tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2840779397812253213..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Iraq War Fatalities: The White Man's BurdenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63842189644675697182013-03-22T22:27:42.869-07:002013-03-22T22:27:42.869-07:00>The real operating costs of all this are less ...>The real operating costs of all this are less than a tenth of the amount billed.<<br /><br />That's only my estimate. But typically hospitals knock a large percentage off a bill before it's presented to an uninsured patient - like 25%. Then you can sometimes ask them to knock off another 10% or 20%. Then you can pay $X per month for about a year, at which point they call you offering to knock off another 20% if you'll just pay off the bill NOW. You can politely decline this, or you can get into hard-nosed negotiations (e.g., "make it 50%"). This without going through the courts.<br /><br />The alternative for the hospital is to try and catch flies with vinegar by immediately turning every bill over to one of the many (often unstable) outside collection agencies...which charge substantial fees for their services, and only recover a fraction of what's owed on a fraction of accounts.<br /><br />A hospital is happier with recovering a third or more of potential total defaults, but I believe that it usually won't completely turn up its nose at a tenth, as long as the total losses are manageable.<br /><br />I want to reiterate that one's legitimate, non-usurious debts ought to be paid per any mutually agreed-on contract, even if one must make payments for the rest of one's life. Screwing an honest creditor out of his money is personally degenerate and socially destructive.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71723242035593690132013-03-22T22:01:50.267-07:002013-03-22T22:01:50.267-07:00I know its off-topic Mr. Sailer, but, Britain just...I know its off-topic Mr. Sailer, but, Britain just announced that by 2019, the last British soldiers will finally leave Germany and return home. This is "only" thirty years after the Berlin wall fell. Any thoughts from you or your readers on when, or if, Americans will ever leave, and entrust Germans to their own defense of the Fatherland from whatever imaginary enemy they may face? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18116319466214683092013-03-22T18:43:09.564-07:002013-03-22T18:43:09.564-07:00Apart from Colin Powell and Condoleeza, minorities...Apart from Colin Powell and Condoleeza, minorities did zero in plotting the Iraq war. If whites wanted to follow the path Perle, Frum, etc. laid out for them, more the pity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59052999223956092392013-03-22T11:36:38.908-07:002013-03-22T11:36:38.908-07:00I know this is late, but...
Ben Tillman,
These ar...I know this is late, but...<br /><br />Ben Tillman,<br />These are pretty much my husband's thoughts as well. We're in a good situation, too, in that it really is a trivial amount that they are trying to get from us.<br /><br />David,<br />Forgive my thoughtlessness. Your words were so kind and I was touched; thanks for sharing some of your experiences. Whatever you have gone through, my travails are minor in comparison.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83510557326856124842013-03-22T11:28:28.874-07:002013-03-22T11:28:28.874-07:00iCasualties.org has a tally of Iraq War fatalities...iCasualties.org has a tally of Iraq War fatalities. They stopped showing fatality data by Race/Ethnicity but they did in the past.<br /><br />The data there up until 2008 showed that in addition to whites, native Hawaiians were being killed at a higher rate than their proportion of the population. The native Hawaiians were being killed at a significantly higher rate than their proportion of the population. They were above 1% of the deaths, when the proportion of young native Hawaiian males as a percentage of US population is probably around 0.2%:<br /><br />http://web.archive.org/web/20080708203210/http://icasualties.org/oif/Ethnicity.aspx<br /><br />At some point in 2008, they removed native Hawaiian as an explicit category in their fatalities count.<br /><br />And at some point after 2008, they removed race/ethnicity categories altogether. The current site does not break down fatalities by race/ethnicity:<br /><br />http://icasualties.org/Iraq/Fatalities.aspxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62845889364555965932013-03-22T10:32:49.965-07:002013-03-22T10:32:49.965-07:006:25 AM says that more people were killed by Husse...6:25 AM says that more people were killed by Hussein than by Bush. I guess Bush was going to show Hussein that he could match him Iraqi for Iraqi in the killing game. Anyway, that's just a repeat of the same old tired propaganda line the neo-cons used to sucker the public. I suppose one could count the Iraqi soldiers that were killed in the Iraq-Iran war but in that case the US approved and supported that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15862237203402168172013-03-22T07:58:41.999-07:002013-03-22T07:58:41.999-07:00On a Tangent here: I would like some of the reader...On a Tangent here: I would like some of the readers imagination on What would happen in case of an Economic Depression in the USA Socio-Politically; if it were to happen in a few years time?Geronimohttp://www.ut.edu/~dgilimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69488857677229080372013-03-22T07:36:47.004-07:002013-03-22T07:36:47.004-07:00The false meme that NAMs account for a disproporti...The false meme that NAMs account for a disproportionate share of casualties still has legs today. Check out this exerpt from the execrable "Family Guy" (it's brief, so you will not be sickened long):<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zB0V5NrQM<br /><br />"Family Guy", created by that loathesome impresario of pop-culture crap, Seth MacFarlane, is a popular show, so images like that probably stick in the minds of the kind of 20-somethings who get their news from the Comedy Channel, and who will never themselves join the military.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20494077503670704762013-03-22T07:29:47.878-07:002013-03-22T07:29:47.878-07:00"Auntie Analogue said...
