tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3071432892070400847..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: If you want to understand ACORN ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42033694331532622102009-09-23T06:37:41.754-07:002009-09-23T06:37:41.754-07:00> That actually is a nice little aphorism. <...> That actually is a nice little aphorism. <<br /><br />It really is. I said it was classic.<br /><br />But it was being used to justify an extreme present orientation, on the order of that described by Alice Rosenbaum ("Ayn Rand") as: "The goods are here. [So let's grab 'em.]"<br /><br />Truth's soulmate in this issue seems to be Lord Keynes, who shrugged, "In the long run, we'll all be dead."<br /><br />Seriously, the future never does begin. Deep, man!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33000251675230734672009-09-22T22:33:43.819-07:002009-09-22T22:33:43.819-07:00"David said...
"No one knows when the f..."David said...<br /><br />"No one knows when the future begins." My gawd. Classic.<br /><br />That actually is a nice little aphorism.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33697610171221196652009-09-21T19:01:47.392-07:002009-09-21T19:01:47.392-07:00"Uh, lemme see if I got this straight. With f..."Uh, lemme see if I got this straight. With fewer people wanting to buy something, the price will go up?"<br /><br />Exactly, because lack of business leads that small fish to get eaten by the big fish. They correspondingly get to set the market prices...which will of course be higher.<br /><br />"Likewise when houses don't sell, prices go down."<br /><br /><br />I was not talking about houses that are already built, that is why I factored in labor costs.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60346672009381707502009-09-21T12:46:54.388-07:002009-09-21T12:46:54.388-07:00Or, as a grinning black co-worker once phrased it ...<i>Or, as a grinning black co-worker once phrased it to me: "There is no justice. There is only JUST-US."</i><br /><br><br />Then why were all the blacks and liberals crying over Rhodesia and Apartheid, and why were the whites down there expected to oblige or face a nuking? Surely by the measure of your black co-worker the whites down there were doing the right thing for themselves?headachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24396835484706150572009-09-21T11:18:24.630-07:002009-09-21T11:18:24.630-07:00Oh no, must make another comment.
> that's...Oh no, must make another comment.<br /><br />> that's exactly what it has done. [...] no one knows when "the future" begins <<br /><br />Rather present-oriented, aren't you, Truth?<br /><br />No one knows when the future begins. My gawd. Classic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56042912840140027942009-09-21T08:04:17.510-07:002009-09-21T08:04:17.510-07:00"Maybe, but in an 85% white America, a $950K ..."Maybe, but in an 85% white America, a $950K home would cost $1.25M because:<br /><br />The population would be static or declining and there would be no reason to build it."<br /><br />Uh, lemme see if I got this straight. With fewer people wanting to buy something, the price will go up?<br /><br />How does that work? I have been to OLD NAVY and when the stuff doesn't sell, they lower the price.<br /><br />Likewise when houses don't sell, prices go down.<br /><br />That is how we sold our last house. We reduced the price. Really, I am not making this up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90797101837227477372009-09-21T07:46:01.561-07:002009-09-21T07:46:01.561-07:00"Luckily, our culture of saving nothing and s..."Luckily, our culture of saving nothing and spending lots of money (which we don't have or borrowed) has kept the economy in great shape!"<br /><br />I don't know if that was meant to be sarcasm, but that's exactly what it has done. The future however (and no one knows when "the future" begins) is a totally different story.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4886658253518329562009-09-21T06:50:05.985-07:002009-09-21T06:50:05.985-07:00There appears to be lingering confusion over the l...There appears to be lingering confusion over the locution "Who/Whom." Here is some more help with understanding this essential concept.<br /><br />Who sticks it to whom.<br /><br />Who's ox is gored. (deliberate spelling here as always)<br /><br />Who is on top of whom.<br /><br />Who has the power, using it on whom.<br /><br />Who has the gold (or the guns) is he who makes the rules for whomever hasn't.<br /><br />In other words, to hell with principles, we're in the saddle and what are you going to do about it?<br /><br />Or, as a grinning black co-worker once phrased it to me: "There is no justice. There is only JUST-US."