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In keeping with tradition, cities across the country will launch fireworks after dark, perhaps the most emblematic way to commemorate July 4, 1776, when the American colonies’ Declaration of Independence from Britain was adopted.
The document enshrines the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which in many U.S. cities today involves competitions over how many hot dogs and hamburgers people can stuff down their throats in rapid succession.
In Washington, a hamburger restaurant challenges competitors to consume as many sandwiches as possible in 10 minutes, while in New York City, a seaside establishment stages a tournament that tests some of the world’s most formidable consumers of frankfurters.
Americans are expected to flock to beaches, especially in the West where the weather is hot and dry, while the eastern part of the country may see scattered thunderstorms.
In New Jersey, a budget battle halted nonessential services, forcing state beaches and parks to close, but lawmakers on Monday night ended the three-day-old state government shutdown.
On Sunday, while state beaches were still closed, however, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie managed to visit Island Beach State Park, prompting outrage.
Maine residents are facing a partial government shutdown as well, but its state parks remain open. They are two of nine states to miss deadlines for passing a budget.
Apparently they also love gross government incompetence and mismanagement.
The Old Lady on the streets of Philadelphia: “Mr. Franklin, what kind of government did you give us?”
B. Franklin: “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
We couldn’t. Last I checked, beaches self-regulate without the need for state funding or interference. No mind. The television-addled, 70% obese post-nation stuffs those hot dogs and hamburgers down the collective throat. And the fireworks really are nice.
I, myself, also indulge. With an American by Alec Bradley.
I had some stuff in the hopper: something about the Church; earnings and buying power flat for 50 years; something about immigration; blah, blah, blah. Where’s the fun in all that?
Then I remembered something else I’ve been working on, something to make a much easier post for me and smoother Sunday night reading for me. I’m on a quest for a new used suitcase.
I may have found the solution! I’m thinking hard about this:
Looking at the big one; it is spot on for what my old man used to carry. And that means carry by the handle – lifted up off the ground, no matter the weight. A real, 1970’s, hard-sided, manly Samsonite. No wheels, no straps, no women, no kids, no pets.
This is how they used to do it before the wheels of Bernard D. Sadow (yeah, I know his name, now) came along and the country went to hell:
Two cases, no wheels, and still smiling.
Still investigating but I may have found it. Developing – more to come…
This is for Russell, who put this Falco tune in my head in response to my Vienna Calling post. Oddly, I think the following is from the same concert as Vienna. I can’t put a date on them but they have to be mid-late 90’s, towards the end of his career/life.
Falco in concert (full symphony), Rock Me Amadeus:
FalcoVevo / YouTube.
Another live version from 85:
Opus / YouTube.
And, because you can’t get enough Austrian pop on a Friday night…
The Original Single Version (studio):
TDS DSP / YouTube.
By strange coincidence, I happen to be smoking a VSG right now – made partly from leaves of the D.R. That’s where Falco died. The music didn’t.
Had this in my head so I decided to share it. A special treat for the German and Austrian readers and anyone from the 80’s.
Falco in concert (with orchestra), Vienna Calling:
FalcoVevo / YouTube.
I think his best song. Certainly a high energy performance.
