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South African notes

I have never been one to keep a travel diary but I jotted down a few notes and reflections about my first trip to South Africa some years after the event and, given the notice that the world has taken of the place,  I thought my notes and reflections might be of some interest to others.  Here is what I wrote:-

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Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 06:46 PM in No particular place to go
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Sorry we were offline

Apologies to all our readers for the several hours today during which the blog was down.  No explanation has been forthcoming from our web hoster as yet, but it appears to have been a simple tech failure.  As if it could possibly be anything else!

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 12:03 PM in No particular place to go
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I’ve Got Some Catching-Up To Do.

This just in: Rod Stewart has sired his sixth kid, not bad for a Scotsman!

In related news my wife just confirmed she is pregnant, with our second child: another enemy of the State, to be sure. I hope the baby is a boy, I need to pass on my father’s wisdom and arsenal to the next generation.

I also hope all the reader of MR have another child, give it a try tonight! You’ll know what to do.

Posted by leslie on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 at 05:31 PM in No particular place to go
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Two hundred and forty-one comments and counting …

Since GW has finally closed the thread to JR’s post on beauty , I’d like to make a few brief remarks in response to the contributions from Anonymous (Anon), who is probably from GNXP.

Anon comments about the lack of “civility” at this blog to those whom we disagree with.  That is laughable, particularly compared to what goes on at GNXP, where people are banned and comments are deleted (Seelow Heights can speak much about that) if people speak out against the anti-white agenda of that blog.  In contrast, despite our lack of “civility” there is free speech here at MR, and GNXPers come here and express their opinions without being banned or their comments deleted.  If they cannot take the “heat” of charged debate they need not come here, but they are not being forced away.  They have a choice, unlike WNs at GNXP.

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Posted by JW Holliday on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 at 10:13 AM in No particular place to go
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Amazing:  Blacks can commit hate-crimes

I guess the fact that the TV cameras were rolling had something to do with it

Darnell Colquitt thought the TV reporters didn’t belong in the Tillicum ’hood and told them so.  People tote heat around here, he warned. He started to pedal away on a bicycle, then stopped, turned, and told the reporters what would happen if they were still there when he came back.  “You’re dead where you stand,” he said.

That, and a hail of racial slurs, earned him a trip to jail Thursday, along with a rare charge from Pierce County prosecutors: a black-on-white hate crime.  Reporter Kevin McCarty and cameraman Terry Griffin of KIRO-TV were surprised to see things go that far.  Normally, they would have ignored Colquitt. But they worried about the woman they were visiting, the subject of that day’s story.  Someone had thrown homemade firebombs at her house. When the reporters left, would Colquitt come back and vent some misplaced rage?  “He’s gonna remember her,” McCarty said. “That was my concern.”

They called the sheriff’s deputies and showed them the tape of Colquitt’s threats. Griffin’s camera had been rolling the whole time.  The tape was good enough for a charge, said deputy prosecutor Phil Sorensen.  Prosecutors don’t file many hate-crime cases – one or two a month, Sorensen said. The formal charge is malicious harassment, and usually, the racial roles are reversed. Sorensen couldn’t think of another black-on-white example.  “I’m not aware that we’ve ever done it before,” he said. “But it wasn’t charged because it was a reverse deal. It was charged because he was telling these guys to get out of the neighborhood because of the color of their skin.”

Friday, Colquitt, 21, appeared in court for his arraignment. Bail was set at $20,000.  Sorensen said the amount was low because Colquitt didn’t have a history of violence.

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 10:52 PM in No particular place to go
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Medieval, Renaissance & 17th Century English Literature on the Web

Occasionally, one comes across a stunningly original website into which some loving soul has poured hundreds of hours of labour.  One such I found by chance yesterday.  It is Luminarium - the work, apparently, of Anniina Jokinen.  I commend it to one and all.

Like many, I am aware of Fred Ross’s visually ravishing Art Renewal Centre, and agree wholeheartedly with its stand against “flat art”.  There must be many other, equally arresting and informative art and culture sites out there.  A pointer in the right direction would always be welcome.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, May 21, 2005 at 06:05 PM in No particular place to go
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Quote of the Day

Posted by Phil Peterson on Friday, May 20, 2005 at 06:31 AM in No particular place to go
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Human protandry (girls who turn into boys) revisited

I have posted a couple of articles on human protandry and interested readers should probably read the earlier stuff first.  The phenomenon is a marvellous natural experiment proving that “gender” is NOT a “social construct”—as the academic feminists would have it.  The academic feminists themselves are not interested in evidence, of course, but those who have to cope with them may be.  I must say I was amused, though, to see that a lesbian site had one account of the phenomenon posted.  Apparently, the idea of girls turning into boys sounds pretty reasonable from a lesbian perspective!

