tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1958428562840749138..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The Boredom of BarackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48793587196120598002010-04-15T12:34:30.513-07:002010-04-15T12:34:30.513-07:00>Bored because he has never been challenged [et...>Bored because he has never been challenged [etc.]<<br /><br />HOW old is he?<br /><br />This stuff sounds like a high school counselor's discussing a 17-year-old (or younger) boy!<br /><br />WTF?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37211763967304460532010-04-14T18:45:31.956-07:002010-04-14T18:45:31.956-07:00"Bored because he has never been challenged....."Bored because he has never been challenged..."<br /><br />What a load of rubbish! He has an average to slightly above average IQ. He won't release his college records. He got into college and graduate school because of affirmative action and sponsors, but because of academic rigor. Listen to the man talk without the teleprompter! He is not that bright! That's why he is bored, because he is clueless about what is going on around him!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46316034238522016072010-04-14T16:46:26.460-07:002010-04-14T16:46:26.460-07:00"He has sooo many groupies, he gets lots of t..."He has sooo many groupies, he gets lots of tail from women who keep it secret from the press."<br /><br />oh come on. Groupies? Female ones? He's accompanied at all times by a his aid, Reggie Love. I don't think they would get past him.<br />. No groupies of the female gender have come forward from the past. No breathy Happy Birthday Mr. President has been sung.<br />Even Soros and the other media owners couldn't invent any girls for him. But I guess you want to help his image, so keep tryin with those odd, and unbelievable assertions. A leading man has got to be butch.<br />but what were we talking about? Oh yeah. How "bright" Obama is. Good God some of you people don't give up. Tell me how bright he is when you dig up the brilliant writings produced during his years as president of the Harvard Law Review; writings from cases he argued or classes he taught as a adjunct professor at Chicago U. Let's have comments from his colleagues. Let's have speeches he writes on his own, or just a speech without TOTUS.<br />Otherwise get out of here with that "he's obviously bright." No. It's not "obvious" at all. If you didn't tell me, I'd never know he was at all.not againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37502856412472358742010-04-14T15:43:44.379-07:002010-04-14T15:43:44.379-07:00"Do you believe that accomplishment is binary..."Do you believe that accomplishment is binary? You are either a billionaire or a bum, a nobel laureate or a retard? <br /><br />Again Grasshopper, you are having trouble with reading comprehension. I did not imply the above, Mr. Aubrey did. His exact quote:<br /><br />"I find it interesting that even after all that, in fields where merit really matters - Nobel laureates, billionaires - there are still no black Nobel science laureates and only one black billionaire (Oprah)"<br /><br />The obvious meaning is that the only fields in which merit is present are Nobel (science) laureates and billionaires. Therefore, you feel that Captain Jack Aubrey is "not as smart as a child", not me.<br /><br />You white nationalists are really hard on each other.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29125140365563909412010-04-14T13:45:04.031-07:002010-04-14T13:45:04.031-07:00> Barack Sr. had a very "disconnected"...> Barack Sr. had a very "disconnected" personality, with breezy, self-centered indulgences central to it. <<br /><br />Sounds stereotypical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30647055442402837622010-04-14T08:16:18.026-07:002010-04-14T08:16:18.026-07:00Kylie's comment re BHO's "brightness&...Kylie's comment re BHO's "brightness" and self absorption are on target. By every indication by the time he arrived at Harvard and on HLR,<br />there was huge desire to accommodate a Black who could talk the talk whether he could walk the intellectual walk or not. That he is bright is indisputable. That he is bright concomitant with his credentials and verbal skills is quite questionable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26862797351166711822010-04-14T07:32:22.024-07:002010-04-14T07:32:22.024-07:00"Truth said...
