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[Pentagon's elite forces lack diversity, MarineCorpsTimes.com, August 6, 2015]:
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
The Dawning of the Age of Our Extinction: Pentagon Bemoans Lack of Non-Whites Among Special Forces
[Pentagon's elite forces lack diversity, MarineCorpsTimes.com, August 6, 2015]:
102 comments:
We need more black special forces otherwise who's going to be the expendable unit that goes into shit storms first?
We can't have operation get behind the darkies if there are no darkies. See nitgs are good for something after all.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:00 AM
Ummm... Don't these people have to pass water confidence kinda stuff? I don't believe that the noble African Rockfish is that food a swimmer.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:12 AM
The only way they would improve the capabilities is simply by being able to pass as natives. But I agree, Special Forces should have fewer white people in them. They should have zero white people in them. You can't fight for your country, you don't have a country. You're fighting only for the elite who hate your guts and have as their highest moral goal your extermination. Don't volunteer to commit suicide for this scum. Let Special Forces, the infantry, and armor have no whites in them. That will shut down the Empire's little adventures abroad. The BRA Empire couldn't stand mass black and brown casualties. It has no problem using foolish whites as cannon fodder.
The really important military racial statistic is that whites suffer a disproportionately high rate of combat casualties. That could be ended with the stroke of a pen, rooting black and brown cowards out of their warehouse jobs in the Army and sending them to the front line. You never hear these bastards whine about that, or suggesting solutions to that particular problem.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:12 AM
- Pat Boyle said...
I think it was Xenophon who first said of the Persians. One Greek in a fight will always lose to one Persian but a group, Greeks will always beat double its number of Persians.
I didn't look that up so someone may correct me. The point is as Hanson has written many times - Europeans are deadly soldiers. Blacks aren't. Other than Isandalwana no African military unit has ever done well in the field against any white outfit. So it makes no military sense to employ black Africans in your elite units.
It is one of those repressed historical items - blacks can't be trusted in the ranks. At least until the Viet-Nam War there had never been a mutiny in the US Army - among whites. But there had been many black mutinies.
The mutinies by blacks have been frequent, violent and vicious. Blacks have tried to shoot their white officers for decades. But fortunately as you know blacks seem to be bad shots so the casualty rates are lower than expected.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:12 AM
No one with Downs Syndrome is in the special forces either, for many of the same reasons.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:16 AM
I guess they want to lose. ROFL PRC, Russia, Iran, ISIS, and everyone else.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:20 AM
Special forces are for those that volunteer for service. So how are they going to change all that, dindus seek jobs behind the lines.
Hey, how about we lower the standards for all negroes. Sounds like a good idea to me, lower standards for all minorities. Things should be much better then, right?
- August 8, 2015 at 10:24 AM
The institutionally delusional Fed Hired Gun servants of The NWO ought to take a look at how heavily "Diverse"; as in BLACK, police departments perform, or more accurately, don't perform.
New Orleans would be a good example, then Philadelphia.
South St. Pete is where the BLACK cops are mostly concentrated, among dey peeps.
Rampantly active drug trade, robberies, street hookers in abundance, hassling of Whites...common everyday occurrences.
The BLACK cops and soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa are also worthy of observation,especially in South Africa and the former Rhodesia, before the gelded and female USSA military Obamabots now smeared upon this nation and their troopers inflict Affirmative Action Hiring practices upon our remaining elite ops commands.
Are they really so dense that they don't know that BLACKS ruin EVERYTHING they touch, without exception?
- August 8, 2015 at 10:33 AM
There was a time when I would have been disturbed by a story like this. But today? Anything that undermines the efficiency of the government is good for race realism. Why?
First, because a "diverse" military will be less efficient and thus less able to engage in acts of repression against white nationalists.
Second, because the politicalization of the military will further alienate military members. If nothing else, they will see the incompetence of AA personnel and start thinking.
Third, because every white SF troop who is displaced is one more person who can join the cause of race realism.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:33 AM
Back in the 70s I was in an all-black battalion on Ft.Bragg. The special forces trainees needed mock guerillas to organize and fight, so a bunch of us were dragooned from our drug and wine-infested barracks to run around in the woods for three weeks in our civilian clothes. The black guys showed up in orange disco pants and platform shoes. They were not happy campers living out in the swamp in that attire. The white guys had a blast however and were dejected when it all came to an end. I remember one Southern cracker who caught a large snake and roasted it for us over a campfire. Good times.
But now the special forces needs Diversity!
- August 8, 2015 at 10:38 AM
At the intersection of feminism and diversity :
- August 8, 2015 at 10:39 AM
What this initiative is all about though is to prepare our Diversity Army to engage in African civil wars that will further enlarge the pipeline of African immigrants to the US. The vicious conflicts we conduct there will also provide a showcase for women's careers. Much cucktography will grace our popular press with imagery of ascendant female military leaders nurturing crowds of ebony African kids while smudged with war makeup and showing signs of office PTSD.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:44 AM
That's the way it's been for decades. If you have to do the simplest math, you wind up with 98% white units. The Army had a high priority in the 70s for its missile units and I, who had never been good at math anyway, decided to throw the math part of the proficiency test so as not to wind up in the artillery. Wound up there anyway. They can add or subtract but are apparently incapable of basic multiplication and division.
The one black guy in my platoon was some kind of mulatto.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:46 AM
San Franciscan here
Diversity is no longer something optional which may or may not be appropriate in every employment situation. It is now our officially sanctioned state religion. No one is allowed to question that diversity is a good thing in all situations, all the time, even if race war at the workplace is the result.
I used to think that I could never live in a communist country because I'd have to lie my entire life just to be left alone. Guess what folks? We're here.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM
Off topic but given the recent immigrant surge into Europe it appears ironic that right now about 100 million Africans would happily board 18th century slave ships for the chance to land in America.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:56 AM
Sub-Saha's need to be at least 50% of any special force because when the order comes down to start slaughtering whites here in USA, some of the yt Special Forces might decline to obey a genocidial, maniacal order.
Sub-Saha's will go full auto quicker than a 10 year old sub-saha girl will twerk her ass for the world to see (& lol marvel at).
Sub-Saha's will extend full auto mode to any chinks they see too without the brass even having to mention it to them
/H hypie out H\
- August 8, 2015 at 10:56 AM
I'm tired of all the negro projections of self loathing. A majority of blacks are killed by other blacks. It's because they hate themselves.
As for their lack of representation in the Special Forces: Obviously the negro is physically fit enough for the bodily strains associated with Special Forces missions, but those soldiers don't just amble in like wild gorillas and stomp their targets to death. If a fair cross section of civilian negro people can't even pass the firefighter's exam, then it is safe to assume that a fair cross section of military negro people can't pass the Special Forces exam.
The Engineer
- August 8, 2015 at 11:15 AM
An expert at the Pentagon on the diversity of commando force Army Col. Michael Copenhaver needs to look no further than the 10,000 orc army that louie farrakhan is assembling. Talk about a scene from Planet of the Apes.......
- August 8, 2015 at 11:20 AM
Having a diverse force can only increase your operational capability! HUH??? How? Seals have to think as one and there is no diversity in there. Having a more diverse force to handle future threats means what? That white people are not good enough! Blacks are pouting because they can't measure up to white men except in playing basketball. There is a reason blacks are only 1% of the force. Black men generally don't go to college! Of those that do, I would say the vast majority don't graduate (unless they go to a diploma mill.)
Let's assume that 50% of the population only has an IQ of 85; unless one is given a college degree, there is no way blacks could compete with whites who have IQ's above 110 (those who go to college generally have a higher IQs than the average population.) Whereas whites have a large group of candidates to select as Navy Seals, blacks do not. Personally, I believe only about 1% of their population could hack the mental process (unless the degree is in African American Studies.)
This is so laughable…LET THEM DO IT THEN! Choose more coons to be officers and watch how fast we become the laughing stock of the world. Blacks don't succeed because they are STUPID! I hope the black race becomes so diverse they just live in their own diverse (black) neighborhoods, hire their own diverse (black) policemen, and take care of their OWN diverse (black) welfare.
That guy in the Pentagon is kissing the asses of blacks! Blacks are not officers because they don't deserve to be officers. Did the putz ever hear of the BELL CURVE? Being an officer requires hard work and brains; things that blacks sorely lack.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:25 AM
OT---Reason #4372 not to eat at a restaurant where AA diversity prepares your food.
Checker's Restaurant (whose website appears to cater to blacks) has yet another AA diversity hire come up with a wholly inadequate response, stating the food was never actually served. Yeah, like I would believe that lie.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:36 AM
All branches of the military are VOLUNTARY! All military Occupational Specialties are VOLUNTARY! All doors and paths are VOLUNTARY & OPEN TO ALL! Soldiers love and thrive on COMPITION! It is the key cornerstone of RESPECT!
