April 8, 2016 What About The SAT Score? Luke Ford No sacred cows.

What About The SAT Score?

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

News: Montclair, New Jersey: As a New York high school student checked her phone for the results of her university admissions applications, she was overcome by disbelief.
One by one, each relayed the same news: Harvard. Yes. Dartmouth. Yes. Princeton. Yes. The University of Pennsylvania. Yes. Cornell, Yale, Columbia, Brown: yes, yes, yes, yes.
It was March 31, the emotion-filled day when Ivy League universities posted their decisions online. And Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, a senior at Elmont Memorial High School, Long Island, became the second student there to pull off an exceedingly rare feat: She swept all eight.
She screamed. Then she cried.
“It’s so surreal,” Ms Uwamanzu-Nna, 17, said on Wednesday. “It’s still hard to actually believe that this has happened to me.”
The accomplishment is all the more remarkable given the increasingly fierce competition that has driven down acceptance rates at selective universities for years. Harvard’s, for example, was 5.2 per cent this year, down from 9.3 per cent in 2006. News reports suggest that just a few students pull off a sweep each year.
What’s more, Ms Uwamanzu-Nna (pronounced oo-wah-man-ZOO-nah) is just the latest student from her school to do it. In 2015, Harold Ekeh drew national headlines when he was accepted to 13 universities, including all eight Ivies.
School officials said Mr Ekeh, now a freshmen at Yale, had been a huge inspiration to other students. He is also close friends with Ms Uwamanzu-Nna.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Assuming the Intel thing isn’t rigged/affirmative-action, she sounds legit. No doubt her applications got some bonus for being black, but she doesn’t seem like a poster child for the worst affirmative action stupidity.

* But judging from the names and her picture both Miss Uwamanzu-Nna and her predecessor, Mr. Ekeh, are probably also Ibo. Migration patterns might go a long way towards explaining why they both wound up in the same town. This is a news worthy bit of the picture that I’m sure NYT reporters and editors will instinctively avoid as a career-ending move.

* One of the ironies of affirmative action is that while affirmative action was intended as a sort of crude reparations for the ill treatment that descendants of American black slaves endured, many of the current beneficiaries of affirmative action for blacks have, like Obama himself, ZERO American black slave ancestry because their parents are recent immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean, or else they are mulattoes who were raised by their white mothers and have little if any contact with their black fathers or talented tenth octoroons who pass the paper bag test or children of black professionals who are not really in need of reparations. Once you eliminate those categories and blacks who are recruited because of their athletic talent, the number of actual brothas at elite schools is vanishingly small. For those with STEM majors, you would need a microscope to find them. Even though standards for blacks are relaxed somewhat, most American ghetto blacks are so far behind academically that they could not survive in a challenging academic environment even sheltered inside an AA studies dept let alone as a physics or math major.

* The detail I always look for in these stories is: what is the student’s SAT score?

Her other achievements are easy enough to find in the various reportage on her: her being valedictorian, her GPA, her Intel Science Search performance. But no mention anywhere that I can see of her SAT scores.

Last year another student of Nigerian background from the same school, Harold Ekeh, got into all 8 ivies, and his combined SAT scores were mentioned: 2270. This is almost the precise median score for Harvard (2260). Yet he did not, apparently, get a National Merit Scholarship, which is almost certainly due to a too low PSAT score (obviously, everything else in his background would make the National Merit Scholarship people salivate over handing him an award). So no doubt his PSAT was the regression to his mean, and his SAT a deviation against it.

The predictable never seems to stop being predictable.

* Yeah, but she is nothing compared to that female soccer player who’s scored the most goals in the history of the sport. I hear about her every four years the women’s World Cup rolls around. Most goals ever scored in the sport, which means more than any man soccer player either! I bet when you take the number of goals Pele scored, homeruns Babe Ruth hit, and baskets Michael Jordan sunk and add them together, the goals she’s scored are still an order of magnitude greater than that! She must be the most amazing figure in sports history! Not to mention inspiring, brave, smart, funny, passionate, kind, and cute. I hope she gets a big endorsement deal, like with GoDaddy or something, four years from now when we’re reminded she’s scored the most goals ever!

* Some of the ancestors of some of the Nigerian immigrants might actually have sold some of the ancestors of today’s African American to white slave traders. While most whites probably never had slave-owning ancestors, and many whites had ancestors who actually fought against slavery.

So the irony of the ironies is that the descendants of (African) slave traders might get preferential treatment over the descendants of Union soldiers who gave or at least risked their lives to end slavery.

* Ivies coordinate with each other not to fight for the same student, and only make exceptions for the most exceptional applicants. In other words, normally nobody gets admitted to all eight Ivies, even if one applies to all of them, because once one of them accepted you, the others will turn you down so that you will not be in a position to turn them down.

