tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1867129491040396568..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Bush's Zero Down Payment muralUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34654204716276559332008-11-24T13:20:00.000-08:002008-11-24T13:20:00.000-08:00Wheee, there we go, lofting through the vapors of ...<A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/group/resed/stern/zapata/07-08/Murals/images/Zapata%20Murals%20021.jpg" REL="nofollow">Wheee, there we go, lofting through the vapors of diversity!</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52448902949528177772008-11-21T13:09:00.000-08:002008-11-21T13:09:00.000-08:00HUD is the nation’s housing agency committed to in...<I>HUD is the nation’s housing agency committed to increasing homeownership, particularly among... <B>people living with AIDS</B>.</I> <BR/><BR/>WTF?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69453786521111598632008-11-21T09:33:00.000-08:002008-11-21T09:33:00.000-08:00"The real estate bubble also affected nearly all w..."The real estate bubble also affected nearly all white parts of the world such as the Spainish coast, Portland, Seattle, Dubai, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and most severely 99.9% white Iceland..."<BR/><BR/>You severely underestimate the power of the American black. Luckily you have found this blog!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14963718384196025122008-11-21T08:35:00.000-08:002008-11-21T08:35:00.000-08:00Steve,You have not addressed the other part of the...Steve,<BR/><BR/>You have not addressed the other part of the Great Diversity Crusade: executive incompetence.<BR/><BR/>In my role as web developer for several corporations, I have been repeatedly asked to write online management courses. Each time, I used standard contemporary college management textbooks as the source for these courses.<BR/><BR/>As I read these textbooks, it became clear to me that our managers have been taught very little except for the administration of racial and sexual quotas. Traditional management issues and techniques don't seem to figure much in modern management.<BR/><BR/>So, I think we have not yet seen the other shoe drop. We've educated several generations of managers in PC... and little else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45180231111739486542008-11-21T07:57:00.000-08:002008-11-21T07:57:00.000-08:00It's always amused me that the left hates Bush so ...It's always amused me that the left hates Bush so much, since, well, he's one of their own. Sometimes I think somebody should tell them.<BR/><BR/>It's always amused me that the right hates Clinton so much, since, well, he's one of their own. Sometimes I think somebody should tell them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84123762696619410642008-11-21T06:15:00.000-08:002008-11-21T06:15:00.000-08:00I for one appreciate the symmetry of "dreadful art...I for one appreciate the symmetry of "dreadful art to celebrate dreadful government policy".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17142314329681025172008-11-21T05:46:00.000-08:002008-11-21T05:46:00.000-08:00Sorry Steve, scratch that last post if you can (an...Sorry Steve, scratch that last post if you can (and thi sone as well), I had thought that I had screwed up last night in sending it, but I see that I didn't.John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22773241873584016132008-11-21T05:45:00.000-08:002008-11-21T05:45:00.000-08:00Interesting that the top painting seems to represe...Interesting that the top painting seems to represent an adult black couple with two Mexican children. The girl could be a light-skinned black, it's not clear, but the boy is unquestionably Mexican. anybody have the statistics on black parents adopting Mexican children?John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81566882636126415752008-11-21T05:06:00.000-08:002008-11-21T05:06:00.000-08:00I think that the author of that mural and ones lik...I think that the author of that mural and ones like him are displaying a certain kind of honesty. They're tacitly acknowledging that perspective, realism, subtlety and a striving for elegance are all hallmarks of European art. With which they want nothing to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30761065859722299802008-11-21T02:16:00.000-08:002008-11-21T02:16:00.000-08:00The mural is grotesque. It induces a kind of naus...The mural is grotesque. It induces a kind of nausea. But then, given the unpromising subject, I guess the artist had to abolish perspective and tilt the world at unpleasant angles to provide some interest. (Or perhaps it was an intuitive recognition on his part of the fundamental instability of the sub-prime mortgage market!). <BR/><BR/>The people look rapacious rather than happy ... although I like the world-weary expression on the piggy bank's face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6018305129604562592008-11-20T23:38:00.000-08:002008-11-20T23:38:00.000-08:00Here's the official mural, entitled... Titled, tit...