tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4033853591166298506..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Did anybody ask the neighbors whether they were happier?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15401994551446731032012-09-23T12:06:28.161-07:002012-09-23T12:06:28.161-07:00"Mein Dream"
Funny!!"Mein Dream"<br />Funny!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62993760780815246462012-09-22T15:58:56.085-07:002012-09-22T15:58:56.085-07:00Your explanation requires most of those organizati...<i>Your explanation requires most of those organizations to be conspiring together to lie about the results they're seeing, even at the cost of gettting the election prediction wrong and maybe even being found out. That seems very unlikely to me.</i> <br /><br /><br /><i>If this is widespread, we should often see polls overpredicting Democratic victories. Is there evidence of that? </i> <br /><br /><br />Yes, actually, there is such evidence.<br /><br />One curious thing about the current polls which look so rosy for Obama is that they have so many Democrats. A recent Fox News poll showed Obama winning Ohio - but according to that poll, 42% of Ohio voters are Democrats, 36% are Republican, and 21% are Independent.<br /><br />Ohio has 18 seats in Congress at present - five held by Democrats and thirteen held by Republicans. It also has a Republican Governor. Is it really a state where only 36% of the voters are Republican?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90096720241290196202012-09-22T11:24:54.645-07:002012-09-22T11:24:54.645-07:00Eric said: Yeah, the idea was the Section 8'er...Eric said: <i>Yeah, the idea was the Section 8'ers would see their neighbors getting up every morning and going to work and then think "I should get a job too". What they really think is "Damn, all the houses in my neighborhood are empty during the day."</i><br /><br />Exactly. A tiny pocket of Section 8ers were moved into my friendly Chicago neighborhood. Within a week my mail had been stolen (I happened to find it laying at the bottom of a shallow puddle because I recognized my mom's handwriting!). Ditto my bike. My neighbors had similar stories. What really got me was that the new residents (all blacks) would loll on their front steps cussing and smoking and eating Cheetos while the Mexican landscapers picked up their trash, mowed their tiny lawns, etc. Shameless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21210455693777774572012-09-22T06:03:24.049-07:002012-09-22T06:03:24.049-07:00unix:
So you think all the opinion polls are lyin...unix:<br /><br />So you think all the opinion polls are lying? There are smething like 12 polling organizations llisted at 538 covering Ohio. A big majority of polls show Obama ahead. Your explanation requires most of those organizations to be conspiring together to lie about the results they're seeing, even at the cost of gettting the election prediction wrong and maybe even being found out. That seems very unlikely to me. <br /><br />If this is widespread, we should often see polls overpredicting Democratic victories. Is there evidence of that? <br /><br />This looks like wishful thinking to me.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79106302649131152292012-09-21T21:20:50.173-07:002012-09-21T21:20:50.173-07:00"What happens to crime in neighborhoods with ..."What happens to crime in neighborhoods with pockets of section 8"?<br /><br />I think it's pretty much a safe bet to say that any area that suffers the misfortune of a sudden influx of blacks is going to see a huge upswing in crime.<br /><br />Very high levels of crime and violence are pretty much a universal characteristic of black communities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62788303043050854962012-09-21T19:58:51.183-07:002012-09-21T19:58:51.183-07:00"His effort to sell himself is about as succe..."His effort to sell himself is about as successful as his efforts to convert people to Mormonism"<br /><br />He doesn't need to "sell" himself. Obama is as popular among most whites as used tissue. Romney is still unused tissue and so you jurst buy it because you need tissue.<br />After four years of eating crow, he looks good. I personally am not a Republican, but I am amused that Ohio, who Obama won by only 4%, now, after 4 yrs of a predictable (to me) awful presidency apparently, his poularlity has doubled! Talk about magic Negros.<br /><br /> There is no way Obama would have doubled popularity even in Maryland, land of the delusional Obots, much less Ohio.<br />So I know they're lying. There was a discussion recently about why the Jeremiads on conservative web site, lamenting the "popularity" of Obama, and how the Repubs are doomed, doomed, doomed. The MSM keeps telling us so...boo hoo.unixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47819904250763683682012-09-21T18:18:50.324-07:002012-09-21T18:18:50.324-07:00Severn said: But the home of leftism, in the West...Severn said: But the home of leftism, in the West at least, was always in the colleges and among the "intelligentsia". <br /><br />Hunsdon replied: Joe Hill, Big Bill Haywood, Gene Debs----academics all, tenured professors . . . from the school of hard knocks.Hunsdonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3426956663664525842012-09-21T17:40:13.962-07:002012-09-21T17:40:13.962-07:00So let's stop this mess. Vote for Romney! We...So let's stop this mess. Vote for Romney! We cannot allow B.O. to have another term in office. He will be like Hugo Chavez on steroids. Now that is a disgusting image...