THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE LATEST NEWS FROM SCIENCE | 2005-11-07

I was just talking about science (below) and the most relevant example I could find was Ben Franklin and electricity.

When they talk about the future of science or the future of politics people assume that the latest news is what is important.

After all, they say, today is a lot closer to tomorrow than history is. So the Latest Thing must be the best predictor of the Next Thing.

So we jazz up the news by pontificating on how the latest news event will affect the future. We completely forget whatever happened yesterday and our pontificating on how THAT would determine the future.

Which is silly, but it is the essence of news entertainment.

I have been dead right about every presidential election I have liived through since 1948 when I was seven years old.

I am comfortably retired on the income I made largely because I was right, and literally, on the money.

Others predict the next two decades by what just happened.

What I do is look at other periods in history that were decades long.

I strike the Latest Thing junkies as asurd. They strike me as absurd.

I'm usually right. They're usually wrong.

That is also why I am absolutely uncanny in my predictions about elections. I made my living that way, so even a Practical Man must give it a little credit.

Actually, they didn't give me credit. They gave me money.

SHARI | 2006-04-21

On the article Mark just commented onin the same way (below), Shari says:

Help! I have no idea what you are getting at. It seems to me that a steril ideal is a pretty current thing. I have a Catholic aunt who had 10 children in the 1950's and early 60's. Lots of families in my home town had several children, although mine wasn't one of them. I hope that,perhaps Elizabeth can comment on this. Or that you have something further to say! By the way, I think that chastity is the ideal for the young and never married. But then I also think that marriage is put off for a ridiculously long time now.

Comment by Shari

Like everybody else, Shari is correcting me without referrijng to the general point I was trying to make.

Sigh! OK, let's do the drill:

No, Shari, I am saying that every aspect of Catholicism is for sterility. In fact, parts of Germany and the Netherlands that went Protestant have lost population relative to the ones that stayed Catholic.

Congratulations. You have made a point you could have made if Bob had never been born.

I also said that Protestant churches are as desperate to prove that Jesus never had a sexual thought in his life as Catholics are, but that was ignored.

So we are back to your correction,, which was all you got out of the article.

Which is exactly what the article is about.

There is a conviction in white countries with Christian cultures that a high morality means steility for us. All mention of genetics is evil because of a mind set deep within us.

I was trying to deal with that mindset.

So, Shari, we have concluded that the only point you got out of the article, that the Catholic Church has been treated unfairly, represents unfairness on Bob's part.

Once again, congratulations

SIMMONS | 2007-07-25

White libs never asked what the blacks and the hispanics thought of them. I of course ask those questions pointedly to the traitors, and as they say the silence is deafening. They basically are stupid if they would have paid attention to several of the gentile white libs such as Abbey and John Carpenter instead of listening to the Freudian Neurotics they might have been useful today instead of ready to sip the Kool-Aid. But the Jim Jones cult lives on and those that survive, well Bob I promise to make them pay for what they have done.

ME:

"Bob I promise to make them pay for what they have done."

I hope so, and that's an easy promise to make. But look at respectable conservatives. Once you start getting PAID for the fight, and once the establishment finds you worth bribing and, worse, praising and accepting, the tendency to forget everybody who paid so much down through the decades to get you where you are is overwhelming.

Right now National Review is attacking everything its funders stood for in 1955, and raves about how right liberals were on everything until on or about January 1, 1970, i.e., they are neoconservatives.

AND, more important, you get STUPID. Conservatives, like the moderate Republicans before them and the liberal Republicans before them, lost it ALL. The pressure will be enormous. If my heirs can resist it and not get stupid, as every other group has, they can rule.

Can you keep it up when charm and money beckons?

"IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE" AND THE BRIAR PATCH | 2007-10-25

"It's not About Race" and the Briar Patch

So Brer Rabbit said to Brer Fox, "Tar me apart if you want to. Do anything to me. Just don't throw me in that there briar patch." That way, Brer Rabbit got Brer Fox to throw into the briar patch, which is just where he wanted to go.

Naturally Brer Fox was laughed at and considered an idiot.

By children.

ILLITERATE children.

Every rich old man hears his family say, "It's not about the money, it's about YOU" so many times his ears get numb. He knows very well that the minute he dies his Loving Family is going to rip itself apart over his money.

When a whole society keeps screaming, "It's not about race," the person who BELIEVES that will be seen as an idiot.

By children.

ILLITERATE children.

The fact that this is Mainstream Opinion just tells you how far down Mainstream Opinion has sunk.