable the deployment of the probe. Once the main hole has been created, the probability of successfully reaming the main hole, enabling the deployment of the second probe, is 0.89. This is a very high probability of success. These figures take into account the drilling rate and the uncertainty associated with the effectiveness of the drilling process. The current HWD system design has incorporated design changes to avoid previous weaknesses identified during field campaigns. In particular, the current design does not contain hose couplings. This decision has reduced the risk of not achieving the target depth by 15%.
Authors: Brito, M.P., Makinson, K. ORCIDORCID record for K. Makinson, Tait, A., Hill, C., Griffiths, G.
On this site: Andrew Tait, Keith Makinson
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Climate science, the public and the news media. Summary findings of a survey and focus groups conducted in the UK in March 2011
Cruise Report RRS James Clark Ross JR252 & JR254C, 19 March – 6 April 2011
The BAS hot water drill
Preliminary results from how water drilling and oceanographic measurements under Ronne Ice Shelf
Direct oceanographic observations from under the Rutford flowline, Ronne Ice Shelf


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Gulf Craft Launches the World's Largest Composite Yacht
Gulf Craft has just launched their Majesty 175 which is quite the milestone for the shipyard. The event happened at the Shipyard in the United Arab Emirates where the yacht's owner was on hand to witness. In total, the Majesty 175 project has been un...
With the current ownership stretching back more than 35 years, Majesty Yachts has been able to draw on its stable history and consistency of vision to create a shipyard that delivers dedication and commitment to every yacht and superyacht it builds.
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For almost four decades, Majesty Yachts has focused its energies on creating one of the largest shipyards in the world, dedicated to the construction of custom yachts of the highest standards.
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Los Angeles International Airport is the sixth busiest airport in the world and the third in the United States. As the need for mobility continues to grow, LAX continues to expand and develop to accommodate the large number of travelers. Please join WTS-LA in welcoming Roger Johnson, Deputy Executive Director of LAWA to learn about the multi-billion dollar capital improvement program underway at LAX.
Mr. Roger A. Johnson is Deputy Executive Director of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a department of the City of Los Angeles. In this position, Mr. Johnson is the Program Director for the Airports Development Group and is responsible for the $7 billion modernization of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and oversees all major construction projects at LA/Ontario International Airport and Van Nuys Regional Airport.
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Warnbro Shopping Centre
We completed the redevelopment and expansion of the Warnbro Shopping Centre in September 2014.
The Centre was expanded to accommodate a new 17,930m² of retail floor space, comprising of a 6,936m² Big W and 2,554m² retail including 22 specialty shops, four new kiosks, two new ATMs and two new casual mall leasing locations. In addition, a new at grade car park (340 bays) and roof deck car park to Big W (192 bays) were delivered as part of the redevelopment.
New travelators and lifts, together with a general upgrade of the existing centre (inclusive of new lighting, toilets, signage and painting to the western and southern walls, an upgrade to the façade and western entry, and a new awning) completed the works.
Completion Date:	Sep 2014
Location:	Warnbro, WA


Orange County Sheriff's Department are still searching for three men who escaped from the Orange County Men's Jail on Friday. The three escapees, Hossein Nayeri, Jonathan Tieu, and Bac Tien Duong, are dangerous criminals.
LOS ANGELES — A manhunt is underway for three inmates, including a man charged with murder, who escaped from a jail in Southern California.
The men cut through steel bars and used plumbing tunnels to get access to an unsecured roof, authorities said.
Jonathan Tieu, 20, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and Bac Tien Duong, 43, escaped from the Orange County Men's Jail on Friday.
Tieu is accused of murder, Nayeri of torture and kidnapping while Duong faces charges of attempted murder.
"We are utilizing every resource available to ensure these inmates are brought back into custody as quickly as possible," Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said in a news release.
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"I am confident that this collaborative effort will result in returning these inmates to where they belong — behind bars," she said.
She urged anyone with information to call 911.


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Jamie-Lee Dimes
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Jamie-Lee Dimes - Hide in my Head
A haunting and melancholic whisper, transcending beyond the graves of 60's rock and roll - Jamie-Lee Dimes authentically embodies an entire generation's obsession with nostalgia.
California based Australian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Jamie-Lee Dimes has spent 2019 on the road and in the recording studio, touring Australia and North America after the release of singles "Waste of Time" and "Hide in my Head." The artist is set to release her forthcoming full-length album 2020, a collection of hypnotic, ethereal, folk melancholy written between New York, Mexico, and California over a two year period. Recorded in Melbourne, Australia with revered guitarist Mick Turner from the Dirty Three (Nick Cave, Cat Power, Low) and produced by Tim Maxwell (Domestic La La Records.) This new chapter marks a transition into a lighter headspace from Dimes' brooding and cinematic six-track EP 'Liminality' that was released at the end of 2016.
Jamie-Lee released a new single Hide in my Head October 11, 2019, and is currently on tour playing 15 shows in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA until December 20.
Artist is seeking the following professional connections: Label, Management, Brand Partnership, Distribution - US, Distribution - UK/Europe, Distribution - Worldwide, Other Artists to Tour With, Booking Agent - US, Booking Agent - UK/Europe, Booking Agent - Worldwide, PR/Publicity Agency, Publishing, Sync/Music Supervisors
Subgenre: Dream Pop
From: Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA
Events featuring Jamie-Lee Dimes - DATE TBD


The eagerly anticipated SRB September meetup is happening on this month. As usual, it's an exciting opportunity to meet, listen to and network with the top techies in Singapore! So you're encouraged to drop in even if you don't know too much about Ruby. And it's totally free, as always.
Level 8 Suntec City Tower 4, Singapore How to get there: From Cityhall MRT walk through City Link till the end and emerge at Suntec City. Walk to Tower 4 which is the last tower nearest to Temesek Avenue. Carrefour is between tower 3 & 4. Take the office elevator to 8th level.
Dress code - Whatever. Laptops as clothing accessories are welcomed.
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