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Nice of him to buy a big boat like that for the crew to live on.  Most folks who own large yachts seldom actually personally use them as compared to some redneck with a cheap jon boat.

Used yachts are some of the best deals in boating, if you have that sort of money.

That's his 300 million dollar yatch. He has a companion ship worth 100 million that's 80 meters long to tend to the main ship he rarely visits. Of course, there's a helicopter, pleasure crafts that can be launched...who knows, maybe a submarine.

  39 years ago today.... was Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall Day, a seminal event of the 20th Century:

What's in Albania? Besides Albanians?

Top Gear Albania Road Trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCXyyfwWNiQ&list=PLWpVvJ8o7wzzHdZWdq5GuyO7NWVeP7SGP

We're also being steered into watching "streaming". I have some bullshit antenna hanging from the curtain rod but I don't know what it does. I don't even get the Canadian stations. So basically they know what you're going to watch and when you're going to watch it. And these 'smart' tv's have voice remote, which means they have microphones. Do they have cameras? We bug our own houses with all this siri and alexa bullshit. They can basically program us by feeding us exactly the images and opinions they want - specifically tailored to us individually for maximum effect. It makes 1984 look pleasant.

Everyone's dead. I'm going to be the last person with the name my grandfather made-up to dodge draft in Italy...wow. That's sad. I should like sponsor a road sign or a park bench by the river.

It came and went in 100 years. That is and was the epic story of the rise and fall of Detroit and the US auto industry. Hordes of European immigrants that came to work for Henry Ford, exploded and dispersed. I'm proud to have been part of that. Now I'm gentrified and I spit on these dirtballs sneaking under the fence. It's disgusting...a personal insult.

When it was all European it was so so magnificent. The way the houses smelled, the way the people talked. Everyone had their own neighborhoods but we all got along. Even with the blacks it wasn't that bad, not like to today.  That's all gone. It disappeared in the past 40 -50 years. But when I was in high school, every single person I associated with had either parents or grandparents right off the boat and that 100% normal, universal and treated with great respect. Fck. We were so much more polite and respectful than today.

And the order of the day: Building cars and building the things that were needed to build cars...not much more.

Being the youngest of the youngest in successive genrations put me in a weird position that my one grandfather was born in the 1800's maybe 23 years after the Civil War ended and I'm on the edge of being too young to be a 'Boomer'. But I was a child with that wave of European immigrants that came here for that purpose. We would have giant parties on Christmas Eve. All the old people would be speeaking a foreign language.

 There is nothing that compares to that now. Nothing comes close to that spirit, that ethos, that kind of Americanism. They came here with nothing with the promise of nothing. There is no one since that can come close to doing what they did for this country during that period of time - from like 1900 to 1970. The country went from dirt roads to walking on The Moon.....OUR people did that.

You would expect that I would be more sympathetic to this issue of 'migrants'. But the reverse is true. See my grand parents were in some ancient crumbling town in southern Italy living in the kind of poverty that is unknown on this continent. They had a one room stone house with a dirt floor. My grandfather was illiterate but really smart. They came to the USA with zero expectation of assistance and got none. That whole bit with the Statue of Liberty and those boats from Europe sailing in was real.  They came over to work in the new auto plants that Ford built. And the kind of money he paid, by their standards, was huge success.  They were grateful as hell to have had the chance to endure hardship none of us will ever know. Every one of those Italian guys were working two jobs. That was a completely different story than these ideolological monsters, parasites and criminals flooding in from the Third World. We can't feed every stray cat on Earth.

That's the part of the Trumpian groove I'm into - the part where we only let Europeans, productive Asians...You know, just tighten-up the GD standards a little, huh? If they're worshiping devil, banging their sisters, beheading people...I say fck em. I have no problem with the Mexicans they work their asses off. They're Catholic. They aren't blowing shit up up and chanting "Death to America".

I'd rather live next to El Chapo than one of those GD Somalis, I'll tell you that. At least the Chapo appears human and rational.

As late as the 1960's there were restrictions on immigration from non-European countries and those were for very good reasons. Despite what idealists would like to believe - In fact, all men are NOT created equal. That's not a by-product of politics, religion or racism, it just is. There were many paths in human evolution. During the sifting process, some remained frozen in place and time, others went extinct, other branched into different environments and developed different traits. You can't take a bushman of the Kalahari, put him in a suit and expect him to design a cathedral or even develop a wheel. That sounds racist to our ears but that's an obvious fact. Some of it is education, opportunity, nutrition, institution...but only a sliver.

 If we approached the problems associated with these populations from that perspective - instead of just spending trillions of dollars to find new ways to blame ourselves and assuage our guilt by letting them run amok it would be much more productive for everyone. It's science - like climate change.


Presently, look at what this anthropomorphic folly is getting people here, in Europe, Australia, Japan.   Anywhere there is forced, politically motivated 'diversity', there is chaos, crime, corruption and carnage - The Four C's.