It’s obvious why blacks are the only ones for whom they all make exceptions. I’d be surprised if a similar student wasn’t found next year (and each year from now on) either.

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Has Trump given up on the Jews?

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

Perhaps Trump will get a boost from gentile Americans if he is not seen as pandering to special interests.

Trump’s national security team is all gentile. Trump said all the right things to AIPAC a couple of weeks ago but nobody believes his heart was in it. He’s an American nationalist, not an Israel-firster.

Chaim Amalek: “One would have to be some sort of delusional neocon to believe, even if only for a moment, that Yidden are going to be lining up to actually vote for Ted Cruz. Torah Jews will vote for Trump, and the secular ones will vote for whichever Democrat is nominated.”

AP: LAS VEGAS — Ted Cruz will have hundreds of influential Republican donors and Jewish leaders all to himself this weekend in Las Vegas as he addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Cruz’s rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump and John Kasich, declined invitations to attend — a puzzling move in particular for Trump as he tries to project himself as a party unifier who deserves the Republican nomination even if he falls short of winning enough delegates in the primaries to clinch it outright.

Trump as of late Thursday did not have any public events scheduled through the weekend.

It’s a “missed opportunity” for Trump to build on a well-received recent speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said Abbie Friedman, an RJC board member who introduced Trump when he spoke to the Republican group in December. “With Cruz coming in, he’ll have the entire platform to himself to win support from an incredibly powerful and important group.”

The RJC is funded by the top political donor of 2012, Sheldon Adelson, and meets at the billionaire’s Venetian casino resort on the Strip.

Trump declined an invitation to attend a private dinner at Adelson’s home Thursday night with the Republican Jewish Coalition’s board, according to people with direct knowledge of the invitation who weren’t authorized to share the details about the event. Trump decided not to attend the dinner even before he canceled a West Coast trip that he’d planned for Thursday and Friday.

Trump’s spokeswoman and his campaign manager did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday.

The Republican front-runner does not appear to be sending surrogates to Las Vegas, either, as onetime presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did last year.

“That, to me, is a real revelation into the weakness of his campaign,” said Ari Fleischer, another RJC board member who has said he would back any GOP nominee in the general election. “There should be someone here on the ground. That’s what good campaigns do.”

In addition to speaking Saturday to more than 500 attendees, Cruz has a separate, smaller event planned with RJC members. His chief Jewish liaison, Nick Muzin, will be there throughout the conference. And pro-Cruz outside groups that can take unlimited contributions are setting up shop in the Venetian this weekend, ready to land donations.

“There’s a lot of interest in hearing from Ted Cruz in light of his win in Wisconsin and the impact that has on re-shaping the race,” said Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks. “It’s all coming together at a crucial juncture.”

Brooks said some of his organization’s members no longer see Trump as the overwhelming front-runner and predict a contested convention this summer.

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The talk-radio godfather of Trumpamania: What Michael Savage can tell us about America’s white working class

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

I’ve usually avoided listening to Michael Savage because I don’t:

* Like listening to commercials
* Don’t want more negativity and anger in my life.

Almost all talk radio seems aimed at inspiring rage.

Here’s a good article in Salon:

Long before Trump’s arrival on the scene, it was conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, the idealogical godfather of “Trumpism,” who galvanized this insurgency. Savage gave it a voice and a powerful narrative, one that proved extremely helpful to those, like iconoclastic Senator Ted Cruz, who rose to prominence taking on the very same GOP beltway insiders that Donald Trump is now making so nervous.
Years before Trump, Savage had already redefined the nature of the American political landscape when he blew up the Republican Party establishment’s hold on its working class base. Trump can come or go, but this insurgency has a depth and breadth that can’t be ignored.
I have been a longtime listener to Savage because I think that, as a journalist, you risk being blindsided if you ignore someone to whom millions of your fellow Americans are tuning in. I saw the rise of Trump coming several months ago precisely because I know how deep the support runs in so much of America for Savage’s nativist mantra, that the very survival of the nation is threatened by the erosion of our “borders, language, and culture.”
Between American multinationals, who do everything and anything to avoid taxes, and American politicians, who so often trade on their office to amass vast fortunes, regular working class Americans feel abandoned. For decades, as businesses have increasingly exploited undocumented immigrants for cheap labor or moved operations out of the country entirely, these voters have become resentful, watching their wages stagnate and full-time jobs with benefits become scarcer by the day.
For many of them, Savage’s “Savage Nation” is a kind of sanctuary. In his running commentary, he’s gone after the duopoly of Republican and Democratic elites. While Trump was still playing nice in polite society and donating money to Democrats, Savage was building a huge audience skewering political correctness and going after what he perceived as the excesses of both parties.
Savage calls liberalism “a mental disorder,” and blames it for the disintegration of a national cohesion that gave America the backbone to conquer fascism in the Second World War, and the persistence to outlast the Soviet Union in the Cold War that followed. For Savage, the classical foundations of western civilization are innately superior to whatever else is out there.
Yet, he will go on populist rants denouncing U.S. multinationals for outsourcing tech jobs. He has zeroed in on the bi-partisan tradition of elected officials that go on to enrich themselves by doing the bidding of corporations, and even foreign interests.
Savage is a raconteur of many parts, with roots in New York City, where he grew up. He is a bestselling New York Times author, has a master’s degree in medical anthropology and a Phd from the University of California at Berkeley in epidemiology and nutrition sciences. He says he is an avid conservationist and animal lover, yet dismisses global warming as a hoax.
His extemporaneous musings about his daily comings and goings, his 11-pound poodle Teddy, and about his days growing up in working class New York, are poignant and display a rich emotional arc. Unlike his rightwing colleagues, that rant on politics exclusively, Savage’s dynamic range makes him engaging company.
He can talk to listeners about what he had to eat and drink the night before, and, in the process, share the vicissitudes of growing older with millions intimately. He’s speaking to you and only you, especially if you fit his key demographic, the disaffected white conservative voter. Back in a flattering 2009 New Yorker profile Savage’s show was described as “one of the most addictive programs on radio, and one of the least predictable.”