Now I thank God tha..."Auntie Analogue said...<br /><br />Now I thank God that my son opted to go to college. Although I disapprove of his chosen major, I can at least take comfort in the knowledge that the big shots in his chosen field cannot use him as cannon fodder for their unforgivably asinine megalo-utopian schemes."<br /><br />Actually, as a university student, he is cannon fodder for the unforgivably assinine meglao-utopian schemes of academics. But at least he will not be risking life and limb in a pointless and immoral foreign war, so you are indeed fortunate there.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63511427014956813362013-03-22T06:25:07.178-07:002013-03-22T06:25:07.178-07:00Not a been fan of Bush but more people were actaul...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Not a been fan of Bush but more people were actaully killed by Sadam Hassan then Bush and more combined Muslims and chirstiasd under his regime. The left has a lot of paleo-cons con and a lot of eastern christians don't think western christians are christians either because of the crusades. Eastern Orthodox are anti-catholic and protestant in the middle east and pro-Islam over their western brothers or jews.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26224172360864840032013-03-22T06:15:04.613-07:002013-03-22T06:15:04.613-07:00I suspect that it's not even that they don'...<em>I suspect that it's not even that they don't care about the Middle Eastern Christians' plight, so much as they're completely unaware of it in the first place. After all, it's not like persecution of Middle Eastern Christians is frequently in the news.</em><br /><br />Yep. Most middle-American Catholics I know have no idea there are significant Christian populations in those countries that date back centuries, like the Coptics in Egypt; or that those people are in danger of being driven out or worse by the democratically-elected Muslims we keep helping to put in charge. <br /><br />They were reasonably safe under dictators or military regimes; those might have been bad guys to have a problem with, but they had a practical desire to stay in power and keep things running and the money coming in. For that reason, they kept the worst of the Muslim craziness subdued, and Christians could live and work there comfortably as long as they weren't too overt about religion. Not freedom as we think of it, but not dhimmitude either. <br /><br />Under democracy, with power going to whichever Muslim sect can whip up the strongest support, all bets are off, and those people would be wise to leave if they can.<br /><br />I'm not necessarily one who says we should have left Saddam in charge; he did seem determined to cause problems. But there were other options besides trying to restructure the place to run like a Midwestern US state, which anyone with sense could have known wouldn't work. We could have declared Saddam a war criminal and walking target, said that the bombing would stop as soon as someone turned him over, and put his least-crazy subordinate in charge with a warning not to start the same crap. The same regime without the more extreme excesses would have been a big improvement over what's there now, and a whole lot cheaper for us.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35453716745093693622013-03-22T05:39:56.292-07:002013-03-22T05:39:56.292-07:00This guy has percentages of Jewish military during...This guy has percentages of Jewish military during Vietnam, he does not seem to dispute the demographics. He refers anecdotally to his Dad, who served in VN and was indeed a brave man.<br />http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=11362<br /><br />When it comes to Jewish moralists I think most people just get tired of the holier-than-thou tone of Jewish speakers. The Jewish moralists feel as if they are called by the Lord(a light onto nations) to tell the rest of us how to live, yet statistically, the numbers seem pretty convincing, they sit home and orate from Mount Moral High Ground while the dumb TV watching, football cheering Herd trots dutifully off to VN or Iraq to take an AK round through the neck or have their balls blown off by an IED. For what? For the Holy Freedom or Democracy, but the Herd is unaware or not allowing themselves to even think that they have lost that vaunted Freedom of Speech at home and in the Democracy area they are treated like second class citizens merely because they are peach colored.Conatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12543138570489872681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80889715524018872462013-03-22T05:08:33.356-07:002013-03-22T05:08:33.356-07:00So, was the Iraq war an unusual burst of systemic ...So, was the Iraq war an unusual burst of systemic incompetence among our leaders, or par for the course? I keep thinking of other disasters and ongoing chronic problems--the third world quality Katrina fiasco, the financial meltdown and bailouts of politically connected businesses, the endless war in Afghanistan, the domestic war onterror stuff that never did make any sense given the actual threat, budget deficits every year, shocking numbers of vacant federal judge seats thanks to a political power struggle that's been going on for over a decade--those all point inthe direction of persistent, large-scale ineptitude. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34746807291803257402013-03-22T04:38:33.445-07:002013-03-22T04:38:33.445-07:00The people who gave the most to this country in re...The people who gave the most to this country in recent wars:<br /><br />American Samoans <br /><br />Other minorities gave more than the white man like Korean Americans. <br /><br />What about them Steve?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53166866448039024922013-03-22T03:36:53.322-07:002013-03-22T03:36:53.322-07:00These crusades are for the white elite
