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MANTRA THINKING 2: GET OUT OF THE STREAM OF NONSENSE | 2012-05-15

The respectable conservative mantra has always been "It's not about race."

John Derbyshire was just fired by National Review because, among other things, he warned whites against going to a place which is almost all black. He did not make on single statement in that article that could be factually disagreed with by anybody who read it.

It was a set of banned truths.

For example, people often slip into saying that police are not allowed to "profile." Then you watch a TV program the hero of which is a Police Profiler.

Racial profiling is outlawed, but not because it is not based on facts. A black person is six to twenty times as likely to have committed a crime than a white person.

This is the important point: The police are required to ignore that. Border patrols are required to insist that a person who is blond and has no accent is just as likely to be an illegal Mexican immigrant in El Paso as a brown person who speaks only Spanish.

This is for REAL, gang!

What is also for real is that any respectable conservative who repeats what I just said is fired.

Any respectable conservative who asks to for a definition of the word "racist" that he has just been called will be looking for a new job in this depression economy.

The same is true for any law enforcement officer.

Meanwhile, who mentions any of this?

Your Obedient Servant and no one else.

If commenters would stop worrying about how complicated Mantra Thinking is, they could concentrate on reading articles like this and learning that Mantra Thinking is ridding your mind of all the standard blocks. That is extremely difficult, but it is NOT complicated.

When someone says "racist," point out that what he means is that IN HIS OPINION something is racist.

This changes the dialogue. He is now demanding laws to punish, not Racism, but ANYTHING HE CHOOSES TO CALL racism. But nobody, I mean NOBODY but me, and now the White Rabbit, can be trusted to say that.

I just had an article about how the media get away with short statements in the midst of articles which are dead wrong, fatally wrong, but anyone outside of Bob and Company will talk about the whole article and try to put that totally false statement "in the context" of the article.

We are always seeing professional conservatives say, "It's not a matter of race." According to present wage-earning respectable conservatives, nothing is a matter of race.

Especially race.

THE ONLY MORAL JUSTIFICATION FOR WAR TODAY IS OIL | 2002-08-24

America is in the Middle East for two major reasons. The main one is to defend Israel's theocratic right to Arab land. The second is to protect Europe and Japan from an oil shortage.

We get a lot of oil from the Middle East, too, of course, and that is our only moral excuse to be in the Middle East at all. As I said on November 17, 2001, in THE ONLY REAL CHOICE IS BETWEEN NATIONAL SELF-INTEREST AND COLONIALISM, a country's only MORAL right to interfere in the affairs of other countries is when its OWN national interest is involved.

I am no pacifist. If we went into any OPEC country to destroy OPEC, I might just be for it.

Liberals are for using American force for other peoples' benefit. Conservatives are for using American force for another set of reasons, but they also insist that it be used always and only for the benefit of others.

So the one thing any "foreign policy compromise" between conservatives and liberals is going to start with is that that policy will not benefit, "We the People of the United States of America."

For me, the only time Middle Eastern force sounds worthwhile is when it might break OPEC's hold over the US.

According to liberals and conservatives, Americans have no right to our own country, but oil sheiks have "Sovereign Rights" to the oil they happened to be sitting on when we found a use for it.

Liberals and conservatives agree we must share our high living standard, which is a result of our political wisdom, with floods of immigrants. But we should fight to the death for the high living standard of oil potentates and Europeans.

So when it comes to TAKING enough oil to break OPEC's power OVER THE UNITED STATES -- not over Europe -- I might support that.

That is the one thing liberals and conservatives agree would be morally Evil. Which makes me all the more certain that it's right.

WEEKLY INSIDER LETTER | 2004-10-18

Please look at my blog entry, "Practicing at the Bar" for September 16 at http://whyjohnny.com/blog/index.php?p=110

It explains how Political Correctness was alive and well in 1957 on every campus in every state in the United States, including the Deep South. I was there and it was used against me regularly.

So the next time anyone complains about the number of young people who are leftists, remind them that they are paying, right now, for factories that produce liberals.

Leftist votes are pouring across our borders right now. Liberal votes are pouring out of our universities right now.

So what is everybody on the right talking about?

Iraq, of course.

I was around when Korea was all the news. I was around when Vietnam was all the news. Now Iraq is all the news.

Throughout all those years I kept pointing at the growing immigration problem and the university liberal factories.

I feel like a scout who has seen fifty divisions of enemy troops moving up on our rear and taking over our territory while the generals in charge keep watching a skirmish with one division up front.

I have been doing this for decades. We keep staring at some skirmish like Korea or Vietnam far away while our homeland is being steadily taken over.

I have two answers to these two problems. It is too late to panic about our open borders. I have a whole strategy for the future which will allow us to survive and thrive after this disaster plays out.

I write about dealing with this problem regularly in WhitakerOnline.org

I have found millions of potential allies among young people who are sick and tired of the sheer crushing financial burden those liberal seminaries we call universities have dropped on them. For this front I wrote Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood which you can find at:

READBOB.COM

If a few of you can get your attention off of Iraq or the Jewish Conspiracy or how immoral Clinton is or what a liar Bush is, we can fight the real war for a change.

Bless their hearts, our troops are off fighting in Iraq and I wish them well. But while they are doing that somebody has to do what they are SUPPOSED to be doing:

Protecting America.

COMPUTERS COMPUTE? | 2004-06-05

In 1900, every large company had several men who spent ten hours a day, including Saturday, sitting side by side at a table doing arithmetic. The got the figures for sales that day, cash on hand that day, and all the other numbers a big business generates, and they then added, subtracted and multiplied the numbers and produced summaries and profit and loss statements.

Obviously somebody had to total up the numbers, and these were guys who did it.

They were called "computers." Computing was their job.

So when IBM produced a machine to do all this adding and subtracting work, it was called a "computer."

I remember when all computer courses talked about this interesting evolution of the word computer. "In the old days," they said, "The word 'computer' referred to a man."

It was a strange idea back then.

A human called a "computer" was an interesting and quaint idea in the 1950s when "computer" meant a large machine produced by IBM.

Today, the thing I am writing on here is called a "computer." The huge IBM computers of the 1950s were entirely dedicated to computing, that is, adding and subtracting and doing statistical work with numbers.

Today I never use my computer to compute. The dia that computers once computed is every bit as quaint today as the fact that "computer" used to mean a man instead of a machine was in the 1950s.