tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post64320315123637142..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Great moments in Community FulfillmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31039964585573172102014-04-15T15:57:09.978-07:002014-04-15T15:57:09.978-07:00ey Steve, if you do a search for name on Google no...<i>ey Steve, if you do a search for name on Google now, it will bring up other people like yourself that have similar viewpoints: John Derbyshire, Peter Brimelow, etc... accompanied by photos. However the picture of Gregory Cochran is not the Gregory Cochran we know, it's some crooked lawyer from Houston, Texas. Google is putting this guy's face to Gregory Cochran's bio. Another example of someone at Google covertly grinding political axes?</i><br /><br />No, I think it's just an example of your stupidity. "Greg Cochran" is a much more common name than "John Derbyshire" or "Peter Brimelow." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27741507981967082372014-04-15T15:26:43.556-07:002014-04-15T15:26:43.556-07:00Arnall was also the biggest donor to both Democrat...Arnall was also the biggest donor to both Democrat Grey Davis and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (or something like that). He gave so much money to Gov. Davis that Davis presided over Arnall's wedding.<br /><br />Still, the states' attorneys general did a better job of cracking down on Arnall's Ameriquest than the feds did. State laws tend to be older, less free market uber alles ideological, so they were more useful.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17540433873587815112014-04-15T15:14:29.195-07:002014-04-15T15:14:29.195-07:00Reading Roland Arnall's Wikipedia page:
http...Reading Roland Arnall's Wikipedia page: <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Arnall#Ambassador_to_the_Netherlands<br /><br />"On August 1, 2005, President George W Bush nominated Arnall to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands."<br /><br />Well boy isn't that interesting - Then I went to search to see what the news release said during that time to see if he was a personal friend of GWB or what the deal was...Got this:<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801842.html<br /><br />"On the same day that the White House announced that President Bush is nominating California billionaire Roland E. Arnall to be ambassador to the Netherlands, the company he controls said it would set aside $325 million for a possible settlement of allegations of predatory lending tactics....Arnall is the firm's principal shareholder. He, his wife and their companies have been the biggest political contributors to Bush since 2002"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61177923719956790482014-04-15T14:29:52.664-07:002014-04-15T14:29:52.664-07:00I've thought the same thing. If WaMu had staye...I've thought the same thing. If WaMu had stayed in the Northwest, they'd be around today. It was their three huge SoCal acquisitions: Roland Arnall's subprime Long Beach mortgage, Ahmanson, and Golden West that did them in. The latter two were good S&Ls when WaMu bought them in the late 1990s, although anything Arnall touched was sleaze.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4818056510777128562014-04-15T14:13:36.245-07:002014-04-15T14:13:36.245-07:00Funny how California played such a big role in WaM...Funny how California played such a big role in WaMu's downfall. Is it possible the Washington-based executives couldn't fathom the rampant fraud in SoCal because that kind of stuff wouldn't fly in the Northwest? I don't want to believe they were that naive, probably obscene greed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64229900792385369802014-04-15T05:47:16.822-07:002014-04-15T05:47:16.822-07:00http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/s...<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/04/what_do_sat_and_iq_tests_measure_general_intelligence_predicts_school_and.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/04/what_do_sat_and_iq_tests_measure_general_intelligence_predicts_school_and.html</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65309879984208931292014-04-15T00:42:20.841-07:002014-04-15T00:42:20.841-07:00Also, OT:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_a...Also, OT: <br /><br />http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/04/what_do_sat_and_iq_tests_measure_general_intelligence_predicts_school_and.2.