tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8943294028541953484..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Field of SchemesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50308650767013310462014-11-30T07:38:22.258-08:002014-11-30T07:38:22.258-08:00L.A. Weekly is publishing stories that are based o...L.A. Weekly is publishing stories that are based on bull-shit and lies, such as it published about Hollywood's best film producers and financiers, Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian.1231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60846703937361947172014-02-03T02:51:40.472-08:002014-02-03T02:51:40.472-08:00Admission to the civil Hebrew nation is completely...Admission to the civil Hebrew nation is completely separate from the issue of solemnizing a marriage therein.<br /><br />Dozens of thousands of Russian non-Jews arrived in Israel over the past 30 years; some by virtue of being married to a Jew; some by lying about being Jewish; some by whatever. There's two large Russian Orthodox churches in the city of Afula (plus several others around the country). They all receive a normal subsidy from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, as do all houses of worship.<br /><br />It is possible to find the entire spectrum of expressed-opinions about the advantages of having these Russians here.<br /><br />To my knowledge, none of them has ever been caught in a treasonous act, and they ==do== show up at the conscription-office when called. And they are not (unlike, say, the Sudanese) noted for violence. Probably that explains why I cannot recall seeing or hearing any calls for expulsion.<br /><br /><br />Currently, there is no civil marriage. Religious courts of the various sects have complete authority over their own adherents.<br /><br />It is not terribly un-common for folks to fly to Cyprus for a coupla days to get legally married if the local religious court(s) refuse to solemnize. These foreign marriages are 100% recognized by the Population Registry Authority.<br /><br />Arguing about establishing civil marriage here is a long-running participatory sport and hobby horse of the more strident types of personalities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84217746264611587662014-02-02T21:49:11.493-08:002014-02-02T21:49:11.493-08:00"Yeah, but how often is it that billionaires ..."Yeah, but how often is it that billionaires buy or start some podunk club, instead of buying an established, dominant team?"<br /><br />There are only a handful of "dominant" teams, already owned by billionaires, so what usually happens is that the new billionaire joining the league buys an already established, but non-dominant, team, and pours money into it to make it one of the new dominant teams (see for instance, Chelsea, Manchester City, etc.). <br /><br />Billionaires don't buy podunk clubs or create new clubs from scratch and move them up the pyramid, because new clubs or tiny clubs don't already have huge, pre-existing fan bases, which the bigger clubs do have. There are already hundreds of existing professional and semi-professional clubs in England (92 in the top four divisions) so there isn't much room for new clubs. <br /><br />Think of English football like College football in the USA - it's been around since the 19th century and there are lots and lots of teams with big, well established fan bases. In theory new clubs can move up, in practice they don't move up very much unless for some reason they already have a fan base of some kind (see for instance AFC Wimbledon or FC United of Manchester).<br /><br />If one were a bilionaire looking for a "bargain" or "fixer-upper" project, rather than buying a big club already in the Premier League, the thing to do would be to buy a club with past history of success but fallen on hard times (say, Leeds United or Nottingham Forest) and pour money into it to get it into the Premier League. These sorts of clubs have big, existing fan bases but because they've been out of the top flight for a long time they aren't "sexy" anymore and don't tend to attract the attention of billionaires.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70978771497599107902014-02-01T23:13:54.089-08:002014-02-01T23:13:54.089-08:00As a guy from a state with an insecure, air headed...As a guy from a state with an insecure, air headed governor who ignored the persistent 70% public opposition to funding a stadium for a New Jersey billionaire now convicted of racketeering, I say let the Chinese fund these playgrounds in exchange for EB-5 visas. I can't possibly see how that is worse than what we've ended up with. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15400843971802089042014-02-01T14:16:43.167-08:002014-02-01T14:16:43.167-08:00There are currently 124 SNPs that effect height.
...<i>There are currently 124 SNPs that effect height.</i><br /><br />I think you meant 124 known SNPs. And how much of the variation in height is accounted for by those SNPs? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74764680831760674462014-02-01T12:27:00.377-08:002014-02-01T12:27:00.377-08:00"Glossy said...