Blacks do not apply for these positions in any significant numbers! Those who do, often fail (though at a percentage much lower than the 90+% I quoted earlier for other endeavors - obviously because those who try are already highly motivated.)
Big city Fire Departments have the same problem. Blacks simply don't apply (even with AA outreach and assistance!). There simply are certain things with certain demands they are simply not interested in doing! And those who do are clearly the real 5-10 percenters!
If you observe intelligently and honestly without initial bias - you will come to the conclusion that this is a manifestation that they are behaviorally and biologically different.
I often coyly refer to them as the second smartest species on earth.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:38 AM
This "diversity is out strength" b.s. really needs to be thrown into the trash where it belongs. There is no proof that diversity strengthens us- while there is plenty of evidence that it erodes our society:
IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger.
But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.
"The extent of the effect is shocking," says Scott Page, a University of Michigan political scientist.
I don't want our most elite military units handicapped and made to be the laughing stock of the world. If they really want to play that game, why not make a percentage of current SEALs just put on black face and call themselves Tyrone I, II, and III?
While we're at it, why don't we force corporate America to have the right percentage of black CEOs and board members? Diversity is our greatest strength, right?
Who the f@ck even gets to see Navy SEALs anyway? Aren't they Mission Impossible style commandos who are in and out without being seen? TPTB better come up with some explanations backed by real data that show that replacing a Bill with a Shauntavious would be a rational move. They keep pushing and pushing and pushing this fantasy b.s. on us and all it is doing is waking people up to the idiocy that is BRA.
In the future will any jobs/positions be actually based on merit? Selecting people based ability and commitment, now that is a crazy idea!
- August 8, 2015 at 11:40 AM
yeah saw that in a paper, yep Diversity is more important than getting the job done. got it.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:44 AM
What they might not realize is special forces need to be able to swim. I was in navy and you should have seen the countless African Americans spending almost their entire time trying to pass the basic swim test. Looked like a naacp meeting every morning.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:48 AM
No PK! Not the Age of Our Extinction! Our civilization is like a fine piece of china. It will be dropped and shatter into pieces - but WE WILL pickup the pieces (we want) and begin anew. I am cynical and very pessimistic about the short-term, but remain very optimistic about the long-term future.
And anybody who comes back with this Northwest Homeland crap can kiss my ass! It will be a cold day in hell I give up 95% of this country to go live with my back against a mountain wall!
- August 8, 2015 at 11:50 AM
Great. Now they want to destroy the Navy Seal teams.
I was listening to talk radio sports this morning and have to comment on the changes in the sports-casters. I endured as long as I could take it something called "Moose and Maggie". You see, they are shoving women into sports (football, baseball, basketball) programs. You can't escape. The last thing I want to hear when I want to hear sports talk is a shrieking female voice. I have one of those at home.
Then, on ESPN they have a "He says She says" negro combo. The buck has your typical ebonics voice and the female is your Angela Davis talking simian. I can't take it.
This is being done on purpose, as we all know, to further Un-Whiten America. They are out to even destroy our form of English language (and we all know who they are).
Then for Saturday afternoon ESPN sports programs, they have a 2-female due!!!! I'm sorry, but women are NOT qualified to discuss football. Women discussing football is like men discussing tampons.
I can't wait for the collapse.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:53 AM
- Joshua Sinistar said...
Never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake. This fool in the White House may be the best thing that happened to us. That Liar Lincoln would never have won the War Between the States with an army of slaves you know. Keep up the good work boys!
- August 8, 2015 at 11:54 AM
America is approximately 15% Black. If the same logic was applied to professional basketball teams, each team would only be allowed to have a maximum of TWO black players ...based on diversity.
- August 8, 2015 at 11:57 AM
""" An expert at the Pentagon on the diversity of commando forces said the lack of minorities robs the military of skills it needs to win."""
So they admit we are not all equal ? And it's fine and dandy just as long as it defines whites as weak and diversity aka black as strong.
- August 8, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Was just reading a USA Today article on this, and any reader paying attention could easily see that in USA Today terms, diversity is another word for how many BLACK people there are. Whenever comparing whites to non-whites, blacks are specifically mentioned. Other races don't make it into the mix until you get to the bar chart graphics at the end of the article:
"In general, the military has a much more diverse force than key components such as special operations. African Americans made up 17% of the 1.3 million-member armed forces in 2013, according to a recent Pentagon report. Whites made up slightly more than 69%.
Diversity erodes with the breakdown from enlisted to officer ranks. Blacks make up 18.5% of the enlisted troops but only 9.4% of the officer corps. The lack of diversity becomes more evident the further up the ranks you climb. USA TODAY has reported that key commands in the Army and Air Force, the traditional stepping stones for senior leadership posts, are largely staffed by white officers."
"Among Army Green Berets, 85% of its 1,494 officers are white and 4.5% are black. Its 5,947 enlisted Green Berets are 86% white and 5.4% black.
For the Air Force's para-rescue jumpers, highly trained airmen who search for missing troops, only one of 166 is black, or .6% of that force."
"The Marines refused to provide how many special operators they have. Instead, they provided a pie chart showing their racial breakdown. Black officers and enlisted Marines make up about 1% of their special operations forces."
Ok, I guess I was wrong, there is this ONE line for the non-black minorities:
"For the SEALs, the problem extends beyond the officer corps into the enlisted ranks. Of its enlisted men, 45 SEALs are black, or about 2% of the 2,242 members of its elite force. There are more SEALs — 99, or 4% of the enlisted force — who are Native Americans or Alaska natives."
But this is kind of a back-handed reference, as it appears to be complaining that other minorities are over-represented when compared to blacks.
Stop blowing smoke up all of our @sses. When the PC agenda says "diversity" what it really means is "black people".
Very good job shedding light on this issue Paul, this is one of many instances where realists and the rest of the population have very common ground. Keep pushing BRA, your efforts are working- working to create more realists!
- August 8, 2015 at 12:11 PM
Once again it is whitey's fault, in this case because "not enough" blacks, er, I mean "people of color" are volunteering for the special forces. Racism HAS to be behind all this. Either that or blacks aren't volunteering. But we all know it's the former, not the latter, right?!?
- August 8, 2015 at 12:13 PM
Well now , this will kinda give new meaning to "black ops" now won't it.
Gotta come up with a new phrase for the acronym B.U.D.S. now ........
- August 8, 2015 at 12:14 PM
Even though this development is depressing news, at least I have another term to search for in the news: "diversity".
I can add that to the list of: "protesters", "black lives matter", "Ferguson" and "Baltimore" when refining my news searches.
- August 8, 2015 at 12:17 PM
It looks like Michael Brown's family (i.e. people who he didn't live with) are still in mourning. They must have not gotten a payout yet. We all know that money solves ALL problems in the black community.
- August 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM
Diversity in film:
A new study on diversity in popular movies helps quantify a fact that any attentive moviegoer has likely noticed: The world as portrayed on the big screen is still overwhelmingly young, white, male, and straight.
Last year's 100 top-grossing films featured more than 4,600 characters with speaking parts, but only 19 were gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and none were transgender. And nearly three out of four of those 4,600-plus characters were white.
Maybe we can talk about another demographic that is incredibly over-represented in Hollywood and the media, but they must not be named.
- August 8, 2015 at 12:27 PM
"Diversity is Victory"
"Merit is Failure"
"War is Peace"
"Freedom is Slavery"
"Ignorance is Strength"
Got it!
- August 8, 2015 at 12:43 PM
It looks like Ferguson has solved its discriminatory policing problem... just stop enforcing the law:
Under the new law, starting on Aug. 28th, traffic fines and fees will be capped at a combined $300. People determined to be indigent can't be forced to pay fines they can't afford. People who fail to appear in court for a traffic violation can't be jailed, and those jailed on a different charge must see a judge within 48 to 72 hours.
The law also requires that cities accredit their police departments and limit the percentage of revenue cities in St. Louis County derive from fines to 12.5 percent -- a huge drop from the previous cap of 30 percent. (In Ferguson court revenue had reached 14 percent of the budget in 2014.) If a city fails to meet these standards, it automatically triggers a vote to dissolve.
Brilliant move guys! I guess you can always just shake down law-abiding responsible white citizens to make up the difference!
- August 8, 2015 at 12:47 PM
An article or two ago someone in the comments (sorry, I can't find who it was) inquired if there was a racial breakdown on who were being killed by police. Not sure if this site is verified as being correct but it's the closest thing I've seen to breaking it down. Very user friendly site with detailed information...
