tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post3586109618890730909..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: 2017: In The Shadow Of TrumpChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-27212389213959785352017-03-18T14:29:40.146+13:002017-03-18T14:29:40.146+13:00If you want to understand the popularity of Donald...If you want to understand the popularity of Donald Trump it can be found in his refusal to shake Merkel's hand.jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-53602613292354130172017-01-14T14:33:16.991+13:002017-01-14T14:33:16.991+13:00GS
I forgot to mention Red Leicester Cheese, whic...GS<br /><br />I forgot to mention Red Leicester Cheese, which I'd swap Double Gloucester for any day.<br /><br />When you're Eorl, can I be your cheese-taster?Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-76788606907055456982017-01-10T13:56:13.939+13:002017-01-10T13:56:13.939+13:00‘Ethnic group’ jh is pretty meaningless to me. Cu...‘Ethnic group’ jh is pretty meaningless to me. Cultural group is better. Pakeha can at its widest mean all of us, ie NZers.<br />As culture is way more real and significant than race or ethnicity (whatever that is) then it should really be the only way to group people, if you must do it at all.<br />And jh that is exactly what your beef with immigration is about eh? You don't want our culture diluted, altered, let alone destroyed by alien cultures ‘invading’. Who does?<br />You are in the majority in every land I expect. Even the places which have horrible backward oppressive cultures cling to them. That is human nature.<br />Those of you who think yourselves Celts or whatever, racially, may be similarly deluded about race cf culture. That pioneer Sikes was it, who was among the first to study the genes of peoples, greatly disappointed the Irish, Welsh and Scots I have read. He found that in fact the British & Irish peoples are actually very similar racially with little evidence of Celtic or Norman genes. Those invaders obviously found the locals too ugly or primitive to breed with!<br />Culturally though they had a large impact.<br />He found the Brits were not Celts or Normans or Saxons very much, but mostly descended from people of the Basque region. These people walked across the Channel when it had a land bridge about 12,000 years ago I think he found.<br />Charles Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-90756476313507344922017-01-09T13:31:13.470+13:002017-01-09T13:31:13.470+13:00GS
Just a tip before you become Eorl or Oerl or ...GS<br /><br /><br />Just a tip before you become Eorl or Oerl or whatever. <br /><br />Avoid shield walls on hills. It doesn't always work.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-73148956881680817352017-01-09T11:39:44.457+13:002017-01-09T11:39:44.457+13:00"‘We were New Zealanders, but Irish New Zeala..."‘We were New Zealanders, but Irish New Zealanders. <br />Although statistics may have lumped us among the almost ninety percent of the <br />population descended from the European migration, we did not feel like members of <br />a majority’ (King (1985:29). "<br /><br />Probably because for much of the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century the Irish – particularly Catholic Irish – were considered to be inferior beings. That's what always amuses me about people who denigrate Maori, PI people, Asians and the like. Many of them, a hundred years ago would have been considered subhuman. But on the other hand, as I keep saying to those idiots who claim they can't use the word "gay" any more, you can use words to mean whatever you want to. So if you want to use the word gay to mean happy, just do it. And no one is stopping you from deciding who you are. However nebulous.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-58172201245550348512017-01-08T22:09:07.148+13:002017-01-08T22:09:07.148+13:00Bush Baptist. I quoted Herman Daly
http://steadyst...Bush Baptist. I quoted Herman Daly<br />http://steadystate.org/herman-daly/jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22179116095447436402017-01-08T22:04:52.127+13:002017-01-08T22:04:52.127+13:00Do
Pākehā even qualify as an ethnic grouping? Eth...Do <br />Pākehā even qualify as an ethnic grouping? Ethnicity, sociologically understood, <br />speaks to shared memory and history, commonality of customs, language, religion <br />and world view (Smith 1987). Yet those labelled Pākehā have Scots, Irish, English, <br />Welsh, Croatian, Dutch and other ancestry, and all of the cultural and historical <br />differences that this entails. As arguably the foremost theorist of Pākehā ethnicity <br />has said of his own family: ‘We were New Zealanders, but Irish New Zealanders. <br />Although statistics may have lumped us among the almost ninety percent of the <br />population descended from the European migration, we did not feel like members of <br />a majority’ (King (1985:29). Those so lumped now occupy the same terrain and they <br />have the same skin colour. But beyond phenotype and physical location, what do <br />they share? David Pearson (1989) claims that Pākehā fall short of an actual ethnic <br />group, occupying the more nebulous position of ethnic category. <br />.....