White? Are...<i>These crusades are for the white elite</i><br /><br />White? Are you sure there isnt something of a qualification that you could add there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37696922837675666652013-03-22T03:31:45.878-07:002013-03-22T03:31:45.878-07:00The default on medical bills is astronomical; if a...<i>The default on medical bills is astronomical; if any hospital can recover even a tenth of what it's owed (or 100% over X years), it's in the seventh heaven - though no one there will admit that or do joyful cartwheels down the hallways, of course.</i><br /><br />Interesting, which gives the medical/industrial complex game away. i.e. The <i>real</i> operating costs of all this are less than a tenth of the amount billed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71944602120759195692013-03-22T01:43:41.382-07:002013-03-22T01:43:41.382-07:00"Tragedy of paralyzed Army veteran, 33, featu..."Tragedy of paralyzed Army veteran, 33, featured in 'Body of War' who plans to refuse nourishment to end his life because he can no longer live in pain<br /><br /> Army veteran Tomas Young enrolled in the Army two days after 9/11<br /> Deployed to Iraq in 2004 and paralyzed by sniper's bullet four days later<br /> Mr Young plans to refuse nourishment as he is in constant pain<br /> Veteran has written his last letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney shaming them for killing thousands in the war"<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297057/Tomas-Young-Dying-Iraq-war-veteran-Body-War-pens-letter-George-W-Bush-Dick-Cheney.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15176801033131084132013-03-22T01:14:39.473-07:002013-03-22T01:14:39.473-07:00Yup.
And the same demographic is the most (legally...Yup.<br />And the same demographic is the most (legally) discriminated against and reviled in the homeland they gave their lives and limbs to defend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1765013638184385672013-03-22T00:23:07.976-07:002013-03-22T00:23:07.976-07:00Anonymous (3/21/13, 1:48 PM) said...
"And th...Anonymous (3/21/13, 1:48 PM) said...<br /><br />"<i>And the Christian community in Iraq?<br /><br />Funny that most white conservative Christians care more about Jews(in Israel and US, even though most US Jews are liberal) than about Arab Christians.</i>"<br /><br />Most Americans, including most conservative Christians, have no idea that there are (well, more like were) indigenous Christian communities in the Middle East. <br /><br />I remember seeing more than a few liberals make snide remarks in the comments sections of the few mainstream media articles that covered persecution of Iraqi Christians (or Egyptian Coptic Christians, etc.) about Christians having no business being in Islamic nations, trying to thump their Bibles and convert Muslims over to Jeezus, and all. <br /><br />Those know-it-all liberals seemed to think that the Christians in the Middle East were white Evangelical missionaries. They seemed to have no clue that the Iraqi and Middle Eastern Christians are native populations that belong to Middle Eastern churches that have been there for 2000 years (long predating the Islamic invasions).<br /><br />But maybe worse, most American Christians are equally ignorant.<br /><br />I suspect that it's not even that they don't care about the Middle Eastern Christians' plight, so much as they're completely unaware of it in the first place. After all, it's not like persecution of Middle Eastern Christians is frequently in the news.<br /><br />It's probably possible, though, that some Evangelicals actually wouldn't care about their plight even if they were aware of it, as many Evangelicals don't consider Eastern Christians, Catholics or mainline Protestants to be "Christian" (i.e., they don't have a personal relationship with Jesus). <br /><br />Either way, it's distressing.Drunk Idiotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52423333669452686532013-03-21T23:18:11.927-07:002013-03-21T23:18:11.927-07:00These crusades are for the white elite, and the no...These crusades are for the white elite, and the non elite white soldiers get first dibs on the spoils of war. So why shouldn't most of the deaths be from the white man?<br /><br />It's not like Mexicans or Asians are retiring into cush defense industry jobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76983886651954587552013-03-21T23:08:20.619-07:002013-03-21T23:08:20.619-07:00Here's another IED blast from a decade past, w...Here's another IED blast from a decade past, when the US strode the world stage like a colossus. The Mission Accomplished speech!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yCsmwoMecU<br /><br />And the guy up there who thinks Jews avoided service in WWII is a royal idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63779764191840109812013-03-21T22:57:13.005-07:002013-03-21T22:57:13.005-07:00Just a short word on Jews in the armed forces. I d...Just a short word on Jews in the armed forces. I don't know the numbers like you obsessives do but I do know Jews and as I repeatedly point out here, unsuccessful Jews (you know, the sort that need a job in the armed forces) tend to cease identifying as Jews. I personally know young men born to two Jewish parents in the US armed forces who do not identify as Jewish on any official documents. If you have a problem with Richard Perle, take it up with him, not with the semitic shlub too dumb for college. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52429092279849941682013-03-21T22:15:26.956-07:002013-03-21T22:15:26.956-07:00@Dahlia
Sorry.