<br /><br />I hope this helps with understanding "Who/Whom."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39404158964253775232009-09-21T04:20:18.846-07:002009-09-21T04:20:18.846-07:00"Maybe, but in an 85% white America, a $950K ..."Maybe, but in an 85% white America, a $950K home would cost $1.25M because:<br /><br />The population would be static or declining and there would be no reason to build it."<br /><br />Ah, I see. So decreasing demand leads to increasing prices? Did you learn that in Bizarro Economics 101?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14405594956048307832009-09-21T04:18:10.898-07:002009-09-21T04:18:10.898-07:00Interesting quote from that City Journal article:
...Interesting quote from that City Journal article:<br /><br />"True, back when the now-defunct savings-and-loan industry provided most of the nation’s mortgages at rates capped by law, S&Ls often avoided lending in inner-city neighborhoods, where the risks of default were higher than usual, because they couldn’t charge increased interest to compensate them for the increased risk. But today, lenders can adjust the interest rates they charge borrowers according to the riskiness of the loan, so that they can make a profit by lending in the inner city. Today too, hundreds of individual mortgages are packaged together and sold to investors as “mortgage-backed securities,” whose overall default rate is much easier to predict than the default probability of any individual mortgage. Thanks to these innovations, the capital available to inner-city borrowers is now plentiful."<br /><br />Things were so simple in 2003, weren't they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69379121453887057872009-09-20T15:25:04.507-07:002009-09-20T15:25:04.507-07:00-Companies would be competing for the dollar of mu...-Companies would be competing for the dollar of much more conservative buyers who were more likely to put their money in the bank than buy things, which would lead to negative GDP growth.- <br /><br />Luckily, our culture of saving nothing and spending lots of money (which we don't have or borrowed) has kept the economy in great shape!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86990819223623767142009-09-20T14:25:02.265-07:002009-09-20T14:25:02.265-07:00It means who KILLS whom, right?
Vilko gets it. ...<i>It means who KILLS whom, right?</i> <br /><br />Vilko gets it. One can fill in a wide variety of verbs in place of "KILLS."<br /><br />Phrased as an answer, who/whom becomes, "it depends."<br /><br /><i>Think of Tops & Bottoms (in the Turkish prison sense).</i> <br /><br />Another great, erm, analogy. In down low/prison culture, you're only a homo if you're on the bottom.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80772029703212628932009-09-20T14:16:21.305-07:002009-09-20T14:16:21.305-07:00Who/whom is another way of pointing out that, the ...Who/whom is another way of pointing out that, the longer you look, the more apparent our ruling class' lack of principle.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22896300542922357752009-09-20T14:12:22.667-07:002009-09-20T14:12:22.667-07:00my interpretation of who:whom is "who has the...<i>my interpretation of who:whom is "who has the right do do what to whom."<br /><br />basically, "who has power, and whom can they control."<br /><br />is that right?</i> <br /><br />The way I use it is broader; it means, on any given question, "who? Whom?" It's the most consistent rule I can find for liberalism AKA the dominant position.<br /><br />E.g., Is racism bad? Depends on who and whom. Is aristocracy bad? Depends on who and whom (old WASP aristocracy bad; new Jewish or Irish aristocracy (Kennedys) good). What is civil behavior? Depends on who and whom (leftists can do whatever they want; everyone else must behave like Ward Cleaver). Is centralized power bad? Depends on who and whom (traditional, non-suicidal white folks? Bad. Commies? Good). Are ethno-nationalism and ethnocentrism good or bad? Depends on who and whom (if you're Jewish or non-white, they get a pass; if they're European, they get the pillory). Should the press erect a culture of critique and speak truth to power? Depends on who and whom (Bush yes, Obama no).<br /><br />I could go on like this at book-length. It's a far more consistent description of the ruling party's behavior than anything they ostensibly believe.<br /><br />I don't know how close this is to the "official" definition and I don't care, because it works.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9292788156216721792009-09-20T10:02:08.177-07:002009-09-20T10:02:08.177-07:00Steve, I just wanted to say that I don't under...