tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5177459504105042879..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Has a single billionaire spoken out against Schumer-Rubio?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66213863960898471132013-07-06T13:15:26.114-07:002013-07-06T13:15:26.114-07:00"Harry Baldwin said...
The political con..."Harry Baldwin said...<br /><br /> The political consultants that advise Republican politicians to support amnesty are primarily concerned with keeping the money flow coming from the pro-open-borders big contributors. The consultants are not greatly concerned with whether or not their candidates win. Their paycheck comes out of the contributions. (Peter Brimelow has made the same observation.)"<br /><br />This is a very good and important point. Political consultants get paid whether their candidate wins or not. But the larger are the contributions that the candidate can haul in, the more money the consultant can make off of him.<br /><br />Is there a form of parasite lower than the campaign consultant? I would think that pimps, pornographers, and telemarketers would rate higher in the heirarchy of bottom-feeders.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66465875299568147192013-07-04T12:01:56.955-07:002013-07-04T12:01:56.955-07:00"In defence of the billionaires, why would th..."In defence of the billionaires, why would they? What would they gain by opposing [amnesty]?"<br /><br />Well if deliberately seeking to impoverish your fellow citizens by waging economic warfare on them counted as treason - which it should - then they'd gain not being arrested for a capital offence.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76597980102053113902013-07-04T02:55:30.078-07:002013-07-04T02:55:30.078-07:00You might think they'd gain a better, healthie...<i>You might think they'd gain a better, healthier nation for their grandchildren to grow up in. But I guess when you're a billionaire, crime and societal collapse don't affect you much in your gated estates. And you can always move to the next nice country or buy your own island nation if it comes to that.</i><br /><br />The prejudices of the billionaires are no different from the rest of the educated population which has been fed leftist drivel for 70 years since WWII. Why should they think that when none of the so-called "enlightened ones" think that way?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30140444252933818392013-07-03T23:02:33.087-07:002013-07-03T23:02:33.087-07:00I know Lennon's Imagine is a lefty hymn, but t...I know Lennon's Imagine is a lefty hymn, but the Beatles' Revolution was very <a href="http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Beatles%20Lyrics/Revolution%20Lyrics.html" rel="nofollow">skeptical</a> of extreme leftism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76537727208834736892013-07-03T20:35:56.150-07:002013-07-03T20:35:56.150-07:00I was never a Limbaugh fan as I considered him too...I was never a Limbaugh fan as I considered him too rah-rah Republican, defending even the odious George W. Bush. However, I have been listening to him fairly regularly for the past two months because he now seems less prone to defend the GOP and strongly against immigration.<br /><br />Limbaugh hits all the important points about the downsides of immigration, but makes additional points I don't hear from any other mainstream commentator. For example:<br /><br />Many Republican senators and representatives hate the Republican base. They have utter contempt for them and would just as soon have them go away. <br /><br />Most of the Republicans who support the immigration bill are not so ignorant as to think it's good for the country. They have been bought off by their big-money donors.<br /><br />The political consultants that advise Republican politicians to support amnesty are primarily concerned with keeping the money flow coming from the pro-open-borders big contributors. The consultants are not greatly concerned with whether or not their candidates win. Their paycheck comes out of the contributions. (Peter Brimelow has made the same observation.)<br /><br />Limbaugh cites the same figures Steve has provided about the less than eight percent of the vote that is Hispanic versus the nearly 70 percent of the vote that comes from whites.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91124532199276852742013-07-03T15:09:50.916-07:002013-07-03T15:09:50.916-07:00Yesterday's Rush Limbaugh show dedicated a sig...Yesterday's Rush Limbaugh show dedicated a significant amount of time to immigration. He even took on callers who said conservatives should not abandon Rubio in 2016 because of his involvement in drafting the Amnesty bill. He criticised Republicans for refusing to fight democrats on Obamacare and immigration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41272151966850325392013-07-03T12:09:49.515-07:002013-07-03T12:09:49.515-07:00Why can't the tech billionaires have foreign w...<em>Why can't the tech billionaires have foreign workers in their employ without bringing them to America? The whole information revolution was supposed to be about people being able to work from anywhere. </em><br /><br />There is a lot of that going on, but there are problems with it.