tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1792104703937730555..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Obama Administration Promises to Make Public Schools Even More DysfunctionalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5051628666603921292010-03-14T21:43:22.248-07:002010-03-14T21:43:22.248-07:00Sorry, it was shortly before dawn - right before I...Sorry, it was shortly before dawn - right before I went to sleep - and I was typing into this impossibly tiny 2" X 3" text input area.<br /><br />[Why do they always make these text input areas so tiny?]<br /><br />Anyway, I was concentrating on getting an accurate transcript of the remarks from the Limbaugh show, and it was only after I typed the thing up that I noticed that the monosyllable "AXE" appeared in an ambient sentence which was utter gibberish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44285764530074797482010-03-13T11:06:59.694-08:002010-03-13T11:06:59.694-08:00David: "Liberal".
It was parody, dude.David: "Liberal".<br /><br />It was parody, dude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37696275473933816952010-03-12T13:28:59.751-08:002010-03-12T13:28:59.751-08:00Again, the use of [pseudo-] sentences like this ar...<i>Again, the use of [pseudo-] sentences like this are the hallmark of a person whose IQ isn't much above 110, or thereabouts.</i><br /><br />I agree with you, of course, but in this context your subject-verb disagreement is awfully funny.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46774070116732247542010-03-12T10:43:49.298-08:002010-03-12T10:43:49.298-08:00> When do they sue God for not passing out brai...> <b>When do they sue God for not passing out brains on an equal basis? I guess God doesn't have any money.</b><br /><br />> You know, you joke about stuff like that, but I strongly suspect that the sort of insanity you are hinting at is precisely what occupies much of the waking thought [and likely the sleeping dreams] of the modern leftist-nihilist kook. <<br /><br />Their philosophy is the idea that only spirit matters, not the body. "We're all equal under the skin," "not this crude matter" (to quote Yoda), etc.<br /><br />So "crude matter" and "social constructs" get in the way of "the genius in all of us."<br /><br />It's dualism, big time. So they probably get a quantity of their mojo from religion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91261123995632021902010-03-12T10:40:30.713-08:002010-03-12T10:40:30.713-08:00> Boys are socialized to be violent, the same w...> Boys are socialized to be violent, the same way that minorities are socialized to [be] underachieving. <<br /><br />Liberal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84150938290496149722010-03-11T23:10:56.790-08:002010-03-11T23:10:56.790-08:00Tangentially related, Obama has announced the reci...Tangentially related, Obama has announced the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/03/obama-nobel-prize-money.html" rel="nofollow">recipients of the $1.4 million</a> he "earned" from his Nobel Prize. Gee, don't you get the idea that Obama wishes he'd won the Nobel after leaving office, so he actually coulda kept the money? Of course, the "speaking fees" and other ex post facto kickbacks Obama will be receiving come January 22, 2013 will dwarf the Nobel money, but still...<br /><br />Charities benefitting blacks:<br />1. Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund: $200k<br />2. College Summit: $125k<br />3. Posse Foundation: $125k<br />4. United Negro College: $125k<br />5. AfriCare: $100k<br /><br />Hispanics:<br />1. Hispanic Scholarship Fund: $125k<br /><br />Whites:<br />1. Appalachian Leadership & Ed Fund: $125k<br /><br />American Indians:<br />1. American Indian College Fund: $125k<br /><br />Muslims:<br />1. Central Asia Institute: $100k<br /><br />Veterans:<br />1. Fisher House: $250k<br /><br />$675,000 (48%) goes to charities exclusively helping blacks.<br /><br />$400,000 (28.6%) goes to charities serving people outside of the United States.<br /><br />$725,000 (52%) goes to ethnocentric organizations of any kind (the Appalachian Fund doesn't serve only whites). <br /><br />Only $375,000 goes to organizations that <i>might</i> serve poor whites - the Appalachian Fund and Fisher House.<br /><br />Kinda gives you an idea of the way Obama sees the world, doesn't it? Through the lens of race, and only through the lens of race.<br /><br />I'm wagering that 100% of it would've gone to black charities if he wasn't expected to publicly release the list of recipients.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68040101157549829552010-03-11T21:30:28.627-08:002010-03-11T21:30:28.627-08:00"When do they sue God for not passing out bra..."When do they sue God for not passing out brains on an equal basis?<br /><br />I guess God doesn't have any money"<br /><br />No,they should sue their parents for giving them no brains or looks.<br />Jonathan Swift did not celebrate his brithday. He treated it as a day of mourning because he was brought into this world of misery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58183712847151999342010-03-11T16:48:37.616-08:002010-03-11T16:48:37.616-08:003/09/2010
Blogger PRCalDude said...
