tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7918277856083038418..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The Vegas DecadeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24792930710965528112008-11-21T17:05:00.000-08:002008-11-21T17:05:00.000-08:00Steve, "Nehemiah" is an example of one of the hund...Steve, "Nehemiah" is an example of one of the hundreds of scam charities set up to evade downpayment requirements set by investors in mortgages, both public and private.<BR/><BR/>They way it works is that the seller finds a buyer with no downpayment, then "gives" the money to a charity, which takes a fairly modest cut (because there are so many of them its competitive) and hands it to the buyer. Boom! The buyer has a downpayment and can get a loan.<BR/> <BR/>You need to have a corrupt bank, a corrupt mortgage broker, a corrupt appraiser a corrupt real estate agent, a corrupt investment bank to package up and sell the turd of a loan at the end too. But those are not hard to find, they are nearly all crooked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75883112202281933622008-11-21T14:43:00.000-08:002008-11-21T14:43:00.000-08:00I noticed that CSI gradually started to acknowledg...I noticed that CSI gradually started to acknowledge a large Hispanic population in Las Vegas but the ethnic background of the perps, just like in most other cop series, did not tally with the real crime statistics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8589416263009936062008-11-21T10:04:00.000-08:002008-11-21T10:04:00.000-08:00I guess we should not be surprised by the mass del...I guess we should not be surprised by the mass delusion by intelligent people in general. After all, the Soviet Union and its government was created by intelligent people who thought they were doing the "right" thing. Even though the Soviet Union had been in decline since at least the early 70's, the belief in the system and its underlying ideology was so all-encompassing that debates about the meaning of the dialectic took place in the Central Committee up until the whole house of cards collapsed in 1991. <BR/><BR/>China also has a long history of intelligent people subscribing to bogus ideas that ended up failing in the end. Hence, the dynamic life-cycle.<BR/><BR/>Why should we believe intelligent people in the West to be any more immune to mass delusion than those anywhere else in the world?kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10476297850895650822008-11-21T09:24:00.000-08:002008-11-21T09:24:00.000-08:00Don't miss this story:http://www.newyorker.com/rep...Don't miss this story:<BR/><BR/>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_boyerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48692664462486475382008-11-21T08:19:00.000-08:002008-11-21T08:19:00.000-08:00I'm a little curious about all our newly vacant ho...I'm a little curious about all our newly vacant houses. Where did the occupants got? It seems we built a lot of houses nobody really needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47111125647226488732008-11-21T06:35:00.000-08:002008-11-21T06:35:00.000-08:00Nehemiah may have rebuilt Jerusalem, but he was st...Nehemiah may have rebuilt Jerusalem, but he was still a <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah" REL="nofollow">eunuch</A> of the king of Persia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com