<I>Here's the official mural, entitled... </I><BR/><BR/>Titled, titled! Let's not further the culture of entitlement!<BR/><BR/>From the ravenous look on the subjects' faces, this particular opus could be subtitled-- subentitled?-- <I>There Goes the Neighborhood</I>. Why do they expect us to dispense with stereotypes, if they won't?<BR/><BR/><I>By rights, the artist should be taken out and hung . . .</I>-- Grumpy Old Man<BR/><BR/>Hanged, hanged! <BR/><BR/>Sorry to be Miss Grundy tonight. Maybe Grumpy and I should check in to the <A HREF="http://www.historicandersonhouse.com/" REL="nofollow">Anderson House</A> for the weekend, where they give you a <A HREF="http://www.historicandersonhouse.com/cats2.htm" REL="nofollow">live cat</A> to make you <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Blumpoe-Grumpoe-Meets-Arnold-Cat/dp/0966114906" REL="nofollow">feel better</A>. (Though Mini Morris kept us awake.)<BR/><BR/>Of course, this is in the town where they set-- what else?-- <A HREF="http://www.wabashamn.org/grumpy-plunge/" REL="nofollow"><I>Grumpy Old Men</I></A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91422032315271691062008-11-20T23:22:00.000-08:002008-11-20T23:22:00.000-08:00AS -- Hahaha. That's the mural which has the pictu...AS -- <BR/><BR/>Hahaha. That's the mural which has the picture of the old crone which makes her look like a monster. Another own goal for the diversitoids. Good to see another sane Stanford person here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41617215925951825172008-11-20T22:42:00.000-08:002008-11-20T22:42:00.000-08:00I am Lugash.Off topic idea here. Does anyone think...I am Lugash.<BR/><BR/>Off topic idea here. Does anyone think it is likely that Detroit the City's dismal track record contributed to Detroit the Auto Industry's downfall? Any young business hotshot just out of college wouldn't consider living in Detroit. Anyone with any talent would pack up his bags and leave if they joined by mistake. You're left with pod people like Rick Wagoner as a result. Detroit the Auto Industry seems to have the same lassitude and diffused incompetence that most government agencies do.<BR/><BR/>I am Lugash.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68991887513268049602008-11-20T21:31:00.000-08:002008-11-20T21:31:00.000-08:00I wonder if the Arias family of Baltimore is legal...I wonder if the Arias family of Baltimore is legalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52737972877653490712008-11-20T21:24:00.000-08:002008-11-20T21:24:00.000-08:00Steve, I hate to kill a meme you love and are runn...Steve, I hate to kill a meme you love and are running with, but:<BR/><BR/>The bubble was not just poor minorities buying houses, indeed subprime mortgages are an increasingly small part of the economic crisis.<BR/><BR/>The real estate bubble also affected nearly all white parts of the world such as the Spainish coast, Portland, Seattle, Dubai, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and most severely 99.9% white Iceland.<BR/><BR/>It also included, besides real estate, such things as oil, potash, gold, silver, rice, fine art, tin, copper, and midwestern farm land. As a matter of fact, the prices of many of these things went up much more than California real estate, and have gone done much more as well.<BR/><BR/>Furthermore, as an article you linked to noted, demand for subprime mortgages was so gigantic that synthetic subprime mortages that did not involve giving anyone an actual loan were created and sold to eager demand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84942348329116397992008-11-20T20:50:00.000-08:002008-11-20T20:50:00.000-08:00That is the most hideously ugly mural I have ever ...That is the most hideously ugly mural I have ever seen.<BR/><BR/>By rights, the artist should be taken out and hung . . .Grumpy Old Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885003732996511989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40368844073468724312008-11-20T20:09:00.000-08:002008-11-20T20:09:00.000-08:00It's always amused me that the left hates Bush so ...