Paging Mr...3/09/2010<br /><i>Blogger PRCalDude said...<br /><br /> Paging Mr. Sailer.</i><br /><br />'The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong' by David Shenk.<br /><br />While reading the Amazon book review, I thought David Shenk was possibly another Steven J. Gould, and could take up the mantle of Cardinal bishop for Liberal Creationists everywhere, however, after listening to his Nature Edcast book review interview, I realized his shallow arguments are much more akin to Malcolm Gladwells. Lots of quotes of authors and studies of questionable veracity. <br /><br />Interview transcript <a href="http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/natureedcast" rel="nofollow"> here. </a> <br /><br />From the Nature Edcast Interview: <br /><i> The reason that this (intelligence) hasn't really been articulated well is that up until really recently, this process of development was basically impossible to see. I mean after all, if intelligence is made up of a series of skills — of competencies, and of talent (or musical or athletic or other sorts of talent) — are made up of all these different skills, they actually represent tiny, tiny, tiny increments of improvement over many, many, many years time.</i> <br /><br />Duh. Anyone who has taught music to small children knows the musically talented can perfect playing, recalling and improvising classical pieces in a few hours time, while the untalented waste an eternity of time and patience. <br />Anyone who has taught mathematics or reading to small children also known talent is spread unevenly among children. Mr Shenk's naivete about exceptional children and their development is puzzling and disappointing. <br /><br />None dare call it talent *or* the new human potential bowel movement<br /><br />Again from the Nature Edcast Interview:<br /><i>And let's instead to imagine where the science is pointing us, which is to a world that has really an extraordinary amount of potential — where instead of talent scarcity, this just an incredible amount of talent potential, arguably in all of us. <b>Obviously we're all different beings, and so the potential is going to be different.</b> But it really is this idea that we really haven't tapped into so much of our talent. And let's think about that is a whole new paradigm. That's the basic argument of my book.</i><br /><br />And like Oakland, in 'The Genius in All of Us:' there is no there, there.Toadalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02710674512538267656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43067435326882617472010-03-11T15:58:53.193-08:002010-03-11T15:58:53.193-08:00When do they sue God for not passing out brains on...<i>When do they sue God for not passing out brains on an equal basis? I guess God doesn't have any money.</i> <br /><br />You know, you joke about stuff like that, but I strongly suspect that the sort of insanity you are hinting at is precisely what occupies much of the waking thought [and likely the sleeping dreams] of the modern leftist-nihilist kook.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4675052968134150752010-03-11T15:25:51.377-08:002010-03-11T15:25:51.377-08:00One bright point. This should lower the cost of p...One bright point. This should lower the cost of public education. Just look at how well this has worked out for Kansas City schools!Dalrocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43244926376225495782010-03-11T14:29:49.348-08:002010-03-11T14:29:49.348-08:00IIRC, there was at least one case were someone tri...IIRC, there was at least one case were someone tried to sue either God or Satan for his/her personal misfortunes. The judge had enough sense to through it out of court.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19809147837871547212010-03-11T13:20:35.955-08:002010-03-11T13:20:35.955-08:00When do they sue God for not passing out brains on...When do they sue God for not passing out brains on an equal basis?<br /><br />I guess God doesn't have any money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67234433103900824282010-03-11T11:11:35.459-08:002010-03-11T11:11:35.459-08:00I think this is true, but I doubt they'll go a...<i>I think this is true, but I doubt they'll go after homeschoolers head-on. They'll just make sure the parents who want to homeschool their children have a mountain of paperwork to file, teach from government-approved lesson plans, and take expensive and lengthy certification courses before they can start.<br /><br />In other words, it'll be regulated to death. I doubt they even need new laws to do it.</i><br /><br />So you'll have sceloritic bureaucracies full of low-motivation dummies trying to oppress organized highly motivated parents with... paperwork. Oh I'm really scared.