The New Yorker profile is indeed flattering:

Although his father was a devout materialist, Savage seems to have spent much of his life searching for the right way to articulate his Jewish heritage. For a time, in the eighties, he attended Friday-night services at the Chabad House in Berkeley. And he loves to talk about his well-worn Hebrew Bible, which is full of annotations and Post-it notes. Despite his alliance with evangelical Christians, he seems untempted by Christianity itself. “You go to a graveyard, and someone’s dead, and they give the mumbo-jumbo,” he told his listeners one afternoon. “You want to believe the Resurrection. Do you actually believe it? Many of you do.” But, on another afternoon, he riffled through the Book of Revelation in an attempt to explain the latest perfidies of the Obama Administration. “We now have a prophecy emerging in front of our eyes,” he said.
When Savage gets really apocalyptic, it can be hard to separate his political observations from his medical complaints, and maybe he’s not quite convinced that they really are separate. Recently, he has had vision problems, which have come to acquire a symbolic significance. “I feel as though, almost, I’m losing my sight from looking every day at such horror,” he says. “I feel as though my eyes are closing on me, because they don’t want to see it anymore.” When he talks on the air about his homes in “hidden locations,” he suggests that he’s worried about some crazed liberal assassinating him. “I have to watch out for them, because they’re all psychopaths,” he says. Listen to Savage long enough and you may be persuaded to think that liberalism is code for all the stupid things we just can’t conquer: weakness and decadence and human frailty and death itself.
Near the end of “Psychological Nudity,” Savage writes, “I’m watching the sands of time fall into the hourglass. There’s more sand on the bottom now than there is on the top.” And he makes reference to his own death with startling frequency: a few times an hour, week after week. Just about anything can set him off. A beautiful pair of Shetland sheepdogs in the mall reminds him of the dogs’ kindly owner, which in turn reminds him of unkind dog owners, which makes him think about Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation, which brings to mind dead dogs, which leads him, inexorably, to a consideration of “the old boxeroo, waiting at the end of the road for all of us.” His thoughts on dying are often informed by Buddhist theories of enlightenment and reincarnation.

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Dale Hurd: European Elites Conspired to Lie about the Islamic Enemy

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

Blood on Their Hands: Europe’s Immigration Lie, by Dale Hurd, CBN.com, April 5, 2016

BRUSSELS — We now know that there has been a cover-up by governments and the media in Western Europe about the potential danger of immigration from the Islamic world. It was a conspiracy involving politicians, police officials, and journalists.

The European public was programmed by a relentless media campaign to believe immigration was good; criticism of immigration was racist.

Six months before the deadly Islamic terror attacks in Belgium, left-wing demonstrators were playing dead in the streets of Brussels, protesting for more immigration from the Middle East and against stronger borders in Europe — stronger borders that might have saved the lives of 34 people killed in Brussels last month.

Sold a Bill Goods? The Left’s mantra has been “no walls, no borders.” But many Europeans now realize they were sold a bill of goods about open borders and immigration by the political and media class.

Voices who warned about the threat from open immigration were either branded racist or simply ignored. Belgian Jewish leader Joël Rubinfeld warned CBN News a year and a half ago that the Belgian government was too soft on Muslim extremists, and that more attacks were coming.

“We say you need a very long fork to eat with the devil. I think there is no fork long enough to eat with Islamism,” he said.

