tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2962996183084019717..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Obama considers Larry Summers for Treasury SecretaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50111014795457634722008-11-13T19:46:00.000-08:002008-11-13T19:46:00.000-08:00The problem with Summers is that the Clinton era b...The problem with Summers is that the Clinton era bailouts he was involved in were a moral hazard that, in part, led to the mess we're in now. If investment banks were allowed to fail during the LTCM crisis it would have introduced some discipline to the system. Banks would not have continued to take on more leverage, and the derivitives problem would have been dealt with when it was significantly smaller.<BR/>(As Herbert Spencer said "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.")<BR/><BR/>Here's a good article on Summers and Obama's other advisors-<BR/><BR/>"No change, no hope: Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board<BR/><BR/>They are the unalluring faces of past failures! Roel Campos and William Donaldson served on the SEC when this organisation aided and abetted the excesses of the investment banks that contributed so much to the financial and economic crisis now facing us. Robert Rubin has been a life-long leading light in the banking system that has just imploded and is dragging the real economy with it. William Daley is Robert Rubin lite. Both Rubin and Summers were deeply involved in the Clinton era bail-outs in emerging markets. Both exhibited the characteristic myopia and inability to make credible commitments that turned many of these bail-outs into moral hazard incubators. Larry Summers in particular has never seen a bail-out he did not like and never one so large that he did not want to boost its size further. He will have a field day in the current crisis."<BR/><BR/>http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2008/11/no-change-no-hope-obamas-transition-economic-advisory-board/#more-358Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64711162950807952102008-11-13T17:29:00.000-08:002008-11-13T17:29:00.000-08:00That plus my unusually large tallywhacker; but you...That plus my unusually large tallywhacker; but you guys can't see that over the internet can you?Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48471995468205958072008-11-13T08:17:00.000-08:002008-11-13T08:17:00.000-08:00"Truth said..."The whole conspiracy theory is nuts..."Truth said...<BR/><BR/>"The whole conspiracy theory is nuts...."<BR/><BR/>Yes, or one could believe that people have sex with chimpanzees."<BR/><BR/>Or, simply that people ate infected bush meat. People in Africa do eat bush meat. But why let a simple fact stand in the way of your favorite conspiracy theory.<BR/><BR/>"Ask youself five simple questions:<BR/><BR/>"1) Do governments create weapons?<BR/><BR/>"2) Do Governments test those weapons?<BR/><BR/>"3) Do Governments create biological weapons?<BR/><BR/>"4) Would the most logical place to test weapons be amongst a people 'no one would miss'?"<BR/><BR/>"5) I lab created AIDS a possibility?"<BR/><BR/>1.) Yes<BR/><BR/>2.) Yes<BR/><BR/>3.) No. All biological weapons have only been adapted from existing pathogens. They weren't even genetically engineered using the new methods. They were just refined and weaponized.<BR/><BR/>4.) Irrelevant<BR/><BR/>5.) No. Beyond the state of the are of micro-biology then, or now.<BR/><BR/>But you just go on thinking you're one of the few cognoscenti to know some secret truth, Truth. After all, that's what makes you important.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23681286900314555162008-11-12T22:24:00.000-08:002008-11-12T22:24:00.000-08:00"The whole conspiracy theory is nuts...."Yes, or o..."The whole conspiracy theory is nuts...."<BR/><BR/>Yes, or one could believe that people have sex with chimpanzees.<BR/><BR/>Ask youself five simple questions:<BR/><BR/>1) Do governments create weapons?<BR/><BR/>2) Do Governments test those weapons?<BR/><BR/>3) Do Governments create biological weapons?<BR/><BR/>4) Would the most logical place to test weapons be amongst a people 'no one would miss'?<BR/><BR/>5) I lab created AIDS a possibility?Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26445477324869332072008-11-12T17:20:00.000-08:002008-11-12T17:20:00.000-08:00There's no way HIV was created by anyone, just giv...There's no way HIV was created by anyone, just given the state of the art in biotech, immunology, and virology when it would have had to be created. Suppose you started your program to develop it in 1975 (there are tissue samples dating from much earlier with HIV). What's a CD4 molecule, and what cells carry it? Who knew enough about retroviruses? My amateur take on this is that such a project done in 1970-1980, say, would have been either impossible or Manhattan-project-like in difficulty and scope. (I wonder what Greg Cochran or Razib think.) <BR/><BR/>My take is that it's possible someone found HIV in the wild and somehow tried to spread it. But it would have been damned hard to isolate and understand it. Remember how long it took from when the whole gay bathhouse scene in the US melted down into a whole bunch of guys dying really bad deaths, until the virus was isolated? And how much longer until anyone worked out what the hell it was doing? <BR/><BR/>Also, for those of us who aren't into the racial identity thing (Wright clearly is), it's useful to distinguish *which* whites are alleged to have created HIV. South Africa had a pretty well-developed bioweapons program, and might have had the ideological desire (neither the US nor USSR did). But I think what they actually did was use existing pathogens as assassination agents, so the irritating anti-Apartheid leader could die tragically of TB or pneumonia instead of being shot 119 times while resisting arrest. Is there any evidence that they were developing new viruses? Or harvesting unknown viruses from the African countryside, isolating them faster than the best doctors in the world could a decade or two later, and spreading them without worrying about the disease catching up with whites in South Africa? <BR/><BR/>The whole conspiracy theory is nuts. It's natural (everyone wants to see some actor behind some horrible thing like millions of people dying awful deaths), it's more-or-less a known bug in our programming, but it's still nuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85617870210260307192008-11-11T12:30:00.000-08:002008-11-11T12:30:00.000-08:00The Gallia Watch article said it best: "The slavis...The Gallia Watch article said it best: "The slavish imitation of America by France is nothing new. They hate us, but they imitate our defects and revile our virtues. They have completely lost their way this time."<BR/><BR/>They absorbed anti-Americanism from the US and changed the style to disguise the source. They adopted PC and replaced anti-white spin with an anti-religious spin. Plenty of Frenchmen would say "America is lousy with racism". How many would say "America is wonderful because it where we learned to reject European civilization as too racist/sexist/religiously bigoted"? None, probably. <BR/><BR/>But support for Obama shows that a certain sort of American President can enjoy support among Euro leftists. This will evaporate the instant he takes military action anywhere, for any reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43659267964377914742008-11-11T08:58:00.000-08:002008-11-11T08:58:00.000-08:00Yet it seems unusual that he would align himself w...<I>Yet it seems unusual that he would align himself with them, simply because he opposed the Iraq War from the very start.</I><BR/><BR/>Obama has never opposed the "war".<BR/><BR/>Opposing the "war" means explicitly stating, at every opportunity, that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, that Iraq posed no threat to the US, that the plan to invade Iraq was hatched by a cabal of foreign agents for the pourpose of benefitting a foreign state, and that what the US government did is the same thing that the US government hanged Nazi leaders for doing at Nuremberg.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps you meant that Obama <B>disagreed</B> with the decision to invade Iraq?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10432452899943523072008-11-11T08:38:00.000-08:002008-11-11T08:38:00.000-08:00I've been watching Pinker, the foremost public fig...<I>I've been watching Pinker, the foremost public figure explaining that genes matter, on this. When it comes to race, he flinches.</I><BR/><BR/>And when it comes to his own race, he goes berserk. His attack on MacDonald for studying Jewry demonstrated that he's just another S.J. Gould at heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72289660925645077592008-11-10T20:44:00.000-08:002008-11-10T20:44:00.000-08:00un"Yes, but the adult Obama wrote about the incide...un"Yes, but the adult Obama wrote about the incident in the book, which made his grandfather look like a deadbeat."<BR/><BR/>His grandfather was, by most accounts, a deadbeat.<BR/><BR/>"Discussion with you is like a session at an argument clinic in that old Monty Python episode (No it isn't. Yes, it is. etc.)"<BR/><BR/>Hey, it was good enough for the two candidates for US president; what are you some Pinko Commie?!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47551856378160742082008-11-10T17:46:00.000-08:002008-11-10T17:46:00.000-08:00"Truth said...This is a fairly well-accepted theor..."Truth said...