<I>It's always amused me that the left hates Bush so much, since, well, he's one of their own. Sometimes I think somebody should tell them.</I> - Jim O.<BR/><BR/>*sigh* I tell them all the time. They tell me, "No, Bush passed No Child Left Behind! He's a nation-builder who intervenes wherever the media say there are human rights violations! He refuses to cut government waste! He's not a leftist." <BR/><BR/>*sigh*B322https://www.blogger.com/profile/18257802768718375656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48209171371046526512008-11-20T19:44:00.000-08:002008-11-20T19:44:00.000-08:00Have you noticed that these Latino political mural...Have you noticed that these Latino political murals are always incredibly ugly? <BR/><BR/>A bit off topic, but Stanford has a Latino political mural in its Latino themed house in the Stern dormitory. <BR/><BR/>It features a naked Latino man and woman flying through the air. <BR/><BR/>Another part of the mural features various Latinos sitting and standing around a cafeteria table, some of whom are cafeteria workers. The caption reads something like "You fought for us, cried for us, scrubbed floors for us..." Etc.<BR/><BR/>It is reviled by *everybody* as hideous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6783281732409420652008-11-20T19:14:00.000-08:002008-11-20T19:14:00.000-08:00Vincent said... Feh, I can draw better than that.....<I>Vincent said... <BR/>Feh, I can draw better than that...where's my fat gubbermint paycheck?<BR/>Oh wait...I'm a white male!</I><BR/><BR/>Move to Alaska. Palin will cut a fat check.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24477780418081184912008-11-20T19:01:00.000-08:002008-11-20T19:01:00.000-08:00I read that it's rumored Obama is considering Jim ...I read that it's rumored Obama is considering Jim Clyburn, a black congressman from South Carolina, as his HUD secretary, James Jones, a white Marine general, as his security head, and Larry Summers, a Jew, as his Treasury secretary. Perhaps Obama's great achievement will be to demostrate a black president can be just as predictable as all those other presidents on the dollar bills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23759440406603883642008-11-20T18:50:00.000-08:002008-11-20T18:50:00.000-08:00Well, at least it's politically-correct primitive ...Well, at least it's politically-correct primitive art, painted without any of that nasty dead white male refinement of, you know, technique.<BR/><BR/>It's art that truly imitates life, art that shows the artist identifies with his subjects, a painting crudely made from sophisticated materials (acrylic paint) produced by the advanced technology of despicable white people, which depicts crude people moving into a house produced by the advanced technology of despicable white people. This art delivers a powerful message: despicable white people provide everything for crude brown people. Just look at the joy on those faces!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28618775669548757122008-11-20T18:27:00.000-08:002008-11-20T18:27:00.000-08:00It's always amused me that the left hates Bush so ...It's always amused me that the left hates Bush so much, since, well, he's one of their own. Sometimes I think somebody should tell them.Jim Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912710881278409532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64566901882258347322008-11-20T18:26:00.000-08:002008-11-20T18:26:00.000-08:00The aesthetic quality of the mural matches the qua...The aesthetic quality of the mural matches the quality of the ideas behind Bush's initiative. It's truth in advertising. <BR/><BR/>I wish more things in life worked that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87221857910739986802008-11-20T18:05:00.000-08:002008-11-20T18:05:00.000-08:00This is a great representation of the “American Ni...This is a great representation of the “American Nightmare”.Mark Prescohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03261202790462777158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89931349289114508902008-11-20T18:04:00.000-08:002008-11-20T18:04:00.000-08:00The top picture is interesting, it seems to show a...The top picture is interesting, it seems to show a black couple with two Mexican children. <BR/><BR/>Bush may actually have come close to his goal of increasing minority owndership of homes by close to 5.5million, even if a lot of those minorities only owned their homes for a brief while. <BR/><BR/>HalfbreedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com