Outgoing Senator Fritz Hollings, with emphasis on the "outgoing," said that America's invasion of Iraq was for Israel.  He said everybody in Washington knows that.

Well, I think every reasonably intelligent person knows he is telling the exact truth, but somebody else who was a Washington insider needs to say so.

 As far as Capitol Hill is concerned, Bob Whitaker is not just "outgoing," he is outgone, bit I WAS big stuff.

I was small potatoes compared to Fritz Hollings when I as at my most powerful, and I am barely burnt out fritters by now, but Fritz is dead right, and he is also right that everybody up there knows it.

Fritz Hollings is showing some courage nobody will give him credit for.

When David Beasley sold out the Confederate flag and lost reelection for it, Harvard gave him the Hero of the Soviet Union, sorry I mean the John F Kennedy Award for Profiles in Courage Award for it.  Then the John F. Kennedy Foundation gave him a job at Harvard until it came time to go back down to South Carolina and run for Senate.

If a one-term governor can get stuff like that for saying what the establishment wants said, what could a forty-year senator from South Carolina get for saying what Political Correctness wants said?

Fritz could have gotten three professorships, six Board of Directors jobs and nineteen honorary degrees for Incredible Courage if he had just kept his mouth shut.

Screw it, said Hollings, I am going to commit the worst heresy I can.  I am going to jump on the Sacredest of the Sacred Cows, Israel Itself.

Let me repeat this: absolutely no one in Washington has the slightest doubt that what Hollings said is dead accurate.  But nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has the guts to say it.

This is from an old political enemy:  Thank you, Senator.  I am honored that you are from my home state.

I would be deeply grateful if any reader would convey this from me to the Senator:

Earnest "Fritz" Hollings, I have been your opponent since I supported you for governor in 1958.  But in the end, we are both patriots.  In the end we are both devoted to the truth.  We are both old fashioned South Carolinians who have this crazy to urge to tell the truth.

Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, I honor you.

August 18

I have sat through many a military strategy session or a spy training session or an interrogator's session where the Hero In Charge told us about how to Pursue the Objective.

Be ruthless, they say. Use emotional appeals, they say.

I have also spent my entire life trying to point out what to me is obvious.  I am told that that is what makes me a genius.

I can live with being called a genius.

Someone once said, "The thing about you is that stuff leaps out at you that other people don't notice."

In all the sessions I had about Pursuing the Objective, it always occurred to me that the guy delivering the talk was an amateur.  There are several million pros who could teach him what he was trying to say.

If you want to know what ruthless and unashamed use of emotion, subterfuge and ruthlessness are, any woman who loves somebody can teach the course.  She doesn't care what she looks like.  She doesn't care how she tricks people.  She will cry, she will beg, she will blow your head off.

Colleen McCullough said once, in passing, that women have no mercy.  She said that women have love, but that is a different thing.   Her point was that women don't have what a man would understand as mercy.

Yes, that is an overstatement.  But there is so much truth there that it is worth repeating.

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I complain about people forwarding me articles about the Latest Thing in politics.  But I am delighted when people send me ideas or disagreements about my writing that:

1) THEY wrote;

2) They WORKED on

I don't even mind getting a forward if someone writes me an explanation of what they think I should see in it.  Nobody likes to plow through a thousand words wondering what the hell this is about.

But much of my best thinking comes from e-mails from people who really thought something over that I wrote about and WORKED on a reply.

Once again, I don't want to plow through a thousand words of whatever is on your mind at the moment in your train-of-thought mode.

Write it, rewrite it, and make it short and make it clear.  That's what I do for you.  That's what I expect you to do for me.

August 17

Yesterday I told you about the Caricature Jew I met in Johannesburg.  That article ended with this line:

"I enjoyed the hell out of him, and I think he got a kick out of it too."

"I am willing to bet that he is still saying to people, 'You think Goldfarb is hard to deal with?   Well, let me tell you about this American goy ...'"

That makes it sound like I outbargained him.

No way.  He got his money, he just felt like he had done a bad job of one deal, and The Deal is his big game in life.

But I am willing to bet he is telling cousin Irving that this American goy walked into his store and left him naked and poor.  Let me tell you why he says that.

One thing Americans who are going to "exotic places" simply cannot understand is that we are exotic to them.  When I see a University of California tee shirt on a Russian in Moscow, it is routine home stuff to me, but to him it is written in that funny alphabet Americans use and it is from the other side of the world.

I remember a line from a Russian novel, "I will go ANYWHERE.  I will go to AMERICA if I have to!"

In Africa I was very often the first American the person I was talking to had ever met.  They had heard about us, seen our movies, read our books, but here was an actual American, up front and personal.

I am not just talking about Africans in the bush.  I am talking about educated city people who had been to Europe.

So I was the only American this Caricature Jew had ever met.  I believe he told me that.  So many people told me that I have forgotten.

Now if you meet the only Mongolian you ever saw in your life and you tell somebody about it, which would you prefer to say, "He was just like anybody else" or "You could see how Inscrutable and Oriental he was"?