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68798572167227473632012-09-21T15:33:45.760-07:002012-09-21T15:33:45.760-07:00But these connected folks getting the housing, wou...<i>But these connected folks getting the housing, wouldnt they tend to be somewhat less dysfunctional (on average) than the average section 8 beneficiary?</i> <br /> <br /><br /><br />I don't know - do you think that e.g. Sheila Lee Jackson's cousin's would tend to be less less dysfunctional (on average) than the average section 8 beneficiary? I suspect the opposite might be true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25012045569069819822012-09-21T15:30:45.915-07:002012-09-21T15:30:45.915-07:00Leftism used to be about workers and poor farmers....<i>Leftism used to be about workers and poor farmers.</i> <br /><br /><br />Leftism used to <i>claim</i> to be about workers and poor farmers. But the home of leftism, in the West at least, was always in the colleges and among the "intelligentsia". Much to the fury of the left, the workers and poor farmers never had much time for them. That's why the left changed tactics and moved away from "economic class" and towards "race and gender" as its primary argument. So we arrived at the modern Democratic Party, largely indifferent to economic concerns but obsessed with ginning up a "war against women" and a "war against blacks" and "anti-Semitism", because these are the subjects which their constituency really cares about.Severnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63127408378686459862012-09-21T14:18:38.425-07:002012-09-21T14:18:38.425-07:00"a great example of how citizens can effectiv..."a great example of how citizens can effectively revolt when there is no hope and when the government is all powerful is the Soviet Union and its fall."<br /><br />Really? From what I understand and remember, the docile population just watched as the USSR gradually weakened and went belly up. Then the "Soviet Union- Yay or Nay?" was put to a vote, and with a low turnout, the population lethargically voted "nay". Actually, no one's really sure if the elections were valid or not. <br /><br />The rebellious, brave thing to do was to listen to "The Voice of America" on the radio. And, oh yeah, that one guy unveiled an oppositional poster at the Red Square for 5 seconds before he got arrested. And, yes, yes, I forgot- some kids secretly wore smuggled jeans to college parties and chewed gum! <br /><br />Anyone know any fun songs? How about:<br /><br />And drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and fight!/<br /> And drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and fight!/<br />And if I see a pretty girl, I'll sleep with her tonight!/<br />And drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and drink and fight!/<br /><br />OR<br /><br />I drank my life away<br />My son is turning gay<br />To keep these thoughts at bay<br />I drink away the day<br /><br />How are all those former Soviets doing, nowadays, since they are so great at revolting and standing up for themselves? Does the regular guy see anything from the sales of the natural resources? Judging by their dramatically shrinking lifespans (WTH?!?!? Is Russia in Sub-Saharan Africa?), I wouldn't be so sure.<br />And if we look at the recent stats and listen to our friends from certain corners of the manosphere, former Soviet women are- what's the euphemism?- "uncorrupted by feminism", especially outside of the big cities. Thailand used to be the #1 destination to meet women uncorrupted by feminism. Now, it's Ukraine. I don't know if Ukrainian boys are also as uncorrupted by feminism as the Thai boys were famous to be. But if the young women are in such a dire situation, one can imagine that the young boys are pretty desperate too. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33606489445445589702012-09-21T13:05:23.437-07:002012-09-21T13:05:23.437-07:00"The Welfare officials told them that benefit..."The Welfare officials told them that benefits were more generous there, with shorter waiting periods, lower rents and better Section 8 support, more generous school systems etc. etc."<br /><br />This. This is what must be going on. Only now they're reaching way out to the mountain west.<br /><br />Yeah things are much easier here. For now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86595289754312365662012-09-21T12:06:22.376-07:002012-09-21T12:06:22.376-07:00Would neighbors have given an honest answer if ask...Would neighbors have given an honest answer if asked? If they said they aren't happy, they'd be attacked as 'racist'. <br /><br />We need to save the term race-ism. To me, it's the most meaningful and beautiful word. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84760803252032849182012-09-21T11:52:25.563-07:002012-09-21T11:52:25.563-07:00"A great example of how citizens can effectiv..."A great example of how citizens can effectively revolt when there is no hope and when the government is all powerful is the Soviet Union and its fall. A significant fraction of the men at all levels simply reached the point where they just didn't care any more and they effectively disengaged and adopted massive passive aggression."