Would one be fair to surmise ..."Truth said...<br /><br />Would one be fair to surmise from this that you've accomplished nothing of merit in your life Jack?<br /><br /> In any event, there have been six Black Billionairesin the past decade, and twelve<br /> Black Nobel Laureates."<br /><br />Do you believe that accomplishment is binary? You are either a billionaire or a bum, a nobel laureate or a retard? The fact that there is some measure of very high accomplishment, does not mean that there is no level of lesser accomplishment. Even a child knows that. Evidently, "Truth", you are not as smart as a child.<br /><br />By the way, the man wrote "science laureates", as they are the only ones that count (who wants to be in the same club as Al Gore and Yassir Arafat?). So where are the black nobel laureates in science?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28490774726807448452010-04-14T06:20:11.076-07:002010-04-14T06:20:11.076-07:00In any event, there have been six Black Billionair...<b>In any event, there have been six Black Billionairesin the past decade, and twelve Black Nobel Laureates.</b><br /><br />My black billionaires comment referred to current black American billionaires, because it is the most easily measurable, and I should have have spelled that out. There is currently only one, so far as I know - Oprah. Feel free to list the other five. I used current billionaires in order to allow some way to measure them relative to non-black billionaires. <br /><br />In one case of a partially black foreign billionaire - Michael Lee-Chin - an interesting aspect is that he is not half black by virtue of having one black parent and one non-black parent, but by having two parents who were each half black and half Chinese. This means that genetically he could've inherited a disproportionate number of genes affecting intelligence could be from his Chinese ancestors. If a man has one completely African parent and one completely Chinese parent his genes must be 50/50 (actually 51/49, favoring his mother). Past the first generation, however, that doesn't hold true.<br /><br />In regards to Nobel laureates I did say that I was referring specifically to science laureates. Too often the non-science prizes are handed out as political door prizes. Eight of the 12 black laureates you mentioned are in Peace, while three are in literature. I did miss <i>one</i> economics laureate however.<br /><br />Besides, both of your links are broken.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71358107026545123582010-04-14T03:55:19.752-07:002010-04-14T03:55:19.752-07:00What really is needed is a careful
discovery/ stip...What really is needed is a careful<br />discovery/ stipulation/of biographical facts relevant to the President's life and that surely includes facts about his ancestors to at least three generations. There isn't that much, actually, that's been truly tied down. I have deliberately evaded his own books as being basically manipulative exercises--a gerrymandering of facts and experiences. It is utterly gratuituous to assume that race was ever of much significance in his upbringing or to him personally-- apart from its political utility that apparently had been discovered when he returned from extensive travels after high school and announced,<br />"No more Barry" His mother could arise from the grave to remark in full sincerety, "That's my boy!"<br />Neither grandfather, similarly brought forth, could remark truthfully, "He's his own man".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8211509191188274122010-04-14T02:32:56.912-07:002010-04-14T02:32:56.912-07:00President Obama's Harvard Law School successes...President Obama's Harvard Law School successes should not be<br />"explained away" certainly, but he could reveal his grades, his LSAT scores, etc. And just what HLR<br />contributions did he author? Where are the transcripts/recordings of his debates, if any? These questions are not rhetorical assertions that publications by him do not exist in HLR or that records of informed and reasoned disputation between him and bright persons do not exist....but , then, where? The Birth Certificate matter is fed not so much on some doubt about his being smuggled in swaddling clothes from Kenya into the US---but just why will BHO not reveal fully the original document and the known details--who delivered him, exactly where, etc. Madeline Payne Dunham certainly would have known, but she was defintely kept <br />incommunicado for the last years of her life. Questions and doubts certaining "the real Obama" just crawl out of the woodwork like cockroaches in a darkened flop house. They are fed by the circumstances,I submit, not by the questioners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42205275694801965832010-04-14T01:48:58.732-07:002010-04-14T01:48:58.732-07:00Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law?
...Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law?<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />Is this the Lake Wobegon Effect in action? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_effect<br /><br />So, he's just a lighter complected version of Thomas Sowell?<br /><br />How did I miss this?<br /><br />C'mon, this doesn't pass the Smell Test.Roger Chailletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46253916042251912832010-04-13T23:20:51.511-07:002010-04-13T23:20:51.511-07:00"I find it interesting that even after all th..."I find it interesting that even after all that, in fields where merit really matters - Nobel laureates, billionaires"<br />Would one be fair to surmise from this that you've accomplished nothing of merit in your life Jack?<br /><br />In any event, there have been six <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_billionaires" rel="nofollow">Black Billionaires</a>in the past decade, and twelve <br /><a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_Nobel_Laureates" rel="nofollow">Black Nobel Laureates.</a>Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22176137927970883192010-04-13T22:17:50.851-07:002010-04-13T22:17:50.851-07:00I have to think President BHO benefitted in his mi...I have to think President BHO benefitted in his mixed-racedness from the fact that his father's skin was so dark that Barack Jr. came out looking not too much lighter than your average black American. Had he come out looking like Derek Jeter he might've been just as smart but in politics he wouldn't have been considered "black enough" and he'd still be a senator, at best.<br /><br />There's something else about mixed race blacks that interests me. Blacks and whites have been mixing their genes, voluntarily and involuntarily, for several centuries now, and I find it interesting that even after all that, in fields where merit really matters - Nobel laureates, billionaires - there are still no black Nobel science laureates and only one black billionaire (Oprah), and her only by running her mouth.<br /><br />What does this say? Well it says that with regards to genes affecting intelligence there must be not one or a handful but possibly dozens, if not even more - and in most cases Africans didn't get the better genes.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57405899351108219472010-04-13T21:21:36.883-07:002010-04-13T21:21:36.883-07:00Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law. ...Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law. That's top 10%. Grades are blinded. This is a feat that can be accomplished by nothing other that fierce, furious intellect and HARD WORK. There is NO affirmative action involved with that. Take it from someone who knows, not these poseurs who think they know anything about the man's intellect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65961450260443292632010-04-13T19:32:38.691-07:002010-04-13T19:32:38.691-07:00Eisenhower actually graduated 61st out of 164 at W...Eisenhower actually graduated 61st out of 164 at West Point. He did graduate 1st in a class of 275 at Command and General Staff school in 1925, after he had significant experience. <br /><br />At least two of his five brothers were highly distinguished in their own right, easily eclipsing Ike through the 1930's, when he was a little-known major. The rest had solidly upper middle class careers. It was quite an accomplishment for a poor, unconnected family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36816498181540595562010-04-13T19:12:23.013-07:002010-04-13T19:12:23.013-07:00The presidency either bores or frustrates Mr. Obam...The presidency either bores or frustrates Mr. Obama. He's done almost nothing with it so far. At least nothing that he "should" want to do as a redistributionist, kumbaya lefty.<br /><br />He's using the military to wage 2 wars. He gave what, half a trillion $ to Wall Street.<br /><br />He's a pretty bright guy, maybe he's down and bored because he sees the writing on the wall. The baby boomers will start retiring pretty soon. The early 20's demographic is like 35-40% nonwhite. Jobs that require brains will pay more as the supply of brains decreases. Income inequality will rise at the same time total GDP stays roughly stagnant. The dumbs and their leaders will see that as rising exploitation and oppression. The Diversity Recession will turn into the diversity depression. Except it isn't a depression, because it'll never turn around.<br /><br />If the Democrats keep just core of white 'progressives' (the pandagon set) who despise most other whites + (to a decent approximation) all the minorities, they will have a permanent hold on government. When they mistakes, there won't be enough of swing vote to change course.<br /><br />I'd be bored and depressed too. The country's pretty tapped out, and there's not much he could do that would help, even if wanted to.<br /><br /><i>One way men traditionally relieve boredom is through sex,either alone or with a partner(s). So I wonder what Barry is doing on that score. He cant be going to Michelle. he seems very similar to Bill Clinton in these matters(matters of the uhm,heart).