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24784918390625164052014-04-15T00:42:09.073-07:002014-04-15T00:42:09.073-07:00An super-PC white colleague called Whittier the &q...An super-PC white colleague called Whittier the "Hispanic Beverly Hills." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45141877145415825682014-04-14T23:30:05.599-07:002014-04-14T23:30:05.599-07:00Also, Angelo Mozilo was probably in on the 7-iron ...Also, Angelo Mozilo was probably in on the 7-iron heist, too.<br /><br />Just sayin' ...Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59174834349247182142014-04-14T20:37:10.112-07:002014-04-14T20:37:10.112-07:00But there was the time I came to the 18th hole at ...But there was the time I came to the 18th hole at Oak Quarry needing a birdie and hit a big drive down the middle and could see the ball rolling past the 150 yard marker and stopping 145 yards from the pin: a perfect distance for a smooth 7-iron. But somebody in Montebello (most likely the entire Washington Mutual executive staff from Kerry Killinger on down) had stolen my 7-iron, so I had to try to crush an 8-iron. The shot was dead on the flagstick all the way, but would it be long enough? <br /><br />No -- it caught top lip of the front bunker.<br />Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54648449207976409292014-04-14T20:37:09.760-07:002014-04-14T20:37:09.760-07:00Google is putting this guy's face to Gregory C...<i> Google is putting this guy's face to Gregory Cochran's bio. Another example of someone at Google covertly grinding political axes?</i><br /><br />Yeah, they also have a whole division in Redwood City devoted to hurting Sailer's pagerank for "the distinguished Senator from Hadassah" and other very commonplace queries that otherwise would be on every revolutionary's lips. In the old days he got blackballed by William F. Buckley -- or Bob Bartley, or Bob Barker; can't recall -- today he's being airbrushed out of existence by Eric Schmidt (though some might consider this an upgrade)the agony and the ecstasynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69674996180144114102014-04-14T20:31:42.376-07:002014-04-14T20:31:42.376-07:00Not that I'm bitter or anything ...Not that I'm bitter or anything ...Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5450361942965487012014-04-14T20:27:16.892-07:002014-04-14T20:27:16.892-07:00Steve likes to combine his politics blog and his Y...Steve likes to combine his politics blog and his Yelp profile into one convenient siteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87612790215453128442014-04-14T20:25:02.371-07:002014-04-14T20:25:02.371-07:00Steve's ascribing untrustworthiness to Montebe...<i>Steve's ascribing untrustworthiness to Montebello, as a place, was a momentarily unexpected echo of the liberal media.</i><br /><br />So I take it you've never been to Montebello yourself and observed the large metallic graffiti-riddled placards at the freeway exits reading "<b>STATE PRISON / DO NOT PICK UP HITCHHIKERS / DO NOT LEAVE GOLF CLUBS UNATTENDED</b>"spherenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69795105259493296922014-04-14T20:19:46.997-07:002014-04-14T20:19:46.997-07:00He ran for office as a republican too. Did you kno...<i>He ran for office as a republican too. Did you know him online?</i><br /><br />A change little noted and not long remembered. For infamous North Carolina Republicans of the late 80s he might crack the top 500 list. Anyway he was obscure outside white supremacist/SPLC circles until his big break with that Howard Stern interviewAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29263598810386708862014-04-14T19:55:02.398-07:002014-04-14T19:55:02.398-07:00Montebello will eventually gentrify. It's extr...Montebello will eventually gentrify. It's extremely conveniently located and it has the kind of rolling hills that Angelenos love. The golf course is pretty nice -- it's from 1928 and is fully treed and has a few fun downhill holes. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a second Whittier (Nixon's old town), which is where wealthy Mexican-Americans now go. But I haven't been there in years so I'm not up to date.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90847760167393487882014-04-14T19:51:07.132-07:002014-04-14T19:51:07.132-07:00I knew a guy from Montebello.
