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Posted by Jesus Garcia on Saturday, 2 January 2016

The "Apparently" Kid Was Never Cute (And Got Even Grosser With Stardom)

White people ought to be ashamed of what they do, sometimes. They fell in love with this little elitist-acting chatterbox (is that really the personality type whites find endearing?) and now he's going to be spread everywhere we can tolerate him. Or not: 

 Letting the rest of us see his car wreck of a personality will be enough to end his career pretty quick,...

 

Comedy Is Not Pretty And Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

SATIRE

 So we were smoking this joint of Jamaican over in that corner and [NYT columnist David Brooks] got the bright idea to blow the smoke into the register. “That’ll make everyone up there one of us!” he said. And sure enough when we went up to class the whole floor stank and the vice-principal was hustling up and down the hallway, wrinkling his nose like a bloodhound trying to figure out where the smell was coming from, and then he went into the boys’ room and dragged out one of the only two black boys at Radnor High, yelling at him for smoking pot in school.

I remember the guilty look on Dave’s face when he saw Mr. Santangelo with the kid by the collar. Later on, he told me that he was tempted to confess, but he also happened to know that that boy did smoke pot, that he was a full-on stoner, so if he got in a little trouble, it might be good for him.  When I read today that Dave thinks that “not smoking, or only smoking sporadically gave you a better shot at becoming a little more integrated and interesting,” while “smoking all the time seemed likely to cumulatively fragment a person’s deep center,” I thought about that boy and wondered if getting kicked out of school had helped him hold together his deep center, and if his going to juvy was the kind of subtle discouragement that Dave thinks governments should engage in when it comes to the “lesser pleasures.” I suppose he thought he was doing the kid a favor by letting him take the rap.

THE JOKE

  In “Weed — Been There. Done That” [David] Brooks makes a case for a “moral ecology” that curbs individual freedom for the collective betterment of potheads that would be better served devoting their energies to higher aspirations like running track. If you think I’m minimizing his argument to be glib, I dare you to read it. That is his argument.

...The ACLU released a report, based on federal arrest data and self-reported crime reports, that,...found that over half of all drug arrests in 2010 were for marijuana possession,...that whites use marijuana more than blacks, yet blacks are over 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana use.

…The ACLU makes a passing mention of federal student aid and drug convictions in its report. African Americans, particularly African American men, are more likely to be arrested for recreational drug use and consequently barred from receiving financial aid to pay for college AFTER paying their debt to society.

We can thank Bill Clinton for that.

…Brooks’ rumination on his stoner days is kind of funny. It’s certainly elitist. But it is also an example of the two Americas we’ve fomented through legislative, cultural, and organizational boundaries that disrupt every single path for opportunity available for those not born to wealth and privilege.

No one need make a black code anymore. They need only embed moral ecologies in laws that have nothing to do with morality and wait for systemic disadvantages in neighborhoods, schools, and racist policing to do the rest.

We Can See Everything (Except Whatever's Blinding Us)

There's something kind of heartening, and validating, in my bad ass being hated and ignored when this message echoes my daily output:

“The country’s elites – of both political parties and across the political spectrum – have been wrong on just about everything they have done since the end of the Cold War.”

Let's see, that's the Boomers, NewAgers (and other cultists) race hustlers, motivational speakers, newscasters, and,...

 

Reggie Watts And The Intellectual Scorched Earth Policy

"It's a song about people - and sasquatches,...other fringe science stuff. 

That's French science,..."

 

The Truth #5: If You've Eaten At Taco Bell, You're Guilty

Here's one for the loony Whole Foods shoppers - "Prop 37 and the food movement: Why activists need to stop stoking scientifically baseless fears about GMOs for political purposes" - get a clue:

GMOs have fed the planet - you included - and all you're doing is spreading your own fears of the modern world.

You're a crazy, too-easily manipulated, bunch of elitist hypochondriacs who wouldn't understand science, or health, if you were blessed with either - which you have been, many times over, with no "help" from you. Let's keep it that way:

Learning to shut-up would be the best contribution most can make, to both, going forward,…

 

A Message To Glynda The Good Witch & Mormongoloid

To the Mystical Madam: 

All this "the more we release, the more we get attacked" crap is getting you nowhere. Ever heard the phrase, "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen"? You two wanted this - you're running to lead the country - but, while you may be able to call the shots in the elitist world you rule in, it doesn't work where the rest of us do. Even your supporters agree:

Show us your tax returns. 