<i>Steve, I just wanted to say that I don't understand this "Who? Whom?" thing you keep using. </i><br /><br />Think of Tops & Bottoms (in the Turkish prison sense).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7262526636013440692009-09-20T09:27:13.034-07:002009-09-20T09:27:13.034-07:00"If their $950K home would have only cost $85..."If their $950K home would have only cost $850K in an America that was still 85% white, was the Honduran maid and getting the yard cut for 10 bucks less per week -really- worth it?"<br /><br />Maybe, but in an 85% white America, a $950K home would cost $1.25M because:<br /><br />The population would be static or declining and there would be no reason to build it.<br /><br />Most of the labor positions would be staffed by whites who demanded $22 dollars an hour to swing a hammer...if you could even find white people who wanted to work 10 hours a day in the sun. <br /><br />The above point would cause ALL manufacturing to be outsourced instead of most of it today, which would lead to a ridiculously high unemployment level amongst whites born without the advantages. Look at that of Germany.<br /><br />Companies would be competing for the dollar of much more conservative buyers who were more likely to put their money in the bank than buy things, which would lead to negative GDP growth. <br /><br />There would be a much higher percentage of large families which lowered the necessity of large homes.<br /><br />Etc...etc...etc.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48261190700148682452009-09-20T06:52:24.475-07:002009-09-20T06:52:24.475-07:00OT:
Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid’s Legac...OT:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/world/africa/20safrica.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid’s Legacy in S. Africa</a><br /><br />"Seniors here at Kwamfundo high school sang freedom songs and protested outside the staff room last year because their accounting teacher chronically failed to show up for class."<br /><br />"“We kept waiting, and there was no action,” said Masixole Mabetshe, who failed the exams and who now, out of work, passes the days watching TV."<br /><br />"Finally the students’ frustration turned riotous. They threw bricks, punched two teachers and stabbed one in the head with scissors, witnesses said."<br /><br />Moral of the story - it's all white people's fault! <br /><br />"“If you say 3 times 3, they will say 6,” said Patrine Makhele, a math teacher at Kwamfundo here in this overwhelmingly black township, echoing the complaint of colleagues who say children get to high school not knowing their multiplication tables."<br /><br />The article goes on to say that this is a legacy of apartheid as well. If tomorrow the earth opened up and swallowed Johannesburg whole, I'm sure the NYT would also call that the legacy of apartheid. <br /><br />Which reminds me - a year or two ago there was some talk of the NYT possibly closing down due to bankruptcy. I never believed it. It's not in the business of making money. Money's not the point here - propaganda is. Does "The People's Daily" make any money? Do the people who run China care?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68267078374364108272009-09-20T06:15:52.394-07:002009-09-20T06:15:52.394-07:00Broadly, 'Who will f***/stick it to whom',...Broadly, 'Who will f***/stick it to whom', who will prevail.<br /><br />OT, update on my favorite character from <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/09/15/president-obama-please-take-your-aunt-zeituni-off-our-hands/" rel="nofollow">The Obamas.</a>sj71noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85181992403652152122009-09-20T03:40:55.267-07:002009-09-20T03:40:55.267-07:00"Not to mention that the capitalists believe ...<i>"Not to mention that the capitalists believe this stuff. Been to a marketing convention lately?<br /><br />Attractive, 110-IQ types (smart enough to look up and repeat statistics but not to analyze them or put them in context) raving about "Hispanic buying power," "18-24," "brand loyalty of the future.""</i><br /><br />Google "Hispanization of the United States" and "Goldman Sachs".Former Goldman Dronenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60706199516875282912009-09-20T00:09:41.093-07:002009-09-20T00:09:41.093-07:00You leave these sessions thinking that a NAM's...<i>You leave these sessions thinking that a NAM's dollar is worth five times as much as a white or Asian's dollar.</i> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=a+fool+and+his+money+are+soon+parted" rel="nofollow">Actually</a>...<br /><br />Oh, never mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43145346812703850892009-09-20T00:07:26.034-07:002009-09-20T00:07:26.034-07:00It means who KILLS whom, right?