Sing along: studio lyrics:
Hello, Vienna calling Hello, hello, Vienna calling Talking about
Stella sitzt in Rio – Stella liegt in Tokyo Männer fragen sie nach Feuer, nach dem andern sowieso Sugar Chris dich sehr vermisst – dein Bein und dein Gesicht Du kannst auf mich verzichten-nur auf Luxus nicht Womit spielen klein Mädchen heute, hier und dort und da, Und in Tucson, Arizona, Toronto, Canada
Wien, nur Wien du kennst mich up, kennst mich down Du kennst mich Nur Wien, nur Wien, du nur allein Wohin sind deine Frau’n
Ohoho, operator (so alone am I) Ohoho, operator (need you to) come tonight
Hello, Vienna calling Hello, hello, Vienna calling Vienna calling Two, one, zero – Der Alarm ist rot Wien in Not – Cha, Cha, Cha Vienna calling, Vienna calling
Und plötzlich heißt Maria Marilyn Und Eva heißt Yvonne Ein junger Bogart hängt dir an den Lippen, Kleines, und sagt komm Die Lockenpracht wird komm abgemacht Die Tänzer sind gestoppt Es ist 4 Uhr 45, nun wird Position geprobt Womit spielen kleine Mädchen heute, hier und dort und da Ob in Tucson, Arizona; Toronto, Canada
Wien, nur Wien du kennst mich up, kennst mich down Du kennst mich Nur Wien, nur Wien, du nur allein Wohin sind deine Frau’n
Ohoho, operator (so alone am I) Ohoho, operator (need you to) come tonight
Hello, Vienna calling Hello, hello, Vienna calling Vienna calling Two, one, zero – Der Alarm ist rot Wien in Not – Cha, Cha, Cha Vienna calling, Vienna calling
Für die Amerikanische Spanglische Menge:
Hello, Vienna calling Talking about
Stella’s sitting in Rio – Stella’s lying down in Tokyo Men asking them for light, after the other thing anyway Sugar Chris is missing you – your leg and your face You can do without me – but not without luxury What do little girls play with today, here and there If in Tucson, Arizona, Toronto, Canada
Vienna, only Vienna, you know me inside out You know me Vienna, Vienna, only you, where are your ladies
ohoho, operator (so alone am I) ohoho, operator (need you to come tonight)
Two, one, zero – the alarm is red Vienna in need – cha, cha, cha Vienna calling, Vienna calling
And suddenly Maria is named Marilyn and Eva is named Yvonne A young Bogart hangs on her lips, sweetie, and says “come on” The curly hairstyle is removed, the dancers are being stopped It’s 4.45, now position is being rehearsed
What do little girls play with today… Vienna, Vienna you know me…
Oho, operator,… Hello, oho Vienna calling …
Two, one, zero – the alarm is red… Hello, oho Vienna calling …
On the surface it’s a scare piece designed to show Muslim immigrants or some other group taking over Christendom. That may be the long-term plan but it’s not quite accurate – yet.
Native Germans have dropped to just below 50% of the population. However, the Turkish immigrants, far and away the most numerous non-European group, comprise only 13% of the total. The majority of the new transplants are from other EU countries. Thus, Frankfurt is still roughly 70% white European. It still looks and feels European, even German.
The globalist scum no doubt want to change that. And the article raises several points about their operations.
Economically, the report shows big disparities between foreigners and Germans, with the income of 49 per cent of people with roots outside Germany falling below the poverty line compared to 23 per cent amongst natives.
In terms of employment rates, 83 per cent of German men and 78 per cent of German women are in work, figures which drop to 73 per cent and 59 per cent amongst men and women with foreign backgrounds, respectively.
The second paragraph is slightly telling but not so much as the first – if you know what to look for. This isn’t about the “refugees” – the globalists don’t want them working. They get welfare from the natives’ taxes so they can concentrate on the jihad and killing the natives who pay them. Thankfully they’re really a small fraction.
Not your father’s Europe. Breitbart / Wiki.
The real story is with the wage disparity between the natives and the newcomers (mostly other Europeans, remember). That’s how the globalist’s free markets work, internationally. Jobs are killed in one area, sending the young and the employable scrabbling wherever they can go to take whatever they can get. It’s either move and work for peanuts or stay at home and starve.
They want to do this with the U.S. too. They’re trying hard. I read somewhere (I’ll credit Vox Day) that if the system is fully implemented in America, 50% of the people under the age of 35 will have to go abroad to find work. And they will work for much less. Debilitating serfdom.
The following is especially telling and alarming:
Weber hailed the rate of single motherhood amongst women of foreign origin, which the report showed was significantly higher than that of native Germans in the city, as “a possible sign that female migrants are emancipating themselves”, and called for more research into the subject.
The more single mothers, the better? Single motherhood is emancipation? From what? Logic, tradition, and civilization itself?
These hellish ghouls want to destroy the various nations and peoples as well as the family unit. They don’t want the world to resemble NYC. They want it their own big plantation – a place where you, me, and the single moms have to turn to either Massa Brussels or Boss Banker for the bare essentials of life.
It’s getting to be time to put these “elites” in their place. Somebody grab a shovel.
As summer 2017 begins, America’s teenagers are far less likely to be acquiring the kinds of experiences Doyle found so useful. Once a teenage rite of passage, the summer job is vanishing.
Instead of baling hay, scooping ice cream or stocking supermarket shelves in July and August, today’s teens are more likely to be enrolled in summer school, doing volunteer work to burnish their college credentials or just hanging out with friends.
For many, not working is a choice. For some others, it reflects a lack of opportunities where they live, often in lower-income urban areas: They sometimes find that older workers hold the low-skill jobs that once would have been available to them.