I think that pic was taken i..."Glossy said...<br /><br />I think that pic was taken in the Kremlin, i.e. on Medvedev's turf."<br /><br />You mean Putin's turf. Medvedev is just the handyman - Putin is the landlord. Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42703898194229796032014-02-01T11:04:56.770-08:002014-02-01T11:04:56.770-08:00There are currently 124 SNPs that effect height. M...There are currently 124 SNPs that effect height. Most of them have a miniscule effect on height but they are well known and available to the public. It seems likely that soon someone will commercialize this knowledge and sell a service that makes your baby taller. That's not controversial. It is almost inevitable.<br /><br />My question is - "How tall"? <br /><br />In this posting's context is 6'8" too tall or not tall enough? Sooner of later in the developed world a man's height will be his choice the same way a woman's bust size is now. Porn stars choose huge breasts but most women, even movie stars, are content to have merely very large breasts.<br /><br />I don't know what it feels like to be 6'8" but I was once 6'7" and I liked it a lot. Before the accident I was 6'4" but I had a pulled Achilles tendon. It hurt when I walked. The doctor prescribed heel lifts. The little ones that are used to equalize mismatched leg lengths did nothing for me so I tried the real 'elevator lifts' used by Pacino and Downey Jr.<br /><br />I got three inches of extra height. I strode around like a God. It was fabulous. But I only did it one day. They threw my back out and that pain was worse than that in my heel.<br /><br />So based on my own experience I suspect that when human height comes fully under our control there will be a lot of guy's about the size of Prokhorov. <br /><br />AlbertosaurusPat Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477950851915567863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85320325359495513632014-02-01T10:21:34.931-08:002014-02-01T10:21:34.931-08:00that makes him Jewish according to both the state ...<i>that makes him Jewish according to both the state of Israel (which uses the Nuremberg definition of who is a Jew</i><br /><br />The state of Israel doesn't consider everyone eligible for the right of return to be Jewish. Paternal quarter Jews also qualify for right of return, but the Orthodox rabbinate, the entity that really controls Jewish status designations, would not consider them Jewish. Prokhorov would actually be a tricky case. The Israeli government might accept his maternal grandmother as Jewish, but the Orthodox rabbinate has been known to insist on proof that the Jewish ancestors were Orthodox Jews before accepting their descendant as a Jew. Half-Jews whose Jewish parent and grandparents are/were non-Orthodox sometimes run into this problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84761021794425526172014-02-01T00:51:37.719-08:002014-02-01T00:51:37.719-08:00A year or two ago I got curious and discovered ha...A year or two ago I got curious and discovered half the grounds used in the Premiere League that season date from the 19th century. A clear majority are older than Wrigley or Fenway. (What's third-oldest now? Dodger?) That's what you get when clubs can't threaten to move. <br /><br />The only new, publicly built stadium was Manchester City's, and that wasn't built for them, but to attract the Olympics. (They got the Commonwealths instead.) City merely took advantage and abandoned Maine Road. <br /><br />We Montreal Expos aficionados could have warned them about the wisdom of that move. <br /><br />It was fun to mock United and Chelsea for being bought by an American and a Russian, respectively. Then an <i>Arab</i> bought City. I almost burned my scarf. <br /><br /><br />Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13246488626702264942014-02-01T00:45:08.125-08:002014-02-01T00:45:08.125-08:00Suggesting that we gain anything by selling visas ...<b>Suggesting that we gain anything by selling visas shows just how much our elite are losing their sense of what America is about and who owns it, which is all of us, not just them.</b><br /><br />Oh, but in the case of rich Chinese sending their families here we do get something: more cute Asian girls!Felixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34048492352254467442014-02-01T00:25:11.669-08:002014-02-01T00:25:11.669-08:00Irony buffs might want to check out what the Nets ...Irony buffs might want to check out what the Nets were called <a href="http://www.remembertheaba.com/new-jersey-americans.html" rel="nofollow">in their very first season</a>.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36403499876408768302014-01-31T23:30:20.657-08:002014-01-31T23:30:20.657-08:00nobody cares about the nets, which is why he was a...nobody cares about the nets, which is why he was able to buy them. definitely not a flagship team by any means. they had trouble selling out their home games when they were in the finals. it would be like somebody buying the islanders.<br /><br />the trend of teams being bought by rich foreigners with no attachments to the US and shady agendas, is one to watch of course.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8503864485801972014-01-31T23:29:28.365-08:002014-01-31T23:29:28.365-08:00"Is it really too much to ask that profession..."Is it really too much to ask that professional sports leagues such as the NBA or the English Premiere League in soccer not sell franchises, especially potential flagship ones in major cities, to Russian white collar gangsters?"<br /><br />Well, in British soccer they have the "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/oct/07/fit-and-proper-person-test" rel="nofollow">fit and proper person test</a>", but it's sometimes criticized for being too lax.LemmusLemmushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917054221547240969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51944544375536534862014-01-31T22:58:00.807-08:002014-01-31T22:58:00.807-08:00>> grants right of return to quarter Jews
...>> grants right of return to quarter Jews<br /><br />As does Ireland. What other countries are also on that list?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39915113147041643422014-01-31T22:27:12.461-08:002014-01-31T22:27:12.461-08:00Why should we sell green cards at all?