To Mr. Potato Head: 

I know what you're hiding - you don't want us to see how indebted you are to your cult - but if you didn't want us to know that, then, again, you shouldn't have run for president. And no, we won't just take your word - on anything.

Now get with the program - or get the hell out,...

 

And (If They Go With The "Soap" Idea) I'll Play Benson,...

Today, Ann Althouse made two comments on a post that were just too *RIPE* to pass up - first came this one (emphasis mine):


Remember, Meade and I need to do some road trips for your entertainment, and it's a big deal to do that customized Sprinter to suit the sensitivities of an old lady professor-blogger.

And then came this one: 

We had a fantasy of being more like Clarence Thomas and his wife, traveling about.

I pictured some reverse sitcom credits - "with Clarence Thomas as Meade" - and died laughing, though Meade as Clarence Thomas would be just as funny:

"My grandfather beat me,..."

Ann and Meade are off, in their own little vacuum-sealed-with-money existence (a Sprinter? Really?) so I wouldn't go trying to cross-reference it with the reality of Walmart, that CT and Jenny enjoy, too quickly. If anything, I'd say Ann and Meade ought to start off slow - like with whatever they'd consider a cheap air mattress in the backyard - and then try working their way down. Real Americans will laugh at them otherwise.

So what can Ann and Meade do, instead, or until they're ready? 

Well - since my enjoyment is such a major concern of theirs - here are Crack's Top Ten Suggestions For What Meadhouse Can Do To Keep Me Entertained:

10) Meade can start showing up to Wisconsin protests in obnoxiously colorful sweaters because he and Ann have re-imagined themselves as the Huxtables.

9) Meade as Marian Berry ("The bitch set me up!")

8) Blackface: Meade's Obama, Ann's Michelle,...wait - that's not much of a stretch,...

7) They buy the Sprinter, and the two of them criss-cross the country, recreating scenes from the Vietnam War's My Lai Massacre. (Extra credit if they make a special stop at "Roswell.")

6) They do whatever they see on an old episode of MTV's "Pimp My Ride" - complete with hydraulics - THEN they go visit the RV campgrounds.

5) Meade is Anthony Hopkins. Ann is Jodie Foster. This is Silence Of The Lambs. Action!

4) Three words: The Beverly Hillbillies.

3) Billarry or "Soap" - pick one. Ann and Meade may interpret them as they like.

2) Since they both like Mitt so much - strap a dog to the roof of anything and just GO!

And Crack's Number One Suggestion For What Meadhouse Can Do To Keep Me Entertained:

1) Tell everybody they're going to see Mayan temples - but they really visit all the Mormon ones!

Sure, Sarah Palin's Too Stupid To Be President (We Need To Find Another Really Smart Guy)

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."

--Barack Obama

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

--Barack Obama

‎"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today."

--Barack Obama

"I've now been in 57 states; I think one left to go."

--Barack Obama

Blogger Just Slapped TMR With A Warning Label (When It's The Safe Bets Who Are Dangerous)

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Yes, yes, yes - I'm going to get to the cult article (I've been meeting with my "presidential advisors" over chicken wings) - but I have to deal with this issue:

First, Jon Meacham is a chump, so who gives a fuck what he thinks ("I don't know about you but, after 200 years, I'm willing to roll the dice on a Prussian takeover")? Has this man been paying attention to what's been happening in this country? The whole point of the Tea Party is that we've been getting too far away from what the Founders intended, not that we need to find new ways to stretch the distance further.

Even worse, though, is Hot Air's Allahpundit agreeing with him. Allah says:

I agree with him about the natural-born requirement, incidentally: It’s one of the most antiquated and unnecessary parts of the Constitution, especially in light of the original intent he describes.

To which I say, after 200 years, FUCK THE ORIGINAL INTENT HE DESCRIBES! He's a chump! Here's a simple fucking concept I'm describing - this is "our" country - and one of the checks in place to make sure that's so is the president must be a born-and-raised American.

I've pointed out before that it was living in France that sparked my conservatism. Listening to the frogs discuss the United States, and knowing they didn't understand the first thing about it, could only have happened because I did understand it - inside and out - the vitals of this country being in the marrow of my bones. Whether Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or not, if there's one thing the other citizens of this country see, it's the threat of someone in the highest office in the land who can't say that - and these putzs want to make it possible for the situation to be worse? (Isn't it bad enough "The Situation" has a shot under the present arrangement?) These people talk madness.