Anyway, below is an excerpt from a medical source  which explains how human protandry happens:-

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 10:01 AM in No particular place to go
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Chalabi’s reason to grin

Funny how “democracy” works…......

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Monday, May 16, 2005 at 05:12 AM in No particular place to go
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Judge puts a stop to homosexual advocacy

Leftists weasel on about this being an attack on sex education.  It is not.  It is an attack on only one sort of sex “education” —preaching how good homosexuality is

A judge’s order on Thursday evening to halt a new public school sex-education curriculum in the affluent suburbs of Washington, D.C., could have significant ramifications throughout the rest of the country.

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Posted by jonjayray on Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 12:24 AM in No particular place to go
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“Black culture” revisited

On Wednesday I posted a brief critique of Thomas Sowell’s theory  about black culture being responsible for black under-achievement.  Yesterday I put up two further comments on the subject by Steve Sailer and Star Parker.  A reader has however reminded me of what is probably the most important factor:

“Sailer’s comment that today’s behavior is “an African thing” is just as much of a “stretch” as Sowell’s saying it was a “Redneck thing”. Neither has had serious influence for over 200 years. Blacks were long past the “Redneck thing” and the “African Thing” at the time our “welfare state” began. Their behavior is an “American thing”, brought on by welfare state”.

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Posted by jonjayray on Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 11:47 PM in No particular place to go
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Human protandry:  showing that sex roles are not “socially constructed”

A natural experiment which shows that being bought up female does NOTHING towards making a male adult feminine.  Two articles on the subject are reproduced below:

Startling sex-changes on the island where little sister may become big brother

By SANDRA JOBS0N,  in London

On a lush tropical island in a remote area of the Caribbean something, very peculiar is happening. The young girls in one village are turning into boys.  This startling sex change is occurring naturally, and a team of scientists sent to the island believes it could throw a new light on fundamental aspects of human nature and sexual identification.  It has all been revealed in a fascinating documentary shown recently on BBC television, called The Fight to be Male.

The Caribbean phenomenon has been happening for the past 50 years. In that time 37 village girls have changed into boys around the age of 13. The cause has been traced back to one woman seven generations ago who passed on genetic abnormality to her descendants.

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Posted by jonjayray on Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 02:01 AM in No particular place to go
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Gentile attitudes and Jewish attitudes

An old story from Haaretz.

Funny thing that. American Christians are the most vociferous supporters of Israel on earth, while Christians in Israel get spat on by Israeli Jews.

Incidentally, do they have indices of “anti-gentilism” in Israel as we have indices of “anti-semitism” here which involve the most microscopic examinations of this or that statement followed by the inevitable squealing apologies?

Posted by Phil Peterson on Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 03:46 PM in No particular place to go
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Chinese Racists

I assume, with considerable justification, that the readers of this blog are familiar with American Renaissance. This story from Amren caught my eye. If one has even a rudimentary understanding of human instincts, the story would not come as a surprise*. If however one’s mind is clogged by the cobwebs of modern pieties, perhaps this is the 4,000 volt shock that will remove some of those cobwebs (Liberalism is a notoriously tenacious disease. A cure for it is not easily found. But stay with us you Liberals and you may perhaps see the light of sanity some day).

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 03:54 PM in No particular place to go
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News Date 6th May 2005: Reduced Labour majority not enough to persuade Howard to stay

Suleymann Kufr, London
Guardian staff reporter

Michael Howard today resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, after leading the Tories to a third successive defeat.

Speaking outside Conservative Central Office in London, Mr Howard said, “It is vital for the party to reflect fully on the decision of the electorate and on the direction the Conservative Party must now take.  That direction should be the responsibility of a new leader who can build on the very substantial progress we, as a party, have made in the past eighteen months.”

It is eighteen months to the day since Mr Howard replaced Mr Ian Duncan Smith as Tory leader in what was a one horse race.

Mr Howard claimed that his party was “back in business” but he also spoke of the electoral mountain which it still has to climb.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 04:18 PM in No particular place to go
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“Racism by another name”

An article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

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Posted by Phil Peterson on Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 06:49 AM in No particular place to go
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A Few Definitions

Conservative: (1) A person who desires to conserve empire and one of the most massive government bureaucracies in history, while mouthing advocacy for tax cuts and a return to moral values, for purposes of acquiring fame and wealth. (2) Yesterday’s liberal.