<BR/><BR/>This is a fairly well-accepted theory seconded by a lot of intelligent whites such as:"<BR/><BR/>No, it is a theory which is fairly well accepted by crackpots. And I don't believe that Robert Gallo has really said anything to place himself on your list.<BR/><BR/>Discussion with you is like a session at an argument clinic in that old Monty Python episode (No it isn't. Yes, it is. etc.) It's not worth responding to you, Truth, and in future, I won't bother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69192040802432498802008-11-10T17:43:00.000-08:002008-11-10T17:43:00.000-08:00"The teenaged Obama did not 'take anyone's side.' ..."The teenaged Obama did not 'take anyone's side.' What he did was to make a judgement of a situation."<BR/><BR/>Yes, but the adult Obama wrote about the incident in the book, which made his grandfather look like a deadbeat. And, then, the adult Obama revived the incident during his speech on race, and, once again, brought it in a radio interview, referring to his grandmother as a "typical white person." <BR/><BR/>Amd what does he in is first press conference as president-elect? He jokes about Nancy Reagan holding seances in the White House. IMO, he can be rather ungentlemenly at times. I'm sure he'll get more polished as he gains experience apologizing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26499103620395565252008-11-10T15:07:00.000-08:002008-11-10T15:07:00.000-08:00"Jeremiah Wright has said that whites created AIDS..."Jeremiah Wright has said that whites created AIDS for the purpose of exterminating blacks. I.e., he has accused whites of attempted genocide."<BR/><BR/>This is a fairly well-accepted theory seconded by a lot of intelligent whites such as:<BR/><BR/>Dr Alan cantwell<BR/>Dr. Boyd Graves (MD, JD)<BR/>Dr Robert Strecker (MD, PHD Pharmacology)<BR/>Dr. William Campbell Douglass (Dr. of the year National Health Federation)<BR/>Dr. Eva Sneed (Research proved a link between Polio Vaccines and leukemia)<BR/>Dr. Dougalss McArthur (Defense dept. Biological research administrator) <BR/>Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz<BR/>Dr. Earl Traub (biologist hired by the US Navy)<BR/>Dr. Robert Gallo<BR/>Jakob Segal (biology professor Humbolt University, Germany)<BR/>Edward Hooper (Brittish journalist)<BR/>Dr. Gary Glum <BR/>Etc.<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/aids_origin.htm<BR/><BR/>http://www.boydgraves.com/timeline/<BR/><BR/>http://whatsthecrack.net/AIDS-origin-is-Man-Made<BR/><BR/>And the 'genocide' thing has been done before in history, even, believe it or not by whites. The Nazi's the Turks (have we figured out if they are white yet), the Serbs, the Americans who came to this country, etc. <BR/><BR/>"Obama took the side of an unknown bum against his very own grandmother"<BR/><BR/>The teenaged Obama did not 'take anyone's side.' What he did was to make a judgement of a situation. This, Mr. Anon, is the aspect that seperates us from all others in the animal kingdom. Were Obama older, he may have made a different judgement, this is what gaining age and experience is all about. <BR/><BR/>I don't know about you but Ioved my grandmother yet I did not agree with everything she said and did. If Obama 'took the side of an unknown bum', one can only surmise that he would have attended his funeral last week; not hers.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38513771568956173192008-11-10T11:56:00.000-08:002008-11-10T11:56:00.000-08:00Do you actually think that anyone who comments her...Do you actually think that anyone who comments here believes or believed that Wall Street is "pristine?" Sad indeed.<BR/><BR/>'Anonymous?'<BR/><BR/>Yeeeeeeoooooouuuuuunnnnnd!!<BR/><BR/>(insert sound of jet...hmm...maybe AIRFORCE ONE.)<BR/><BR/>See what I mean? Straight over their heads!!<BR/><BR/>Damm!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05423953891607859893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8239119180770698982008-11-10T11:33:00.000-08:002008-11-10T11:33:00.000-08:00"as I enjoyed the humor of watching a good portion..."as I enjoyed the humor of watching a good portion of your commentors swearing on the cross that Obama was going to haul them off to re-education camps."<BR/><BR/>Black Jesus is only president-elect at present. He doesn't get into office until late January. Give him 3 months after that, then then come back. If there is any place to come back to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29359965567523497512008-11-10T11:28:00.000-08:002008-11-10T11:28:00.000-08:00Neoconism, boiled down to it's essentials, has a s...