Posted On: Monday - August 26th 2024 6:41PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Environmental Stupidity Peak Stupidity Roadshow
I gotta say, it was worth the money for the view and the micro-thin blue rain ponchos. My shoes are still soaked, as I write!
In the comments under this post of the past spring, Adam Smith had given us some info on Niagara Falls. Besides the story of the pollution of various sorts, Mr. Smith presented some videos of some "polluted" neighborhoods. I'd mentioned that we'd never been there, but now we have. Of a goodly number of family trips, this one worked out pretty well, transport-wise, budget-wise, and with little, errr, "friction". We were all miffed about one particular thing though.
That'd be all the Indians. Wait, sure, they've got their deal with the gambling, errr, gaming, I'm sorry, now. It's a strange deal that's not really fair to guys like Donald Trump. However, Americans really don't know how to help these people who a century and a half after being savages or close to it, still don't fit in well.
We came to Niagara Falls for the beautiful spectacle and not at all for the gambling, as we are not the type to partake in it. With Adam Smith's advice about the area in mind, I did take a walk underneath the huge Seneca Casino roof* though to get somewhere.
That road went to a 7-11 on the very edge of the demographically-polluted part of town. As a total digression here, I found it impossible to get a couple of plastic** bags there for the half gallon of chocolate milk and nearly a gallon of water. Paper is not made for jostling around this stuff for a half mile or so. I found out later this was due to a New York State law from March of '20, predating Governor Hul Chi Minh***. I made it back before nightfall, intact in my person, the milk, and the water.
Niagara is yet another Indian name for that river. Yeah, though not in great numbers, Indians were all around America back in the day. Most of the rivers are named after them. People get the Indian State name concept wrong too. As Indian tribes claimed their rivers as their lands, the river took the name of the tribe. Many States took the names of these rivers, hence are only indirectly named after Indians.
So, dumb laws in States run by Commies, bad neighborhoods in downtowns, Indian casinos, none of that was unexpected. What was unexpected by us was the •Indians in Niagara Falls. I guessed at first that the time of our trip (we were there for 2 1/2 days) must have been some kind of big holiday in India, explaining a big tourist influx from the "subcontinent"****. I mean, half the people at the viewpoints, on the boats, on the crazy stairways off the cliff where you got soaked to the bone, wherever, were these Indians. They didn't look like no warriors... OK, like no casino operators, to me.
It wasn't until we walked back to the hotel the 1st day that we realized that the town's tourist business area itself leans •Indian. We got some Chinese food for the one meal out that day - go figure, but the girl did pile on the food - but we noticed the curry smell that came out of established businesses and even the "roach coaches". Here's a screenshot of google maps close to the parks by the falls:
When it was time for a lunch meal the 2nd day, well, there was that buffet restaurant we'd passed by going back and forth. We stepped in and ... it was an Indian restaurant - not the Niagaras or Senecas either - no buffalo in this place.
We couldn't tell from the outside. IIRC, it just was't clear. I guess it was expected - "Of course, we're an Indian buffet. I mean, this is Niagara Falls" "OK, and we're supposed to know that how again? I don't recall reading about a treaty."
Alrighty, we settled on some chain Moe's half-assed Mexican food. Since we were the only customers, I had time to ask the lady working there a question: "What's the deal with all the Indians around here?"
Of course she got offended. You HAVE to, don't you? "I'm married to an Indian guy." OK... but that didn't answer the question. I still don't have the answer.
Having your lands invaded and "enriched" like this makes a White man feel for the other Indians, those Niagara rather than Niagara Falls Indians. Within a century or two of the first arrival of the invaders the former were greatly outgunned and outnumbered. In our case, we still outgun the invaders, even if simply via the application of the law. Our fighting back, as we've been keeping up with over in the UK, results in our own "Chiefs" silencing and arresting us. Those other Indians way back weren't THAT stupid. Are they laughing at us at there in the casinos or do they sympathize?
PS: This should have been in the post. It's something I thought about since I started looking up "Indians Niagara Falls" to get info. We did not get to the Canadian side. (Someone forgot his or her passport.) The web shows all kinds of •Indian joints on the Canadian side too. Did some or most of these people come in from Canada, legally or not? It's a thing, immigrating to Canada first, because it's easier at the legal level, and then coming here. That's what the Nimarata (aka Nicky) Haley family did, and the same with the Commie Harris Klan. Canada's Population Replacement Programme is larger on a relative scale than even America's!
* Were I a few decades younger, I know I'd have climbed up, over, and down that roof. It was the perfect shape for that. Alas, it's not that I can't do it, but wives and cops both frown upon people my age... I could have said I was homeless, I guess... very tempting.