</i><br /><br />Obama was raised by whites in Hawaii. How many black women was he around growing up? I find it hard to believe that he's all that into black women.<br /><br />Unless variation in sexual taste in women has a significant genetic component, and even if it does, East African faces and bodies don't look much like West Africans. Really, white men raised by whites are not very into black women, and successful black men, well they usually aren't either.<br /><br />My guesses: I'm wrong, he has a great sex life with Michelle. He has sooo many groupies, he gets lots of tail from women who keep it secret from the press. Michelle would almost have to know. Chances are Obama has much better taste in women than Clinton(who doesn't?) and his extracurricular partners have reputations and careers to lose.robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34610458708337146962010-04-13T15:54:29.346-07:002010-04-13T15:54:29.346-07:00"You're in the right neighborhood, Steve...."You're in the right neighborhood, Steve. Brilliant, restless people find things to do."<br /><br />You don't consider administrating the free world "finding something to do?"<br /><br />Dang, it's a rough crowd!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13827713832370303682010-04-13T11:10:24.091-07:002010-04-13T11:10:24.091-07:00Yep very funny stuff when its revealed that Barry ...Yep very funny stuff when its revealed that Barry is bored because he's TOO smart,not because he's NOT very smart. Lets hope he finds a subject that will actually require him to tax that magnificent machine in his fuzzy little old head!I mean,besides March Madness. I must,at this point, bring up a somewhat disquieting question. Barry is fairly young,and has been deemed healthy,and he IS black after all...(Look at Tiger Woods,if that staement offends you.) One way men traditionally relieve boredom is through sex,either alone or with a partner(s). So I wonder what Barry is doing on that score. He cant be going to Michelle. he seems very similar to Bill Clinton in these matters(matters of the uhm,heart). Certainly,like Bill,he cant be having loving relations with his wife,can he?? Can u see that?? I cant. Like Bill,I am sure he feels the need to validate himself sexually. He may be a dullard compared to Clinton,but evry bit as egotistic if not moreso. The recent dumping of Desiree Rogers,she taking the fall for the immense screwup in the gate crashing affair,Gategate,was said to reflect a high level of catfighting(Meeeeowwww) in the White House.Probably some funny stories there,as I cant see the bored but ultra ambitious Rogers(who btw was once the president--the president!!!-of Comm. Edison. WTF??)being too demur to turn down a chance at getting close to the Big Chief hisself. Would be interesting to see who Barry is banging.joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59505922770659447872010-04-13T10:30:05.001-07:002010-04-13T10:30:05.001-07:00"Many would love greatness thrust upon them h..."Many would love greatness thrust upon them however the price of having to live with Michelle is too high for even the most ambitious sorts."<br /><br />Most definitely.Marc Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526121114466617234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89767038792934052302010-04-13T07:59:01.489-07:002010-04-13T07:59:01.489-07:00gcochran
Hard to say what predictive or analytic ...gcochran<br /><br />Hard to say what predictive or analytic value class rank at the military academies has. MacArthur was first in his class and Eisenhower was second. Custer was dead last and Patton was in the middle. Each of these men won fame in their careers, but it was a fame unique to each based on other criteria than grades. Custer had a legendary number of demerits that contributed to his ranking. Patton was a mediocre student. Both had magnificent courage, as did McCain. Adversity will test men and make the best use of their best talents; educational grades may or may not have any value in that process.Dennisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42328159725660731352010-04-13T07:29:17.056-07:002010-04-13T07:29:17.056-07:00Harry Baldwin said: "BTW, I'm amazed at t...Harry Baldwin said: "BTW, I'm amazed at the stubborn refusal of some people to grant that Obama is at least very bright, if not brilliant. They keep saying he has to read lines off the teleprompter, but when he was answering questions at the Republican conclave in Baltimore earlier this year, he was not reading from a teleprompter."<br /><br />Agreed. The trouble is, he's nowhere near as bright as his fans claim so it's tempting to go the other route and underestimate him. <br /><br />Also, lack of a teleprompter and the ability to engage in rapid repartee is no indication of high IQ (e.g., Muhammed Ali). One of the traits so often found in blacks, a certain verbal facility, is often hopefully cited by white liberals as proof of blacks' underestimated verbal intelligence. But I think it's more accurately acribed to high sociability and the ability to imitate rather than evidence of cognitive equality with whites.