<br /><br />First, the quality is abysmal. They're paying just enough to pull in (at best) the equivalent of an American high-school graduate who took a summer IT course so they have fast-food levels of turnover. Techs are routinely thrown into projects for which they don't even know the language (go to any programming forum's help section to see them lining up to ask for help with Programming 101 questions, because they lied to their employer, or the employer lied to the client (or both) and told the client they had the skills).<br /><br />If you're an American IT company that's outsourcing, you don't really know what's going on with your work over there except that the quality isn't good. Your top coders who can tell good coding from bad don't want to go live in the third world to keep an eye on things, and online communications make it hard to tell that the guy editing your code is actually the third one this week.<br /><br />So the foreign outsourcing thing just doesn't work very well for anything but the lowest-level grunt work, like taking customer service calls and asking people if they've tried rebooting. Since the bigwigs like living and working in the West, moving the whole operation to where the cheap labor is isn't an option, so the other choice is to bring the cheap labor here where it can be better controlled. In the process, you filter out the less ambitious ones who might have quit in a week anyway, and you lock them into indentured servitude as guest workers, so they can't go down the street for an extra dime per hour after you spend a few weeks getting them trained (the ingrates!), the way they're free to do back home.<br /><br />They'll be a bit more expensive than they were at home, but you'll have much better control over quality and turnover, and they're still much cheaper than Americans.<br /><br />Now, any <em>quality</em> IT people and shops that arise in other countries -- and there certainly are some -- will be able to get plenty of work online, as you suggest. But they don't have the size or the bottom-rupee prices to contract with our tech billionaires.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65434900356347733722013-07-03T11:37:29.842-07:002013-07-03T11:37:29.842-07:00You might think they'd gain a better, healthie...<i>You might think they'd gain a better, healthier nation for their grandchildren to grow up in. But I guess when you're a billionaire, crime and societal collapse don't affect you much in your gated estates. And you can always move to the next nice country or buy your own island nation if it comes to that.</i><br /><br />Status is a zero-sum game, and I imagine most billionaires have zero-sum mentalities already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88538879753659867072013-07-03T11:33:14.585-07:002013-07-03T11:33:14.585-07:00"In defence of the billionaires, why would th...<em>"In defence of the billionaires, why would they? What would they gain by opposing [amnesty]?"</em><br /><br />You might think they'd gain a better, healthier nation for their grandchildren to grow up in. But I guess when you're a billionaire, crime and societal collapse don't affect you much in your gated estates. And you can always move to the next nice country or buy your own island nation if it comes to that.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72645173634935105602013-07-03T11:21:09.776-07:002013-07-03T11:21:09.776-07:00When have billionaires opposed liberalism on any s...When have billionaires opposed liberalism on any subject that isn't directly related to money? You can't include donors to the Republican Party because that's about money. Why do billionaires and millionaires always donate the big bucks to politically correct or neutral groups and causes?<br />Robert Bork gives part of the answer in his review of Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites":<br /><br />"By defining the elites primarily as money-makers, moreover, Lasch avoids the real problem our elites pose: their cultural and political values. "Efforts to define a 'new class' composed of public administrators and policy makers, relentlessly pushing a program of liberal reforms, ignore the range of political opinions among the professional and managerial elites." But this misses the point. The "new class" does not include, as Lasch contends it does, "brokers, <br />bankers, realestate promoters and developers, engineers, consultants of all kinds, systems analysts, scientists, doctors," but rather is made up of those in the second half of his list: "publicists, publishers, editors, advertising executives, art directors, moviemakers, entertainers, journalists, television producers and directors, artists, writers, university professors." Only by lumping the two groups together can he claim that there is no common political outlook. What is distinctive about the latter group is that they influence cultural and political attitudes, as the former group does not. One Oliver Stone <br />motion picture has far more impact on the way Americans see their country than all the pronouncements of the chairmen of the boards of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Microsoft, and IBM combined. The group to which Mr. Stone belongs is <br />overwhelmingly of leftist disposition. That is the "new class."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74077428277975407232013-07-03T10:28:50.218-07:002013-07-03T10:28:50.218-07:00"How about Ron Howard?"