<br />So now the academic has critiqued us we are shown up as unqualified to decide who we are. In which case people who know best can decide for us. Things like national identity should be managed by experts <i>and</i> borders because "we can solve many of the world's problems that way". We are Nurse Ratchet and the people are the inmates of a psychiatric institution.jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-29907501443817103812017-01-08T16:01:37.995+13:002017-01-08T16:01:37.995+13:00Victor. Ah.... Leicester City. I wish my dad had l...Victor. Ah.... Leicester City. I wish my dad had lived long enough to see them win the championship. Another thing in their favour was that they were one of the few if not the only team to run talent schools for young Asian players. And when I am rightfully installed as its Eorl I will royally reward them for it.:) (Sorry, been watching The Last Kingdom.)Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75091774855958152722017-01-08T15:50:39.159+13:002017-01-08T15:50:39.159+13:00Nick J
"The big bogey of alt-Right populism ...Nick J<br /><br />"The big bogey of alt-Right populism seems to me to be more a case of nature abhors a vacuum."<br /><br />To a great extent, I agree with you. Certainly, there was no inevitability about the events of the last year.<br /><br />But, now it's out of its bottle, this toxic brew won't go back in all that easily. So we can't ignore its dangerous and corrosive nature. <br /><br />And pretending it's not dangerous and corrosive will only help it spread.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72070169775419910372017-01-08T14:06:01.930+13:002017-01-08T14:06:01.930+13:00Nick J
Yes, of course,there were already tensions...Nick J<br /><br />Yes, of course,there were already tensions developing between China and the US. <br /><br />That's all the more reason not to get up China's nose with a rhetorical rejection of the very principle which, from Beijing's perspective, makes any semblence of cordial relations possible. <br /><br />I should add that,to my mind, it's open to question whether the "Pivot to Asia" is primarily to blame for negatives in the current political relationship between the US and China or whether these are more a result of China's bid to resurrect its one time regional dominance, a trend that's certainly intensified under Xi Jinping's leadership.<br /><br />But, either way, questioning the 'One China' policy will undoubtedly be seen by Beijing as a very unfriendly act. It's impossible to imagine Obama, or just about any other experienced US politician, making this mistake.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-57857086928836671442017-01-08T13:49:21.101+13:002017-01-08T13:49:21.101+13:00GS
Yes, you're right about many 'Anglo-Sa...GS<br /><br />Yes, you're right about many 'Anglo-Saxons' being 'Celts'. But, then, it's also true that most 'Celts' and hence many (perhaps most)'Anglo-Saxons' are descended from people who'd lived in 'The Islands' since long before the (probably Celtic-speaking) invaders arrived from central Europe, around half way through the last millennium BCE (if my memory serves me right). <br /><br />And, yes, I agree that, these days, archeologists, tend to favour the migration of very small groups and cultural transfusion/dominance for changes in the shapes of pots,pans and sword hilts, rather than wholesale migration, a view which seems to be underscored by the fast developing field of genetics. <br /><br />But, by the same token, how much of Leicestershire can you legitimately claim back from the 'Normans', when some of them might actually be as 'Saxon' or as 'Celtic' as you?<br /><br />OK we know that a large part of England is still legally owned by the direct descendants of guys in chain mail (some of them actually called Guy) who came over with the Conquerer. But much of it isn't, including, dare I say, large parts of Leicestershire. <br /> <br />BTW jh might be interested to know that one of the best things about Leicester (apart from the best football team in the universe other than Spurs) is the number, quality and variety of its Indian restaurants.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42598156919848068072017-01-08T13:20:00.851+13:002017-01-08T13:20:00.851+13:00"I dont go along with this early demonisation..."I dont go along with this early demonisation of Trump."<br /><br />Then perhaps you should look at his appointments in more detail. There is plenty of information out there about them. A pretty corrupt lot if you ask me, in keeping with his general persuasion. And Trump must be one of the few presidents to break almost all of his campaign promises before he's been inaugurated. So I've got no huge problem with early demonisation.