Liberal: (1) One who directly and indirectly advocates the murder of posterity, in numerous ways, for the sake of present-day gain. (2) Tomorrow’s conservative.

Social Security: The largest pyramid scheme ever created, which all believe should continue forevermore.

Right and Left: Adopted political positions, taken so that both sides of the television screen may freely yell at one another.

Extreme Right-Wing: A group so labelled, because they do not desire to enter into the shouting matches of the rich and powerful, regarding who will run the empire.

Democracy: Nine letters and four syllables so often repeated, as to console the herd and keep its members from thinking beyond the Left-Right scheme.

Freedom: The constant state of being weaned by the teats of empire and bureaucracy.

Tyranny: All states of living other than ‘freedom’.

Culture: That which has an effect greater than the preaching of the Gospel, formed in such as way so as not to offend the ideological doctrines of the Left-Right scheme.

Relevancy: The apex of sanctification, usually achieved by thorough knowledge of the latest mass-advertised film or television show.

JudeoChristianity: A new religion, combining the gods of multiple religions, and believing in the eternal sainthood of the Jewish people, who otherwise have no faith in the Christ of orthodox Christianity.

Courtesy of

Peleg’s log

Posted by leslie on Monday, April 4, 2005 at 09:23 AM in No particular place to go
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WASPS are rare in America

I was going through my old files looking for something else the other day when I came across an interesting Table in J. Ethnic Studies of 1982 (10:2), pp. 106ff.  It uses NORC data to tabulate the ethnic composition of the U.S. population as of 1980.  I am not certain what the precise NORC question was but the survey appears to have asked people what their predominant origins were.  Germany was cited by 15.6%, England and Wales 11.9%, Ireland 9.5%, Italy 4.7%, Poland 2.8% and Scotland 2.6%—giving only 24.7% for the entire British Isles.  Blacks were 11.5%.

So I think it will surprise many to hear that the U.S. population is more German than English.  And if we take 80% of the England & Wales figure to get (VERY roughly) WASPs, we find that WASPSs are a minority of only 9.5%.  These days of course all the percentages above would have been trimmed back by the Hispanic influx.

But the whole set of results does make very stupid the current American code of referring to blacks and Hispanics as “minorities”. WASPs are a minority too—a smaller minority than blacks in fact.  Maybe WASPs should demand affirmative action on their behalf!

And the most discriminated-against minority in the USA are undoubtedly white middle-class males.  They are the ones who pay most of the taxes and it is they that the whole affirmative action circus is weighted against.

Posted by jonjayray on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 06:28 AM in No particular place to go
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A purely Nordic population shows great respect for the individual

Nothing to do with their genetics, of course (but see here)

Tiny, wind-lashed Iceland has long drawn artists, loners and dreamers attracted by its remoteness, empty spaces and otherworldly, lava-strewn landscape — the very conditions that kept most migrants away and helped forge the proud, independent Icelandic character.  “What was it Buzz Aldrin said about the moon? ‘Magnificent desolation’ — that’s Iceland,” said Jose Tirado, a U.S.-born Buddhist priest who has lived near Reykjavik for four years. “Iceland affords the natural inspiration to spend as much time as you like in your head, formulating ideas.”  As a result, he said, “Everybody here has a guitar or a poem, some artwork or a play.”

Chess icon Fischer, who spent nine months in Japanese detention fighting extradition to the United States, was granted citizenship last week by the country that was the site of his greatest triumph — a 1972 world championship victory in Reykjavik over Cold War rival Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.  Chicago-born, Brooklyn-bred Fischer, wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 rematch against Spassky in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions, arrived in Iceland on Thursday. The next day, he told journalists: “I was crazy to leave.”

He may be right. If any country is willing to overlook Fischer’s erratic behavior and often extreme pronouncements, it’s Iceland. The rugged volcanic island whose most famous exports are fish and flamboyant singer Bjork takes a forgiving attitude to personal eccentricity. “There’s a respect for individual autonomy here,” said Tirado, 45, who writes, studies and teaches meditation classes to Icelanders. “In Iceland, you’re free enough to be rude. They tolerate anybody, though that doesn’t mean they approve.”

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Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, March 27, 2005 at 05:12 PM in No particular place to go
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Economical with the truth

Phil drew my attention to these three politically offensive but ideologically consistent articles all from the May 10th edition of the Economist.  We can look at each and see there the face of the enemy, or enemies: the neocon, the open-borders psycho, the denier of human difference.

