tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1004344504078321729..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Whatever happened to the Saudi Menace?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49556205098881952642009-07-22T13:51:20.607-07:002009-07-22T13:51:20.607-07:00Anonymous Svigor said...
"What does the AANRW...Anonymous Svigor said...<br />"What does the AANRW say about people who can't impart a simple meaning in English?"<br /><br />They'd say unkind things about you, Svigor, for using obscure, undefined acronyms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70482031744228604632009-07-22T01:42:06.618-07:002009-07-22T01:42:06.618-07:00I'll bet a trillion dollars could build enough...<i>I'll bet a trillion dollars could build enough generating capacity for all our electricity needs and most of our liquid fuel (which you can make from C02 if you have electricity).</i> <br /><br />Anyone got a link to some numbers on this? I.e., how much electrical capacity is needed, cost for and amount of other resources needed, etc?<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56763977017339612082009-07-22T01:38:19.286-07:002009-07-22T01:38:19.286-07:00Mission accomplished.
Now we should get your dic...<i>Mission accomplished.</i> <br /><br />Now we should get your diction problem sorted out.<br /><br />What does the AANRW say about people who can't impart a simple meaning in English? Shouldn't you be shopping for a new language?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45560373301264999082009-07-22T01:32:30.214-07:002009-07-22T01:32:30.214-07:00Reactionary said...
America's definitive end ...Reactionary said...<br /><br /><i>America's definitive end came most recently, when she elected a president without a single Anglo-American element to his name</i>.<br /><br />JFK?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89552381223500337752009-07-21T23:36:54.235-07:002009-07-21T23:36:54.235-07:00I can't wait for the day when petroleum become...<i>I can't wait for the day when petroleum becomes obsolete. The U.S. can free itself of all sorts of dangerous entanglements & sleazy alliances and the Muslim Middle East will finally be forced to grow up.</i><br /><br />The really sad part of all this is we could have been well on the way to energy independence if we'd used the "stimulus" money to build nuclear power plants instead of frittering it away on resurfacing usable roads and community organizing. I'll bet a trillion dollars could build enough generating capacity for all our electricity needs and most of our liquid fuel (which you can make from C02 if you have electricity).<br /><br />And it wouldn't just be the Saudis. Oil money is what keeps Chavez and half the keptocrats in the -stans in power.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30297488703026889312009-07-21T21:56:37.055-07:002009-07-21T21:56:37.055-07:00You are a moron. "The Russians" say six ...<i>You are a moron. "The Russians" say six months, huh? Yeah, and the neo-cons have been saying "six months" now, every six months, for the past ten years. It's not going to happen.</i><br /><br />Just like the Russians and the Chinese were never able to get them. And that nation most renowned for its technical prowess, North Korea.<br /><br /><i>The Iranians have shown no technological ability to develop such weapons; if nukes and ICBMs were so easy to build there would be a lot more countries building them. And they have shown no real desire to develop them either; they can't afford them and they don't need them.</i><br /><br />Yes, that 1940s technology is impossibly hard for anyone to master. I'm guessing you have no scientific or technical background to write a paragraph like that. As I said before, ICBMs are a very small step from IRBMs from an engineering standpoint. And to say that an oil-rich country that's busily enriching uranium has shown "no real desire" for nuclear weapons is delusional.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14301560214475896612009-07-21T20:32:20.213-07:002009-07-21T20:32:20.213-07:00"Another thought: if Arab Muslim = doubleplus...<i>"Another thought: if Arab Muslim = doubleplusevil, why is the solution to go halfway around the globe and spend billions bombing Arab villages and rebuilding Arab villages rather than just barring them access to the Anglo-American homeland?<br /><br />Or did I just propose a hatesolution?"