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85237734928831325032017-01-08T09:40:00.953+13:002017-01-08T09:40:00.953+13:00Further GS, the Celts in Britannia were first Roma...Further GS, the Celts in Britannia were first Romanised then Saxonised. Later Normanised (French Vikings).<br /><br />When the Romans withdrew from there in about 400AD they handed it over to Voltagern who had no army to protect it. He bought an army of Saxons from Cyril of Pomerania (now south Poland) and took them back to Britain. They did an admirable job but Voltagern neglected to pay them and they revolted and set up their own little enclave around London that they named Western Saxony. The region still has a remnant of that in their names; Essex, Sussex and so on.<br /><br />The Angles were a remnant of an earlier Mongolian group that migrated into Europe many centuries before then. They were very skilled with a bow and arrow and the Romans used them as mercenaries. Some settled in the south east in the area that still bears their name, East Anglia.<br /><br />The Angles were different from the Saxons and Celts physically; short, dark-haired people with eyes that turned up at the outside edge and they have pointed ears. See the pics of Bjork, the icelandic singer or the Danish actress Rebecca Blumenthal both of whom have those characteristics. Compare those with pics of Diana who was a classic Saxon.<br /><br />Here endeth the lesson!Bushbaptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657695593141243969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-59062561376726876802017-01-08T09:10:43.011+13:002017-01-08T09:10:43.011+13:00I read that GS. I do read Robert's Blog regula...I read that GS. I do read Robert's Blog regularly. Very accurate. <br /><br />As I have said before elsewhere, Trumpy has the mentality and the petulance of a 12 year old throwing tantrums. There are two ways of dealing with a tantrum; ignore it and carry on as usual or give him an damned good hard smack in the ear. Trumpy needs the latter!<br /> <br />Trumpy never expected to win the election, the whole idea was to get his name out there so he could con more people not actually win. He even set up an escape route at the end of his campaign, "the vote is rigged" "The Dems are pirating the votes" etc. He was caught by surprise. <br /><br />The election was Slippery Hill's to lose and she did with aplomb. She smugly thought that she had in in the bag. She snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.Bushbaptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657695593141243969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-87500832678155842772017-01-07T16:51:57.261+13:002017-01-07T16:51:57.261+13:00Your scenario Chris of Labour imploding is entirel...Your scenario Chris of Labour imploding is entirely plausible. The big bogey of alt-Right populism seems to me to be more a case of nature abhors a vacuum. The Left has deserted its post, left the field.Nick Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-55156583559011163952017-01-07T16:47:22.458+13:002017-01-07T16:47:22.458+13:00Victor I think you might wish to investigate the &...Victor I think you might wish to investigate the "Asia pivot" which was Obama and Hillary Clintons attempt to militarise the South China Sea. From a regional perspective all rather alarming.<br /><br />I dont go along with this early demonisation of Trump. All pure speculation, especially when the speculation is led by Wapo Clinton chearleaders like Krugman. I would suggest that we would be better to keep the eyes alert and the powder dry.<br />Nick Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-9155022455121212692017-01-07T16:32:51.546+13:002017-01-07T16:32:51.546+13:00Jimmie
The process by which the UK will leave the...Jimmie<br /><br />The process by which the UK will leave the EU has not even been triggered yet and Trump hasn't even been inaugurated.<br /><br />But, already, the pound sterling has lost up to 20 percent of its value and Trump has severely antagonised China.<br /><br />So imagine what it will be like when Brexit is triggered and Trump is in the Oval Office. <br /><br />And, by the way, I don't write as a left-winger but as someone who's just ever so slightly left of centre. <br /><br />I also suspect that it will be the Republicans who get rid of Trump, through impeachment before a GOP dominated congress. But I could be wrong.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-1363572326480382122017-01-07T16:15:57.050+13:002017-01-07T16:15:57.050+13:00Hi Victor
Happy new year; I'm sure it wil...Hi Victor<br /><br /> Happy new year; I'm sure it will be an interesting one..<br /> <br /> I look forward to discussing developments with you and all as Chris introduces them for us on Bowalley Road.<br /><br />Cheers David J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-12304435268956389872017-01-07T13:54:38.338+13:002017-01-07T13:54:38.338+13:00Bushbaptist.