Yeah, I always f...<i>It means who KILLS whom, right?</i> <br /><br />Yeah, I always figured that it meant who sends whom to the Lubyanka or to the Gulag.<br /><br />Or who starves whom in the Ukraine.<br /><br />Or who shoots whom in the Katyn Forest.<br /><br />Etc etc etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74353149608089022522009-09-20T00:06:05.919-07:002009-09-20T00:06:05.919-07:00"My other bank, similarly deserted by white h..."My other bank, similarly deserted by white heterosexual males, is Citibank."<br /><br />The hetero ex-bank employees are now independent loan brokers.<br />Now they only have to deal with the women running the bank loan depts by phone and email.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7172812957564657312009-09-19T18:52:21.868-07:002009-09-19T18:52:21.868-07:00You can read Mau-Mauing the flak catchers online.You can read Mau-Mauing the flak catchers <a href="http://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/mau-mauing-the-flak-catchers-online/" rel="nofollow">online</a>.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58543330775656199612009-09-19T15:39:28.018-07:002009-09-19T15:39:28.018-07:00The big lesson from Ameriquest: never trust a guy ...The big lesson from Ameriquest: never trust a guy who bears a <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/RolandArnall.jpg/436px-RolandArnall.jpg" rel="nofollow">striking resemblance</a> to <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Jacques_Chirac.jpg" rel="nofollow">Jacques Chirac</a>.tommynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28814593198854747442009-09-19T15:31:38.501-07:002009-09-19T15:31:38.501-07:00A little bit about Arnall from Wikipedia:
He beca...A little bit about Arnall from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Arnall" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>:<br /><br /><i>He became the billionaire owner of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest, which was once one of the United States's largest and most aggressive sub-prime lenders. In early 2006, the company announced a $325 million settlement with state attorneys general and law enforcement agencies and financial regulators in 49 states and the District of Columbia over allegations of predatory lending practices. Predatory and illegal practices Ameriquest was accused of included misrepresenting and failing to disclose loan terms, charging excessive loan origination fees and inflating appraisals to qualify borrowers for loans.[...]<br /><br />Arnall and his wife, Dawn, were longtime, generous political contributors, giving to both parties, according to Federal Election Commission records. Arnall had two children with his first wife Sally, Daniel and Michelle.[...]<br /><br />In 1977, Arnall helped found the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights organization, and the Museum of Tolerance. He served for 16 years on the California State University board of trustees.[...]<br /><br />Since 2002, Arnall had given campaign contributions to California politicians including Arnold Schwarzenegger.[...]<br /><br />In the 2003-2005 period, Arnall and his wife raised more than $12 million for George W. Bush's political efforts, including $5 million for the Progress for America Voter Fund, a self-proclaimed "conservative issue advocacy organization dedicated to keeping the issue record straight." In 2004 he was one of the top 10 donors to the Republican Party.[...]<br /><br />On May 9th, SHMAIS.com (Lubavitch News Website) reported that Chabad of California was to be the beneficiary of an $18,000,000.00 donation from the estate of Roland Arnall. According to their source, before his passing, he made arrangements for Rabbi Shlomo Cunin to receive the donation, and a short while later sent in a down payment of $180,000.00</i><br /><br />I don't if Ameriquest's shady lending practices were good for the Jews, but it appears they were certainly good for many Republican politicians, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Lubavitchers.tommynoreply@blogger.com