</i><br /><br />The "leave them alone where they are" solution won't work because by accident of geology and geography the Mideast has 70% of the world's oil reserves, including all the cheapest and easiest to drill stuff. We have 3%. That gives OPEC an unbreakable grip on the world's oil market. <br /><br />As long as we stupidly insist, year after year, on permitting new cars to be made and sold that are unnecessarily locked in to petroleum fuels only, rather than making fuel choice and alcohol compatibility standard features like seat belts, we will continue to fund, to the tune of hundreds of billions and sometimes trillions annually, an insane apocalyptic death cult with global ambitions and an unappeasable hostility to us.<br /><br />So at a rock bottom minimum we have to switch to an alcohol standard to defund them.Carney3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45804836010050189492009-07-21T19:58:31.252-07:002009-07-21T19:58:31.252-07:00If only the Iranians did have nukes and ICBMs; it ...If only the Iranians did have nukes and ICBMs; it would finally shut up all the neo-con talking point robots who infest our airwaves and blogs.<br /><br />Notice you never hear them talking about the Chinese ICBMs pointed at our heads.<br /><br />A nuclear armed Iran could no more threaten us than a nuclear armed Pakistan could: we would crush them in an instant if they tried anything, and they know it. <br /><br />The only people who care about Iran's nukes are the Israelis, who have the nuclear monopoly now in the middle east, and don't want to lose it. <br /><br />Of course the usual liars will tell you that's not about Isreal; which means of course that it is really all about Israel. <br /><br />Everyone knows it. Except for the clueless red state goyim who are Israel's cheerleaders; they are stupid enough to believe that this is somehow a security issue for the USA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61896886092438091782009-07-21T19:45:49.252-07:002009-07-21T19:45:49.252-07:00Eric,
You are a moron. "The Russians" s...Eric,<br /><br />You are a moron. "The Russians" say six months, huh? Yeah, and the neo-cons have been saying "six months" now, every six months, for the past ten years. It's not going to happen.<br /><br />And there's a huge technological leap from a short range theater ballistic missile, highly inaccurate theater missiles I might add, to a true ICBM capable of hitting US cities on the other side of the world. <br /><br />The Iranians have shown no technological ability to develop such weapons; if nukes and ICBMs were so easy to build there would be a lot more countries building them. And they have shown no real desire to develop them either; they can't afford them and they don't need them. <br /><br />The impotence of the Israeli and American military to intimidate the Iranians into changing their foreign policy is proof enough that they don't need such weapons, which would only make them targets of the US and Israelis, if they tried to acquire them.<br /><br />And you of all people have the chutzpah to call anyone else "clueless"? You and your neo-con friends have been proven wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong about the "threat" of Iran so many times (and Iraq before that) and yet you laughably continue to insist that you have some sort of credibility. <br /><br />Ha! Everyone point and laugh at the funny gentleman. For a dollar he will tell you a scary story; everyone put a dollar in his cup. Everyone pretend to be scared.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44070261241617386902009-07-21T19:33:13.355-07:002009-07-21T19:33:13.355-07:00We're stuck fighting these fuckers, one way or...<i>We're stuck fighting these fuckers, one way or another, until oil no longer matters--which will probably be for a few more decades at least. Sorry about that. It sucks, I know.</i><br /><br />See, here's where your hopeless: you don't know how global trade works. Without the West buying their oil, the Saudis are back to burning camel dung and wandering from oasis to oasis. They need technology, we need oil; trade WILL happen. Saddam Hussein was selling oil to the West right up to the day we invaded. BTW, how's THAT paying for itself?<br /><br /><i>And it's perfectly fine by me if we shut down immigration to the U.S., especially Muslim immigration and illegal immigration of all kinds.</i><br /><br />And that was Svigor's point: the USG is literally engaged in electing itself a new people and kicking its net tax producers out into the cold. That's when you commenced rending your clothes and screaming at him to use correct Latin and pack his bags for Mecca.<br /><br />One day all you flag-humpers are going to realize that what you thought was your country has been gone since Eisenhower. And probably since Coolidge declined to run for a second term.<br /><br />For that matter, <b>America's definitive end came most recently, when she elected a president without a single Anglo-American element to his name.