In July 1986, 57 percent of Americans ages 16 to 19 were employed. The proportion stayed over 50 percent until 2002 when it began dropping steadily. By last July, only 36 percent were working.
So much about modern America in one article. I was going to dissect this, almost line by line, but I have not the time – working my summer jobs.
My first summer job, of real employment, was conning people into helping people obtain gym memberships. Some 27 years later, I’m kind of still at it. I’m under contract for a fitness chapter in a new book (should be drafted and in next week) and writing a stand-alone book on the subject for the same publisher (later this summer). This is in no way typical.
Gone like Pee Wee? Sinking liner.
There are:
Fewer jobs;
Massive competition for them;
Illegals and other immigrant inflation;
Pressures for college (for what that’s worth);
And the looming threat of total automation.
Please make of this material what you will. Did you have a summer job? Your kids? Food for thought in a changed nation. Where are we?
This one measures social progress – health, wellbeing, and opportunity.
The U.S. came in 18th place, in the High (but missing Very High) category.
As with most of these things, I’m a little dubious of some of the metrics. Others though are spot on. And the findings are pretty consistent with other surveys and rankings we’ve looked at recently.
Not in the U.S.? Many of you are not. In the U.S.? Most of you are. Regardless, check the charts and see how you and yours did. Hats off to the “very highs.” The full study may be accessed:
Unfortunately, as the AP points out today, that is exactly what seems to be happening at high schools all around the country as the title of “valedictorian” is being eliminated and/or bestowed upon so many kids in each graduating class that it’s rendered meaningless.
“More and more schools are moving toward a more holistic process. They look deeper into the transcript,” Gottlieb said.
Wisconsin’s Elmbrook School District has for several years ranked only the valedictorian and salutatorian, and only then because the state awards scholarships to schools’ top two graduates, according to Assistant Superintendent Dana Monogue. The change has been accepted by colleges and community alike, Monogue said.
“We are encouraged by any movement that helps students understand that they’re more than a score, that they’re more than a rank,” she said.
One school in Tennessee awarded the “valedictorian” title to 48 kids or roughly 25% of the entire graduating class.
Tennessee’s Rutherford County schools give the valedictorian title to every student who meets requirements that include a 4.0 grade-point average and at least 12 honors courses. Its highly ranked Central Magnet School had 48 valedictorians this year, about a quarter of its graduating class.
At another school in Maryland, the AP highlights the woes of a concerned mother who wonders how ranking might affect her teenager’s confidence.
The day rankings came out at Hammond High School in Columbia, Maryland, students were privately told their number — but things didn’t stay private for long.
“That was the only thing everyone was talking about,” said Mikey Peterson, 18, who shrugged off his bottom-third finish and will attend West Virginia University in the fall.
A spokesman for the Howard County, Maryland, district said schools recognize their top 5 percent so students can include it on college applications and hasn’t considered changing.
“There was a big emphasis on where you landed,” said Peterson’s classmate Vicki Howard, 18. “It made everything 10 times more competitive.”
Peterson’s mother, Elizabeth Goshorn, said she can’t walk into his school without hearing good things about her affable son, but worries about how rankings can affect a teenager’s confidence.
“It has such an impact on them as to how they perceive themselves if you’re putting rankings on them,” she said.
Try as you might, ignoring the principles of basic mathematics does not mean that they cease to exist. And while your enabling parents, high schools and colleges may share your view that ranking people on the basis achievement is racist, sexist and/or any other number of adjectives you may wish to throw out there….again, we assure you that the real world does not care.
Life is competitive and your relative performance versus your peers will ultimately determine your success in life irrespective of how “triggering” that fact may be. The sooner you realize that fact, the sooner you’ll be able to move out of mom’s basement.
The feelings of the snowflakes and the incessant demands of the SJWs destroy another tradition.
I was not, if I recall ancient history correctly, valedictorian at “my” government high school. We had some very smart kids and very industrious. I’m confident my IQ placed at or very near the top. But my efforts*, while better than average, fell far short of the top slot. I can’t remember who received the honor, and honor it is (was), but I wasn’t the least bit upset about it. I’m happy when people succeed.
Now it’s gone – or going. Maybe it’s time to bid farewell to the schools. A class of valedictorians probably will require remedial education in college and, later, in life. What’s the point?
* My efforts continued to slide in college, as my IQ also surely declined… I rebounded in law school; still not top spot but with honors. I also got a shout out by name, from the faculty speaker, for my achievement. That, I think was rebel-rousing… Hmmm…
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