The big reputation of Americans is go-getters and money-makers.   I think the old gent would rather tell his cousin Irving that this American goy took him for everything he had.  By now, he probably believes it.

August 16

The only Caricature Jew I ever met was in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A Caricature Jew is the one American Jews love to mimic.  They sort of scrunch up to be a little old man, they take on a Yiddish accent, and say things that a Jewish stereotype would say.  An American Jew will say this is his grandfather or something, but when I met their families, there was not a Caricature Jew in the bunch.

I think the Caricature Jew is just something Jews love to mimic.  They heard it and from their parents and they do it.  It's fun.

But some Jews do it so well that, when I met this guy, I thought I had seen him before.

I am willing to bet that, with all the Jews I have talked to, this goy is the only one who ever actually met a real, live Caricature Jew.  To start with, how many Jews still have a YIDDISH accent?  Lots of American Jews have a Russian accent.  Israeli Jews might have a Hebrew accent. But how many Jews today are raised with Yiddish as their native tongue?

Hollywood missed a major bet with this old gent.   He was an echte, as they say in Yiddish, the real thing.  He looked and acted elderly, though it was hard to tell how old he really was.   He was bent, he was thin.

We talked about Yiddish.  Yiddish is basically seventeenth century German but it is written in the Hebrew alphabet.   In South Africa, where I met him, Afrikaans was one of the two official languages, along with English.   A lot of people there spoke only Afrikaans.

Afrikaans is seventeenth century Dutch.   This man told me that his customers would often speak to him in Afrikaans and he would speak to them in Yiddish, and they understood each other very well.   I tried it, and it worked.  The only limitation was that my Afrikaans wasn't all that fluent.

But I never knew before how well I could understand Yiddish!

One episode occurred that was too good to be true.  I never mention it to Jews because they probably would think I was just trying to one-up them. 

This was the incident: I bought a few things from this gent and we were dealing, of course, in South African Rand.

Maybe he had gotten a little too relaxed bargaining with me.  At the end of our little deal, he handed me my change.   Then he said, "I think I may have sold you (something, I forget what) too cheap.  You should give me a few Rand back."

He meant it.  He actually tried to pick some of the Rand out of my hand!  Never in my life, before or since, has anybody actually tried to take money out of my hand!  Now that is what a Caricature Jew might do in one's wildest dreams.

No, he didn't get the money from me.   But who would believe it when I say a Caricature Jew did such a caricature thing!  He didn't mind that I wouldn't give him the money back, and I don't think he was all that greedy.

I just think that, to him, The Deal was the big thing, the thing he lived for.  One line from the Caricature Jew routine Jews will give is, "Such a DEAL!  Such a deal I'm givink you as you never saw before!"

His game was The Deal, and he had landed on Boardwalk with a hotel on it.

I enjoyed the hell out of him, and I think he got a kick out of it too.

I am willing to bet that he is still saying to people, "You think Goldfarb is hard to deal with?   Well, let me tell you about this American goy ..."

August 15

The German word "Schwarz" means "black."   The German word for "Negro" is "Neger." As an adjective, "Schwarz" becomes "schwarze."  So "schwarze Neger" means "black Negro."

August 14

The story goes this way:

A bill on equal pay for men and women was being debated in French Parliament.  One of the members was making a speech in favor of it.  In the course of that speech he said,  "There is really very little difference between men and women."

At this point the entire French Parliament, left and and right, stood up and shouted,

"VIVE LE DIFFERENCE!!!"

I despise liberals and respectable conservatives.  I would be deeply worried about myself if they didn't call me a racist.   I would also be worried if they didn't call me a sexist.

When I was appointed Director of an Oversight staff on Capitol Hill, my first hire was a woman who had previously held high positions as my Assistant Director.   Back then none of the antidiscrimination laws Congress had applied to everybody else applied to Congress itself.  A congressman could openly hire only white males to higher positions, and many did.

Nobody congratulated me on my socially progressive hiring of a woman to the number two spot.  Everybody knew damned well that I was not socially progressive.

In fact, my male staff had a problem reporting to a woman as their superior.

I hired her because I needed a woman in that slot.

If you go to any successful political event, you will see the men walking around as the leadership and you will see women doing the work.  This is sexism in action.

It also works.

If I want something done, I turn it over to a woman.  There is nothing more realistic than a woman.  Men have the attention span of a fly on LSD.  Women do it.

I have heard endless legions of men say, "Women just don't get it."

They are perfectly right.  There are many things that women just don't "get."  That is what men are for.

Vive le difference!

When you say, "Women just don't get it" you are complaining about the thing that justifies the existence of men in any organization.

When the Great Man makes his Great Decision, he turns it over to his female Office Manager, what amateurs call his "secretary," to "handle the details."

When the Great Hunter came back from the hunt with the meat, he turned it over "to the women."  When he sired a child, he left it to "the women" to make the new generation survive, which happens to be the whole point of human existence.

This is something women's libbers just don't get.  They take the male view that what women are reduced to doing is just the details.  To a real woman, raising the new generation is the point.  While men think they are using her for that, a real woman thinks she is using men for that.