How about Phil ..."How about Ron Howard?"<br /><br />How about Phil Jackson, 11-time NBA champion coach? He defended Arizona for passing 1070.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88657607695453978072013-07-03T10:15:29.137-07:002013-07-03T10:15:29.137-07:00Malibu-area golf courses: In a canyon between Mali...Malibu-area golf courses: In a canyon between Malibu and Zuma, between Pacific Coast Highway and the beach there are a couple of par 3 holes visible that cross the canyon. It's out beyond Perenchio's course in the middle of Malibu. Don't know if there are more than two holes.<br /><br />Overall, there aren't a lot of personal golf courses in Southern California.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5387966160705464122013-07-03T10:01:40.340-07:002013-07-03T10:01:40.340-07:00I've searched for the original Get Back lyrics...I've searched for the original Get Back lyrics. I'm not finding the whole thing, but this is said to have been a part of it:<br /><br />"Meanwhile back at home there's nineteen Pakistanis,<br />Living in a council flat<br />Candidate for Labour tells them what the plan is,<br />Then he tells them where it's at<br /><br />Get back, get back<br />Get back to where you once belonged."Glossynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52086258977863275212013-07-03T09:10:05.920-07:002013-07-03T09:10:05.920-07:00Why can't the tech billionaires have foreign w...Why can't the tech billionaires have foreign workers in their employ without bringing them to America? The whole information revolution was supposed to be about people being able to work from anywhere. If the knuckle-dragging nativists won't let Muhammad come to the mountain, the mountain can be brought to Muhammad (or Rajit, or Wei) via intercontinental high-speed cable.Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20321429140265774722013-07-03T08:57:13.926-07:002013-07-03T08:57:13.926-07:00"You might almost suspect that the billionair..."You might almost suspect that the billionaires are waging class war on the citizens of America."<br /><br />Quite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57765442367666747992013-07-03T08:53:52.609-07:002013-07-03T08:53:52.609-07:00But Paul's been a bil. for decades. Not sure w...<i>But Paul's been a bil. for decades. Not sure where he stands on immigration, though.</i><br /><br />The following is from the wiki writeup on the song Get Back, whose refrain is "Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged":<br /><br />"Around the time he was developing the lyrics to "Get Back", McCartney satirised the "Rivers of Blood speech" by former British Cabinet minister Enoch Powell in a brief jam that has become known as the "Commonwealth Song". The lyrics included a line "You'd better get back to your Commonwealth homes". The group improvised various temporary lyrics for "Get Back" leading to what has become known in Beatles' folklore as the "No Pakistanis" version.[10] This version is more racially charged, and addresses attitudes toward immigrants in America and Britain: "...don't need no Puerto Ricans living in the USA"; and "don't dig no Pakistanis taking all the people's jobs".[11] In an interview in Playboy magazine in 1980, Lennon described it as "...a better version of 'Lady Madonna'. You know, a potboiler rewrite."[12] On 23 January, the group (now in Apple Studios)[13] tried to record the song properly; bootleg recordings preserve a conversation between McCartney and Harrison between takes discussing the song, and McCartney explaining the original "protest song" concept.<br />The recording captures the group deciding to drop the third verse largely because McCartney does not feel the verse is of high<br />enough quality, although he likes the scanning of the word "Pakistani". Here the song solidifies in its two-verse, three-solo format."<br /><br />Did McCartney really mean it as satire, or did he mean it seriously, but then realized that it wasn't publishable in that form? Was the it-was-satire idea an after-the-fact cover? That I don't know. His friend Eric Clapton really is, completely seriously, an Enoch Powell fan. Glossynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45066070549657470582013-07-03T08:19:30.854-07:002013-07-03T08:19:30.854-07:00Steve, I am not sure what Zuma golf course you are...Steve, I am not sure what Zuma golf course you are talking about. There is one public course up Encinal Canyon between Mullholland, and there is a tiny 2-3 hole course in The Colony by Surfrider - Perenchio Golf Course. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33641103597878587832013-07-03T08:08:03.732-07:002013-07-03T08:08:03.732-07:00Anonymous said...