** Digression from the digression: A friend of mine lives near lots of students who don't have so much a reason to keep their trash orderly. Plastic bags were blowing around the neighborhood during high winds. He should know better, but exclaimed "they should ban them!" Me: "Or, like, they could ban littering..."
*** Though she has her hands in everything now. Just one of the important Acts touted in her "Environmental Protection Package: Prohibits Hotels from Using Small Wasteful Plastic Bottles for Shampoo and Other Personal Care Products. Whaaaa? You mean I'll have to start buying this stuff from, like, the store?!
**** I HATE that term, as illustrated here.
Comments:
Moderator
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 10:50AM MST
PS: That's what they ("they" being commenters) say on The Unz Review quite a lot, Mr. Blanc.
MBlanc46
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 8:11AM MST
PS In the not too distant future, the Pajeets and the small hats will be going at each other tooth and nail to determine who governs North America.
Moderator
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 6:16AM MST
PS: Ha, Alarmist, I think the 2nd derivative of that roof curve was too LOW for the Secret Service agents of today. They have to go home to their families. (Yes, "low" - c'mon guys. Whadda' need to read the banner up top again? It's all Calculus nowadays!)
Good question about the 2 groups. I'm guessing most of the dot-Indians have no idea what these feather Indians are about. Could they all call themselves Indians together, and just sort themselves into castes? "You're the motel-owner caste, you guys are the casino caste, hey, we may have some synergy here." Next thing, the dot-Indians will want special deals for their own Indian Nations.
Good question about the 2 groups. I'm guessing most of the dot-Indians have no idea what these feather Indians are about. Could they all call themselves Indians together, and just sort themselves into castes? "You're the motel-owner caste, you guys are the casino caste, hey, we may have some synergy here." Next thing, the dot-Indians will want special deals for their own Indian Nations.
Moderator
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 6:11AM MST
PS: Yep, we went on the Maid of the Mist. We walked all around the Cave of the Winds, but the whole time I really did wonder "well, where are the caves". They were closed maybe half a century ago, IIRC, so I suppose it would have helped to RTFB! ("B" for brochure). I assume you have done these things too, besides just the deliveries?
For you and M, yes, I keep up with all things immigration-invasion, or did till the (hopefully not permanent) demise of VDare. I didn't know it was down to 20% Canadians in the biggest "Canadian" city. Rather than a slow boil, as it was starting with 1965 Hart Cellar and 80's-'90s amnesties here, where most people didn't have a clue how big this was until 20 years ago, Castreau (thank you, M!) and his immediate predecessors kicked it into high gear quickly. While our country commits suicide by slow alcoholism, Canada does it with a shotgun to the roof of the mouth. (Yeah, they found one.)
It really pisses me off when I can't find a post I know I've written on my OWN SITE, but I swear I wrote a post with some graphs of Canadian immigration, as taken from an iSteve post. I mean, the numbers were around 1 to 1 1/2% increase in population YEARLY!
Anyway, I found this one, from when I spent some time in Toronto:
"The Falun Gong Gang does Toronto"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2649
For you and M, yes, I keep up with all things immigration-invasion, or did till the (hopefully not permanent) demise of VDare. I didn't know it was down to 20% Canadians in the biggest "Canadian" city. Rather than a slow boil, as it was starting with 1965 Hart Cellar and 80's-'90s amnesties here, where most people didn't have a clue how big this was until 20 years ago, Castreau (thank you, M!) and his immediate predecessors kicked it into high gear quickly. While our country commits suicide by slow alcoholism, Canada does it with a shotgun to the roof of the mouth. (Yeah, they found one.)
It really pisses me off when I can't find a post I know I've written on my OWN SITE, but I swear I wrote a post with some graphs of Canadian immigration, as taken from an iSteve post. I mean, the numbers were around 1 to 1 1/2% increase in population YEARLY!
Anyway, I found this one, from when I spent some time in Toronto:
"The Falun Gong Gang does Toronto"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2649
Moderator
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 5:54AM MST
PS: Adam, it looks like that place WAS the modern (for 1973 - "urban renewal", you know) huge venue as part of the convention center until a little over 20 years ago. BTW, the old place hosted plenty of famous musicians. An 82 y/o man died during a monster truck show when the driver was incapacitated - this guy saved a young boy in the process.