<br /><br />It's comments like this that make me realize how out of it you people are when it comes to the realities of childrearing. You *already* need to have a filing cabinet for your progeny. You *already* need to show papers, stand in lines, and have everything in order if you want to leave the country with a minor, play sports, or do anything involving driving or overnights. <br /><br />Oh and you do realize any attempt to regulate homeschooling in this way will result in endless turf wars among federal, state, and local authorities? In the time it will take everyone to work out who gets to oppress me, I will just move to Texas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38106720930882716442010-03-11T10:35:21.939-08:002010-03-11T10:35:21.939-08:00When I grew up, I attended for a time a segregated...When I grew up, I attended for a time a segregated school - and we had 'tracked' sections. That is, we European-Americans were sorted into classrooms by academic ability. That stratification began to end when we integrated and the courts found that tracking resulted in the school having whites learning in mostly white classrooms and blacks in mostly black classrooms. Now, with the popularity of the AP and IB programs, we have found an 'acceptable' of tracking and thus re-homogenizing classroom complexions. <br /><br />Since de facto segregation is what Obama, and the others are going after, they might as well go after the selective colleges too - where, in spite of affirmative action scholarships - those institutions are essentially still segregated (ignoring Asians here).William1066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17097430972373740522010-03-11T10:26:44.475-08:002010-03-11T10:26:44.475-08:00A)Let them fire the white teachers,they are only t...A)Let them fire the white teachers,they are only turning their own schools into mini-Zimbabwe. B) Re Whiskey & David Duke:Good point re the "disparate impact" of the careers of Duke vs the dear Rev Wright. You might add that Sarah P --who has stated proudly she has a flag of Israel on her wall--can buy Rev Wright and keep him as a pet. As for Dukes "idiocy": what does that mean? Could you provide one major Duke assertion that is idiotic?I am a huge fan of Duke's. Theyre scared shitless of him in the media. I once saw him clobber Wolf Blitzed on CNN. They learned their lesson.I wont see that again,I presume. I wish he was running for Congress again--I'd vote for him in a second. President? Well,i wouldnt go that far. Having a guy who is an inexperineced outsider in the Presidency? One with a racial agenda? Come on! Not in MY America. The prob with Duke is not unlike the prob with,uhm,other voices who have blogs and stuff;its very importanat that theyre denounced and shit upon,but you cant be too clear on exactly what theyre saying thats so wrong-- could put idears into peoples heads. And,btw,I am a truther.( I am NOT a birther-tho I DO think its a tad suspicious that the Leader isnt forthcoming w/his birth cert. I guess you'd have to say Im a "partial-birther." ) I know that truthers are paranoid idiots,unpatriotic and such,but could you just explain about the Dancing Israelis? Just so I am clear.joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83504621971684834812010-03-11T10:14:19.720-08:002010-03-11T10:14:19.720-08:00@kurt9
The effect of this policy on public educati...@kurt9<br /><i>The effect of this policy on public education will be to increase the white migration to the "whitopias". Young people will live in places like Dallas/Ft. Worth or SoCal to build careers. However, when they get married and decide to have kids, they will move to the whitopia to have their families. In addition to a better quality of life, the whitopia often has lower housing costs (Affordable Family Formation) which allows them to buy a bigger house with a big yard.</i><br /><br />Just between SoCal and DFW there is a huge difference in quality of life, affordable family formation, etc. I grew up in SoCal and most of my family still lives there. You can buy a bigger/newer house in a nicer neighborhood (while still closer to the city center) in DFW for $150k than you can in SoCal for half a million (even after adjusting for differences in wages). In addition, Texas has very liberal gun laws and is very strict against violent crime, where SoCal is the opposite. There is also much more effort by people of all races to get along and be polite.