<I> Neoconism, boiled down to it's essentials, has a strong military intervening in threatening states to stop threats before they get too large. This is called common sense." </I><BR/><BR/>ummm, uh...not sure where to start with this one. "Threatening" states is anyone in a strategic part of the world who isn't a client state. So neo-conism, boiled down to its essential, has a strong military attacking in any nation that isn't a client state before they develop too many nukes to be able to bully. This is called insanity, not common sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29096205085754548172008-11-10T08:30:00.000-08:002008-11-10T08:30:00.000-08:00"Specifically, you'd have to give blacks reparatio..."Specifically, you'd have to give blacks reparations for any amnesty! Who do you think will be most hurt by it?" - Reg C<BR/><BR/>I'm curious. To me the whole Aunt Z scandal was staged so that when Obama does enact an Amnesty he'll weave her story into the narrative justifying it. I don't think there were any accidents in the later stages of the Obama campaign. <BR/><BR/>I also discern a larger pattern of staging which could just be evidence of my urge to detect conspiracies where Sailer would see networks. Biden is an older white man with a history of aneurysms who makes loopy statements. McCain is an older white man who uses the spotlight as a forum for telling about his glory days in Viet Nam, repeating the story until it was painfully obvious it was no longer relevant to a 2008 bid for president.<BR/><BR/>The consideration of Larry Summers for a post in the Obama cabinet probably won't materialize. His comments on gender differences make him a lovable, harmless old fart who is part of the "old way" of doing things and typifies the sort of thinking (according to Obama) that got us into this mess in the first place. So Obama won't make the mistake of throwing the aging white folks under the bus again. Instead, he will trivialize them.<BR/><BR/>Don't be surprised if Joe "pull my finger" Biden doesn't continue to act like a senior on the verge of dementia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56647068726130897072008-11-10T07:34:00.000-08:002008-11-10T07:34:00.000-08:00"Jews are known for often asking themselves "is it..."Jews are known for often asking themselves "is it good for the jews"? They're good at asking the question, but not prepared to answer it in the company of goyim."<BR/><BR/>There, fixed it for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39787975523669467882008-11-10T06:42:00.000-08:002008-11-10T06:42:00.000-08:00Jeremiah Wright has said that whites created AIDS ...<I>Jeremiah Wright has said that whites created AIDS for the purpose of exterminating blacks. I.e., he has accused whites of attempted genocide. This is a blood-libel...</I> -- Mr Anon<BR/><BR/>Change "AIDS" to "abortion", and the blood libel becomes understatement.<BR/><BR/>I've never heard anyone claim the National Socialists killed <I>more</I> than six million Jews.* But about twice as many black lives were taken in American clinics as Jewish ones in German gas chambers, or whatever.<BR/><BR/>*Though don't forget, they got 14 million goys, too, per Robert Rummel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36103975390480367992008-11-10T06:20:00.000-08:002008-11-10T06:20:00.000-08:00"Sad. And so soon after the world has seen exactly..."Sad. And so soon after the world has seen exactly what that kinda crap can do to even 'pristine entites' like Wall Street."<BR/><BR/>Do you actually think that anyone who comments here believes or believed that Wall Street is "pristine?" Sad indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73508432951704276792008-11-09T23:59:00.000-08:002008-11-09T23:59:00.000-08:00"Anonymous said...I'm actually strongly pro-Israel..."Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/>I'm actually strongly pro-Israel and couldn't give less of a damn about the Palestinians. I care about our borders and would be happy to let Israel do whatever it feels it needs to do so long as we could also preserve our territorial integrity."<BR/><BR/>I believe much the same. I don't give a damn about the Palestinians (none of their Arab neighbors do either, for that matter). I believe Israel has every right to defend itself, I just don't think that they have the right to expect that we will defend it. I'm happy for the U.S. to sell them weapons (and we should not sell them to Arab countries).<BR/><BR/>And yet, it seems impossible to question the motives of some american jews with regard to their seemingly greater allegiance to Israel than to the U.S., without being labeled an anti-semite.<BR/><BR/>Also, I'd like to know what Israeli government officials think about all that is done in the name of helping Israel (whether stated or not). They must realize that toppling Saddam Hussein, and thereby removing a counterweight to Iran, was a bad idea and bad for Israel. Can't some of these guys tell neoconservatives like Feith, Halperin, Wolfowitz, Kristol, and Emmanuel to cool it - for the good of the old country?