- August 8, 2015 at 12:50 PM
They should just come up with a new elite force especially for POC. It will be 100% diverse (non-white) and be tasked with a special mission. They will charge at the enemy in advance of all other forces and once they are close enough, a personal bomb strapped to each one of these elite POC troops will be detonated by remote from far behind enemy lines. With any luck, this front running rainbow coalition of elite afro forces will take out enemy troops and arms along with themselves. Everyone wins!
- August 8, 2015 at 1:41 PM
Several years ago when I still worked for Corporate America, I was at one of those seminars you get sent to periodically, the ones that are supposed to help you be more "effective" and build "leadership skills" or some such.
The trainer was talking about hiring a diverse work force, and said "diverse employee representation makes for a company better able to face challenges".
I raised my hand to ask a question. I said "can you give me an example?". He said "what?", and I repeated "can you give an example of a case where a diverse work force made a positive difference, or solved a problem."
He did not have an answer. I'm sure he'd given the same talk many times, and never been asked how diversity helped a company. It's just the usual corporate-speak, no one was intended to ask for examples.
After thinking a few minutes, he said "I don't have a specific example, but I'm sure it is true."
I let it go at that, after all, I wasn't there to wreck this guy's spiel. But I hope the room full of White men noted that this "truism" was just being bandied about, routinely, and unchallenged.
btw, I actually learned of an example on my own sometime later. Apparently Chrysler Corp hired a black "designer" who came up with (or was credited for) the redesigned Chrysler 300 a few years ago. Of course, cars are no longer designed by a single person, but Chrysler gave this black guy credit for the design, which was obviously "inspired" by the then current Bentley. So, it was quite a derivative concept at best.
The main point is, no one ever challenges the statements about diversity being a strength. It sounds just plausible enough to get a pass. But real world examples favor like-minded working groups of similar values and background. Those groups are usually more cohesive and productive, in my experience.
- August 8, 2015 at 1:42 PM
O/T: a black finally charged with a hate crime against a White. Wonder if it'll stick, or get reduced?
- August 8, 2015 at 1:48 PM
In my tenor as a state corrections officer, I worked with several prior military and active reserves. A vast difference existed between the coloreds and White military staff. Whites were policy and procedure minded, they responded to incidents no questions asked, the majority of coloreds prided themselves in their ability to shirk and avoid responding to incidents, lie or falsify on state documents, harrass and assault White staff who merely did their duty.
Diversity is death, and a marxist agenda intended to destroy the West.
Old Guard
- August 8, 2015 at 2:29 PM
- Medic Bear said...
As many, including myself, have posted about our experience with Blacks in the military, this alleged deficit can be explained by one word: discipline. In my personal experience, I truly say ~90% of the Blacks I dealt with - as fellow soldiers, officers, patients and others, were shitbags. They were lazy, shiftless, untrustworthy, thieving, lying POS who only wanted to smoke Newports, drink, chase White tail and get over on Whitey each and every chance possible. Some made what would seem to humans, an art form, and were quite good at it.
They certainly can pass - and often exceed, the rigorous physical demands necessary to be in any elite or special operations position but they lack the intelligence and discipline. Even when they might be an IKAGO - I knew a few on jump status or the medical corps, that had the intellect, they were too intellectually lazy - lacked mental discipline.
The vast majority of the time when a Black was in training for either a higher-tech MOS (Military Occupational Specialty, your job series) or special operations, you knew they would wash out, even with fudging and extra work on the part of their "usually well-intentioned" classmates. And anyone who trained with them, if by some miracle they did graduate, knew they only did so by the military's own version of affirmative action and most of us wouldn't trust such a person in battle.
Blacks are a burden on civilization and the world. And certainly on this country, in every aspect of daily life. We need to acknowledge the science, start treating them as a separate species (we are both subspecies) and change the system accordingly. You can't make a dog the equal of a human being, no matter how many laws, gibs, special programs, etc. and other BS you try. It just isn't possible. Blacks are not the same as us, truly, and should cease being treated and heled as such.
- August 8, 2015 at 2:31 PM
I don't remember that one from Xenophon, I did read one that supposedly came from Napoleon from his campaign in Egypt to the effect that five Africans will beat five French Soldiers, ten Frenchmen will beat ten Africans, twenty five Frenchmen will beat one hundred Africans and one hundred Frenchmen will beat one thousand Africans.
- August 8, 2015 at 2:53 PM
It's difficult to pass the selection processes for special forces (and even more difficult to stay in them if you fail the training) so Special Forces are ALWAYS short of GOOD personnel.
If the Blacks made the grade, they would be accepted, no questions asked.
The trouble is, the average Black CAN'T make the grade and are too unintelligent to complete the training to stay in the Regiment.
Form separate Black Special Forces units and use them like a normal Special Forces regiment. Let them be slaughtered and fail. The only problem is that their weapons will fall into the hands of the enemy and white SF troops will have to retrieve the situation ... as usual.
- August 8, 2015 at 2:55 PM
The SEALS need competent personnel and no amount of affirmative action will make a substandard negro into some kind of super soldier. Keep the negro where they are best suited, as a cook, janitor, or some kind of job like that.
- August 8, 2015 at 2:57 PM
I found that ballsy white reporter really sexy.
- August 8, 2015 at 3:33 PM
From my understanding, the most successful special forces unit that had a lot of negroes was Rhodesia's Sealous Scouts. All white officers and a lot of dark faces in the enlisted ranks. They even had a bunch of whites in black face. Other than that, the negroes are categorical failures in large combat numbers.
- August 8, 2015 at 3:37 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
They should just come up with a new elite force especially for POC. It will be 100% diverse (non-white) and be tasked with a special mission. They will charge at the enemy in advance of all other forces and once they are close enough, a personal bomb strapped to each one of these elite POC troops will be detonated by remote from far behind enemy lines. With any luck, this front running rainbow coalition of elite afro forces will take out enemy troops and arms along with themselves. Everyone wins!
Yes.....they could be famous like the Tuskegee guys. They'll go down in history as the Kamikaze Koons
- August 8, 2015 at 3:49 PM
It's so true. Diversity is our strength.
I mean, just look at Detroit, Baltimore, Camden, St. Louis, etc. Our greatest cities boast of diversity.
The medical sciences have leapt exponentially into the 21st century due to diversity. The contributions of American africans to Medicine is astounding. Because of young black males, gun shot wound treatments are now state of the art in our most diverse cities.
Economics has evolved to magical proportions whereby capital is created from thin air! We can thank the politicians and the diverse crowd for this new and revolutionary method of creating wealth from nothing.
Street safety has leapt beyond our wildest dreams. The diverse efforts in the black lives matter movement have proven successful in keeping all American safe from the rabid behavior of the feral police.
And as for the SEALS....well just take a look at any wildlife magazine and you'll clearly see that seals are black. So why has the Pentagon failed us! Come on guys, get out there and recruit some seals.
Sleepless in Seattle
- August 8, 2015 at 3:51 PM
- Brian Anderson said...
Diverse is code for "more politically reliable"
- August 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM
The scenario becomes more absurd each day.
Philadelphia Mike
- August 8, 2015 at 3:53 PM
I was reading Yahoo news, Michael Browns step father claims his family is still in mouring.
Must have not had the big pay-off yet.
- August 8, 2015 at 4:04 PM
- Pat Boyle said...
It may be changing but blacks have never done well in swimming. For example only seven blacks tried out for the 1996 Olympics against 455 whites.
If that is so then the Seals seem like the wrong service to try to place more blacks.
BTW I can't find any reference for that idea to Xenophon. I thought it might have been Alcibiades because he too was a Greek in Persia but no luck yet. Help.
- August 8, 2015 at 4:09 PM
I watched the republican debate. Great stuff. Yeah! Only legal immigration...
Then, every one of the debaters said "no abortions ever!"
That was so weird. I guess some BOSS told them all that to be republican you have to make abortion illegal.
So, I am left with two choices. Odd guys who want control over my womb, or awful democrats who want to lift up the blacks at my cost.
I do not want to vote for either of these two "choices".
I want a party that is pro-family, by making having white children (working dad) affordable, one that throws out every illegal and their anchor baby, one that brings jobs back to the USA, one that demands long-term birth control to section 8 recipients.
Where can I vote for that choice? Then, how can I have that politician impeached the moment he goes back on those promises?
- August 8, 2015 at 4:09 PM
I served eight years in the Marine Corps-not a Recon, which is the Marine equivalent of a SEAL-just a rank and file Marine, which is plenty good enough-this was back in the 1970s.
While the Marines were mostly white, I encountered hundreds of blacks. Among those I knew well enough to form an opinion of, there were a couple of decent officers (black officers were a real rarity back then) and one or two enlisted guys who I considered good men and good at their jobs. One or two more who were OK guys and satisfactory at their job.