And the multicultural charade has now clearly crumbled — in Germany when the city of Cologne was caught trying to cover-up massive New Year’s sex attacks, in Sweden where the public learned that the police and media covered up large scale sexual assaults at a summer music festival in Stockholm last year, and in Brussels, which became a home to some of the most dangerous terrorists in Europe.

In cities across Western Europe, women are now afraid to walk alone at night on the street. Muslims make up almost half of Belgium’s prison population, and Jews everywhere live in fear of anti-Semitic attacks.

This didn’t just happen, but in many cases the information has been suppressed.

Immigration Cover-Up Sweden has been notorious for censoring the problems of immigration. Newspapers obscured the faces and changed the skin tone of crime suspects with immigrant backgrounds, while showing their faces as if they were white native Swedes.

The Swedish police even had a special code when handling immigrant crime: code 291.

“Code 291 — and this is in all the Swedish newspapers now — the police were told to cover up any crime related to the refugees. Do not tell the media. Do not leave a paper trail,” Swedish policy analyst Tino Sanandaji told CBN News.

“Apparently now we’re finding out there were hundreds of violent crimes,” he said.

Some Swedes have become so frustrated with the censorship that they go to social media to get the truth out themselves. For instance, one YouTube video posted by “The Angry Foreigner” begins with, “Hey, welcome to Sweden. This is the number one rape capital of Europe.”

A lot of Swedes now realize they’ve been lied to, and they’re wondering what else the government and media have been hiding from them.

A Muzzled Media “You have a lot of problems that were never reported until literally days ago,” Sanandaji said. “It was factually true, but they decided that it was against their ideological agenda. They covered it up. Now we’re finding it out.”

The man who found evidence that one of Sweden’s largest papers covered up the sex assaults in Stockholm is journalist Chang Frick, who says journalists have been either too afraid or not allowed to report the truth.

“I read books about the Soviet Union and everyone was checking each other. This is the situation we have in Sweden. But it’s more in a soft way,” Frick said. “You don’t get in jail for having the wrong thoughts. You would lose your job. You would get socially stigmatized.”

The paper, Dagens Nyheter, says the claim that it was part of a cover-up is “a lie,” and that it could not confirm the story.

Blood on Their Hands? Ingrid Carlqvist, a distinguished fellow at the Gatestone Institute, has been telling Swedes for years that they were being misled about immigration. Now, she feels vindication.

“I’ve been trying to tell the Swedish people this for five years or something. And everyone said, ‘No, it couldn’t be like that. Politicians don’t lie like that. Journalists are honest. They couldn’t lie about this, no, no, no,’” she said.

“Now everything has exploded, and there is not a living person in this country who can go on (covering their eyes),” she said.

Swedish immigration policy changed. It was forced to because it faced a system-wide collapse. There are now guards on the border, and some Swedish papers have reported more openly about the problems of immigration.

But if you think the European Left has learned its lesson about the danger of open borders, you would be wrong. After the Brussels attack, there were several articles essentially blaming terrorism on racism and calling for continued opened borders.

There are refugees who need help, but Europe’s misplaced generosity has brought war to its doorstep. And some believe that politicians, police officials, and journalists now have blood on their hands.

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Steve Sailer: Bill Clinton Denounced for Denouncing Murderous Blacks Hopped Up on Crack

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* If there weren’t Michelle Goldbergs using their high IQs and verbal facility to spin these events every time they happened, even most liberals would respond to them with a natural, common sense reaction, such as, for example, agreeing with Bill’s comments here. We’d have a much more rational public discourse.

* “Right-wing outlets like the Daily Caller and the Weekly Standard rushed, naturally, to post video of Bill’s hectoring.”

Those evil “right-wing outlets”. Publicizing the public comments of a former President on a matter of public policy. How despicable.

Michelle Goldberg doesn’t seem to realize that criticizing BLM protestors might actually be popular among a lot of voters – even Democratic voters. Probably, a lot of white and oriental Democrats have as much black-fatigue as do Republican voters, even though they might not say it. Perhaps Bill is providing a “Sister Soulja” sound-bite for his wifes’ campaigns’ benefit. Who knows – if he could still fly back to Little Rock and sign a death-warrant for a retarded black murderer, he might have done that too.

* Bubba should know by now that he cannot say that which cannot be said – be it true to the facts or not. He should know that #BlackLivesMatter is satire at its best – and give the group a comedic welcome.

* “Then, Bill Clinton aped”. An article about POC and they reference “apes”? It’s 2016!

* Realpolitik guess: the Southern primaries are over, so Clinton doesn’t need the black vote any more (she knows she has them for the general). She needs to recapture the ethnic white / union white vote that is going over to Bernie or Trump.