My Assistant Director was never satisfied until the job was done.  She didn't sit around and talk theory like the men did.  She stayed with the project, as the total realist she was, and got things done.

I hired her because I am a sexist.

It worked.

August 12, 2004

During World War II the United States had a top secret operation, now a matter of public record, called "Operation Underworld."  It worked with the Mafia.  FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was, of course, very much in on it.

In the 1950s and 1960s J. Edgar Hoover insisted publicly that "The Mafia is a myth."  He did that because he couldn't do anything about organized crime, so he declared it wasn't there.

New York City paid more than double for its garbage collection because it had to deal with the Mafia.  Everybody knew that.  This went on for decades, until Mayor Giuliani took over.

You may wonder about how people in Washington get their extra money.  You can't do all that they do and live the way they live on a government salary and no expenses.

So almost every major political activist has some kind of group that raises money and pays him a salary and expenses.  Staffers in congress do this routinely.

The left says it represents "the middle class."  Meanwhile, back in the real world, liberal staffers set up some kind of "Save the Spotted Owl" group that gets its money from government and big foundation grants.

On the right, they set up groups that use direct mail to raise money.   They find some issue that will excite the grass roots folks right now and set up a group on that issue.

Someone sent me a forward called "Will they draft your daughters?"  It talks about women being moved into combat roles and the pressure today (mostly from conservatives, though the article doesn't mention THAT) to renew the draft.

I smell gold.  A "National Committee to Prevent the Drafting of Women" might just be a money-maker.

The person who sent this also asked me if this subject might be discussed in Whitaker Online.   They could have sent me a forward on pornography and asked if that will be discussed in Whitaker Online.

Not bloody likely.  I talked about things like that when there was still time to do something about it.  

Being outraged too late is what respectable conservatives are for.  That is the sort of thing people who give them money obsess over.  

Whitaker Online says the things respectable conservatives do not say, the sort of things that the conservatives grassroots do not contribute for.

You know, stuff that's in the paper right now.

I was warning about the path that led to women in combat long ago, when conservatives were raising money on whatever it is that excited them at the time.   I warned about offending people with the promotion of interracial sex.  But all the conservatives said it was fine to offend people who did not want to see black-white coupling at the movies or on TV.   The precedents they approved of then are now used to justify offending parents who do not want their children to see homosexual sex now.

So conservatives are making lots of money being shocked and astonished at the promotion of homosexual sex.   They can raise money on this belated campaign against drafting women.

Meanwhile, Whitaker Online has serious work to do.

August 10

An old right-winger wrote me that the big question in politics is Socialism.   A lot of old-timers are still stuck in that time warp.

This was my reply:

Maybe it is because I was an economics professor, but I don't take economics as seriously as other people do.

I think white people tend towards capitalism for the same reason the Chinese invent things and do nothing with them while we make revolutions from gunpowder and the printing press.  

We make the printing press work.  We get gunpowder and we end up on the moon.   The free market is just something else that we make work.

You are pointing at economic ideas while America is turning brown.  It doesn't matter what economic or political theory a brown country says it believes in, a brown country will be a tyranny and it will live in poverty the minute there are not enough white countries and white people to pull it out.

Simplistic isn't it?  Simplistic like supply and demand.

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Someone else wrote me that the Bible was the key to America's salvation.  This often goes with quotes from the Old Testament about saving the People of Israel.

That use of God gives me the chills.

This was my reply:

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His Only begotten Son, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered unto Pontius Pilate, was crucified dead and buried. 

On the third day He arose from the grave and ascended into heaven whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the holy spirit, the catholic church, the communion of saints and the life everlasting.

Amen.

The Amen means that that and that ALONE, is what I must try to believe in.  It is the ONLY religion I believe in, and mostly I don't believe in that.  I try to have faith the size of a mustard seed, and it is not easy for me.

CS Lewis warned against "Christianity AND ..."  The second you begin to use God for a political theory, the Senior Demon Screwtape told his nephew Wormwood in letters straight from Hell, you have diverted it, done away with it. 

He also pointed out to Wormwood that it made not the slightest bit of difference what the "AND" referred to.  It can be an obsession with fighting poverty, but it can also be an obsession with fighting evolution.

God is not a politician.  Satan is not a politician.

Screwtape, the practicing professional in damning souls, said that all that mattered was getting people off of concentrating on Christ and salvation and making them think about "the Crisis" (He specifically mentioned on great line, "Christianity and the Crisis").  Get them thinking that True Religion is about social policies like abortion or evolution or the poor.

To damn souls, said the successful old professional Screwtape, you just need to get people off of seeing Christ as a means to Salvation, and as a means to something else that they think is Good.

Anything else will do.

Screwtape told Wormwood that in order to damn people, you need to make them think they have mastered salvation, and can now go on to more relevant stuff

What the "relevant" stuff is makes no difference at all.

Screwtape pointed out that the sin of gluttony has nothing to do with overeating.  Jesus Christ was not a dietitian.  As an example, Screwtape pointed to a very thin woman who was on the path to damnation through gluttony.  She was obsessed with eating very little, and made unreasonable demands on people, especially overworked waitresses, to cater to her exact diet.