</b> What possible commonality of interest do the descendants of the folks who built this country have with such a man and his appointees? They are sharpening their knives for you.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72576194069830657542009-07-21T18:23:37.618-07:002009-07-21T18:23:37.618-07:00Might want to qualify that, seeing how Iran's ...<i>Might want to qualify that, seeing how Iran's waaaaaaay down the list made by your criterion (preceded by Israel and half of Europe).</i><br /><br />Oh, that's true. But the intent in France or Britain or Israel isn't as likely to change, or at least not as quickly. Iran isn't a very stable country, politically.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49292396327742956452009-07-21T18:05:38.480-07:002009-07-21T18:05:38.480-07:00Iran not only won't have nukes in ten years, t...<i>Iran not only won't have nukes in ten years, they won't have nuclear tipped missiles capable of hitting major European cities in ten years, much less US cities.</i><br /><br />This is simply stupid. The Russians say six months for the nukes. Really, you're just clueless. You really believe a country sitting on a giant underground lake of oil is using those thousands of centrifuges to make fuel for nuclear power? Do you believe in Santa Claus too?<br /><br />The Iranians already have the technical know-how to build the nukes. They've got thousands of engineers trained in US universities. We built nukes in 1945. It takes a really twisted mix of arrogance and stupidity to think they can't do it in 2009. What they're waiting for is enough enriched fuel to put it together.<br /><br />As to the missiles, they already have a home-grown ballistic missile with a 3000km range. From an engineering perspective there's a pretty short step between a 3000km IRBM and an ICBM. They'll have ICBMs in three or four years at the rate they're developing.<br /><br />The only reason I said ten years is it will probably take that long to miniaturize and harden the warheads to survive an intercontinental flight. There's nothing especially difficult about that in a technical sense, though, it's just a fair bit of engineering.<br /><br />Really, you need to stop obsessing about Israel long enough to see what's going on in the rest of the world. Not everything that happens is about teh joooos.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71406471426152901802009-07-21T17:03:41.788-07:002009-07-21T17:03:41.788-07:00Svigor said...
"P.S., I don't mean to sou...Svigor said...<br />"P.S., I don't mean to sound ungrateful - I doubt I'll ever misspell [ad] nauseam again"<br /><br />Mission accomplished. Go and sin no more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26939784783844145312009-07-21T17:01:22.000-07:002009-07-21T17:01:22.000-07:00We had a very safe and comparatively homogenous so...<i>We had a very safe and comparatively homogenous society that functioned at a high level before the elites decided we had to carve out a Zionist state in Palestine and throw our borders open with no thought to who we were letting in. Militant Islam would not be a problem for us if the government actually did what it is supposed to do: protect the American nation's cultural and geographic redoubt.</i><br /><br />You still think the jihadists want to wipe out America because it gives aid to Israel? Read the jihadists' own literature: they want to wipe us out because after the Cold War we were the sole remaining super-power and therefore the only obstacle (in their minds) to re-establishing the old Islamic Empire (which would include large parts of Europe). They believed that the U.S. was a "paper tiger" incapable of fighting a war of attrition. They were convinced that a series of bold, splashy 9/11-style attacks would demoralize us and inspire Muslims around the world to rally to the jihadists. Israel is a side-show, a bloody shirt to wave periodically for fundraising efforts and to get Western lefties to nod sympatheticaly. Even if the U.S. had maintained chilly relations with Israel, al Qaeda would have attacked us. We--and most of the rest of the world--are too dependent on foreign oil to stay out of the whole mess. We're stuck fighting these fuckers, one way or another, until oil no longer matters--which will probably be for a few more decades at least. Sorry about that. It sucks, I know.<br /><br />And it's perfectly fine by me if we shut down immigration to the U.S., especially Muslim immigration and illegal immigration of all kinds.