The rest ranged from poor to woefully incompetent, and from shady and unreliable to mega-scumbags and disgraces to the Corps, to out and out psychos and criminals.
Come to think of it, it's largely the same breakdown, percentagewise, as I've experienced in the civilian world both before and after my service.
- August 8, 2015 at 4:19 PM
There was a time when demands for diversity was mocked (perhaps not intentionally) but I remember a beer commercial from decades ago which featured the Olympic Sumo Wrestler high dive event. Once he did the dive, the bottom of the pool was cracked open and all the water drained out.
Come to think of it, now I'm outraged! Why are there no gigantic blubber butts in the high dive competition? No chihuahuas in grey hound racing? No shetland ponies in horse racing! No.....oh forget it! It's all too ridiculous including the idea of negroes in Special Forces.
On a more serious note, has anyone else had telemarketers (who are obviously Indians in India with thick accents) calling and introducing themselves as Bob Jones or Adam Smith? I've had two such calls and burst out laughing at the jerks each time. I told one, "Right. A guy with a thick Indian accent is named Adam Smith. Sure. And my name is Mahatma Gandhi! Give me a f*cking break!" and hung up.
Move over, Alice. The entire world is coming down the rabbit hole to Wonderland right behind you! Either that or tens of millions of Mad Hatters have escaped into our world!
- August 8, 2015 at 4:34 PM
Let's take our cue about blacks from the inscriptions on a stele erected in Egypt by Sesostris III from about 3500 B.C. He said that blacks were utter cowards and would always retreat when attacked and would only attack when the enemy withdrew their attack. This is exactly how people today speak of blacks- that if you stand up to them, they'll back down. And they only attack when they think you are weaker or not paying attention or are an easy target or they have the numbers. Which is precisely why they prey the very young, the very old, the infirm etc. They are natural born cowards.
Oh!....Wait a minute! Egypt was a black "cibilization." I guess Sesostris III was one of those self hating blacks. My bad.
- August 8, 2015 at 4:48 PM
- David In TN said...
Alta 158,
I've seen that analysis by Napoleon from his Egyptian campaign. It was in a book by (a then young) Stephen Ambrose titled Crazy Horse and Custer. Except for odd instances like the Little Big Horn, the Indians (and "natives" in general) rarely triumphed over trained troops in a pitched battle.
- August 8, 2015 at 4:57 PM
Detroit became diverse one negro at a time. One cop, one teacher, one office worker, one firefighter, one mayor. Nuff said. Diversity was so highly overrated. Led Detroit right into a big, black bankruptcy!
- August 8, 2015 at 5:04 PM
- panjoomby said...
the military worm turned slowly: it began about 1979 when they started to include a small part on our evaluations that said "__ supports equal opportunity..." at first it was subtle like that - then the changes picked up steam - now it's blatant pandering to & promoting of NAMS.
interesting, b/c the military testers (the ASVAB/AFQT researchers) have ALL the data & know the score - & by score i mean the mean score differences between groups. they seem to play PC as possible & ignore that or try to hide it. i guess b/c the gov't pays them to.
- August 8, 2015 at 5:13 PM
If there's not "enough" black Seals then the Seals are just going to have to remove whatever tests they are using to qualify Seals.
That's what happened to the Firefighters.
Tests, and standards and qualifications that disqualify blacks are all RACIST! and must be abolished.
For some reason.
- August 8, 2015 at 5:17 PM
In follow-up to the comment of Anonymous at 1:42 p.m., I work for a state governmental entity in a Southern state, where we have all been forced to undergo "diversity" training. I went to the half-day session, but have yet to complete the full-day session that is still required. The "instructor" for the training was a very large, middle-aged, black woman wearing quasi-afro-native attire (dashiki sort of thingy, or something, funky hat, etc.). One of the very first things she said was to the effect of: "In colonial times, white men owned all of the property." I said: "That's not true. Some freed men of color, i.e., black men, also owned property, including in some instances black slaves." She hemmed and hawed and then said: "Well, they [white men] owned most of the property." I made no further challenges to her presentation, as the equivalent of our head of human resources was sitting a couple of seats over from me. We all need to fight back as much as we can and that was as far as I felt I could go in those circumstances, but although it was a very small step, it was still significant because most white people (certainly the overwhelming majority of those being lectured to in that diversity training session), even highly educated and well-read ones, have no idea whatsoever that some blacks too owned slaves in the Antebellum South. This is the critical lynch-pin to the whole reparations argument, and by extension all of the BGI's arguments for all aspects of BRA -- militant blacks demand that present-day whites be held collectively responsible for the actions of some of their many-generations-removed ancestors in owning slaves, even though the majority of present-day whites have no ancestors who owned slaves, but militant blacks certainly don't want present-day blacks to be held collectively responsible for the actions of some of their many-generations-removed ancestors who also owned slaves. All of the fully BRA-accepted racial double-standards of today necessarily spring from this fundamental racial double-standard imposing differing collective treatments on two identically situated present-day groups, both consisting of identically situated people some of whose ancestors owned slave. If they can get away with this foundational and most glaring of all double standards, then no double standard is inconceivable. Thus, one of the most important things, from an intellectual and propaganda perspective, that we white people can do is to spread this fundamental fact around as widely as possible. For a primer on this subject, consider starting by reading the Wikipedia entries for "William Ellison," who was black and the largest slave owner in his county, and "Anthony Johnson (colonist)", who was black and was the prevailing party in what was apparently the very first court decision in the American colonies in which the ownership of a slave was determined. In this country, we appear to be in a nationally unreported black-on-white "raw ecar," but it is a hot war only from the black side and is almost entirely just a cold war at this time from the white side. In cold wars, propaganda is probably the most important weapon. I apologize for the length of this post.
- August 8, 2015 at 5:23 PM
Served forty years ago and every black I knew was surly, non-compliant and combative about everything. I believe most were given the choice of jail or the military, which was helpful for those of us who joined voluntarily. Good to know if I got wounded or killed they would make sure nothing was left in my pockets or wallet.
- August 8, 2015 at 5:35 PM
Where is the diversity in football and basketball? Oh, stupid me, the blacks are the only ones that matter. Sports don't need Whites.
I could not get a job with the U.S. Post Office because I am White. I have had minority postal carriers and they are idiots. There is a black in my post office and she is rude, has attitude, and inept.
I read an article written in 2006. It was about how Affirmative Action actually hurts minorities but is worse on blacks. Law school statistics were used. Blacks who did not have the grades to get into college were accepted. These same blacks were then accepted into law schools by, once again, Affirmative Action. Stats showed that the blacks could not pass or barely passed classes. Most dropped out. Those that barely passed the classes, most could not pass the Bar exam no matter how many times they tried.
I wonder if Mosby was given a free pass on the Bar exam.
To see blacks in high places only got there by Affirmative Action and this diversity crap nonsense.
If Affirmative Action was dropped the truth would come out about how inept blacks really are, and the libtards will never let that happen.
I really am worried about how much more damage Ovomit will do before he is, thankfully, gone.
- August 8, 2015 at 5:57 PM
There may be light at the end of the tunnel. Fisher v. University of Texas may get rid of AA for us without His involvement.
- August 8, 2015 at 6:09 PM
If you believe as I do, that the crunch will inevitably come - then bear this in mind.
One side will look around and assess their ranks, and find AAs everywhere in vast numbers. That is a prescription for disaster! And I'm lovin'it!
- August 8, 2015 at 6:14 PM
Special forces require high standards. In the culture of black victimization, this lowers standards for blacks but raising standards for YT. Its no surprise that eight out of 700+ SEAL officers are black. Those few eight men probably never bought into the false victimization sub culture that blacks like to use to make excuses for their failure. Look at every other successful black. They are always called "Uncle Tom", because they criticize those who victimize themselves. Orc culture is a culture that endorses failure and self destructive behavior. In the public schools that YT pays for, when the children fail it's the school's fault. But when the black kids turn to the books they are criticized as doing "white things" by other self destructive orcs. There's no room for success without when black men abandon their kids. No father= lack of parenting, lack of expectations, lack of role models. Find these eight black men serving, I guarantee you they all have fathers.
- August 8, 2015 at 6:39 PM
I was in the Iraq invasion in 2003 in the Marines. Upon returning I ran into an old friend who was in another regiment during the assault. His unit made first contact at Nasariyah and it was a fiasco to use his terminology... he assured me the Marines poor performance that day was due to a afro american infantry battalion commander calling the opening shots. The bitterness in his voice was profound and his choice of words amazing. This was not the jessica lynch saga but rather the latter named battle of the bridges in the same location immediately after. The unit was called task force tarawa and my friend was adamant this man was promoted well beyond his ability and screwed it all up.