<br /><br />The migration from SoCal to Tx the above would suggest is already taking place, but a large number of people in SoCal are either psychologically or literally tethered to SoCal due to real estate. Most of those who aren't underwater on their mortgage still harbor dreams of hitting the jackpot on SoCal real estate. <br /><br />I'm not sure Montana is so great for household formation, but it might be a great place to retire. My in-laws all live there and property values aren't that great compared to wages/jobs.Dalrocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26783133522453120832010-03-11T08:37:43.842-08:002010-03-11T08:37:43.842-08:00So like the open-borders fanatics who achieved the...<i>So like the open-borders fanatics who achieved their goal by ignoring immigration enforcement, we'll achieve ours by ignoring civil rights enforcement.</i><br /><br />This overlooks the small detail that, in contrast to immigration, the regime spares no expense to rigorously enforce anti-White civil rights.Tanstaaflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809764986911255031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71520042776911596132010-03-11T07:06:21.794-08:002010-03-11T07:06:21.794-08:00Obama and Pals are bribing the teachers/teachers-u...Obama and Pals are bribing the teachers/teachers-unions:<br />http://biggovernment.com/vderugy/2010/03/10/who-is-the-stimulus-money-stimulating-teachers/<br /><br />The "harass and bribe" method of Hope and Change?<br /><br /><i>bull said...<br />From my experience in the public school system, most students disciplined are male (no surprise there). I'll bet that's one kind of discrimination that never gets investigated.</i><br /> <br />It was already investigated - remember the "No fair! Boys get more attention in classes!" panic a few years ago?<br /><br /><br /><i>Racist policies, like administering the test in a written format are also to blame.</i><br /><br />The only fair thing would be to have students answer the questions by ESP.Le Murnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22293815385713895602010-03-11T05:20:48.425-08:002010-03-11T05:20:48.425-08:00Here is what life is like for Gottfredson.
Lesson...Here is what life is like for Gottfredson.<br /><br />Lessons in academic freedom as lived experience<br />Personality and Individual Differences, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 January 2010<br />Linda S. Gottfredson<br /><br />By the way the strongest push back for dropping discipline standards will come from the teachers unions. Interesting battle between two Democratic Party groups. See Rockford Illinois and their changing of discipline standards for an example. <br /><br />SomeguyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45492883979008687112010-03-11T03:10:59.327-08:002010-03-11T03:10:59.327-08:00will they make sure that shortish asians are fairl...will they make sure that shortish asians are fairly represented in basket ball? <br /><br />(as compensation when their numbers are reduced in math olympiads)FelixMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37483577803688080602010-03-11T02:48:20.737-08:002010-03-11T02:48:20.737-08:00Mark: Because quite frankly it looks like the enti...<b>Mark:</b> <i>Because quite frankly it looks like the entire country, Palin- and Huckabee-voting Republitards included, is willing to follow this blank slate nonsense straight down the crapper.</i> <br /><br />I dunno - it could just be that the little anti-modern bubble which I inhabit precludes me from measuring [accurately] the pulse of the zeitgeist, but I get the sense that people are just sick of this insanity.<br /><br />And watching an affirmative action president destroy their country is surely going to drive a sizable portion of the populace into apoplexy.<br /><br />Heck, Rush Limbaugh has taken to <a href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002220031" rel="nofollow">openly ridiculing Obama</a> on this stuff:<br /><br /><br /><b>LIMBAUGH:</b> <i>This is this morning, at the White House, President Obama addressing a National Governors Association - yeah, just a small portion of what he had to say here.</i> <br /><br /><b>OBAMA:</b> <i>As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds, we will <b>AXE</b> all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college- and career-ready in reading and math. </i> <br /><br /><b>LIMBAUGH:</b> <i>Ah, did you catch, did you catch that Snerdley, what did you, did you catch that? What, what? No, you missed it. You missed it. See, you're, you're listening to the substance here. You missed this. Play it again, Mike.</i> <br /><br /><b>OBAMA:</b> <i>As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds, we will <b>AXE</b> all states to put in place a plan to adopt and certify standards that are college- and career-ready in reading and math. </i> <br /><br /><b>LIMBAUGH:</b> <i>This is, this is what, this is what Harry Reid was talking about. Obama can turn on that black dialect, ah, when he wants to and turn it off. I mean - President of the United States just said here, ah, 'as a condition of receiving' - I wonder if this was on the teleprompter - did somebody put this on the prompter? 