<br /><br />But they didn't have Negroes to worry about. <br />A lot of white people don't so much being poor. The problem is being poor might mean having to live next to dangerous Negroes. <br /><br />I'd rather be poor and live in a white neighborhood than be middle class and live next to tons of Negroes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59333127045203826312012-09-21T11:49:40.670-07:002012-09-21T11:49:40.670-07:00And because such people become psychologically sav...And because such people become psychologically savvy in developing their own alternate 'selves', they understand the psychology of others much better and know how to manipulate it. <br /><br />Reagan knew how to read the pulse of the nation. So did Clinton. Obama knows how to read white psychology and push the right buttons--just like Oprah. The guilt button, the redemption button, the fascination with black charisma button, the fear of black rage button, etc. <br /><br />Romney has no clue on the psychology of others. He's like an auto dealer who knows how to get along with people and he's gone far that way, but shaking hands, slapping people's backs, and smiling a lot is not the same as READING and MANIPULATING the minds of others. <br /><br />His effort to sell himself is about as successful as his efforts to convert people to Mormonism. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19022301324549391192012-09-21T11:45:01.824-07:002012-09-21T11:45:01.824-07:00"You seem to be describing elements of psycho..."You seem to be describing elements of psychopathology, like splitting in Narcissitic Personality Disorder."<br /><br />Yeah, and if it gets a hold of you, you can go nuts. But if you can get a hold if it and use it creatively, it might make you a great actor. <br /><br />Hitler was evil, true, but he lost his parents early and he lost his country, and he had to form a new identity on his own creatively and that fired him up. <br /><br />Obama's book is called DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, but it should really be called Mein Dream or DREAMS OF MYSELF. <br /><br />Creative use of madness is what makes great artists great. Same with politicians. Reagan, Clinton, and Obama grew up unstable and could have easily lost themselves. But they had a force of will and enough creative cunning to forge a new self. As 'actors' on the world stage, they learned to schmooze a lot of people like all other politicians. But they also developed a great idea of self in absence of father figures who taught them how. <br />Father figures can help sons to grow and develop. But father figures can also overshadow their sons. Mitt still acts like he's acting in the shadow of his father. There is no magnetic sense of self. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5327259777879553542012-09-21T11:24:44.660-07:002012-09-21T11:24:44.660-07:00My lovely little city north of Boston (with WAY to...My lovely little city north of Boston (with WAY too much rental stock) has seen the NAM population increase by double-digit rates for the past 5 years. Upside: the high school basketball team made it to the state finals for the first time in its history. Downside: the high school's 10th grade scores in all three categories of the MCAS, Massachusetts' annual No Child Left Behind test, are down for the first time since its inception.<br /><br />The funny thing is that the real estate prices in the mid-range (350K-600K) are still strong. My friend in real estate says it's driven by Asians, another burgeoning demographic here, who want to live on the transit line but have no intention of sending their kids to public schools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-540978997631471592012-09-21T10:58:13.409-07:002012-09-21T10:58:13.409-07:00"(Not to say Romney is necessarily any health... "(Not to say Romney is necessarily any healthier.)" <br /><br />Not obligatory to be pc around here. Romney is healthier as regards his personal morals and life. Infinitely healthier. And he has never written his memoires about himself. Good sign.<br />I have testimony from sources I trust that he hasn't cheated on his wife (not that that's ALWAYS means anything), and he does have a moral code, and he doesn't give off dissonant vibe by violating it.<br />Obama, OTOH, is in a constant state of lie. He really is mentally ill.<br /><br />Now all that being said, do I think Romney is upright and honest as a politician? No. No. and No. There's no such thing. Once they enter that life, at that level, they cannot be honest. They can only be corrupt. The few exceptions take an original path (Ron Paul IMO), or get killed or pushed out of office. Some do manage to keep their standards in their personals lives. But not their political self.standardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70106199393845999872012-09-21T07:28:44.526-07:002012-09-21T07:28:44.526-07:00>As a kind of loner, maybe [Obama] felt a need ...>As a kind of loner, maybe [Obama] felt a need to invent a sense of self[...]--even if his sense of self bordered on delusional. We see this with Reagan and Clinton too. Both came from troubled families and had troubled childhoods. Both created a mythic 'SELF' as a kind of protection against the dreary self of reality, especially of growing up under alcoholic/abusive father or father figure.<<br /><br />You seem to be describing elements of psychopathology, like splitting in Narcissitic Personality Disorder. (Not to say Romney is necessarily any healthier.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2759347291584896952012-09-21T06:29:47.810-07:002012-09-21T06:29:47.810-07:00@ Matthew