<br /><br />And no, I'm not Testy, nor am I Jewish, Zionist, or neo-con. I'm just someone who doesn't let his dislike of Testy types fool him into thinking that the jihadists aren't really out to destroy us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29187485201374855992009-07-21T16:40:59.520-07:002009-07-21T16:40:59.520-07:00Yeah...then the same liberals who were squawking a...<i>Yeah...then the same liberals who were squawking about our dependence on foreign oil will be shedding crocodile tears for the emerging humanitarian crisis in the former oil-rich countries. The libs will be demanding that we let in those starving, Saudi refugees.</i><br /><br />Sadly, the squishy libs probably <i>will</i> try to argue something like that. Still, a cash-strapped, resourceless Muslim Middle East will be a blessing for us all, including them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86190691568273204122009-07-21T16:37:44.671-07:002009-07-21T16:37:44.671-07:00"Do we all need to be fluent in Latin before ..."Do we all need to be fluent in Latin before we can use commonly understood Latin phrases such as ad nauseam and et cetera?"<br /><br />You should know enough to be able to spell commonly used Latin phrases correctly. Otherwise avoid them and write in English, your mother tongue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59389052238331554792009-07-21T16:15:45.311-07:002009-07-21T16:15:45.311-07:00"That’s also why both religions have such vis..."That’s also why both religions have such visceral hatred of Christianity, because it is the only religion which states in no uncertain terms that the purpose of this life is not to max it here, but to prepare for another world which is on a much higher level."<br /><br />Then why the interest in HBD and selective immigration? It obviously has no effect on your salvation, so why are you wasting your time with a bunch of racists instead of praying the rosary?<br /><br />"In Judaism and Islam there is never closure w.r.t. guilt."<br /><br />It's the same with Christianity. You seem to be oblivious to the fact that prayer and confession is a ritual that you must do over and over because according to Christianity, man cannot perfect himself so he is always guilty. It's not a shock that white guilt is ubiquitous in white Christian nations because there is no closure for guilt and sin in Christianity and once society becomes secular it begins to feel guilt over other things like poor NAM performance instead of fornication.<br /><br />It gets a little tiresome hearing Christian conservatives proclaiming the superiority of their religion when it's their religion that thrust the West into the current predicament.<br /><br />To the other commenter who railed against Svigor's misspelled word:<br /><br />"LOL. Nauseam, dude, not nauseum. Why bother going for the Latin when you don't actually know any Latin? Nothing more risible than someone going for the high-falutin' and doing a pratfall."<br /><br />This is asinine. Do we all need to be fluent in Latin before we can use commonly understood Latin phrases such as ad nauseam and et cetera? Seems to me you were just looking for an opening to flame him. Could it have anything to do with his admission of being a WN? Gee...I wonder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78019666855906103592009-07-21T11:51:47.920-07:002009-07-21T11:51:47.920-07:00If the Saudis figure they need nukes, they can buy...If the Saudis figure they need nukes, they can buy them quickly from a global supply chain. Iran is as much a threat to them as it is to Israel, though in different matters. [Note: Israel is more than a thousand miles away from Testing writes<br /><br />"Iran, has no ability to take and hold Iranian territory, is tiny. Iran's desire to nuke Israel for nothing but "prestige" is an indicator of how non-Western it is and how a profound direct and indirect threat the regime is to America."<br /><br />Are you honestly dumb enough to believe Iran will nuke Israel for prestige?<br /><br />Iran is no threat to the USA even if your hypothesis is true about nukes.Jeremiah Whitmoorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10414537187093350166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3639597299769108172009-07-21T10:33:08.581-07:002009-07-21T10:33:08.581-07:00"I can't wait for the day when petroleum ..."I can't wait for the day when petroleum becomes obsolete. The U.S. can free itself of all sorts of dangerous entanglements & sleazy alliances and the Muslim Middle East will finally be forced to grow up."