'As a condition of receiving access to Title I funds, we will <b>AXE</b> all states' - who's he trying to reach out here to, the Reverend Jackson, the Obama criticizer? And who's he, who's he - now if, if I used the word '<b>AXE</b>' for the rest of the day, ah, am I gonna get beat up and, and creamed, ah, for making fun of this clean, crisp, calm, cool, new, articulate President? Maybe we should do it and see what happens. I'll, I'll <b>AXE</b> my advisers, ah, and I might even <b>AXE</b> Governor Koomo, ah, as the Reverend Jackson pronounced his name. We'll be right back...</i> <br /><br /><br />PS: As far as the rest of the sentence is concerned, STANDARDS aren't "college-ready" or "career-ready"; STANDARDS are supposed to form the basis of the system which would enable STUDENTS to become "college-ready" or "career-ready".<br /><br />This is <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/evidence_mounts_ayers_cowrote.html" rel="nofollow">the kind of gibberish that Obama used to write</a> back before he hired William Ayers and Jon Favreau to write for him:<br /><br /><i>But <b>organizing</b> the black community <b>faces</b> enormous problems</i> <br /><br />Organizers [as opposed to the gerund "organizing"] face problems.<br /><br />Students [as opposed to "standards"] are college-ready.<br /><br />Again, the use of [pseudo-] sentences like this are the hallmark of a person whose IQ isn't much above 110, or thereabouts.<br /><br />[And the estimate of 110 might be generous...]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32129185995813489852010-03-11T02:30:27.222-08:002010-03-11T02:30:27.222-08:00Whiskey: I don't see this doing anything other...<b>Whiskey:</b> <i>I don't see this doing anything other than bringing politics to a breaking point.</i> <br /><br />Have you been following the Obamacare debacle?<br /><br /><a href="http://minx.cc/?post=299169" rel="nofollow">It's not clear to me</a> that we have politics in this country anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90868516687075707142010-03-10T22:55:37.289-08:002010-03-10T22:55:37.289-08:00The letters will focus on 17 areas of civil rights...<b>The letters will focus on 17 areas of civil rights concern, including possible racial discrimination in student assignments and admissions, in the meting out of discipline, and in access to resources, <i>including qualified teachers</i>.</b><br /><br />Uhhhh....yeah. Where I went to school - and it was a school where minority enrollment was pretty low - the "qualified teachers" (i.e., the best teachers) taught the most advanced classes, meaning AP and honors sections. Force the best teachers to take on the worst students and they'll either quit, move to entirely white districts, or move to provate schools.<br /><br />This whole plan of action is simply a guarantee of more white flight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87396723402851962592010-03-10T22:49:10.394-08:002010-03-10T22:49:10.394-08:00I don't think we're ever going to get rid ...I don't think we're ever going to get rid of these laws mandating equality in education. The upside to being flat broke is that we don't have to. Eventually we're going to have to start cutting somewhere to save money, like it or not.<br /><br />So like the open-borders fanatics who achieved their goal by ignoring immigration enforcement, we'll achieve ours by ignoring civil rights enforcement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27542181209403279342010-03-10T22:41:50.587-08:002010-03-10T22:41:50.587-08:00He's looking more and more like a one termer. ...<b>He's looking more and more like a one termer. Failing in all his practical endeavors he seems to be turning back to what his strong suit is: ideological pursuits.</b><br /><br />Anyone seen <i>any</i> Republican who is willing to call it for what it is? I mean, I like Mitt Romney and he's definitely one of the more qualified candidates in recent memory, but do you think he's willing to even covertly give the middle finger to political correctness?<br /><br />Because quite frankly it looks like the entire country, Palin- and Huckabee-voting Republitards included, is willing to follow this blank slate nonsense straight down the crapper. The amount of inefficiency it creates in the economy is no longer affordable.<br /><br />P.S. As always - disparate impact <i>does not</i> apply to Asians and Jews. They earned their success. Gentile whites got it only by being racists.Marknoreply@blogger.com