* That’s plausible. I think another thing is that Bill Clinton is known for being a bit of a hot head, and he lost his temper. He’s almost surely proud of how crime rates dropped hard under his presidency, and he’s proud of his crime bill for making that happen*. He’s probably sick of having feign regret.

A few years ago, Stephen Pinker specifically, if a bit wryly, praised Clinton for causing crime rates to drop. There’s a lot to dislike about Bill Clinton, but he did buck the soft-on-crime tendencies of the 1960s Democrats and worked with Republicans to increase law enforcement. In contrast, BLM is a truly evil movement, built on top of and fueled by deceit, hysteria and mass violence. Good for Bill Clinton to denounce BLM.

*I doubt his policies alone caused the drop, but Clinton is an egomaniac so he likely believes he was the main reason why crime rates went down.

* Black leadership (such as it it) pisses outside the tent. Not inside because this would require some real world self-refection and honesty plus there is lots of money to be made in mau-mauing stupid whites in gov’t. When you come right down to it American blacks want to get the same never ending paycheck as casino Indians.

* Black people are more likely to commit crime in general than white people , and this is particularity true of violent crimes, crimes that demand a police response. So because blacks are more likely to commit crime in general than whites, blacks are more likely to encounter police officers than whites. And because blacks are more likely to encounter police officers than whites, they are more likely to get booked for drug use than whites.

* I’m more inclined to ascribe Bill Clinton’s remarks to Elderly Tourette Syndrome than to cold rational political calculations–it just seemed too spontaneous. Bill is, after all, from the South and grew up in close proximity to blacks. He’s not at all surprised that a “get tough on crime bill,” put a lot more blacks in prison: that was a feature, not a bug.

* Blacks have a cultural need to publicly flout whitey’s rules. Thus they commit crime more flagrantly than do whites. Going to prison now functions as a male initiation rite in the black community.

* A Jewish male does not become a real man until he has a Bar Mitzvah. A Black male does not become a real man until he goes to prison.

Prison is Bar Mitzvah for male Negroes.

* Blacks I’ve known are generally interested in four things: getting laid, getting high, watching sports on TV and fried chicken. A drug induced stupor is their default state. Their mental ability is unimpaired by their doping because there isn’t much there to impair to begin with. A black man’s creativity and his unique contribution to wider culture is in concocting and brewing new highs, which is why they are disproportionately arrested for drug use.

Because they aren’t needed as workers and have a surfeit of leisure time with which to pursue their agenda of staying buzzed, blacks once again (as in Rap) are showing us the way forward. Increasingly, the problem in the future will be what to do with surplus humanity that has no useful purpose. Keeping them stoned zombies is as good a solution as any. Huxley may not have foreseen that people won’t need to be forced to take drugs to quell their restiveness, they may demand drugs to silence the torment that is the human condition. They will willingly choose to stay buzzed right up to the grave, oblivious to the demands that teleological individuality imposes on us.

Evolution designed us to live with a certain amount of worry and anxiousness, which purposeful behavior relieves. But this also causes discomfort and blacks like being free from worry, hence their drug use. This is the way forward for those made irrelevant by robots etc. Once again, the wise, magical Negro has shown us the way.

* Ordinarily, I’d say Bill’s instincts are correct for moving towards the center for the general election, but the Dems are still in the primaries, and this looks like a big mistake to do it so early. White liberals are so brainwashed that blacks have become magic unicorns to them, and if you criticize blacks in any way, shape, or form, liberals think you’re evil–and that you’re an old fogey who needs to be put out to pasture, much the same way liberals in the 1960s used to view elderly white Southerners. Liberals are only going to back Bernie in even greater numbers after this.

White liberals aren’t voting for Bernie because of his stance on race. They’re voting for Bernie because he’s not Hillary. They think Hillary is appalling. This is the blind spot in the Clinton polling. Heck, I’ve heard many liberals froth at the mouth about what Hillary has done in Honduras as SoS, and Republicans are so out of it they haven’t even heard about that issue.

The problem is, for many liberals, the Clintons are too old, too set in their ways, too 1980s, too greedy, too corrupt, too status quo, and with race signaling like this, liberals won’t tolerate it. They have made themselves into an Inquisition. We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism, with a bizarre mind-set that has taken over the levers and controls of society. As noted in the other article about the female broadcaster, liberals think it’s normal to fire employees for saying the same stuff that Bill just said. This is a very different era from the 1980s.

If lefties go even farther, they’ll begin to morph into the sort of extreme nut-jobism that took over in communist societies like Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Mao’s China, and Stalin’s Russia. The only thing protecting our basic rights are our present laws, which the left keeps encroaching on and trying to alter to suit their crazy ideology.