Today's vegetarian fanatics will fit very nicely into the place Screwtape has prepared for them.  Gluttony is OBSESSION with food.  It doesn't matter what form the obsession takes.

An obsession with using God in politics is a fine wide road to seeing Screwtape up front and personal.  He doesn't care what the politics happen to be, and the damned won't either when the time comes.  The obsessive pro-lifers and the socialists will be right there together.

The only thing I use God for is salvation.  Jesus said stick to the Golden Rule and worry about your own soul.  If the High Priest demands more, I will let the High Priest follow his Law and his scriptures where they lead him.

I am the grandson of a Methodist circuit rider.   My first ancestor in America was the Reverend Alexander Whitaker, the son of a Cambridge professor.  He was the first Anglican clergyman in America, arriving at Jamestown in 1609 "to convert the savage Indians."   He baptized Pocahontas and wrote the first book in English in America.

His book, Whitaker's Good Newes From Virginia, is online and it is twenty thousand words long.    It contains long quotes in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, all of which he had mastered.  He was a very literate man, which becomes relevant below.

The Reverend Alexander Whitaker died in Jamestown before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

But as soon as the Methodist Church arrived in America, my literate ancestors left the Anglican Church and became Methodists.

John Wesley, the founder of the real Methodist Church, lived and died a High Church Anglican.  In his Anglican church, the Nicene Creed was what adults use.  The Apostles' Creed, which I recite above, is what children recite in the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches. 

My literate ancestors knew that, and they chose to be Methodists.

Most Methodists were the coal miners, the frontiersmen, the people the Established Church ignored.  Many of them never heard of Christ until Wesley came to them.  My VERY literate ancestors joined his church.  We are the children's church, the catholic church.

We knew that, too.

Wesley went out to the people the High Priests would not touch.  So did Jesus.

And when Jesus spoke of the Kingdom, He never pointed to the High Priest.  He pointed to the children.

All  this religion stuff embarrasses the mainline preachers.  So they got together recently and declared that Christianity is all about helping poor people.  This is a line that was old two thousand years ago.

Some people tried that line out on Jesus.  He replied,  "The poor we have always with us." He then explained that He was on this earth about salvation.  His concern was not about Liberation or abolishing poverty.  He was more worried about what greed did to the rich man's soul than about social conditions.

Jesus did not just minister to the poor.  He ate with the rich tax-gatherers.

That embarrasses the High Priests of today exactly the same way it embarrassed the High Priests who spoke to Jesus.   For today's leftists clergy the rich to  are The Enemy.  Today's mainline clergy wants to be "relevant" to THIS world and stop talking about a theoretical Other World they don't believe in anyway.  The High Priests love the Old Testament because it talks about history and social conditions and other "relevant" things a lot.

For the old High Priests, Jesus was monomaniacal and just plain silly.  For the new High Priests, Jesus IS monomaniacal and just plain silly.

What Jesus did not say was "read the scriptures to attain salvation."    What Jesus did not say was "Praise God" in the old heathen way.  He said LOVE God.  The God of Jesus knows who He is.  He needs no reminders from down here.

God is not a dietitian.  God is not a cosmologist.  God is not obsessed with THIS life.  A person who thinks God is about the six-day creation or taking care of one's body or changing social conditions make great fuel for Screwtape.

Jews kept reminding Jesus that the Old Testament Messiah would come to save the Jewish nation.  Every time they brought that up Jesus said, in every way he could, that "My Kingdom is not of this earth."

For those who want to show how "relevant" Christianity is, the Old Testament Messiah is very useful.  He came to save Family Values.  He came to save America.

And Screwtape says, "That will do just fine."

 

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An old friend of mine from our graduate days in economics at the University of Virginia wrote me some old quotes of mine he had used.  He was the one who started teaching me how to write understandably.   We were teacher and pupil to each other.

Back then the University of Virginia graduate economic department was a refuge for right-wingers who were too smart for academia to find any excuse to completely exclude.  The liberals soon "cleaned out that nest of right-wingers"  as they openly swore to do.   But  it was great while it lasted.  We were known world-wide as one of the best graduate programs on earth until the leftists cleared us out

This was my reply to him, with the parts that might identify him cut out:

I was useful to you because there were two of you.  One tended to drift off into the psychotic never-never land of libertarian theory, and the other was a brilliant mind from (his home state).  The last one kept asking you, "Does what I am thinking about make any sense?"

What I kept telling you in different ways was,

"One test is worth more than a hundred expert opinions."

The god Odin gave an eye for KNOWLEDGE, not for WISDOM.  He wanted truth, not Truth.  He was the only god like that in any religion.  That where WE come from.

Without me, you could have joined the Xs in their chase after some sort of theoretical Objectivism that Ayn Rand twisted Western thought into.  Rand was a Russian Jew, her theories were just Marxism in a mirror, like Marx's "objective labor time."  They both looked at our Odinist minds from the outside.

Marxism is a combination of Christianity and the Western quest for knowledge and science looked at through a set of crazy glasses.