"In defence of the billion...<br />Anonymous said...<br /><br />"In defence of the billionaires, why would they? What would they gain by opposing [amnesty]?"<br /><br />That's what you call "defending" billionaires? You're not exactly a PR ace, are you?Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45112965012020304502013-07-03T07:31:52.995-07:002013-07-03T07:31:52.995-07:00"Whiskey said...
Well Steve, you have to get..."Whiskey said...<br /><br />Well Steve, you have to get over the idea that money equals power. It does not."<br /><br />Ridiculous. Notoriety does not equal power. Money, at least over a certain threshold, most certainly does. So Bill Gates cannot cane a shoe-shine boy in the street without impunity? That hardly makes him LESS powerful than the hypothetical shoe-shine boy. Why would he want to such a thing? Bill Gates can consciously influence the course of History. The influence of a ghetto "youth" on history is no different than the effect of natural disasters, mold, or crop blight - a steady, thoughtless running down of things. Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30741769898254540322013-07-03T07:25:46.607-07:002013-07-03T07:25:46.607-07:00Believe it or not, there are many under the radar ...Believe it or not, there are many under the radar billionaires who would rather not be known to the public. <br /><br />And yep, they control the real power.<br /><br />Occasionally, you hear of them, in articles like this:<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/hidden-reimann-billionaire-found-as-coty-has-new-york-ipo.html<br /><br />To be rich and obscure is the way to go. Fame is for idiots.dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60904182597754650542013-07-03T07:04:26.545-07:002013-07-03T07:04:26.545-07:00I wonder which way Santorum supporter Conor Freiss...I wonder which way Santorum supporter Conor Freiss would vote?<br /><br /><br />Also is there any change the chik fil a guy gets to a billion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85292451536018595522013-07-03T07:01:19.405-07:002013-07-03T07:01:19.405-07:00It's this new crop of Baby Boomer billionaires...It's this new crop of Baby Boomer billionaires. Like so much else that's wrong with the US, it the effing Boomers. Ross Perot would be against it.Portlandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66010135793131322702013-07-03T06:56:49.414-07:002013-07-03T06:56:49.414-07:00Jody,
The beatles catalogue reverted back to the ...Jody,<br /><br />The beatles catalogue reverted back to the original memebers, e.g. McCartney. MJ's estate doesnt have them anymore. They were sold long ago, that's why I said McCartney is a billionaire, he's gotten back the rights to his songs!<br /><br />How about conservative benefactor Richard Mellon Scaife? <br /><br />There are ways thanks in part to 'net to find out if someone would be on the billionaire's list or not. Privacy isnt exactly as easy as it once was regarding that kind of info. There are ways to find it out, but it takes research and time.<br /><br />Of course at times the media can be lazy and if they merely report what they're told then...<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82611036347166493202013-07-03T05:23:36.617-07:002013-07-03T05:23:36.617-07:00Why take what Rush says about certain issues at fa...<em>Why take what Rush says about certain issues at face value? According to Peter Brimelow, Rush has NEVER really been an advocate regarding immigration restriction. Its simply not an issue he's much interested in or hasn't been ever before.</em><br /><br />Is it possible that he could learn, and come to realize how important it is?<br /><br />I know people who have wised up on immigration. I myself used to buy the theoretical libertarian argument that open borders would be fine as long as we got rid of the welfare and other market-distorting influences. I didn't understand the importance of cultural homogeneity, or a host of economic complications that make it not nearly that simple.<br /><br />Rush isn't like a Republican politician running for office (at least I assume he's not), who can get tough on borders long enough to win, and then go back to pandering to the cheap labor lobbies. If he starts talking immigration control to boost his ratings, he'll have to stick with it to keep those new listeners.<br /><br />I haven't listened to Rush since about halfway through the Clinton presidency, but if he takes the lead on fighting this immigration treason, I will again.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62947975466004201232013-07-03T05:08:17.070-07:002013-07-03T05:08:17.070-07:00How about Ron Howard? Y'all watched the fourth...How about Ron Howard? Y'all watched the fourth season of Arrested (I hope) and tyhe few mocking references to "the border ribbon" and how Mexicans "fill our day with their culture" didn't seem to indicate an overabundance of liberal dogma on Mitchy's part.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com