- August 8, 2015 at 7:13 PM
In Michigan twenty blacks brutalized a lone White man. The attack was captured on phones. The black thugs were polar bear hunting. I can't remember who said this, some law spokesperson, said "the perpetrators appear to be black". APPEAR! The thugs are not being charged with a hate crime.
When will this spineless, lying, denial double standard end?
- August 8, 2015 at 7:20 PM
Anon at 5:57 pm. Reminds me of a certain African-American who attended Harvard Law School. Not exactly an easy program to gain admittance.
- August 8, 2015 at 7:28 PM
Quit. Listening. And. Watching. Black. Sports.
The number of "sports" programs on the radio is crazy and listening to white sportscasters drooling over negro performances just make me want to puke!
- August 8, 2015 at 7:43 PM
The skills the military has decided that it wants in SEALs are skills that the great majority of minority recruits don't have. I wonder how they reconcile this fact with their assumption that minorities have the skills the military needs to win?
- August 8, 2015 at 7:49 PM
Anonymous said...
There was a time when I would have been disturbed by a story like this. But today? Anything that undermines the efficiency of the government is good for race realism. Why?
First, because a "diverse" military will be less efficient and thus less able to engage in acts of repression against white nationalists.
Second, because the politicalization of the military will further alienate military members. If nothing else, they will see the incompetence of AA personnel and start thinking.
Third, because every white SF troop who is displaced is one more person who can join the cause of race realism.
August 8, 2015 at 10:33 AM
Formerly Miss Greenbaum here,
Thank you, I couldn't have said it better myself. It's exactly the way I feel. You and I (and hopefully a good amount of other commentators) know that whites have targets on their backs, courtesy of the gubmint. Let them continue to f*ck the country up. It's no longer ours, it's theirs, temporarily. This type of overreach is always destined for ruin, historically speaking. It's just weird to be living in a space and time, watching it play out in front of me.
- August 8, 2015 at 8:14 PM
Demand more black airline pilots. You know, because diversity is a strength.
What could go wrong?
Flying monkeys indeed.
- August 8, 2015 at 8:35 PM
Why are there so many whites in the military?
Only whites are stupidly altruistic enough to sacrifice their lives for a government that hates them.
- August 8, 2015 at 8:35 PM
- riptapart said...
But they will catch up in intelligence eventually. Their lack of ability to pass such tests is because the tests are "culturally biased", and they are recovering from the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Plus they are disadvantaged because of so much still existent institutionalized racism. After we weed out racism, they will easily be represented in these professions in proportion to their overall population, all based on their own merit.
Wow, how do the DEAls do that with such ease. Trying to type that, my hands were shaking, and I was constantly correcting errors. I probably missed some. When they are saying things like I just said, there is no way they believe themselves. Impossible.
- August 8, 2015 at 8:47 PM
- Ricky Tucker said...
Bruthas Under Da Sea...?
- August 8, 2015 at 8:48 PM
Off topic: Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was in Seattle trying to speak when black thugs of Black Lives (LIES) Matter went up and yanked the microphone away from Sanders. The event organizers at first said the event was cancelled, then let the black thugs speak. Sanders talked to a few supporters on the side, then left without speaking at all to the whole audience
The event organizers should file civil charges against the commie organization.
Why the h3ll are these black thugs being placated? This is out of control.
- August 8, 2015 at 8:51 PM
The people behind all of these AA type programs know the negroe is inferior,for if the negroe was equal to the human, the negroe would be in all of these positions, not by AA mandate but by its own efforts. This fifty year lie that "We is be equal!", cannot be sustained for much longer,as there is only one inescapable conclusion to be drawn, that the negroe is INFERIOR to the human.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:09 PM
Bell curve military... filled with non English speakers. Allowed to come here to kill you and me.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:16 PM
"An expert at the Pentagon on the diversity of commando forces said the lack of minorities robs the military of skills it needs to win."
He has to be f'ing kidding doesnt he/she?
Can they cite any mission in the last 3 decades where the outcome would have been enhanced by the presence of minorities? Either you are in this league or you are not? Surely this has to be an area where skill , competence and courage have to prevail over quotas.
- August 8, 2015 at 10:50 PM
- Disturbed YT said...
Where will this diversity circus of retardation end? Are the libs just making shit up now to bitch about?
- August 9, 2015 at 1:08 AM
It is one of the myths of the military that blacks and other minorities do the hard service. In twenty years in the army, most of it in the infantry I saw mostly whites. Blacks and other minorities over represent in the service support specialties where the work is easier. In really demanding units, Rangers, SF, and certainly Delta Force and Seals, blacks are almost totally represented, because they lack the self-discipline to perform. That's despite the extensive efforts to recruit them and the extra allowances they're give to compete.
- August 9, 2015 at 4:42 AM
Again, look to the genome...
Why aren't there ANY world class negro swimmers? Divers? It's because their genome includes information that increases their bone density and makes them more likely to sink. The opposite requirement to excel at being a Navy SEAL.
That's also why blacks are afraid of water, unless it's coming from a city hydrant they've vandalized.
If I'm mistaken, please post the scientific data that show negro bone density is equal to non-orcs.
- August 9, 2015 at 4:57 AM
How many Jewish Navy SEALS are there? If diversity is the goal, why aren't they forcing Jews into that branch?
Or Japanese?
Or Women?
Or cripples...?
See where this insanity leads?
- August 9, 2015 at 4:58 AM
Since diversity is the new religion, why not fight fire with fire? There are far, far too many negroes in foo'ball and bakkaba'. It's time the feds stepped in and rectified that unjust situation. Before another game is played, we need to see more Asian-Americans out on the court and in the field.
- August 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM
Why aren't there ANY world class negro swimmers?
How many times does this has to be explained? Blacks stay away from the water because of the terrible legacy of slavery. Remember, blacks on slave ships were thrown overboard to feed the sharks which still patrol the slave trade lanes.
- August 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM
One of the best articles, or pieces, that PK did was the one on Selma, Alabama. The city is a typical black run trash heap. I know we have moved on from Selma, but I still look back in wonder at some of the things I read.
White people picking up black trash so that when Obama arrived it would look nice. This place is a DWL's utopia! It has all the features: a doughnut economy with all businesses located outside of the central part of town and a black demographic that completely dominates everything in education and politics.
It is so black they have to bring in white people to feel guilty about all the black trash. The blacks look at all that trash and say: diss is yo fault! Diss trash is a direct result of slabery. All the guilt ridden white people must then pick up the trash for the blacks along the long rendition of "weebs shalbs overcome um!
It is interesting to talk of the antics of blacks in the big city, but I found some of the best examples of BRA is in smaller cities like Selma, Alabama.
- August 9, 2015 at 3:01 PM
Why are there so many whites in the military? Only whites are stupidly altruistic enough to sacrifice their lives for a government that hates them.
YOUNG MALES WITHOUT JOBS TURN TO THE MILITARY. Clinton signed NAFTA.
End of conversation.
- August 9, 2015 at 3:51 PM
- Joe Hornyak said...
Their called Elite Forses for a reason.1%? of the `talented 10th?`
That are all volinteers?
- August 9, 2015 at 5:50 PM
- Cecil Henry said...
Diversity means chasing down the last white person. Freedom now. Freedom from enforced, genocidal 'diversity'.
- August 9, 2015 at 7:12 PM
Dream on
- August 10, 2015 at 2:11 AM
"Clinton signed NAFTA."
Treaties must be approved by 2/3 majority of the Senate. Naught for nothing but thinking that the clown who reads the teleprompter and goes on vacations on our dime actually has any real power is very naive.
- August 10, 2015 at 7:09 AM
- Steve Smith said...
I was in the 3rd Ranger battalion and we had exactly ONE. He was a cook and definately NOT tabbed. Ill give you my take. First, they dont have the aptitude. Second, they cannot withstand the rigorous training. Third, they cannot shoot. Most importantly, they have no concept of unit cohesion or th esprit de corp necessary to make that type of unit function.
Nigras were the worst soldiers i ever saw. I never saw one pull the trigger the entire time I was in Iraq. I hope to hell they dont lower the bar for these units. Our SF units must by unbending in their selection of the best of the best.
- August 10, 2015 at 7:31 AM
From my point of view, I don't care about your color or race. You better be great and work together.
Someone make a good point, it is voluntary, so whats the problem, if you qualify, you are in!!
You have to have the courage, the strength, the stamina, and the willingness to give your life for your fellow soldier and America. That is why we have a military!!
- August 10, 2015 at 8:11 AM
- ricpic said...
Just what is this magic talent Negroes have that the military needs so desperately?
Of course there is no answer other than the idiocy of "diversity demands it."
- August 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM
- Steve Smith said...