<br /><br />No doubt about it, at times Obama can be quite eloquent (the "race speech"). But he pulls a trick I know well, having done it myself innumerable times in school--uses his verbal facility to obscure or distract from his lack of hard-core knowledge and/or understanding. (Come to think of it, he uses his "blackness" the same way.) One prof actually gave me an "A" on an essay test, writing "Good reply. But you didn't answer the question". The same could apply to much of what Obama says. And his "logic" is easy even for me to refute.<br /><br />Harry Baldwin said: "It may feel good to dismiss the 0's intellect, but I think it's a mistake to underestimate your opponents."<br /><br />Absolutely. In any case, I think you <i>can</i> dismiss Obama's intellect and still be on guard against underestimating him. He totally lacks, say, Clinton's personal charisma (I say this as one of the latter's biggest non-fans) and he does not know how to win over opponents but he does know how to seem "black enough" to those who value that sort of thing: non-threatening enough to nice clueless whites and authentic enough to hard-core lefties.<br /><br />If nothing else, those tempted to underestimate him should remember that he is, above all, a narcissist. And narcissists will move heaven and earth and dispense with social and even moral niceties in order to preserve their unrealistic image of themselves and make sure they are getting what they think is their due.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67972092391802989742010-04-13T06:09:45.630-07:002010-04-13T06:09:45.630-07:00Isn't chronic boredom a symptom of clinical de...Isn't chronic boredom a symptom of clinical depression?<br /><br />Some chronically unhappy people are also very ambitious. They assume that the key to happiness is just one promotion away.<br /><br />If you follow this line of reasoning about Obama, it gets scary kinda quickly. If you become LITERALLY the most powerful man on the planet and you're still not happy, then what?Paul Mendezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13254898636271278035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50673386218869366482010-04-13T04:25:56.054-07:002010-04-13T04:25:56.054-07:00Madeline's family did not boot her for "h...Madeline's family did not boot her for "hooking up" with Stanley. Her father appears to have been a bookkeeper/accountant for the Standard Oil (?) refinery in Augusta, KS. Madeline lived with her parents along with her then infant daughter, Stanlee Ann (probably the BC spelling ), during WWII when Madeline rapidly advanced as a worker in the huge Boeing assembly plant adjacent to Wichita, becoming herself a time clock accountant. "Ann" (she was always in schizoid fashion "juggling" her name and having convoluted emotional ripples about contrived 'complaining'--attention getting-- over her name ) probably did not see her father until she was over three years old or certainly would not have bonded up with him until then (if at all ). <br />Stanley / Stanlee/ Ann Dunham appears to have few sustained direct human relationships, and her busy body but productive involvements in the rural villages of third world nations and her busy body leftist comminglings gave her mediated "relationships" via her pottery, weaving, etc etc.<br />The BHO story might well be in reality to a significant extent<br />"Nighmares of my Mother" The President appears light in his loafers and the indicators are that he had a remarkable poverty of heterosexual relationships until at about age 28 whem he married Michelle (Robinson, was it?) who used to cuddle in her father's lap when she was 18 years old. One could have ushered all these relatives before a competent psychiatrist/APA Board Certified clinical psychologist<br />a n d <br />the person they would have wished to have visited with at some length would have been<br />Ann Dunham, a genuine "nut" case.<br />I've seen exactly n o t h i n g<br />suggesting Barry Obama ever confronted his relationship with her (escaping to the Dunham's is not a confrontation ) and the endless "brainwashing" she inflicted as care and guidance. The White House is a sit com, folks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50005400605700730272010-04-13T00:07:59.420-07:002010-04-13T00:07:59.420-07:00Obama is bright, but I don't think quite brigh...Obama is bright, but I don't think quite bright on the scale his credentials suggest. For example, John Roberts and Obama were both editors of the Harvard Law Review while in law school, and both graduated Magna Cum Laude. Does anyone think Obama's intellect is anywhere near that of Roberts? A partial list of HLR editors is available at wikipedia. I don't think Obama is in the same area code as most of those listed. <br /><br />I suspect that's why his grades and transcripts are kept under wraps. In the absence of evidence, people can project their wishes and hopes onto him, which is a persistent tactic of Obama's. Maybe the defining tactic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16423550259847299482010-04-12T23:56:19.608-07:002010-04-12T23:56:19.608-07:00How about boredom with Barack? Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
And...How about boredom with Barack? Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.<br /><br />And how about boredom with those thrilled with Barack? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.fasfdasfdsafsdnoreply@blogger.com