Everybody else looks into their navels or to an omniscient god or to History to give them Wisdom, to give them the Truth.   We look straight at the world.  At the University of Virginia I was a hard-minded redneck who watched people drift away in their little bubbles.   They kept trying to make a theoretical system out of what to Bob and (you as the brilliant mind from your home state) was common sense.

And they drifted away.

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The official doctrine of the Catholic Church is that life begins at conception.  That means the life of fertilized egg is as important as the life of any young person.

The official doctrine of the Catholic Church, emphatically restated by the current pope, is that for a married couple to have sex for any purpose but procreation is a sin.

In the real world, if a married Catholic man says to the priest in confession, "I have sinned because I had sex with my wife four times this week without any intent to procreate" the priest would reply, "Stop bragging and let's back to your confession."

As I have said before, no one could have been a Catholic bishop and not been aware of the wholesale rapes of little boys unless he was not an idiot, and no Catholic bishop is an idiot.  You don't get to that job if you are not bright.

When the scandal finally became public, not one single Catholic bishop was even reprimanded, no matter how many little boys he helped to get raped.

But the pope is worried to death about a fertilized egg.

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August 8

People are always talking about Hitler's book-burning.

Today the only people who actually burn books are on the left.  For example, if someone here sends a copy of David Duke's Jewish Supremacism to Canada, the government BURNS, yes I said BURNS, the book.   Not only that, but the Canadian government sends a bill for the costs of burning the book to the intended Canadian recipient!

But to a liberal or a respectable conservative the burning of a book labeled "racist" is not "book burning," so no one is going to mention this to you but Ole Bob.

I wish to hell people would stop bitching TO ME about how bad things are.

A couple of middle-aged guys were bitching to me about how affirmative action had ruined their lives and careers.  I warned about all that forty years ago.  Everybody back said "Oh" and then went on about how busy they were.

Today I try to tell people what they should be doing and they tell me how busy they are.  These guys are busy bitching. 

Moan, sob, cry!  God, I get sick of listening to it.  

You asked for this for fifty years.  You wanted to give away your country, you had no interest in politics.  Now you get mugged in the street.

Who cares?

Those whining guys today are the exact copies of the generation that caused all the disasters they whine about.   They are busy.   They got other things to think about, like crying about their fate.   They are preparing the disaster for the next generation.

Don't blubber in my ear, buddy.   There are still a few things I can do, and I don't want to waste the little time I have left with you clowns.

The white man has never committed a sin other races have not committed.  It is the good things he has done that are unique.

August 5, 2004

In a courtroom, who is human?

The judge says to a repeat felon, "Willy, you have been before me five times."   Willy knows the judge, his defense attorney knows the judge even better.

How about the prosecutor?  He knows Willy, he works with the judge and the defense attorney all the time.  He is trying to get something on his record to get him or his boss reelected.

What looks good?  Well, a ninety percent conviction rate looks good.  All the prosecutor needs to do is get Willy convicted of something.   And he has very little time to do it.  He needs to clear the docket.  The judge needs to clear the docket.  The defense attorney is in a hurry if Willy is pro bono and can't pay him.  If Willy is pro bono he wants a quick deal, too.

But if the defendant has money the defense attorney is the one person in the court who has time.   He will appeal until Judgment Day.  So he can make a deal with the prosecutor that gets another conviction on the record and gets Willy back on the streets as soon as possible so the judge can say, "Willy you have been before me six times."

So what about the "members of he public" Willy may have killed and the ones he terrorizes?

They are "members of the public."  They are not human.

A person who is wrongfully executed is a Victim of the System.  The hundred "members of the public" who are innocent and get killed today by the Willys are not considered human by the judge.  His job is Justice, and he believes it.  To the judge, it is Willy who is human, not the people who pay his salary.

So you have just spent one clock minute seeing how American Justice works.  That's all the time you've got.  You've got other things to think about.  The prosecutor knows that.  The judge knows that.  The entire legal system is based on the assumption that Willy and his defense attorney have all the time in the world, while "members of the public" have one minute.

That is why, to a judge, you are not human.

Woody Allen said, "Ninety percent of life is showing up."  Willy shows up.  The judge shows up.  The prosecutor shows up as little as he can.  He's a busy man.  "Members of the public" have thirty seconds to listen to a television sound bite where the guy running for Attorney General says he got ninety percent convictions.

That's why, to the legal system, you are not human.

August 2, 2004

What does God want?

The minute you ask that question you answer it.  God whatever the Imam or the pope or the Chief Priest says he wants.

That is why every Christian theologian would give his right arm if Jesus had not swept aside the Ten Commandments and the Law and all that lovely complexity of contradictory statements in the Old Testament and said forget those and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

The Golden Rule is simplistic and it opens the door to what every theologian calls anarchy.  The Golden Rule threatens to make a man's conscience his theologian.  It took the Church centuries to get back to a good old Orthodoxy of the Jewish High Priest kind.

Jesus had also condemned the good old stonings and crucifixions, so the Church had to go to burning alive.