No. Because whites are the only ones that love their country enough to step up. They also recognize that they are part of something bigger than they are and want to serve.
End of conversation.
- August 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Steve Smith said "No. Because whites are the only ones that love their country enough to step up. They also recognize that they are part of something bigger than they are and want to serve.
End of conversation."
Nice comment. This is part of the reason that it is possible to organize an army of 10,000 whites focused on an important goal and it is impossible to organize an army of 10,000 blacks for any purpose. Blacks neither love our country (blacks don't belong here), nor do they recognize anything as being more important than themselves. These shortfalls in character along with their other shortcomings such as low IQ, lack of future time orientation, and propensity for mindless violence makes blacks unsuitable for any group effort other than brief periods of mob violence.
- August 10, 2015 at 6:27 PM
Most of you are thinking diversity means negros what about the illegals for south of the border Muslims, women(feminists dykes manly)filthy gays now thats the diversity your gonna get.
- August 10, 2015 at 8:31 PM
Sure why should any private employer "GM" "Boeing" "NFL" "NBA" be exempt from Diversity? Little slow white guy at wide receiver? Dumb negro building wings at boeing? whats the difference eh?
- August 10, 2015 at 9:04 PM
- Gem Junior said...
This is such a slap in the face to white men who've given their lives time and again in foreign wars and who built this country. I think it's a huge insult to white men to start pining in such a way as to imply that the army (or whatever - police or fire depts., colleges, etc.) isn't complete without the honor of their holy negro presence - which in reality is not earned and not even wanted by those who really get the job done. I think the top brass are remiss in not speaking up for white army or navy SEALS - because nobody is out complaining when they are winning wars and completing difficult missions. It's not surprising to me that this crap is important now with the purging of the strongest generals an promotion of stupid bimbo GI Janes whose main experience of combat is breaking a nail. Gay and female headed armed forces. Jeez, smh. What insanity.
- August 14, 2015 at 3:05 PM


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Entry to the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 qualifying closed last week after more than 830,000 people from the participating European countries downloaded and played the online qualifying demo.
The demo, based on the Sony's Gran Turismo 5 attracted over 161,000 entries from the UK alone. The qualifying demo made use of an array of virtual Nissan cars on a variety of circuits before culminating in a one lap time trial using a Nissan 370Z on a new virtual version of the Twin Ring Motegi circuit.
The 16 fastest gamers from the UK and Ireland join 16 Live Event Wild Card winners to take part in a National Final event at Silverstone Circuit (17th and 18th July), where they will face a combination of GT5 gaming challenges and real driving tests using the muscular Nissan 370Zs. Six leading UK and Ireland candidates will then return to the home of British motorsport in August for the renowned International GT Academy Race Camp.
The week long GT Academy Race Camp will see the six UK and Ireland finalists go head-to-head, as they are put through a series of gruelling driving, physical and mental challenges designed to measure what it takes to become a modern day professional racing driver. The leading UK and Ireland competitor will then battle it out against other European finalists to determine who will be crowned the 2012 GT Academy European Champion.
The overall winner will embark on GT Academy's comprehensive and immersive Driver Development Programme to bring the virtual-to-reality champion up to international race licence standard and prepare them for their ultimate prize, a drive in the Dubai 24 Hour race in January, 2013 in a full race-spec Nissan 370Z GT4 car.
The three previous GT Academy Europe champions all now compete with Nissan in top-level international motorsport and are a living endorsement of the life-changing competition. Lucas Ordoñez (Spain, 2008/09 GT Academy champion) and Jordan Tresson (France, 2010 champion) both competed at the Le Mans 24 Hour race in Nissan powered prototype cars earlier this month. Meanwhile, Jann Mardenborough (UK, winner in 2011), won a round of the British GT Championship in the GT Academy Team RJN Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 car at Brands Hatch on Sunday, 24 June and is also competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series in Europe.
We'll be following this year's event with interest so expect updates as events unfold at Silverstone.

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Past Lectures and Symposia
The Lost Painting of Classical Antiquity
Educated people tend to think of Pompeii's frescoed walls as ranking among the highest achievements of Greco-Roman antiquity. Leonard Porter, a New York City-based painter, put the matter in perspective during a tour of the National Gallery of Art exhibition, Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples, and in a generously illustrated lecture at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Virginia.
Porter, who himself works in the classical tradition, observed that the mural decoration at Pompeii is typically derivative and workshop-level, reflecting rather than rivaling the great achievements of Greek painters of preceding centuries. Indeed, Porter emphasized in his lecture, while brilliant works of sculpture and architecture from antiquity have survived, nothing rivaling the masterpieces of painting described by ancient authors has ever been found.
Yet this reality hardly detracts from the immense charm of the richly-hued paintings at Pompeii and nearby sites, or at Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome, where a higher level of artistry is evident. Porter also noted the convincing evidence pointing to remarkable technical advances on the part of Greek painters in the areas of perspective and foreshortening — and even in the employment of light and shade, as opposed to just line and silhouette, in modeling the figure. Porter discussed changing notions of ancient painting since the Renaissance, which largely reflected the amount of archeological evidence available to artists in different periods. He described how more or less imaginative attempts to reconstruct it have influenced modern (i.e., post-medieval) Western art.
The lecture, co-sponsored with the Alexandria Association, and the exhibition tour took place on March 16, 2009.
Death, Politics and Memorials
The poet and editor Joseph Bottum's essay Death and Politics has been hailed as a seminal achievement since it appeared in the June/July 2007 issue of First Things.
The essay analyzes death's metaphysical ramifications for politics, and leads us to the idea of community not just as an association of the living, but of the living, the dead, and those yet to be born. The essay's ramifications for the public realm, which is the fundamental expression of community, could not be more profound.
A lecture-symposium sponsored by the National Civic Art Society and Georgetown University's Toqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy allowed Bottum to further explore modernity's response to death, while offering a critique of two major commemorative landscapes, Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC, and Arlington Memorial Cemetery. Three distinguished respondents — National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia, New Criterion co-editor and co-publisher Roger Kimball, and architecture historian and liturgical scholar Denis McNamara — commented on Bottum's lecture, entitled "Living With the Dead, Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials." This extraordinary, well-attended event took place on March 17, 2008, at Georgetown University's InterCultural Center Auditorium.
Historic Preservation
The Society sponsored an important and well-attended symposium, Architecture of the Whole: Additions to Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods, in October 2006.
Speakers included the late Professor Paul Spencer Byard of Columbia, a highly influential exponent of preservation grounded in a modernist art-historical outlook, and Professor Steven W. Semes of Notre Dame, who advocates reinforcing the historic character of a given place through the design of architectural additions. Other speakers included Calder Loth of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and Sharon Park, then in charge of administering the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings, the standard preservation template.
The symposium took place as part of the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference presented by Restore Media at the Washington Hilton. First Lady Laura Bush wrote a gracious letter of welcome to symposium participants.
The Society also organized a tour of Washington sites illustrating the issues raised at the symposium.
Henry Hope Reed Capitol Luncheon and Lecture
Henry Hope Reed is the historian of architecture and decoration who, more than anyone, set the stage for the current resurgence of the classical tradition in the arts.
The Society is honored to count Reed among its founding members and to have sponsored a luncheon celebrating his culminating work, The United States Capitol: Its Architecture and Decoration, in the Capitol's magnificent Lyndon Baines Johnson Room. This important event took place on December 1, 2004.
After receiving a brilliant introduction from Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Reed delivered a concise and captivating illustrated lecture about the Capitol.
The Henry Hope Reed Capitol Luncheon and Lecture event was made possible in part through the generous support of Messrs. Andy del Gallo and Kevin Roustazad of Eastern Memorials and Mr. Christopher Forbes.
Alexander Stoddart, Monumental Sculptor
In April 2004, the Scottish Classical sculptor Alexander Stoddart spoke about the counter-cultural nature of his vocation in a postmodern age.
Stoddart, who collaborated with architect John Simpson in the sculptural decoration of the new Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, is also known for his civic monuments in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Atlanta, and Princeton, New Jersey. The American Arts Quarterly has hailed Stoddart as "clearly the most important British sculptor of his generation."
Sponsored by the Society, the Stoddart lecture took place at the Arts Club of Washington.
John Simpson, Classical Architect
The Society's first event was an October 2002 lecture by the distinguished London-based classical architect, John Simpson, designer of the new Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, as well as extensive renovations at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and other noteworthy institutional projects. The lecture took place at the Cosmos Club in Washington.
A mannerist and eclectic in the tradition of his compatriots Soane and Nash, Simpson places great emphasis, like other architects in the Prince of Wales's circle, on solid masonry construction. His Queen's Gallery project was very favorably reviewed in the British press.