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Steve Sailer: Gay Talese Denounced for Being Honest

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes:

Talese went to some kind of seminar in Boston recently. When asked which women journalists inspired him in his pioneering New Journalism in the 1960s, he answered: “None.”
Talese’s honesty caused Twitter to freak out.
Of course, the reason was that everybody knows, deep down, that women tend not to be pioneers. But that just makes it more scandalous for an old man to mention it.
Looking in Wolfe’s canonical 1973 anthology, T he New Journalism, I see that women writers made 2 of the 23 contributions. The most famous female New Journalist is Joan Didion, but the less well-known Barbara Goldsmith is also represented. Male New Journalists, besides Wolfe and Talese, include Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joe McGinnis, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and Michael Herr.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Old liberals are going to have to stop writing articles or giving interviews if they want to stay out of trouble. The politically correct line changes so quickly it’s impossible for them to keep up. For example, on yesterday’s All Things Considered I learned that the stalwart liberal Calvin Trillin, 80, wrote a humorous poem about the cuisine of different Chinese provinces. It was published in the New Yorker, gatekeeper of the pc line. Nevertheless, it offended some Chinese. Timothy Yu, associate professor of English and Asian-American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said, “The major feeling I was getting from people was exasperation, like, can you believe this is happening again? . . . What’s bothersome to a lot of Asian-American readers about it is not the satire; it’s the fact that Chinese things are kind of being used as the punch line or the prop.”

* There is an insatiable Orwellian urge among the modern Left to retcon the past. “The past is a different country” and they just can’t accept that in that country, women, blacks, etc. figured prominently in very few areas. So there is a constant urge to dig up some obscure figure – a black scientist, a female journalist, and retroactively promote him/her to the pinnacle of their profession. And young people are constantly bombarded with the images of these Heroes of Socialism to the point where they begin to think that ALL of the prominent people of the past must have been colorful/female. So when a lying liar like Talese who was actually there tells the truth, it is shocking.

* Following the link to the Times article, I scrolled down to the comments. Most of the comments I read were siding with Mr Talese and against the Times. It’s becoming evident to most how forced this whole shtick is.

* Obama said in speech or QandA session that he’s sorry the newly appointed supreme court justice is a white guy, and that even though he is white, he is a good jurist.

Isn’t that indictable? How is that not hate speech?

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Call Sweden

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

How did this approach work for Brussels?

WP: ‘Hello, Sweden speaking’: Official hotline connects you with a random Swedish resident

“Calling Sweden, you will soon be connected to a random Swede.”

Those are the first words one hears when dialing the “Swedish Number,” a new hotline created to connect callers with local residents. A few flat tones later and the caller is patched through to, well, a random Swede.

One such call late Thursday morning connected with David Lamm, a product designer from the nation’s second most-populous city, Gothenburg. Lamm, who speaks English, volunteered to field calls on Wednesday, which was both the day the service launched and his 31st birthday.

“We were sort of invited to answer the phone for Sweden and I thought I had to sign up,” he said.

The conversation on Thursday was Lamm’s seventh through the service. His first was with a pleasant man from Istanbul, who, like this reporter, first asked about the weather. (It was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit and raining when we spoke.) Lamm also spoke with two Americans, he said.

“The interesting thing with both of those guys is that they were sort of calling with a Donald Trump-ish agenda,” he said. “They wanted to hear sort of ‘What the hell are you doing over there in Sweden, taking all those immigrants, all those Muslims.'”

[Finnish was the second language of Sweden for centuries. Now Arabic is overtaking it.]

(The nation welcomed more refugees per capita than much of Europe last year, though that openness has not come without its problems. Authorities have been accused of covering up crime allegedly committed by migrants, resulting in a sometimes-violent backlash.)

Lamm’s conversations were facilitated by the Swedish Number—46-771-793-336, or 46-771-SWEDEN—debuted on Wednesday and was conceived by the Swedish Tourist Association, a nonprofit that runs more than 350 accommodations including hostels, hotels, mountain stations and cabins.

It was launched to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the passage of what many say was the world’s first press freedom law. The hotline itself appears to mark another first: It is the world’s only national phone number connecting callers to local residents, the association said in a statement.

“We want to show the real Sweden – a unique country worth visiting with the right of public access, sustainable tourism, and a rich cultural heritage,” Magnus Ling, general secretary and chief executive officer of the association, said in a statement.

[In order to win back tourists, this European capital wants visitors to dial up random locals]

Just after 11 a.m. on Thursday, that meant Lamm, who, for what it’s worth, defended the refugees his country has welcomed.

“We’ve had problems in Sweden, of course, but it’s mostly due to us being bad at integration projects,
he said. “I wouldn’t blame anything on the people coming here, I mean they’re fleeing for their lives.”

Lamm shared his experience growing up with refugees from the Bosnian conflict: “I grew up with a lot of those that came then and that worked out really good,” he said.