I was just reading The New York Times's article on our local internet brain trust and - while I know they're all fine individuals - I'm sorry but they're elites and (like many others who rule the roost of blogging) are not the kind of thinkers I want to see making the big decisions for the rest of us, because - honestly - they're NOT the rest of us! They're every Human Resources Dept. I've ever had to engage with and, frankly, I feel like I'm surrounded by too many so-called "smart" people who get The Big Questions dead wrong. (For instance, Ann Althouse voted for Barack Obama and Glenn Reynolds supported Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. 'Nuff said.) Now, I guess, I'll have to add Allahpundit to the list as well.

And that's a shame, because it's a pathetically lonnng fucking list already.

This Is The Stupidest Dance Ever Invented

Obama is another jackass who can't quite grasp that, while we're listening to him, we're not taking him seriously:

Part of the problem is that the American distrust of intellectualism is itself not the irrational thing that those sympathetic to intellectuals would like to think. Intellectuals killed by the millions in the 20th century, and it actually takes the sophisticated training of "education" to work yourself up into a state where you refuse to count that in the books. Intellectuals routinely declared things that aren't true; catastrophically wrong predictions about the economy, catastrophically wrong pronouncements about foreign policy, and just generally numerous times where they've been wrong. Again, it takes a lot of training to ignore this fact. "Scientists" collectively were witnessed by the public flipflopping at a relatively high frequency on numerous topics; how many times did eggs go back and forth between being deadly and beneficial? Sure the media gets some blame here but the scientists played into it, each time confidently pronouncing that this time they had it for sure and it is imperative that everyone live the way they are saying (until tomorrow). Scientists have failed to resist politicization across the board, and the standards of what constitutes science continues to shift from a living, vibrant, thoughtful understanding of the purposes and ways of science to a scelerotic hide-bound form-over-substance version of science where papers are too often written to either explicitly attract grants or to confirm someone's political beliefs... and regardless of whether this is 2% or 80% of the papers written today it's nearly 100% of the papers that people hear about.

I simplify for rhetorical effect; my point is not that this is a literal description of the current state of the world but that it is far more true than it should be. Any accounting of "anti-intellectualism" that fails to take this into account and lays all the blame on "Americans" is too incomplete to formulate an action plan that will have any chance of success. It's not a one-sided problem.

If you want to fix anti-intellectualism, you first need to fix intellectualism and return it to its roots of dispassionate exploration, commitment to truth over all else and bending processes to find truth rather than bending truth to fit (politicized) processes, and return to great, foundational humility that even the press could not overplay into hubris. And they need to drop their blinders whereby they excuse away the damage that intellectuals have done while ignoring these ancient precepts and only crediting themselves their successes, because it cuts themselves off from the very object lessons that could help them return to this time-tested approach to science, which they still flatter themselves that they follow. If you fail to fix the intellectuals first, then all your effort to fix "Americans" is going to fail; you'll bend your efforts towards getting them to look at intellectuals seriously, but they'll end up coming to the same conclusions they already have about the value of intellectuals and you'll have wasted your shot.

I'm not holding my breath.

And why should we? Especially now that we stupid folks - the real Americans - are getting the upper hand? Remember when I used to speak of the opposition and Alice In Wonderland, back in the New Dark Ages, and I told you they're nothing but a deck of cards? Well now we've fully arrived, and can see through their lies, so all they've got left is to flail. Or I should say, all the Left has is to flail.



And flail they will. Enjoy the show.

Hat Tip: iOwnTheWorld

Andrew Klavan: On The Sesame Street Of Hate

BUSTED: Defund NPR And Defund Them NOW!

James O'Keefe has done it again! Absolutely disgusting and a total betrayal of American values:

A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement.

“The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,” declared Schiller, who runs NPR’s foundation.

In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give to $5 million to NPR because, “the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.”

On the tapes, Schiller wastes little time before attacking conservatives. The Republican Party, Schiller says, has been “hijacked by this group.” The man posing as Malik finishes the sentence by adding, “the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people.” Schiller agrees and intensifies the criticism, saying that the Tea Party people aren’t “just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.”

Schiller goes on to describe liberals as more intelligent and informed than conservatives. “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives,” he said.

Fine, but we've still got a question:

If liberals are so friggin' smart and sophisticated, why do they keep getting caught saying and doing such stupid and repulsive things?

UPDATE: Here's the word from Hot Air:

Forget the issue of funding for just a moment.  The two Schillers at the top of NPR apparently can’t tell the truth even if it tasted like filet mignon.  Dependence is independence, the Joooooos run the newspapers, and conservatives are all racists in their world.  Why would anyone rely on news from an organization run by these two Orwellian creatures?