I like your idea of requiring every cong...@ Matthew<br />I like your idea of requiring every congressman to live between two such families. <br /><br />My idea-<br />Buy homes next door to leaders of SPLC & ACLU type organizations. "Rent" them to unemployed thugs (or hire actors to play the part) who are home all day talking junk to moms and kids and doing other things to ruin the neighborhood. <br />Make it personal but keep it legal. Ask bored moms if they want to make a little extra money or if they want to party. Ask kids playing outside if their house has a security system. Etc. Once for sale signs appear, offer to sell your house for a huge profit. <br /><br />The godfather of this junk is Alexander Polikoff. Yes, he was an ACLU lawyer.DirtyTricksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23669417254157186602012-09-21T06:25:48.164-07:002012-09-21T06:25:48.164-07:00Back in 2007 there was a huge scandal when New Jer...Back in 2007 there was a huge scandal when New Jersey welfare officials in Newark, Camden and Trenton were actively ENCOURAGING their worst cases to pack up and move to Pennsylvania cities like Altoona, Scranton, Bethlehem, Wilkes-Barre etc. The Welfare officials told them that benefits were more generous there, with shorter waiting periods, lower rents and better Section 8 support, more generous school systems etc. etc. <br /><br />The New Jersey welfare officials actually PRINTED FLIERS to pass out to their local welfare cases - these fliers extolled the virtues of moving to these various Pennsylvania cities. The welfare offices in PA were getting hundreds of calls from Newark, mostly from people who did not know where Altoona or Scranton were located.<br /><br />Needless to say, crime rates shot up immediately.<br /><br />http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-15-altoona_N.htm<br /><br />http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/intelligencer-journal-lancaster-new-era-combined-saturday-edition/mi_8130/is_20070817/pa-public-housing-perfect-nj/ai_n52830878/<br />Camlostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67070024757956029502012-09-21T06:18:05.706-07:002012-09-21T06:18:05.706-07:00I wonder how much of the housing bubble was caused...I wonder how much of the housing bubble was caused by this treadmill of seeding good neighborhoods with bad neighbors, watching as the neighborhoods and schools crashed, and then selling the fleeing residents houses in a new development 10 miles further out of town, where the public schools will be good for awhile because the students are mostly middle class whites and Asians. I doubt anyone exactly planned things this way, but this drives a huge amount of demand for new developments full of expensive houses, new malls and schools in those new developments, etc. Local developers and real estate agents must have noticed this dynamic from time to time, and may have encouraged it. If I were heavily invested in a new housing project a few miles further out, I'd definitely be interested in seeding the local reasonably-nice neighborhoods with Section 8 residents, since this would increase demand for the houses I was selling. <br /><br />Presumably, this is part of what's behind the McMansion trend, too--huge houses mean expensive which means the wrong kind of people won't move in anytime soon. (Wrong here is about social class and wealth, but correlates with race. Few middle class people cringe at the thought of a black doctor or schoolteacher or policeman moving in next door.)NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7109415294710290662012-09-21T06:07:05.038-07:002012-09-21T06:07:05.038-07:00Cail:
Or maybe different people within a huge mul...Cail:<br /><br />Or maybe different people within a huge multi-century, moulti-national political and social movement had different ideas and goals. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28321843386100634892012-09-21T05:13:51.122-07:002012-09-21T05:13:51.122-07:00What is the racial breakdown of Section 8 voucher ...<i>What is the racial breakdown of Section 8 voucher distribution?</i><br /><br />Here are some <a href="http://www.census.gov/spd/workpaper/SPD2007-01.pdf" rel="nofollow">sample numbers</a> on housing subsidies from 1993 and 2001 (PDF file, numbers start on p. 10). For comparison's sake, total population numbers in 2000 were: White non-hispanic 75.1, Black 12.6, Hispanic 12.5 (see <a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">here, p. 7</a>).M.G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06817230141673953233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48072490270703526882012-09-21T04:27:52.473-07:002012-09-21T04:27:52.473-07:00"Of course not, Section 8 is open warfare aga..."Of course not, Section 8 is open warfare against the 'wrong kind of white people'."<br /><br />"You're alluding to class, but the upper and lower classes of Whites are equally reviled in the mass media"<br /><br />It's a process. You can't target everyone at once so you salami slice them and work your way up, first the unskilled bluecollar, then the semi-skilled, then the skilled, then you start on the whitecollar etc.<br /><br />In America the process has reached the whitecollar segment. In europe it's still (mostly) only partway through the bluecollar.<br /><br />.<br />"a great example of how citizens can effectively revolt when there is no hope and when the government is all powerful is the Soviet Union and its fall."<br /><br />Yes, that's what i think will happen. The success of the recent Olympics in London was largely built on the tradition of volunteerism.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19201329<br /><br />Gradually that will stop and bowling alone will take over.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com