Anyway, per wiki: "The venue was closed in 2002 and converted into Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, which remains in operation. The 4,000-seat Niagara Falls Conference Center was opened across the street from the casino in 2004"
That's what it still is, I think. Perhaps these casinos get busier in the winter, replacing the Falls tourists with the sucke... errr, gaming tourists. When I walked by it was dead, and I just remembered we came from a 90 degree direction (across the parking lot) as a family later to go to that same 7-11 (only place to get "stuff" in general other than Niagara Falls gift shops) and it was fairly dead too, but not empty.
Anyway, per wiki: "The venue was closed in 2002 and converted into Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, which remains in operation. The 4,000-seat Niagara Falls Conference Center was opened across the street from the casino in 2004"
That's what it still is, I think. Perhaps these casinos get busier in the winter, replacing the Falls tourists with the sucke... errr, gaming tourists. When I walked by it was dead, and I just remembered we came from a 90 degree direction (across the parking lot) as a family later to go to that same 7-11 (only place to get "stuff" in general other than Niagara Falls gift shops) and it was fairly dead too, but not empty.
M
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 5:39AM MST
PS
If you had gotten over to the Canadian side, you'd still be mad at the whole plastic bag thing. Banned in Ontario too, due to Castreau. I did end up getting some of the better reusable ones (you can actually reuse them more than twice), and just leave them in the trunk.
As for why all the Indians? Well, immigration is a problem in Canada as well (depending on your politics).
It's one of the better climates in Canada, as in it's not -40 in the winter (doesn't matter what scale you use with that number).
Vancouver is warmer in the winter, but rains a lot, it's more expensive and already has lots of Chinese (due to Hong Kong). Don't know if they get along.
Montreal is colder and there's the French language Stasi to consider. Supposedly there's better "cultural" stuff than Toronto, but that's only a plus if you're open to that sort of thing.
If you had gotten over to the Canadian side, you'd still be mad at the whole plastic bag thing. Banned in Ontario too, due to Castreau. I did end up getting some of the better reusable ones (you can actually reuse them more than twice), and just leave them in the trunk.
As for why all the Indians? Well, immigration is a problem in Canada as well (depending on your politics).
It's one of the better climates in Canada, as in it's not -40 in the winter (doesn't matter what scale you use with that number).
Vancouver is warmer in the winter, but rains a lot, it's more expensive and already has lots of Chinese (due to Hong Kong). Don't know if they get along.
Montreal is colder and there's the French language Stasi to consider. Supposedly there's better "cultural" stuff than Toronto, but that's only a plus if you're open to that sort of thing.
The Alarmist
Tuesday - August 27th 2024 5:04AM MST
PS
Good thing you stayed off that Secret Service Sniper-resistant rooftop. It looks mighty dangerous.
How long before Indian-Americans try to cancel American-Indians?
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Good thing you stayed off that Secret Service Sniper-resistant rooftop. It looks mighty dangerous.
How long before Indian-Americans try to cancel American-Indians?
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Adam Smith
Monday - August 26th 2024 9:49PM MST
PS: Good evening, Mr. Moderator!
No mini golf on Clifton Hill?
(Moar seriously, though...)
The Convention Center is part of the casino now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls_Convention_and_Civic_Center
About those (•Indian) demographics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Canadians_in_the_Greater_Toronto_Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto
Apparently, "Canadian" is the third most prevalent ethnic origin in the City of Toronto at a cool 12%. Meanwhile, "South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. South Asian Canadians in the region also include significant Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, and Nepalis, all representing several different ethnolinguistic backgrounds."
Looks like you picked a nice time to visit. (It is probably worth seeing, if you've never seen it, but it is so damn cold in the winter.) August is a good time to see The Falls.
(Did you Maid of the Mist or Cave of the Winds?)
(Once upon a time, oh so long ago, when I was a truck driver, I delivered an order of ecolab bleach to the Cave of the Winds.)
Good times! ☮️
No mini golf on Clifton Hill?
(Moar seriously, though...)
The Convention Center is part of the casino now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls_Convention_and_Civic_Center
About those (•Indian) demographics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Canadians_in_the_Greater_Toronto_Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto
Apparently, "Canadian" is the third most prevalent ethnic origin in the City of Toronto at a cool 12%. Meanwhile, "South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area. South Asian Canadians in the region also include significant Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, and Nepalis, all representing several different ethnolinguistic backgrounds."
Looks like you picked a nice time to visit. (It is probably worth seeing, if you've never seen it, but it is so damn cold in the winter.) August is a good time to see The Falls.
(Did you Maid of the Mist or Cave of the Winds?)
(Once upon a time, oh so long ago, when I was a truck driver, I delivered an order of ecolab bleach to the Cave of the Winds.)
Good times! ☮️