He's now a vent...I knew a guy from Montebello.<br /><br />He's now a venture capitalist in Palo Alto, after having graduated from Sloan MBA and before that Harvard College with a CS degree.<br /><br />Oh yes -- he's also ethnically Chinese (via Central America). <br /><br />As I've learned from Steve over the years, it's not too surprising that ancestral genes and culture win out over environment.<br /><br />In contrast, liberal members of the media like to write about places as though there's something inherent to a particular place that makes it "violent" or "rough." <br /><br />Steve's ascribing untrustworthiness to Montebello, as a place, was a momentarily unexpected echo of the liberal media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91597096573392232172014-04-14T19:26:10.627-07:002014-04-14T19:26:10.627-07:00He ran for office as a republican too. Did you kno...He ran for office as a republican too. Did you know him online?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81535431586136160042014-04-14T19:07:21.341-07:002014-04-14T19:07:21.341-07:00Ramirez worked out of WaMu's office in Downey,...<i>Ramirez worked out of WaMu's office in Downey, a largely Hispanic neighborhood of cracked sidewalks and graffiti-marked homes, east of downtown Los Angeles. </i><br /><br />I may be unkind to Ms Grind here but when reading that kind of thing I usually take it as a subtle implication that, somehow, cracked sidewalks and graffiti-marked homes are merely an act of God endured by those Hispanics. Rather than the Hispanics themselves in any way being the agents of that environmental degradation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86451119812119897562014-04-14T16:54:24.218-07:002014-04-14T16:54:24.218-07:00I like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...I like this one:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laot_Eomr3s<br /><br />"The uncertainty of getting a home loan made Paul irritable - then he went to Washington Mutual - thanks to their flexible lending rules, Paul got quick approval"<br /><br />"FLEXIBLE LENDING RULES" wink wink<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41403942693610646752014-04-14T15:41:14.256-07:002014-04-14T15:41:14.256-07:00"...in Downey, a largely Hispanic neighborhoo..."...in Downey, a largely Hispanic neighborhood of cracked sidewalks and graffiti-marked homes."<br /><br />Downey used to be a nice, middle class white suburb, home to Karen and Richard Carpenter, and oh, I don't know, maybe 50,000 good paying aerospace jobs. IIRC, the Saturn rocket for the Apollo program was build in a plant in Downey.<br /><br />To a large extent, you can trace the demise of middle class southern California to the end of the Cold War.Sgt. Joe Fridaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82020636529308668132014-04-14T15:10:50.628-07:002014-04-14T15:10:50.628-07:00Looks like the SPLC got one right.
They called hi...<i>Looks like the SPLC got one right.</i><br /><br />They called him a card-carrying Democrat?Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56414222693421040432014-04-14T14:59:50.250-07:002014-04-14T14:59:50.250-07:00Any thoughts about the KC shooting? Looks like the...<i>Any thoughts about the KC shooting? Looks like the SPLC got one right</i><br /><br />What's their batting averageAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52777700233417354402014-04-14T14:59:22.354-07:002014-04-14T14:59:22.354-07:00Anon at 8:52PM found Tom Ramirez's LinkedIn pa...Anon at 8:52PM found Tom Ramirez's LinkedIn page, here is Luis Fragoso's: <br /><br />http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luis-fragoso/18/b9a/189<br /><br />Let's underscore the fact that none of these illegal mortgage brokers ever get a slap on the wrist (and probably never lost a night of sleep). No executive at WaMu ever got a slap on the wrist (Killinger and a couple others went before Congress to have Carl Levin frown upon them) - It's so infuriating to read this stuff. I think of all the people in jail for minor things or the countless people who have hardships or disputes with the IRS or got socked with six figure hospital bills, etc. Then I see these people who are willingly responsible for thousands of fraudulent mortgages, indirectly sending the economy into a tailspin, and all I can think of is that they must really love their 5 car garage. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57473893002282873462014-04-14T14:57:11.424-07:002014-04-14T14:57:11.424-07:00The tragic decline in golf etiquette continues apa...The tragic decline in golf etiquette continues apace, whoopty-do; tell Paulina Gretzky about it. Some people have real problems to worry over, you know, like the denizens of Washington D.C. who <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/259829/if-a-nuclear-bomb-exploded-in-downtown-washington-what-should-you-do" rel="nofollow">might get nuked any moment now</a>#BoycottMontebelloLinksnoreply@blogger.com