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Serum testosterone levels in healthy young black and white men

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

I guess nature is racist.

From the National Institutes of Health:

Blacks in the United States have the highest prostate cancer rate in the world and nearly twice that of whites in the United States. The 2:1 black-to-white ratio in prostate cancer rates is already apparent at age 45 years, the age at which the earliest prostate cancer cases occur. This finding suggests that the factor(s) responsible for the difference in rates occurs, or first occurs, early in life. Testosterone has been hypothesized to play a role in the etiology of prostate cancer, because testosterone and its metabolite, dihydrotestosterone, are the principal trophic hormones that regulate growth and function of epithelial prostate tissue. This report gives the results of assays of circulating steroid hormone levels in white and black college students in Los Angeles, CA. Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher. Both these differences were statistically significant. Adjustment by analysis of covariance for time of sampling, age, weight, alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and use of prescription drugs somewhat reduced the differences. After these adjustments were made, blacks had a 15% higher testosterone level and a 13% higher free testosterone level. A 15% difference in circulating testosterone levels could readily explain a twofold difference in prostate cancer risk.

High testosterone is linked to aggression and correlates with violent crime rates. Just as men have higher testosterone levels than women and commit about ten times as much violent crime as women, so too do blacks have more testosterone than whites and commit more violent crimes than whites, while whites have higher testosterone levels than asians and commit more violent crime than asians.

High testosterone levels accounts for why blacks add more muscular definition more quickly and easily than whites who in turn bulk up more impressively than asians.

High testosterone levels probably don’t make for family stability, which may be part of the reason why east-asians enjoy more family stability than whites and whites more than blacks.

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Will Trump Be Good For Deadbeats?

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Assuming that he did follow through with his economic proposals, which are still relatively vague, Trump’s policies would be good for deadbeats. Trump plans to greatly devalue the dollar while simultaneously running huge budget deficits in the first year or two of his presidency. Deportation of illegal aliens along with some measured reduction in the trade deficit will cause wage growth to accelerate. NGDP – nominal GDP – will go through the roof. The high inflation will reduce the value of debts and make them easier to pay off.

* According to his own account, Obama was a poor custodian of his own personal finances right up through his election to the Senate.

* You can’t sell cigarettes without getting people hooked, and you can’t make money as a bank unless some sucker takes out a loan from you.

There’s a fundamental problem with low interest rates. If you’re a bank and you’re being paid back at an interest rate of 4%, which is closer to what people had to pay in the 1960s and 1970s, it’s easier to make money than getting paid back at 1% interest rates. Mathematically speaking, if a bank needs X amount of income to survive as a business, they need 4 times the amount of loans out at 1% interest than at 4% interest.

The problem is, there aren’t necessarily 4 times the amount of people out there who are a good idea to lend to. If someone has to pay you back at 4%, a banker is more inclined to be judgmental about who that money is going to and whether they can be trusted to repay it. Low interest rates encourage stupid loans, because banks think even stupid people should be able to pay back at 1%, which isn’t always the case.

If a whole sector of the economy happens to go belly-up at once, banks will be destroyed. Case in point that I’ve been researching: Currently, a lot of banks have massive loans out to fracking and other associated oil industry companies that aren’t going to be paid back. I’ve seen an estimate that between now and September, over 140 companies will start missing payments to banks, and then those companies will begin to go bankrupt. Supposedly, banks have been telling these companies to sell off all their assets down to their office chairs before declaring bankruptcy, because when that happens, it’ll take our banking system down with it. A lot of banks didn’t bother to put aside cash reserves in case these big loans go bad because they never realized the whole fracking sector was going to die at once, and banks haven’t have enough time to build up emergency cash reserves of any significance since the price of gas began to drop.

This will mean another TARP-style bailout is going be necessary to save our banking system, and we’ll almost certainly have a big stock market crash like the one in 2008. Depending on the timing, this is going to be our October Surprise before the election.

Though I sort of relish the thought of all this blowing up in Obama’s face and staining his legacy, I’m not looking forward to the chaos. A stock market crash will deplete the value of pension funds, IRAs, etc., that many middle-class baby boomers are depending on for retirement, and their old age is going to be poorer than they expected. The collapse in gas prices is mostly Obama’s fault in the first place because of his Mideast antics with the Saudis. I hope he gets tarred, feathered, and wacked like a pinata on his way out the White House door.

* I’m a director of a community bank. For years we included in our written lending policy a reference to the “5 C’s of Credit,” which are:

-Character
-Capacity
-Capital
-Collateral
-Conditions

Banks undergo two types of examinations from the regulatory authorities – one for safety and soundness, and the other for compliance with the numerous anti-discrimination and social engineering regulations such as the Community Reinvestment Act. The two types of exams often work at cross purposes, because safety and soundness require discrimination against people with bad credit, while the category of people with bad credit includes a disproportionate number of certified victim groups.