Another serious troublemaker for the theologians was Saul Of Tarsus, a.k.a., St. Paul.  Every theologian, from the Temple priest who condemned Jesus to today’s Politically Correct priesthood at the universities, says that the only way to avoid anarchy is to have a rigid orthodoxy.  Paul said if your Christian Brother wants to have his service his way, go along with him.  That was a tough nut to crack, too, but all the Established Churches managed to crack it. 

Cross yourself the wrong way and it’s to the stake with you.  Say black instead of African-American and you’re ruined.

Theologians have the sense of humor of snake on ice.  There is a reason for that.  A sense of humor is a sense of proportion, and no one who tries to impose a rigid theology on fallible human beings can tolerate a sense of proportion.

Jesus was strict, Jesus was rigid, but He demanded that the righteous be without sin if they wanted to be rigid about the Law.

The campus theologians have to insist that minorities have no sense of humor.  The insist that every Indian goes to pieces when he sees a team named the Braves.   They say that every black man wakes up at night worrying that somebody is using the N word or that some white man doesn’t want him to date his daughter.  If minorities are really like that, they don’t need Political Correctness, they need Prozac.

Theologians cannot tolerate the idea that Jesus not only demanded The Golden Rule, but that, to add insult to injury, He even had a sense of humor.  That idea does indeed make theologians wake up at night in a cold sweat.

When they read the New Testament, anti-Christians hate Christ and Christians love Christ.
 

But it is hard for any student of the Bible not to LIKE Peter. Peter was so human, so bumbling. To a fallible human being like me, Peter is the most sympathetic character in the scriptures .

When Jesus handed St. Peter the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, he did it with something you never expect to see in the Bible, a JOKE!

Peter, of course, is Petra, the Greek word for "rock." Peter was anything but a rock. When he said he would stand by Jesus like a rock when Jesus was arrested, Jesus said, "Before the cock crows twice, you will have betrayed me thrice."

When Jesus went out to pray and wrestle with Satan in the Garden of Gethsemane, He took Peter with him. Poor old Peter kept falling asleep, and Jesus scolded him. But it is important to remember that Jesus knew that, of all his disciples, poor old Peter was most likely to be the one who would fall asleep, but it was still Peter Jesus wanted with Him in his hour of desperation. Peter asleep was a greater comfort to Him than anyone else awake.

And this was the man to whom Jesus said, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church." If there was one thing Peter was not, it was a rock. It was ironic, it was funny, and it was so profoundly true: this was the "rock" upon which the church was built. We hopelessly fallible humans are the "rock" on which the church is built. And the church, with all its denominations and its failings, is still here.

We totally jellylike humans with all our failings turned out to be a firm foundation, God knows how.

I repeat, God knows how.

 

July 30, 2004

July 29, 2004

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be reelected who was not a slaveholder.  Until Lincoln only the two Adamses, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan did not own slaves, and none of them were reelected.

Until 1851, the presidency was pretty much a monopoly of slaveholders.  Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson owners of slaves who served two terms as president. Harrison, Tyler, Polk and Taylor were owners of slaves who were not reelected, and Harrison and Taylor died in their first term.

When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant owned slaves while General Lee had freed his many years before the Civil War.  Grant kept his slaves until slavery was outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865.  Grant served two terms as president, and he was the last slaveholder president.

July 23, 2004

July 21, 2004

In every army, the sergeants are the ones who make the rubber meet the road.  Everything is just paperwork until the sergeants get hold of it.

I doubt that there has ever been a serious army that didn't have more generals than it needed.  

Often there is not even a shortage of privates.  At the beginning of the Civil War, so many men volunteered that most of them had to be turned away.  This happens a lot, though usually there is a shortage of privates.

But every army always has a desperate lack of sergeants.  

Sergeants are the backbone of every army, and not just the less important armies that wear uniforms.  When you have to get the military into action, the more important armies have failed.  War is hideously expensive in every way, and every war is a direct result of the failure of the thinkers and doers who should have prevented it.  Those are the far more important armies.

Sergeants are the people who keep the forces in hand.  Sergeants are the ones who make orders real.  Nothing really happens until the orders get to the sergeants and they make it happen.

I desperately need sergeants for my book, Why Johnny Can't Think.

In the important armies, you say, "We need to get the book out."   You do not have to tell the sergeants that they need to read the book, then put quotes for it news groups, contact their friends, find contacts. 

I keep begging whitakeronline readers: "Please look at readbob.com"

People keep asking me what they can do.  I say, "Please look at readbob.com"

They then ask me, "What can I do?"

I repeat: in the important armies, you say, "We need to get the book out."   You do not have to tell the sergeants that they need to read the book, then put quotes for it news groups, contact their friends, find contacts. 

We are trying to reach millions of young people, private schoolers, home schoolers, the millions of young people who are paying off their college debts and know they have been cheated.  We could win over millions of young people rather than waiting for a bloody revolution in the future.  We could be the important army.

But we need sergeants!

No officer tells the sergeant, "Now you go out and get your men together and you tell them to get their guns"   That is what they do.  They know how to do that better than I do.

Are there any sergeants out there?

July 20, 2004

July 19, 2004

I have been away from  Bob's Blog because I've been ill.  I cannot imagine anything less interesting than listening to an old man talk about his latest illness, but some people have been worried, which makes me know my work is worthwhile, so I'll put the whole thing here so they can read it.