<BR/><BR/>Jews are known for often asking themselves "is it good for the jews"? They're good at asking the question, but not so good at answering it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50193471268849394202008-11-09T23:47:00.000-08:002008-11-09T23:47:00.000-08:00"testing99 said...Neoconism, boiled down to it's e..."testing99 said...<BR/><BR/>Neoconism, boiled down to it's essentials, has a strong military intervening in threatening states to stop threats before they get too large. This is called common sense."<BR/><BR/>This is a willful misstatement of history. Neocons were disaffected liberals, who became slightly more conservative. Some of them were Kennedy liberals (many of them Catholic) and the nucleus were jewish liberals, who went from being disaffected Trotskyists who embraced liberalism to disaffected liberals who embraced "neo conservatism", itself a moniker created by the catholic socialist Michael Harrington. You mean to tell me you've never read anything by Jonah Goldberg? He's summarized the taxonomy pretty well.<BR/><BR/>The term now seems to simply mean: Americans who embrace caesarism and empire.<BR/><BR/>And really, in hindsight, how has the world become safer since Saddam Hussein was removed (I mean for either us, or Israel)? Hussein was exactly the kind of guy you want as an enemy: ruthlessly competent at keeping his own people in line, and haplessly incompetent at invading his neighbors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35169295748431402008-11-09T23:35:00.000-08:002008-11-09T23:35:00.000-08:00"Truth said...There have been certain things on th..."Truth said...<BR/><BR/>There have been certain things on this website that, for the life of me, I can't understand. Some of them such as what evidence there is that Jeremiah Wright hates whitey,..."<BR/><BR/>Jeremiah Wright has said that whites created AIDS for the purpose of exterminating blacks. I.e., he has accused whites of attempted genocide. This is a blood-libel, no different than the blood-libel that used to be leveled against the jews (and in some quarters, still is) that jews kill gentile children in order to use their blood for making passover matzoh. So yeah, I think it's rational on my part to conclude that Wright hates whites.<BR/><BR/>"Another one is, exactly how is retelling a (supposedly) true story from one's youth "throwing grandma under the bus?""<BR/><BR/>Obama took the side of an unknown bum against his very own grandmother - the woman who raised him. That's what is meant by the throwing-under-the-bus tag, at least that's my understanding of it, but I'm just a "typical white person" as our President elect might say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27132058944582240252008-11-09T22:21:00.000-08:002008-11-09T22:21:00.000-08:00and we'll give you what you want domestically - re...<I>and we'll give you what you want domestically - reparations or something similar - and amnesty - so blacks and minorities will be happy</I><BR/><BR/>Specifically, you'd have to give blacks reparations for any amnesty! Who do you think will be most hurt by it?<BR/><BR/>I thought Obama's support for illegals was a contraindication of the "Black Enough" business. But almost all black Congressmen voted for it. Evidently, stabbing your own race in the back is something black officeholders do. And Obama is black enough there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62160426074263830152008-11-09T21:24:00.000-08:002008-11-09T21:24:00.000-08:00Basically, the Toyota Prius is both environmentall...<I><BR/>Basically, the Toyota Prius is both environmentally friendly AND fashionable. Which is fantastic!<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Anyone who thinks that the Prius is environmentally friendly hasn't got a clue.<BR/><BR/>(Hint, the environmental cost of those batteries is currently very large indeed, and they need to be replaced every five years or so.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56605948925153752022008-11-09T21:09:00.000-08:002008-11-09T21:09:00.000-08:00Seems to be alotta 'speculation' and presumptuousn...Seems to be alotta 'speculation' and presumptuousness going on 'round these pages these days!<BR/><BR/>Sad. And so soon after the world has seen exactly what that kinda crap can do to even 'pristine entites' like Wall Street. <BR/><BR/>Tsk, tsk...the fact remains that for (at least) the next four years, your every waking (and sleeping) moments will be ladened with an OBAMA PRESIDENCY. (Whereby, btw, HE calls the shots!)<BR/><BR/>I wonder if Mr. Sailor will yet continue to 'allow' certain personalities to 'stick around the blog' ....just for entertainment purposes?<BR/><BR/>Hmm. Cause I for one, am extremely entertained!!<BR/><BR/>HA!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05423953891607859893noreply@blogger.com