JohnJ-

You were one of those guys taking pre-algebra in 12th grade, weren't you?

Neil

Pony-

When you speculate that homosexuals would be "far more likely" to submit to frequent HIV tests, I'm guessing you're thinking of the quintessential 'gay neighborhood' resident or visitor, a white guy with rainbow stickers on his Mazda Miata. The seemingly silly term "men who have sex with men," or "MSM," surfaced to account for the millions and millions of black and Mestizo men who consider themselves to be straight, but who nevertheless... 'have sex with men.' These bisexuals (just don't call them that in their presence) are the principal vectors of HIV into non-intravenous-drug abusing heterosexual women, BTW, and simply put, they overwhelmingly DO NOT CARE about things like conscientious HIV testing. Consequently, the taxpayer-funded effort to reverse this has generated a cottage industry producing ghetto-speak commercials, publishing pamphlets, "protect the blood" bumper stickers with African nationalist colors and symbols, and my favorite: Ebonics-language comic books that indeed have a comic value all their own. Like most bottomless-pit urban social programs, it a 'urinating in the wind' effort. Not gonna change a thing. If our mandatory state religion is correct that "diversity" is the supreme virtue, our future definitely looks bright!

This issue illustrates well the silliness attendant to any society so obsessed with avoiding hurting the /feelings/ of favored minorities that it is willing to sacrifice /lives/ in the process. The jaw-dropping statistics on the reality of race and violent crime*, particularly rape, come to mind, especially above, where we see CDC reference HIV statistics that starkly contrast with the image of HIV as painted by public schools, the mass media, the gay lobby, and its myriad political allies.

It's an issue microcosmically analogous to the much more tiresome issue of homosexual marriage; in both cases, the proponents are doggedly pursuing 'rights' with an unabashed disregard for the welfare of the institution itself. One is a /tradition/ whose participation in which is pursued doggedly by a community overwhelmingly disdainful of tradition, a tradition rooted in the virtue of community agreement of a couple's fitness to bear children, which, when coupled with social stigma against out-of-wedlock childbirth, certainly had a statistical impact on phenomena such as fatherless teenagers and -let's face it- congenital stupidity. (It's worth mentioning that /every single child/ raised by homosexual couples is denied the statistically enormous advantage of being raised by both of its biological parents). The other is a clinical procedure so bereft of any ceremonial trappings beyond a Chiquita-sized back-patting sticker that one is hard-pressed to keep a straight face to be told that submitting to it is a "right" of emotional import to those citizens so brutally excluded.

We can no more legislate /actual/ equivalence ("equality") of individual talents, dispositions, tendencies or circumstances than we can legislate millions upon millions of firearms out of the hands of criminals. I'm beginning to think that when public schools apparently dropped English and mathematics to make room for K-12th WWII Holocaust and southern US slavery indoctrination, they might have thought to squeeze in some instruction about how life on planet earth IS NOT FAIR.

(Those of you who say "do away with this ban and simply TEST the blood" are either really bad at everyday 'head math' or just so hasty to reflexively voice off in the direction our Universities and Murray Rothstein's MTV train us to that you didn't stop to think it through. I invite you to re-examine the 'dilemma' and comment again)

*google Jared Taylor's excellent THE COLOR OF CRIME, free as .pdf

A picture of Columbus? Let me guess: a piece about how human beings whose ancestors evolved in Europe are bad and everybody else is good. That wasn't predictable.

That does it; I'm officially sick of the Depp formula.

RIP SJ.

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For 'The Diary of Anne Frank' the "rejection" likely amounted to the publishers telling her father (who went into "hiding" so he could continue war profiteering like the rest of his tribesman, i.e. reason # 4533274 the Germans got pissed at Jews) to go back and excise the more blatantly contrived portions he wrote /in ballpoint pen after the war/, during which his now-famous daughter Anne died not of "gassing" (nor did anyone else) but of louse-borne TYPHUS, arguably the inevitable outcome of their tribes' brutal civilian bombing campaign (i.e., the /real/ holocaust).

That is amazing. Awesome job, Brad!!!

Excellent.

Miiike, are you retarded?

Grafitti = visual noise. You may consider the fence I built to be boring by virtue of its plainness, but the aesthetic vision -arguably an artistic vision- I had when renovating my home is pissed upon when another person takes the liberty of painting it. Perhaps if these juvenile men, so-called grafitti "artists" and grafitti "writers," were to expand their perception beyond a few square feet and see one wall as a component of an architect's greater work of art, they might appreciate that /they/ are the oppressors forcing their visions onto others, not the other way around. But one can hardly expect such maturity from any individual so insecure in his own significance that he must reinforce it by figuratively shouting his name into the ears of strangers.

Banksy's stuff can be quite clever. Having seen and appreciated hundreds of his works in the UK, I must say, his piece above, visually whining about the Grey Ghost, is unimpressively disingenuous in exactly the infinite double-standard way one expects from anarchists. It's hardly tasteful, modest children's flowers these cretins are painting on our fences, walls, greenhouses, even our trees, is it? If perma-stoned, angry 20-something video game junkies weren't blanketing our cities with their asinine, hideous hop-hop "tags," the Grey Ghost would not be out painting over Banksy's stuff. The guy had enough, he's got ten times the tenacity of these lazy punks, and Banksy can complain to them or accept honest commissions if he doesn't like his hard-work 'valuable vandalism' beaten at its own game by the one New Orleans citizen who still gives a shit.

Excellent post, some helpful comments. Thanks Neatorama!!

PS: Ashley, are you SURE?

Looks more like a barrel choke than a 12ga cartridge. But that's hardle near. It's not like chokes are symbolic the way cartridges are.

Still, I appreciate neatorama's gun friendliness!

Chutzpah. And they wonder why pre-TV generations loathed them.

So the evil "Nazis" are to blame even when a bunch of blacks and Puerto Ricans beats up a white guy in contemporary New York?

Great story, especially because it was true. If it had been LAW & ORDER or any other theatrical drivel, the guy with dreadlocks would be the victim and the thief would be some handsome, blonde Norwegian guy.