The last thing I want to do when I've already lost a lot of time and effort being flat on my ass is to have to describe what I went through over and over.

So, once and for all, here goes.

I overdo my exercising, like I overdo everything else.  I hate the obligatory time in the gym, so I run and power walk as hard as I can.  Inevitably it hit me.  On Thursday night my right leg was in agony, and the hip got worse and worse.  My left leg just cramped.

By Friday I could only lie on my face on my bed in one position.  I also had nausea and diarrhea and shortness of breath and all the fun stuff that goes with great pain.

Let me stop here.  I was raised around the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation.  They would say that that kind of pain never bothered them, I am just not man enough to deal with it.

This pain did all that to Ole Bob.  I am 63 and I don't do competitive macho.  It knocked the hell out of ME.

My sister and my nephew, who just came back for a while as a medical student in Moscow, came over and took care of me when they could.  I thought I was down for the count because I have bad arthritis in my spine but it is where it shows no symptoms.  A lot of people have that.  But I thought that pain couldn't come from anything less than a spinal problem and that would have been permanent.

So I laid there face down, got up in agony when I had to, and just generally had a wonderful time.  I called my doctor and finally got enough antinflammatories to get the hip and leg pain down to where I could get around again    I can sit up and write a while before I go and throw up or lie down, but compared to being flat on my face, it's wonderful.

Basically I am as healthy as a horse and almost as smart.  I am coming along fine now.  Could we talk about something else?

July 16, 2004

July 14, 2004

Have you heard the one about the man who shot the tiger?

One of the tigers owned by Steve Sipek, the Tarzan actor, escaped.  When he lunged at a game warden he was shot.  Sipek has been screaming about how that tiger was his brother and he is at war with man who shot him.

Good publicity, BAD move.

You see, if you have a dog that gets off its leash or runs away, you are legally responsible, even if the dog is a tiny one.  If you have a snake or a lion, this puts you in much greater legal, not to say moral, danger.

If I had a tiger, even if I had been vicious enough to declaw it (that is a horrendous procedure, you are taking off a part a cat's foot.  It is never really a cat again), your legal danger is MUCH greater.

If you ever have such an animal escape, let me tell you what you DON'T Do,  You don't get on national television and announce, "That tiger was my brother.  That tiger was my responsibility.  There is no way I can confuse anybody by blaming this on the keeper or somebody else.  This was my brother."

Nobody can tell if a tiger is declawed when it lunges at you.  The man who has the lawsuit is the man who was terrified and had to shoot the tiger.  That man is also a public official, which could mean jail time for the person responsible for the animal.

Sipek should go to jail.

July 14 is the French equivalent of our July 4.

Today is Bastille Day, the beginning of the bloody, disastrous French Revolution that led to tyranny and the Reign of Terror and twenty years of bloodshed in Europe.

Let me remind you once again that when Jefferson wrote the absurd words "all men are created equal," he was writing a document in WARTIME.  The city in which he was writing the Declaration of Independence would be in enemy hands within months.

Most of the Declaration of Independence is based on a good, sound resounding lie.  It blames everything on the King.  Every man at the convention, including Jefferson, had been raised under British Law.  Every man who signed the Declaration knew that the King could not have done any of those things without the support of Parliament.

So why did they just blame the King and leave Parliament out of it?   Because this was a WAR document, written in the desperation of WARTIME.  The colonies had many  supporters in Parliament and they did not want to alienate them.  Every historian knows that.  No historian dares to mention that.

So why did Jefferson say, "all men are created equal?"   Why did he refer to "Nature and Nature's God?'   Because that was the way Rousseau had talked, and Rousseau was the philosopher French liberals followed.  French liberals were Deists, and "Nature's God" was what they believed in.

Britain abandoned the American war when Parliament deserted the King. It was French liberals who eventually got France into the war on America's side.  The wartime propaganda document called the Declaration of Independence was well targeted.

As for "all men are created equal" and "Nature and Nature's God,"  if you have any historical sense at all, those words look insane in an American declaration.  No Founding Father of America ever believed that all men were created or that fairies were dancing on the end of his nose.   But all war propaganda looks absurd to those outside of the war.  What is really absurd is to think that all this crap represented anything Americans actually believed.

This is proved by the fact that when peace came and Americans had to adopt a real Constitution to be adopted by Americans, not one word of this "all mankind" crap was in it.  There is no overlap whatsoever between the Declaration of Independence and he United States Constitution.

The French thinking that Jefferson appealed to led to the tyranny, invasions and massacres of the French Revolution, to the total defeat of a devastated France, and a restoration of the monarchy that revolution overthrew.  That ` "all men are created equal" crap is insane and insane ideas lead to insane results.

That French nonsense became the motto of the abolitionists.  And when Lincoln celebrated the slaughter at the Gettysburg address, he said that America was founded on the French idea that "all men are created equal," not on the Constitution.

Whenever Americans want a slaughter, they hark back to the French idea of revolution, and they get the massacres they want.