They need to make up the cost of...@Dahlia <br /><br />Sorry.<br /><br />They need to make up the cost of Mexicans that don't pay a cent for using the hospital.<br /><br />You also need to pay the ob/gyn's high medical malpractice rates, which are the highest of any medical specialty. Since minority women with an army of willing lawyers sue ob/gyns for malpractice when their child comes out with birth defects from using drugs when pregnant. Kaznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43960023579307953422013-03-21T21:29:09.796-07:002013-03-21T21:29:09.796-07:00Anonymous wrote:
"Yeah, everyone knows Jews g...<b>Anonymous wrote:</b><br />"<i>Yeah, everyone knows Jews got off easy in WWII.</i>"<br /><br />You seem to imply that Jews suffered uniquely in WWII. No, many, if not <i>most</i>, ethnic-groups east of the Rhine in Europe suffered terribly in the 1940s -- population losses and threats to national viability.<br /><br />National viability -- Look at the Baltics as an example. The Estonians and Latvians -- who despite not have much of a hand in Hollywood, did indeed have it worse than the Jews in many ways -- both Ests and Letts underwent a three-part disaster in WWII and aftermath: (1) ~25% population loss 1940-1950 due to Stalin's terror. (2) Minority status in all their own cities, as Soviet colonists were brought in after annexation in '45. (Riga was two-thirds non-Latvian/Russian-speaking by 1990; Latvia as a whole, only 51% Latvian in '90). (3) The natives were mired in Moscow-sponsored cultural-pessimism, and native-TFR cratered accordingly. <br /><br />How bad was it? Amazingly, because of the above, we see that there are <i>fewer Estonians alive in the 2010s than there were in the 1910s</i>. On the whole, 1940-1990 was an unmitigated disaster for Estonians/Latvians. (And many other ethnic-groups/subgroups in Europe and Asia).<br /><br />In comparison: <br />After the war, Jews were granted the right to form an ethno-state (Israel), and a blank-slate to push around/colonize/occupy neighbors till the end of time. Plus trillions in free aid from us. (An estimated $15 billion in total aid yearly just from the USA means that the Israel Tax (in ancient times called 'tribute') is $150-$200 from every single U.S. income-tax-payer, every year. $150+ sent directly to Israel. "Work harder! Israel depends on <i>your</i> handouts"). Their aggressive PR on behalf of their own suffering has given them a moral total blank slate to do anything and get trillions in free aid. "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column" rel="nofollow">Running" Hollywood</a> has its advantages.<br /><br />It's not about "getting off easy", but the Jewish nation (diaspora and their ethno-state) were certainly more viable in 1990 (or 2013, if you prefer) than in 1940. Is there anyone who would dispute that? We cannot say the same for <i>any</i> non-Semitic racially-European ethnic-group, anywhere on Earth, AFAIK.Hailhttp://hailtoyou.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51478664008881756052013-03-21T20:57:40.277-07:002013-03-21T20:57:40.277-07:00A writer for the Baltimore Sun has reported that b...<i>A writer for the Baltimore Sun has reported that black combat troops are excused from operations in Afganistan because the Taliban all try to shoot the black soldier first. Can anyone verify this??</i><br /><br />I would not be surprised. A lot of the crime and sexual harassment and aggression associated with US troop presence throughout the world is disproportionately committed by black GIs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com