This originally appeared on Robert Re...Bushbaptist.<br />This originally appeared on Robert Reich’s blog.<br />I finally found a Trump supporter — this morning when I went to buy coffee. (I noticed a Trump bumper sticker on his car.)<br />“Hi,” I said. “Noticed your Trump bumper sticker.”<br />“Yup,” he said, a bit defensively.<br />“I hope you don’t mind my asking, but I’m curious. Why are you supporting him?<br />“I know he’s a little bit much,” said the Trump supporter. “But he’s a successful businessman. And we need a successful businessman as president.”<br />“How do you know he’s a successful businessman?” I asked.“Because he’s made a fortune.”<br />“Has he really?” I asked.<br />“Of course. Forbes magazine says he’s worth four and a half billion.”<br />“That doesn’t mean he’s been a success,” I said.<br />“In my book it does,” said the Trump supporter.<br />“You know, in 1976, when Trump was just starting his career, he said he was worth about $200 million,” I said. “Most of that was from his father.”<br />“That just proves my point,” said the Trump supporter. “He turned that $200 million into four and a half billion. Brilliant man.“<br />“But if he had just put that $200 million into an index fund and reinvested the dividends, he’d be worth twelve billion today,” I said.<br />The Trump supporter went silent.<br />“And he got about $850 million in tax subsidies, just in New York alone,” I said.<br />More silence.<br />“He’s not a businessman,” I said. “He’s a con man. “Hope you enjoy your coffee.”<br />Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-64169107393499292402017-01-07T13:52:21.743+13:002017-01-07T13:52:21.743+13:00"So if no people have a right to sovereign te..."So if no people have a right to sovereign territory it is over to the right people to provide leadership?"<br /><br />No idea what you mean, but perhaps you should investigate the word humour? And the idea that libertarianism is hypocritical?Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-3720352777057924002017-01-07T13:50:29.341+13:002017-01-07T13:50:29.341+13:00Victor. Number of problems with that. I know there...Victor. Number of problems with that. I know there is some controversy about this, but the latest archaeological evidence suggests that the "English" were mostly in fact Celts who adopted Saxon customs. To replace all those Celts would have probably depopulated the whole of Scandinavia. I think that the genetic evidence tends to support this. And of course many of those "English" were invited over to help with local wars. :)Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48123736076411147772017-01-07T12:12:14.429+13:002017-01-07T12:12:14.429+13:00GS
You may want the Normans out of England.
If I...GS<br /><br />You may want the Normans out of England.<br /><br />If I was Welsh, I'd want the English out of Britannia(aka Cymru a Lloegr). And I'd certainly want the Scots out of Strathclyde. Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22798144160092718242017-01-06T22:36:18.830+13:002017-01-06T22:36:18.830+13:00David Stone
Your notion of a continuum between th...David Stone<br /><br />Your notion of a continuum between the China policies of Obama and Trump does not bear examination.<br /><br />When did Obama ever question the "One China" doctrine?<br /><br />Meanwhile, the contrast between your oft-stated alarmism over the hapless Hillary and your Panglossian apologetics for Trump grows ever more absurd. <br /><br />Wake up! Smell the coffee!Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-74692151985798663192017-01-06T16:11:19.680+13:002017-01-06T16:11:19.680+13:00Trumpy is another P.T.Barnam style con man who'...Trumpy is another P.T.Barnam style con man who's only claim to fame is being the host of a second-rate reality TV show. Not worth anywhere near what he claims - Forbes puts his wealth at about $400 million, a lot less than the $10 billion he claims.<br /><br />Agreed GS.It's time the Ukraine was handed back to the Celts and the US handed back to the native Indians!Bushbaptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657695593141243969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-14822637798677102632017-01-06T15:58:52.334+13:002017-01-06T15:58:52.334+13:00Still getting your info from scruffy little blogs ...Still getting your info from scruffy little blogs I see JH. <br /><br />"The website was described in an opinion piece by RedState, as having a standard method of writing stories: "[they] cut and paste text from stories about Donald Trump or Ted Cruz and then give them made up headlines, right off the National Equirer's editing room floor."<br /><br />Frm here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prntly<br /><br />Wikipedia is not a fully representative site but gives good info on many sites. It can be edited by others.<br /><br />Please get your info from reputable sources and not blogs JH, blogs are the opinion of the author and are not necessarily correct.<br /><br />Bushbaptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657695593141243969noreply@blogger.com