And that is what Bastille Day means to me.

July 13, 2004

All my life I have been a great advisor.  I made a good living at it, but I was also good at it on a personal level.

I can't tell you how many times people have quoted things I said to them that helped them enormously and my immediate reaction was "Damn, that was great stuff.  Why didn't **I** listen to me?"

My life has been a mess, and I cannot deny that I knew better.

About 1950 Walt Disney made a movie called "Alice in Wonderland."   One song from that movie has haunted me ever since.

The refrain of that song was:

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."

And that, ladies and gentleman, is Bob's biography in a nutshell.

If anyone says that homosexual teachers and scoutmasters try to influence children to be homosexuals, a thousand professors line up to declare that that is not true.

On the other hand, those same professors and the entire gay establishment declares that homosexuality is as legitimate a "life style" a heterosexuality.  So what is to keep gays from influencing young people to accept their "lifestyle."  From the declared homosexual viewpoint, there is nothing morally wrong with their doing that.

My business is politics, ALL politics, and the ballot-box variety is only one part of the study of real politics.   I know church politics, I know academic politics.  Every time a thousand professors line up to testify to anything Political Correctness wants to be true, they are ALWAYS not only wrong, but absurdly wrong.

When professors line up to declare almost unanimously that gay teaches and scoutmasters do not convert young people to their "legitimate gay lifestyle," I would guarantee you that is not true, because professors who line up to back a Politically Correct position are ALWAYS proven wrong later.

On the television show "Married With Children," Amanda Blake was openly lesbian.  She worked with Christina Applegate when Christina was just reaching puberty.  Like Rock Hudson, Christina keeps talking about affairs she has with the opposite sex, but I would bet money she is a lesbian due to the influence of Amanda Blake.   Amanda considers her lifestyle as legitimate, so there is no moral reason she would not have influenced Christina in that direction.

And if you want your children to end up in a sterile homosexual "lifestyle," all you have to do is believe that thousand professors who line up to declare that things like that just don't happen.

July 12, 2004

A lady wrote me about my optimistic ideas about white survival, but she was still discouraged.

Here was a sentence in what she wrote me and my reply:

July 11, 2004

July 9, 2004

July 7, 2004

When George Washington got pneumonia in 1799 his university-trained doctors of medicine bled him. They took out a quart and half of his blood and he died.   Today when the population is in physical danger from criminals, the university-trained doctors of philosophy demand that every honest endangered citizen be stripped of any means of self-defense.

Medicine was a primitive study in 1799.  Social science admits it is a primitive study today.  But the fact that thousands like Washington died from bleeding made no difference to MDs back then, and the fact that defenseless people are being killed on the streets right now makes no difference at all to today's PhDs.

I explain this in my latest book, Why Johnny Can't Think.  I give example after example of statements that pass for truth in academia and in the liberal media they talk to, statements that are not only false, but are silly on their face.

My favorite is the 43-1 myth.  For years professors said that for every person who defends his home with his gun, 43 people who try it have their gun taken away from them and are shot by the brave, cool, professional burglar.

Usually no one ever questions insane statements like that when professors make them.  But finally career policemen started writing letters to the editor pointing out that they had known many cases of people defending their property with guns, but they had never even heard of an incident where the brave, cool, professional criminal had taken the gun away from an armed citizen, much less shot him with it.

Everything about today's social sciences stinks of the fallacies of all primitive fields of study.  It is time for a wholesale firing of those professors, a revolution against them which is demanded in Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood.

This book is not another whine about leftist bias on campus.  It is a demand for revolution.

July 6, 2004

July 5, 2004

People say that "being let go" is a euphemism for "being fired" and "he isn't working out" really means "he's screwing up."  Maybe that's not the case.  Maybe "being let go" and "not working out" just reflects the new reality of employment.

The group that calls itself "The Greatest Generation" went on endlessly about how hard they had it, but they had it much easier than young people going into the job market today.  Back then you got a job and kept it for years and decades, being promoted if you could.  You only got fired if you screwed up royally.

Today you get a job for exactly as long as you are useful, then they let you go.  There is no job security, so you don't get "fired" from a job that is your lifelong property, you are "let go" the moment your usefulness ceases, whether you screw up or not.

Today very few people get let go because they screw up.  They are let go because they are really "not working out."   When you go in to see your boss he wonders why you are bothering him when you could do the thing yourself.  If he has do it himself he may as well let you go.

It always astonished me when I made the most inexcusable mistakes and the boss took them in stride.  I never got fired or let go, and I couldn't understand it.  Now I think I do.

The boss wanted ME to DO things.  I screwed up because I DID things, usually on my own or with a quick BRIEF note to him.  I seldom saw my bosses.  

Making appointments with my boss took time and attention he needed elsewhere, and that was exactly what he hired me to avoid.  Naturally when someone takes on that kind of responsibility they will screw it up a lot.  Back then one would say in today's parlance that "Whitaker is working out" because I was doing something for him NOW, not lying there inert until he told me what to do.

The group that calls itself The Greatest Generation got through life by just following orders.   We have computers to do that now.  Young people now have to show initiative or be let go.