<br /><br />Yeah...then the same liberals who were squawking about our dependence on foreign oil will be shedding crocodile tears for the emerging humanitarian crisis in the former oil-rich countries. The libs will be demanding that we let in those starving, Saudi refugees.Truth(er)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75736089294796502922009-07-21T10:00:31.196-07:002009-07-21T10:00:31.196-07:00It is certainly true that the phenomenon known as ...It is certainly true that the phenomenon known as Hubbert's Peak is founded on bad math - just like global warming. But it is also true that the oil won't last forever.<br /><br />A century ago Arabia (it only became Saudi Arabia with Abdul Aziz ibn Saud) had only one source of hard currency - pearls. Then they got oil. When the oil dries up they will be back to relying on pearls again.<br /><br />That is if they don't use the oil funds to invest in more sustainable industries.<br /><br />The Meiji also had to transform their culture in order to enter the modern world. They did so and astonished the world. The Saudis behave like one of those mid-European municipalities only seen in operetta. They have kings and princes not engineering schools and heavy industries.<br /><br />The Arabian people are doomed. The Battle of Britain was won by the oil fields of Texas. Those fields are all in decline today. Texas oil began its downturn around 1970. The war birds of tommorow will need to rely on Middle East oil fields. But those fields may have already begun to decline too. <br /><br />Texas continues as a state but Arabia will have much more trouble surviving as a nation. Many international conflicts endure for long periods. For example, Caesar describes the invasion by Ariovistus (Germany and France). That conflict continued for 2,000 more years. Saudi Arabia on the other hand is likely to collapse in the lifetime of most of this blog's readers.<br /><br />By the time Arabian oil production is clearly in decline several things will happen. The Saudi royal family will be removed. One of the great powers will move in (China?). The country will be partitioned with the holy cities separated out (assuming they haven't been nuked). There will be a PBS documentary on the "Tragedy of Saudi Arabia" but few viewers will shed tears.<br /> <br />In the meantime...albertosaurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209465319904999278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4095515977408475782009-07-21T07:41:16.574-07:002009-07-21T07:41:16.574-07:00"Above all, shiksas should not be allowed to ..."Above all, shiksas should not be allowed to get their delicate, pale, exquisitely unattainable hands on any nukes."<br /><br />Except mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59519855250206367232009-07-21T06:14:04.419-07:002009-07-21T06:14:04.419-07:00Haven't the time to address all the Christian&...Haven't the time to address all the Christian's comments - far too many falacious points. Anyway, good luck with that religion, man. Seems it's really paid off for the group that latched on to it. <br /><br />Will briefly note that my afterlife is in my children, and theirs, and theirs, and so on. It's not playing volleyball with Thomas Aquinas and eating cotton candy from magic trees while avoiding the enormous sandaled feet of Yahweh.The Benny Hinn Head Smacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34434521079542870632009-07-21T06:10:00.577-07:002009-07-21T06:10:00.577-07:00Sorry to go O/T...
The ongoing mystery of Obama&#...<i>Sorry to go O/T...<br /><br />The ongoing mystery of Obama's birth certificate is starting to have real world implications.</i> <br /><br />We might as well all get used to the idea that there's a big fat skeleton in that closet. Smoke, fire, etc.<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37522203371510474412009-07-21T06:06:35.921-07:002009-07-21T06:06:35.921-07:00Forget intent. Intent is like the weather - it cha...<i>Forget intent. Intent is like the weather - it changes from day to day. Capability is what's important.</i> <br /><br />Might want to qualify that, seeing how Iran's waaaaaaay down the list made by your criterion (preceded by Israel and half of Europe).<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3936750098208898542009-07-21T06:03:06.436-07:002009-07-21T06:03:06.436-07:00I was suggesting you shouldn't use words you c...<i>I was suggesting you shouldn't use words you can't spell, especially foreign ones.</i> <br /><br />No you weren't. Now you are, after your sloppy diction painted you into a corner.<br /><br />Do you have more dicta from Anon's Arbitrary & Niggling Rules of Writing to share, or was it just the one?<br /><br />~Svigor<br /><br />P.S., I don't mean to sound ungrateful - I doubt I'll ever misspell nauseam again, what with my newfound mnemonic device ("A" as in Annoying Anonymous Asshole, not "U").Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com