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New student days to be held in August at NRCC
|New River Community College (NRCC) will host two New Student Day events for incoming students this month. The first will take place on Monday, August 20, at NRCCs New River Valley Mall site in Christiansburg from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The second event will be held at NRCCs campus in Dublin on Thursday, August 23, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Activities will begin in the student lounge in Martin Hall. Students may visit anytime during the hours of the events.
Students, families and friends are invited to attend and both events will provide opportunities for students to tour classrooms and other college facilities, obtain student identification cards, talk with academic and financial aid counselors, learn about clubs and sports teams and visit the college bookstore.
Fall classes begin Monday, August 27.
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Leadership Long Beach
By Stella Ursua - President, Green Education
"Leadership is lifting a person's
vision to higher sights, the raising of
a person's performance to a higher standard,
the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations."
Peter F. Drucker, attributed,
The Fundamentals of Leadership
January 29th, 2013 – It is the midway point for the Leadership Long Beach Class of 2013, and I am struck by the opportunities that the program provides, both for me and for the community. Not only do we have a chance to contribute meaningful and lasting improvements to our city, but I have a chance to engage residents in redefining our vision for a sustainable Long Beach as well.
I have spent the majority of my life in the role of trainer, educator, director and organizer, and I strongly believe that the majority of people crave the chance to learn and be part of movements that help to improve the lives of their families and communities. Whether it is volunteering with a non-profit or political organization, or a PTA or environmental organization, our fellow citizens want to be engaged and feel connected, and feel like they are making a difference and that is what Leadership Long Beach is all about!
In the next few months, my Leadership Long Beach (LLB) classmates and I, just like the leaders that came before us, will design and launch programs that challenge our leadership skills. For me personally, it is a chance to help build a central vehicle for sustainability awareness that fully engages residents to make sustainability-focused choices at home, work and play.
Just as important, it is a chance to put into practice LLB principles that serve as a foundation for our work; principles like: personal responsibility, to ensure future residents live in sustainable communities; courage and commitment, to challenge my neighbors to minimize their footprint on the environment; and vision and service, to passionately engage people in this effort toward a healthier community and world.
LBB is a defining moment for the participants of Class of 2013, and I cannot wait to be part of the "best class ever." Watch out, Long Beach!
(Founded in 1989, Leadership Long Beach offers principled leadership programs by educating and engaging adult and youth leaders on issues important to the city's future and sustainability.
For more information, check us out at www.leadershiplb.org or www.facebook.com/leadershiplongbeach.)


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Column: Compromise on politics, but not on love
Hate it or love it, you can't escape Valentine's Day. You can try, but the minute you think you're in the clear, a conspicuous flower arrangement will arrive in the office cubicle next door.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes a variety of opinions from outside writers. On political and policy matters, we publish opinions from across the political spectrum.
Roughly half of our columns come from our Board of Contributors, a group whose interests range from education to religion to sports to the economy. Their charge is to chronicle American culture by telling the stories, large and small, that collectively make us what we are.
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It's the day of the year demanding that you reflect on the presence of love in your life — or the lack of it. You might scorn Valentine's Day as the consumer-driven, manufactured holiday with red trimmings that it is, but you can't escape its romantic influence.
These days, you can't escape politics either, but make no mistake: Love isn't like politics. Too often, romance is treated the same way, as though you're merely picking someone for the short term. Our judgment might be clouded by a good line, a great date or the angst that no one better will come along.
But don't let the similarities — passion, jilted relationships, affairs (I'm talking to you, Newt), marriages of convenience, uncertainty — fool you.
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Indeed, the similarities between love and politics end when it comes to getting serious with a paramour or a candidate. Unlike politics, where so often we are forced to settle for the one who best suits our needs from a limited field, in a population of roughly 7 billion worldwide, "settling" in matters of love is not just rash, but foolhardy.
First, though, take a spin around our political dating world. Facing a likely Romney vs. Obama matchup this November, Americans who support Rick Santorum, Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich might before long be forced to resign themselves to the fact that the candidate they've favored might no longer be … available. Backers of Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and Jon Huntsman know of what I speak. Whether you dumped them or they dumped you doesn't matter. It's time to move on.
Though some say politics is like marriage, these political choices are less weighty. After all, you're committing to this candidate/partner only for a handful of years, and you've promised your fidelity only as long as the person continues to be who he said he was when courting you. The candidate we choose will rarely be a perfect fit, but we make concessions because we must.
By comparison, choosing a life partner requires anchoring oneself to someone who serves a variety of purposes: friend, lover, support system, advocate and often financial provider and co-parent to our children. He or she is someone whom we will grow with over the course of a lifetime, not just an election cycle. If on Nov. 6 you were forced to choose a candidate "until death do us part," here's betting that more than 61.6% of the electorate — the "historic" number posted in 2008 — would show up to pull the levers.
So why the rush to compromise our standards in our desperate search for love? Because too often we vote simply with our heart, and not enough with the heart and mind.
Though the stakes are quite different in love and in politics, we still sometimes need to check our emotions when settling on The One. While one candidate might appeal to our fiery, fed-up side (Ron Paul, for instance), the sober pragmatist within us might pull us into the Romney camp. The 2004 primary season's version of this was those Democrats who fell into the "dated Dean, married Kerry" category.
Likewise, the adage that guides so many of us in love — "Don't listen to anything they say; just pay attention to what they do" — couldn't be more apropos in matters of politics. Shiny promises are often scattered along the campaign trail, but if the American people are left sweeping up these discarded pledges in the post-election years like confetti after a rally, they won't forget it.
Fortunately, we can revisit the chasm between expectations and reality, reevaluating the performance of our temporary political spouse every term. Some disenchanted Obama supporters will no doubt be doing just that in the months before Election Day. And if every American couple's marriage was up for reconsideration every four years? Well, with a divorce rate hovering close to 50%, maybe we're already there.
Elevating that bar
But we need not lower our standards in love just because the country has had to lower her standards in politics. In relationships, we can and should still set the bar high. Know what standards you seek in a mate, and no matter how tired your arm gets while holding the bar up there, never lower it. I can assure you that it's better being one of the 100 million singles in America than being legally anchored to someone who day in and day out makes you long for the days before you said, "I do."
We just have to be patient.
In politics, it's OK to look at a candidate and say, "I can live with this." But in matters of love, we should strive to wait for a partner whom we can't live without.
Renata Sellitti is a writer, producer and creator of the website MissWingman.com. Read her musings on Twitter, @misswingman, or facebook.com/misswingman.
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Online dating website OKCupid has posted an entry on its blog that takes a close look at its users' email response patterns according to race. The results might not be surprising, but they're nevertheless significant—a sender's race plays a large role in whether he/she will get a response. By comparing the write-back rate of Asian, black, white, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander, Indian, and Native American men and women, the website finds that correspondence is noticeably less or more than what the write-back rate "should" be. In a nutshell, OKCupid breaks down the research, which analyzed about a million users. White men get the most responses. Black women respond the most yet receive far fewer replies. White, Asian, and Hispanic women largely prefer white men. OKCupid calls this racism:
"[We] are about to basically prove that, despite what you might've heard from the Obama campaign and organic cereal commercials, racism is alive and well.
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I recently purchased a BMW 318ti Sport (Nov 1999) and have a had a few niggles that I wanted to sort out. The last one was the tracking which needed doing, so I dutifully took it to my local garage to get it done.
When they lifted the car up on the ramp, the engineer noticed a damp patch on the (UK) drivers side R&P boots (forgive me if my terminology is a bit wrong, I'm new to cars, and have gleaned as much as I can from reading this and other forums).
The problem looks very much like the one described in the following thread (and other similar ones): http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...highlight=rack, though there is only fluid on the rubber boot not on other parts of the underside of the vehicle. My concern is that while in this case the problem in that thread may have been identified as a P/S hose/clip leak, my damp patch is on the other side of the engine to the PS fluid container.
I cannot back the boot to see what's underneath as it seems to be fixed at both ends. Looking from the engine compartment I can see that there is a darker patch on the right-back quarter of the boot, but this is dried and looks quite old. All around the area looks dry and clean.
From the underneath, the damp patch is again on the right-back quarter of the boot (if looking from the front of the vehicle). I have touched the fluid and it is just a dirty, browny colour, which I can't really discern its origin from. Is there a particular hallmark of engine oil vs P/S oil I can look for?
My question is, given this is a UK vehicle is it likely that I would be lucky and that it is a simple, serviceable part like the hose or clips, or is this signalling a problem with the P/S rack (seals) which sounds like a very expensive job to me. In addition if it is a problem with the rack, is this something that desperately needs changing or can it be lived with for a while? There is no dripping onto the driveway so the leak seems pretty light.