That's always been the question, and anyone currently listening to NPR but can't hear that message - or thinks the rest of us can't - needs some serious mental help.

Radiohead's "Lotus Flower": Faggy NewAge Shit

Radiohead's got a new album out. We're not the biggest fans, but we do admire how they're staying true to themselves - committed to their art - because we're sick of the crass commercialization, and the lowest-common-denominator American Idol-ization, of everything. Thank goodness there's no girl in the group, either, just dying to show us her tits or whatnot.

This track ain't bad, but it reminds us why we're not crazy about the band - they're elitists who won't deign to make music for the rest of us - and that can fuck up the iPod flow.

As a matter of fact, it does every time.

UPDATE: You can listen to the whole thing, but pay special attention to track number six, because KROQ reinforces our assessment of the band in their album review by saying:

A modern, sophisticated piano-based track, “Codex” is full of glistening echos and groans, stunning silences that give way to sonic epiphanies, almost New Age-y traces of culminating violin and the brassy swoon of a meditation bowl. Yorke indulges a naturalistic spirituality, asking you to “jump off the end into a clear lake/no one around.”

Folks, we know Faggy NewAge Shit when we hear it - enjoy:

Just Twisting Yourself Into Knots (Over Nothing)

Oh-ho-ho! So Yoga, as so many tell us, is just exercise in the West? Then what is this woman getting rid of?:

TARA Stiles does not talk about sacred Hindu texts, personal intentions or chakras. She does not ask her yoga classes to chant. Her language is plainly Main Street: chaturangas are push-ups, the “sacrum” the lower back. She dismisses the ubiquitous yoga teacher-training certificates as rubber stamps, preferring to observe job candidates in action.

In her classes, videos and how-to book, “Slim Calm Sexy,” Ms. Stiles, a 29-year-old former model with skyscraper limbs and a goofball sensibility, focuses on the physical and health aspects of yoga, not the spiritual or the philosophical. For traditionalists, this is heresy, reducing what they see as a way of life to just another gym class.

Somebody's lying out there, because if Yoga wasn't a 5,000 year-old spiritual practice to make you stupid, then this woman wouldn't have to be changing it - and nobody would be pissed at her - but she is and they are. So which is it:

Are you being fooled or is she?

We especially like her take on those oh-so-nice and "peaceful" types in the Yoga "scene":

In the decade since she came to New York, Ms. Stiles has built a business out of breaking those rules. She rejected the city’s yoga scene as exclusive and elitist — it reminded her of the mean girls in high school, only with incense and bare feet.

“I feel like I’m standing up for yoga,” Ms. Stiles said. “People need yoga, not another religious leader. Quite often in New York, they want to be religious leaders, and it’s not useful.

Indeed. As we keep saying, the Yoga crowd are a bunch of hypocritical bitches with nothing to recommend them but the other hypocrites they gather with - this includes Ms. Stiles, who claims she's stripping the bullshit from Yoga, but works with Jane "we're all energy" Fonda and Deepak "I've got a scam" Chopra.

These Yoga fools must gather together because, while they call it a "lifestyle" what they really mean is it's a exploitable cult with it's own language and belief system. If it isn't, then why is Stiles talking, specifically, of "religious leaders" for what people claim is exercise? Someone's very, very confused here and in need of psychiatric care. A lot of someone's.

We'll end this, here, with the only comment worth anyone taking away from the post:

You're all a bunch of self-deluded liars, fooling no one but yourselves, and you can be sure Indians have been laughing at your elitist racial appropriation stupidity for decades.

Call us whenever you decide to develop a coherent personality, and cult(ure), of your own.

Ingraham Vs. O'Reilly: I Really, Really Love This

This is how it's supposed to go - two adults discussing current events. She says he's drinking Kool-Aid, he calls her stupid, nobody freaks out. They don't even bat an eye. And, I'm sure, Bill will have her back on; might even have her host a show or two, one day, because she's sharp and serious.

Now, can you imagine if there was one of those passive-aggresive super-sensitive NewAge liberals involved in this exchange? Or one of these libertarian or conservative elitists? They're above criticism. Oh, they'd be screaming how insulted they are, or, surely, banishing someone! You're so bitter! Verbal abuse!

Of course, they reserve the right to call others stupid when they see fit, but it's when you who call them stupid on occasion, or point out where their logic is skewed, you've crossed the rubicon of civil discourse! You're clearly a bad person, unworthy of having your ideas - good or otherwise - promoted. (And, as we all know, not promoting good ideas is better for everyone, right? Or is it just them?) Face it:

These assholes think their shit don't stink.