What is a ...Why should we sell green cards at all?<br /><br />What is a few billion dollars to us? It's like a millionaire who has gone bankrupt prostituting themselves for a dime. <br /><br /><br />If we don't want to grow our underclass, why do we want to import addtions to our white collar criminal class? Right now I understand that many of the men are staying in the home country and sending the family over here. If and when things get too hot for them at home and the men come here, we will have a group of rich jobless criminals. What will they do with themselves but think of ways to rip Americans off? Well, I guess they could target immigrants here from their home country instead. <br /><br />Suggesting that we gain anything by selling visas shows just how much our elite are losing their sense of what America is about and who owns it, which is all of us, not just them.notsayingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40313102032507157822014-01-31T21:54:42.846-08:002014-01-31T21:54:42.846-08:00Big news in St. Louis is that Kroenke is buying ou...Big news in St. Louis is that Kroenke is buying out some acreage in Inglewood, California as a bargaining chip to get the taxpayers to renovate the dome in St. Louis.<br /><br />I call bluff.<br /><br />Inglewood is Bell Curve City. A pro stadium there would be the same problems as the Coliseum for USC games in South Central.<br /><br />Kranky isn't going to move the Rams back to LA just to plant them in the ghetto, where people tailgating in the parking lot are surrounded by the third world.countenancehttp://countenance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71942975256835271132014-01-31T20:27:05.033-08:002014-01-31T20:27:05.033-08:00"It might be more efficient to have the money..."It might be more efficient to have the money go directly to the U.S. Treasury and reduce the deficit by billions of dollars a year."<br /><br />The EB-5 system is designed to move money very efficiently from the pockets of immigrants into the pockets of politicians via the Ratner conduit. Do you want to wreck a system that is working perfectly as designed? Jeff W.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14001498842975079812014-01-31T18:36:33.920-08:002014-01-31T18:36:33.920-08:00Don't look now, but Stan Kroenke just bought p...Don't look now, but Stan Kroenke just bought prime LA real estate, perfect for a brand new state of the art football stadium. The Rams may be coming back to you.Eric Ruttencutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02179409385901498881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70198930138364659892014-01-31T16:20:30.666-08:002014-01-31T16:20:30.666-08:00As long as the government doesn't subsidize th...<i>As long as the government doesn't subsidize them, I'd say that buying sports teams would be the least bad use of gangsters' money.</i><br /><br />Are you kidding? They might shave points and ruin Vegas!Icepickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09616554052707230326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83576761026746614902014-01-31T16:09:21.601-08:002014-01-31T16:09:21.601-08:00As long as the government doesn't subsidize th...As long as the government doesn't subsidize them, I'd say that buying sports teams would be the least bad use of gangsters' money.<br /><br /> anony-mousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57492836368238413252014-01-31T15:59:34.872-08:002014-01-31T15:59:34.872-08:00"and don't really care"
Oh, right.
...<i>"and don't really care"<br /><br /><b>Oh, right.</b></i><br /><br />Might have been more accurate to say, I don't care enough to look it up myself. Now if someone knows the answer and will tell me, I'm happy to listen.<br /><br />So thanks, Ross!Icepickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09616554052707230326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1746668109284416842014-01-31T15:58:11.270-08:002014-01-31T15:58:11.270-08:00"Anyone can form a club, win their way to the...<i>"Anyone can form a club, win their way to the top league from the lower leagues new clubs get placed in."</i><br /><br />Yeah, but how often is it that billionaires buy or start some podunk club, instead of buying an established, dominant team?Dave Pinsenhttp://twitter.com/dpinsennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73302860322906317762014-01-31T15:17:43.683-08:002014-01-31T15:17:43.683-08:00Dave Pinsen,
I think that pic was taken in the Kr...Dave Pinsen,<br /><br />I think that pic was taken in the Kremlin, i.e. on Medvedev's turf. <br /><br />It's difficult to imagine someone as short as Medvedev or Putin becoming a president in the US in the TV or Internet ages, and even if he did, the White House would have never allowed a photo op like this to take place. But the show business/governing ratio of politics is different in Russia. Russia is run by its government to a greater extent than Western countries and the looks of its top government officials play a smaller role in their career advancement than they do in the West. Steve recently recalled that Kennedy was dressed better than Khruschev - same phenomenon. <br /><br />Yes, Putin often looks great outdoors, but that's a fluke. It had nothing to do with him getting to be president. Glossyhttp://lazyglossophiliac.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27467991794121009132014-01-31T14:41:17.191-08:002014-01-31T14:41:17.191-08:00Dave Pinsen wrote:
"Usually a difference in ...Dave Pinsen wrote:<br /><br />"Usually a difference in height isn't so apparent between two men who are both sitting down (e.g., 6'5" De Blasio and 5'7" Mike Bloomberg). Maybe Prokhorov has an exceptionally long torso, even for his height."<br /><br />That photo desperately needs a photoshop. You really ought to submit that to the Fark boards.sunbeamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540822135478202229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31058531758022367252014-01-31T14:40:24.651-08:002014-01-31T14:40:24.651-08:00About that LA not having an NFL team... I heard o...About that LA not having an NFL team... I heard on the radio this morning (Illinois here) that there is talk of the Rams moving back to LACornnoreply@blogger.com