I guess that unabashed liberalism arises in a once great publication because, like all reader-aware periodicals, it knows its market and isn’t in the business of telling it things it doesn’t like to hear.  Of course, that interpretation assumes the Economist to be a mere business rather than an organ of change, but I think that’s a fair assumption.

The article on failing black males in UK schools has a particularly nasty little diagram showing that among the lowest of the underclass white British boys perform far worse than the rest.  Oh how much the transnational progressives who read the Economist these days will have salivated over that small lie, “proving” as it does that environment is the blacks’ sole (soul) drawback.

Here are the three Economist articles.  Enjoy.  Intellectually dismember, too, as you reflect upon the duplicity of modern journalism.  But always enjoy …

Bad attitudes
Back in their pomp
Dreaming of the other side of the wire

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 03:21 PM in No particular place to go
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Biased students in Britain

No place should be more committed to freedom of speech than a university. And perhaps no issue deserves more balance, more variety of voices, and more critical thinking than the Middle East, given its importance in world affairs. Universities should be grounds for critical thinking and pluralism of opinion, not brainwashing. Still, when it comes to the Middle East, the difference between should and is can sometimes be as great as the one between night and day.

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Posted by jonjayray on Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 09:41 PM in No particular place to go
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The “Secessionists”

I wonder if many people reading this blog are aware of the Secessionist movement.  It is a rebellion against the mainstream world of today (which they call “The Pit”) and an attempt to return to a more genteel past.  They refer to the 60s as “The eclipse”—seeing it as the time when most traditional values were lost.  I reproduce below part of an article from one of their sites:

It is no exaggeration to say that the single phenomenon that has done most to turn Britain from the thing it was before the Eclipse to the thing it is now is that of proletarianisation. It is to be seen in every walk of life. Wireless and television announcers have turned from figures of gentlemanly (or ladylike) authority to whining sub-Cockneys. Announcers in any public place have lost their crisp, clear English enunciation and talk like plebeians. Upper and middle class speakers below the age of fifty have adopted a phoney and embarrassing pseudo-proletarian whine marked by the revolting thin “oo” sound (“Tyeeoo o’clock in the afterneeoon”). An American who was up at Oxford in the Second Decade [the 1970s] remarked that on visiting it in the fourth [the 1990s], the most immediately noticeable change was the almost complete demise of what used to be called the Oxford Accent, which on his first visit had been all but universal there. He remarked that the sudden and complete changed seemed “spooky”; and it is.

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Posted by jonjayray on Monday, February 7, 2005 at 08:52 PM in No particular place to go
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A personal credo

Given the recent post by our bloghost about race, I think I might take the certainly unwise step of saying what I think about race, ethnicity and various particular races.

For a start, I have often said—and I say it again—that I am certain that there ARE different races and that some of the differences between them are important.  I also believe that some of the differences are genetically encoded.

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Posted by jonjayray on Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 05:29 PM in No particular place to go
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My Christmas revisited

Two interesting emails from two different readers provoked by my Christmas-day postings:

“I enjoyed the account of your Christmas Day and wanted to contribute to the Scots/English debate, I am half-and-half with a with a Jewish great-grandfather. My grandparents came to London from Glasgow a hundred years ago and they were keen, lifelong Conservatives, in fact my Grandmother worked at the Party headquarters. My grandparents belonged to some society for Scots in London where my grandfather played the piano for Scottish songs and dances, there was a party at Halloween for the grandchildren and New Year’s Eve was celebrated in the usual way. However, apart from my grandmother sighing over us grandchildren as “Sassenachs” because we ate our porridge with sugar and my granfather telling me about the Auld Alliance with France and pointing out the French origin of some Scots words “a silver tassie” for a silver cup for example, I don’t remember any expressions of Scottish nationalism.

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Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 06:10 PM in No particular place to go
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My Christmas day

Unlike most bloggers, I rarely say anything about my personal life.  But I think Christmas is a good occasion to make an exception to that. As I always do, I attended a large family gathering on Christmas morning—with “family” being very loosely defined.  It is however essentially the same gathering I have been attending for many years.  And, like most Australian Christmas gatherings, it is totally secular—with no religious allusions at all.  All the people there are however very good-hearted unbelievers.  They even laugh at my jokes, so what more can I ask?

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Posted by jonjayray on Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 09:36 PM in No particular place to go
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