I'm charging up my digital camera now but it may be a bit dark by the time it's done to post some pics tonight, but will do so tomorrow to assist in the diagnosis.
Many thanks for your advice and for this forum which has already been very helpful.
Yep, pics will have to wait till Sunday night or Monday, as my flatmate whose camera it is does not have the adaptor here to plug it into the computer. Damn proprietary interfaces, what's wrong with USB? :-)
From the pics I took I can see that the spread of the fluid is greater than that shown in the aforementioned thread.
here are the pics from the drivers side.
Silver BMW 318ti Sport 1999, no mods yet AFAIK!
So my lovely dealer has declined to fix this saying 'there is no leak'. Hmm, funny so what's that fluid on my driveway then?
In another strange turn of events, it turns out a leaky power steering rack would likely fail an MOT, yet it had an MOT 60 miles before I bought it. How does that happen?
Additionally, the so-called warranty cover I have has not yet been registered with the provider, so actually I have no warranty either.
What should I do? Clearly my dealer has the upper hand as it would be very difficult to make him carry out any repairs, and would I trust them anyway?
Should I involve in the VOSA to determine if the MOT garage is dodgy? The trading standards authority for him not supplying the warranty cover?
What does anyone make of the leak stop fluid you can get for reconditioning seals? Does it work? For how long?
Thanks for any tips
Silver BMW 318ti Sport 1999, no mods yet AFAIK!
here's what i suggest. get a pair of wire snips (side cutters, dikes) and remove the crimp band on the outer portion of the boot. you can use a heavy duty wire tie (zip tie) to re-attatch when finished the following inspection.
with the crimp band removed, wriggle the boot away from the end seal. there should be no fluid at all in this boot (called a bellows -like the fire thingy- boot). if there is fluid in this boot, then the rack and pinion has developed a leaky seal and should be replaced. it is not uncommon for these to develop, and there really is no way to say how long or when it started.
if there is no fluid, then put everything back together (silicon may aid in replacing the boot over the end seal) and clamp it tight together with the zip tie.
clean the exterior of the boot and reinspect after a few days to see where the leak is coming from.
hope this helps.
check your power steering hoses thats are just above and behind the boot, mine was leaking and i thought it was the R&P. But also do what drivin said.
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The latest twist in the long-running war between Pittsburgh health care giants UPMC and Highmark Inc. has degenerated into obscure interpretations of complex reimbursement contracts.
Caught in the middle are a small number of Highmark members who the insurer says are being unfairly denied treatment by Western Pennsylvania's largest hospital network.
UPMC counters that Highmark, the state's largest health insurer, has misled its customers into believing they could continue going to UPMC hospitals even though they bought Community Blue health coverage — which is discounted because it excludes UPMC.
Whether one or the other is correct, patients are drawing the short straw, the president of the Allegheny County Medical Society said.
"If you're in the business of medicine you should be held to a higher standard," said Amelia Pare, a private practice plastic surgeon from McMurray who became president of the 2,800-member society this year. "The most important entity is the patient and that's what is lost in all of this."
State regulators also are paying attention after patients and Highmark complained.
The state Insurance Department fielded a half-dozen calls from patients in the last week who were denied treatment at UPMC because they have Highmark's Community Blue health plan, spokeswoman Melissa Fox said. But the department is referring those calls to the state Health Department, which oversees hospitals and doctors, she said.
Health department officials are trying to resolve individual cases, spokeswoman Kait Gillis said.
"We will continue to vigilantly monitor the situation as we work towards a solution," she said.
And the state Attorney General is "aware of the situation in Pittsburgh with regard to Community Blue," spokesman Dennis Fisher said. He would neither confirm nor deny that the AG's office is investigating and declined to comment further.
Some facts are not in dispute. Community Blue began Jan. 1 and UPMC this month said it could no longer treat Highmark members who had chosen to enroll in the plan.
Its origins can be traced to another fight that only was resolved after the state's top lawmakers waded into the mess.
In May last year, Gov. Tom Corbett and several high-ranking state lawmakers negotiated a deal to extend the broad contractual relationship between Highmark and all UPMC facilities through the end of 2014.
Without a contract extension, Highmark members would have been out-of-network at UPMC starting in July this year. UPMC had refused to renew the contracts because Highmark was buying UPMC rival West Penn Allegheny Health System. It is part of a Highmark plan to convert itself into an integrated provider of medical services and health insurance — competing directly with UPMC.
As part of the deal, UPMC and Highmark also signed a separate contract governing Community Blue, a group of health plans for individuals and businesses that can cost up to 25 percent less but make most UPMC's hospitals and doctors out-of-network.
Where the situation gets muddy is when a Community Blue member wants treatment at a UPMC facility that is considered out-of-network. Those facilities can't treat Community Blue patients nor can they ignore their insurance and accept cash, UPMC spokesman Paul Wood said.
"We believe it would be unethical and illegal to enter into a side negotiation with a subscriber to figure out how they can go around their insurance provider," he said.
Wood said UPMC can't bill the patients like it would a normal out-of-network patient because the contract forbids it.
But Kristin Ash, a Highmark spokeswoman, said the contract spells out how the out-of-network payments are to be handled. She said there "is no contractual or financial reason for denying access."
"UPMC is being paid the same for Highmark patients whether it's in network or out," Ash said. "The only difference is the patient pays more" if they have Community Blue insurance.
But Wood maintains that the Community Blue contract does not cover treatment of patients at UPMC facilities that are considered out-of-network.
"It's clear that Highmark has not adequately communicated to its subscribers" that they would lose access to UPMC with Community Blue, Wood said.
And the fight goes on, which local health care consultant Jan Jennings predicted will never end.
It's a bad omen for anyone in Western Pennsylvania who wants the two titans to extend their broad contracts beyond the end of 2014, said local health care consultant Jan Jennings.
"As long as I live there will be a battle between Highmark and UPMC," he said. "It will never end."
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When you meditate and you cry for something, should you also make an effort to achieve it, or just let it take place naturally?
At the beginning you have to make a personal effort; later it becomes spontaneous. Unless and until it becomes spontaneous, you have to make the personal effort. When a sprinter starts a race, his hands make such a vigorous movement. In the beginning he consciously moves his arms and hands very fast. He is making strong personal effort. But after fifty or sixty metres, when he is going at top speed, everything becomes spontaneous. At that time he is not striving to move his arms. But at the start, he did.
It is like sailing a boat. Before you start you move this thing and adjust that thing. You have to do all kinds of things at the beginning. While you are getting ready, you are very dynamic. But that is only your preparation. Still the boat is near the shore. It is only when you are actually well on your way that the boat can sail without your constant personal effort. In your meditation this spontaneous movement is an act of Grace from above.
If you are sincere, then you will say that at the very beginning of your journey God's Grace also descended. Otherwise, you would not have been inspired even to enter into the boat. But when you start out, you feel that you are making a tremendous personal effort. But there comes a time when you realise that this personal effort is nothing other than Compassion from above. Why are you getting up early to pray and meditate, whereas your friends are still wallowing in the pleasures of lethargy? It is because God's Grace has descended into you. So the deeper you go, the clearer it becomes that God's Grace enables you to make progress through your personal effort. Either God is pleased with you, or out of His infinite Compassion He is helping you.
Personal effort is of paramount importance at the beginning, because at that time we don't feel that God is our unconditional friend. As human beings, we always say that if I give you something, then you will give me something in return. But if I don't give you anything, then you are under no obligation to give me anything. But God is not like that. God gives unconditionally, whether we claim Him as our own or not. This moment I may pray to God to fulfil my desire. But the next moment, after He fulfils my desire, immediately I will say, "Oh, I don't need You. I don't want to be Your child." But God cannot do that. God always claims us as His own no matter how bad we are, because He sees that in hundreds or thousands or millions of years, He will make us perfect. A child, at his sweet will, can leave his parents; but can the parents leave the child? Impossible! Similarly, I can disown God, my eternal Father, because I am angry with Him or because He has not fulfilled my desires. But He will never disown me, because I am His child.
Self-effort is necessary. God's Grace is indispensable.
So personal effort is necessary because we do not feel that God is constantly loving us and blessing us unconditionally. Once we can feel that He is doing everything for us unconditionally, then personal effort is not necessary. Just because we don't have that kind of feeling, so-called personal effort is of paramount importance. But when we become sincere, when we become humble, and especially when we become pure, at that time we will feel that it is God who has inspired us to exercise our personal effort. So credit goes to God from the beginning to the end. In the beginning we give 50 percent of the credit to ourselves, because we got up to pray and meditate, and 50 percent to God, because He responded to our prayers and inspired us during our meditation. But if we are sincere, devoted and absolutely pure, then we will say that 100 percent of the credit goes to God.