Well, their shit does stink - it stinks to high heaven - and I applaud Laura Ingraham and Ted Baxter Bill O'Reilly for showing us why:

People can talk, even argue, without getting all bent out of shape by the words being used.

It's called maturity, and too many today, in positions of influence, don't possess it.

Exit question: ever see Glenn Reynolds & Co. debate someone they disagree with?

R.I.P. Good Time Charlie

"A faulty and imperfect man as are we all, but a fellow who understood that Democracy was better than Communism, and that elites are not better-suited to accrue power simply by virtue of their elitism. Wilson was a plain, down-to-earth fellow; he knew that when he did wrong and got away with it - as when he was involved with a DUI hit-and-run in DC- he had genuinely 'got off easy' and admitted it. He knew that he had 'earned' no special consideration, simply because he worked for the people of his district.

Come to think of it, that may be what I liked best about Charlie Wilson. He understood that he worked for the people of his congressional district, and his country. Not the other way around.

One of the things that bothered me about the film, 'Charlie Wilson’s War' was that it portrayed Democrats as they used to be -as indisputably pro-American as anyone, and ideological only to the water’s edge - and only served to remind me how far away we have all come since his like filled the halls of congress.

I must wear the label 'conservative' only because 'classical liberalism' has been displaced by something that has appropriated the name, 'liberal,' and built upon its foundation something so narrow, closed-minded and thought-police-friendly as to disorient and daze the world.

As I wrote to some friends just now, 'if Democrats were still like Charlie Wilson, I would still be a Democrat.'"

-- The Anchoress

Facts On The Ground (About Gods In The Sky)

"The curtain has come down on what can best be described as a brief un-American moment in our history. That moment began in the fall of 2008, with the great financial panic, and gave rise to the Barack Obama phenomenon.

The nation's faith in institutions and time-honored ways had cracked. In a little-known senator from Illinois millions of Americans came to see a savior who would deliver the nation out of its troubles. Gone was the empiricism in political life that had marked the American temper in politics. A charismatic leader had risen in a manner akin to the way politics plays out in distressed and Third World societies.

There is nothing surprising about where Mr. Obama finds himself today. He had been made by charisma, and political magic, and has been felled by it. If his rise had been spectacular, so, too, has been his fall. The speed with which some of his devotees have turned on him—and their unwillingness to own up to what their infatuation had wrought—is nothing short of astounding. But this is the bargain Mr. Obama had made with political fortune.

He was a blank slate, and devotees projected onto him what they wanted or wished. In the manner of political redeemers who have marked—and wrecked—the politics of the Arab world and Latin America, Mr. Obama left the crowd to its most precious and volatile asset—its imagination. There was no internal coherence to the coalition that swept him to power. There was cultural 'cool' and racial absolution for the white professional classes who were the first to embrace him. There was understandable racial pride on the part of the African-American community that came around to his banners after it ditched the Clinton dynasty.

The white working class had been slow to be convinced. The technocracy and elitism of Mr. Obama's campaign—indeed of his whole persona—troubled that big constituency, much more, I believe, than did his race and name. The promise of economic help, of an interventionist state that would salvage ailing industries and provide a safety net for the working poor, reconciled these voters to a candidate they viewed with a healthy measure of suspicion. He had been caught denigrating them as people 'clinging to their guns and religion,' but they had forgiven him.

Americans don't deify their leaders or hang on their utterances, but Mr. Obama succumbed to what the devotees said of him: He was the Awaited One. A measure of reticence could have served him. But the flight had been heady, and in the manner of Icarus, Mr. Obama flew too close to the sun.

In this extraordinary tale of hubris undone, the Europeans—more even than the people in Islamic lands—can be assigned no small share of blame. They overdid the enthusiasm for the star who had risen in America.

It was the way in Paris and Berlin (not to forget Oslo of course) of rebuking all that played out in America since 9/11—the vigilance, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the sense that America's interests and ways were threatened by a vengeful Islamism. But while the Europeans and Muslim crowds hailed him, they damned his country all the same.

There had been that magical moment—the campaign of 2008—and the true believers want to return to it. But reality is merciless. The spell is broken."

-- Fouad Ajami, with the key factor that I, a lover of reality, missed about the last election - it was "a brief un-American moment" - which is why I couldn't relate to it, like I can The Wall Street Journal.