Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • (a) we are gonna rise up, we are gonna win, we are gonna bring the war to you. (

    (a) we are gonna rise up, we are gonna win, we are gonna bring the war to you.
    (b) the police will run, and the military will not fight.
    (c) never, ever, ever, give up your guns.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-29 00:47:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1078814702430507008

    Reply addressees: @p2_james @ThatGunGuy2 @guardian

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  • MARK DOES THE USUAL EXCEPTIONAL JOB I had a sort of cringe reaction when someone

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXFseDMb-swJOHN MARK DOES THE USUAL EXCEPTIONAL JOB

    I had a sort of cringe reaction when someone forwarded this to me. But was pretty pleased overall. John is exactly the kind of front man we’ve been looking for.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-29 00:28:00 UTC

  • Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY —“The nature and exten

    Small Sample but reflects everything else I see: AGENCY

    —“The nature and extent of group differences in pain tolerance according to age, sex and race were examined. The method of pain tolerance determination was mechanical pressure on the Achilles tendon, performed on 41, 119 subjects as part of the Kaiser-Permanente Automated Multiphasic Screening examination. The results showed that, on the average, a) pain tolerance decreases with age; b) men tolerate more pain than women; and c) Whites tolerate more pain than Orientals, while Blacks occupy an intermediate position. When the results of this study are compared with earlier work, it appears that, with increasing age, tolerance to cutaneous pain increases and tolerance to deep pain decreases.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 19:37:00 UTC

  • “The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the

    —“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.” ― Robert A. Heinlein,

    A religion without priests.

    A government without politicians.

    A market without ‘journalists’.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 17:50:00 UTC

  • “Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at

    —“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is…and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” ― Robert Heinlein

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 17:44:00 UTC

  • IP ABUSE OF THE DAY Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos by Alex Tabarrok —“NYTime

    IP ABUSE OF THE DAY

    Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos

    by Alex Tabarrok

    —“NYTimes: Any creative illustration “fixed in a tangible medium” is eligible for copyright, and, according to the United States Copyright Office, that includes the ink displayed on someone’s skin. What many people don’t realize, legal experts said, is that the copyright is inherently owned by the tattoo artist, not the person with the tattoos.”—

    Some tattoo artists have sold their rights to firms which are now suing video game producers who depict the tattoos on the players likenesses:

    –“The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 2016 because they were used in the NBA 2K series.

    …Before filing its lawsuit, Solid Oak sought $819,500 for past infringement and proposed a $1.14 million deal for future use of the tattoos.”—-

    To avoid this shakedown, players are now being told to get licenses from artists before getting tattooed.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 11:20:00 UTC

  • HOW OUR RELIGION WAS ABRAHAMISED: by Yiannis Kontinopoulos Poet Homer -> Saul of

    HOW OUR RELIGION WAS ABRAHAMISED:

    by Yiannis Kontinopoulos

    Poet

    Homer -> Saul of Tarsus

    Prophet

    Aristotle -> Abraham

    Hero

    Achilles -> Muhammad

    Superhero

    Mithras -> Moses

    Deity

    Sol Invictus -> Jesus

    God

    Dyeus Pater -> Yahweh/Allah

    Mindfulness

    Stoicism -> Faith

    Ritual/Feast

    Mithraic Mysteries -> Mass

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 10:19:00 UTC

  • DIVERGENCE OF ADVANCED NATIONS (TODD: –“I am a demographer”–, Which I hope ill

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yz4zUGlhK8THE DIVERGENCE OF ADVANCED NATIONS

    (TODD: –“I am a demographer”–, Which I hope illustrates my constant point that ‘demographics is everything’. )

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yz4zUGlhK8

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 10:10:00 UTC

  • THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR ERAS IN TWO ARTICLES – LITTLE IDEAS HAVE VAST CON

    THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR ERAS IN TWO ARTICLES – LITTLE IDEAS HAVE VAST CONSEQUENCES

    —“The Cold War was bookended by two articles: “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (based on the “Long Telegram” ) in 1947 and the “Clash of Civilisations” in 1993. Both articles were published in the journal Foreign Affairs.”—

    THE SOURCES OF SOVIET CONDUCT

    http://www.historyguide.org/Europe/Kennan.html

    THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

    1) Summary

    https://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/huntington-clash

    2) Original Article (~28pp)

    The only copy of the original Foreign Affairs article that I can find is on Scribd, so publisher must be working hard to keep it off the internet. I’ll update this with

    3) Book

    In our library.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 09:46:00 UTC

  • TODD IN DEPTH: MARRIAGE DIFFERENCES MATTER – PERHAPS MOST OF ALL

    https://www.samizdata.net/2013/11/first-thoughts-on-america-3-0-the-emmanuel-todd-connection/EMMANUEL TODD IN DEPTH: MARRIAGE DIFFERENCES MATTER – PERHAPS MOST OF ALL.

    https://www.samizdata.net/2013/11/first-thoughts-on-america-3-0-the-emmanuel-todd-connection/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 09:24:00 UTC