At one of our recent compliance exams the examiners criticized our lending policy because it included the word “character.” Why? Because it was “too subjective.” They wouldn’t say it, but I suspect that they felt it enabled some sort of invidious discrimination. So, we had to amend the policy and remove the reference to character.

That the Obama administration now wants lenders to “use more subjective judgment” is a perfect illustration of the conflict between safety and soundness on one hand, and egalitarian social engineering on the other. Creditworthiness, as reflected by any one of the “5 C’s,” is not equally distributed across all demographics – underwriting loans is an inherently discriminatory activity. Any attempt to deny this is going to end in tears.

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Indiana University Students Mistake Priest for KKK Member

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

Breitbart:

On Monday, students at Indiana University Bloomington mistook a priest for a Ku Klux Klan member, taking to social media to express their fear of the alleged Klansman, who they claimed was carrying a whip, and dressed in “white robes.”
Residential hall advisor Ethan Gill quickly wrote an email to his students, warning them of the “threat” on campus: “There has been a person reported walking around campus in a KKK outfit holding a whip. Because the person is protected under first amendment rights, IUPD cannot remove this person from campus unless an act of violence is committed. Please PLEASE PLEASE be careful out there tonight, always be with someone and if you have no dire reason to be out of the building, I would recommend staying indoors if you’re alone.”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* From his LinkedIn profile: “This past semester I’ve built a community, help support fellow students academically and emotionally, and I’m there to help around the hall whether it be planning and hosting events, participating in meetings, running the center desk, or adding decorations to the hallways or bulletin boards.”

Now he can add, “or warning students to stay indoors and stay safe when white-robed KKK Klansmembers, whether real or imaginary, are freely roaming the campus. “

* Tough shit for all the wussie boys and girls on campus. The nuns who taught me in grammar school were as fearsome as the KKK, and they threatened you with eternal damnation. The Sisters of St. Joseph, my Patron Saint, wore black from head to toe, a head piece that covered all but their face, a knotted rope around their waist and a mile of rosary beads, the rattle of which acted as an early warning system that Sister Whomever was swooping down on you. Heaven help these frightened babies.

* A priest walking through campus, with his hate-beads and his hate-prayer-book? Triggering.

* A 1969 letter about the black quota at Yale predicting the problems we have now.

* When you live by the iPad you die by the iPad. Young people today spend so much time and energy engaged in social media that unfounded rumors spread like wildfire. Notice the RA advised against going out of the dorm. Stay inside, it’s dangerous out there!

How else can these hot-house flowers get a reality check if they just cluster indoors and don’t venture out to explore and find out for themselves what’s really going on? You know, NEGATIVE feedback. Which most people think must be BAD because it includes the term NEGATIVE. As in, “don’t be so negative all the time”.

Sometimes negative is a GOOD THING. It prevents systems from oscillating to the point of self destruction.

We’re doomed.

* Isn’t there a throw away line in just about every Woody Allen movie of the last 50 years where Woody’s character is certain that Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Boston, UpState Ny….. are full of Nazis, Rednecks and Cossacks?

For example:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Manhattan_(film)

Isaac: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Ya know? I read it in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, ya know, get some bricks and baseball bats, and really explain things to ‘em.

In the movies this paranoia becomes Woody’s excuse for never leaving Manhattan. In real life it pretty much explains the “Pauline Kael world view” effect.

It also explains the Jewish elites obsession with with destroying the Boy Scouts of America through legal actions, first for the BSA’s stand against gay scoutmasters, next for decades old highly dubious allegations of child molestations by Gay scoutmasters.

Because we all know that the BSA is just a neo-nazi front and besides if young Jews go camping with the goyim they will only be ritually sodomized instead of perhaps being merely red pilled as to their family’s yenta’s paranoid delusions.

Best make sure that Jewish children be raised as hot house flowers and attend only kosher & or “progressive” youth programs and summer camps like the ones Sabrina Rubin Erdely of UVA rape hoax fame so widely touts for her precious kids.

Microaggressions are simply “Yentaism” runamuck for POC and the more feeble minded among the goyim.

* Speaking of disco groups like K.C. and the Sunshine Band, I was just now reading up on Chic (Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards), who were huge right after K.C. in the late 1970s (“Le Freak” and “Good Times”). Chic was very influential on the first generation of rappers (e.g., the first Top 40 rap hit in the 1970s, the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” lifts Chic’s “Good Times” riff; and the 1980 #1 rap hit by Blondie, “Rapture,” also uses “Good Times,” while Queen’s 1980 #1 quasi-rap hit “Another One Bites the Dust” lifts the bassline).

But back in the late 1970s I always thought Chic sounded kind of New Wave as well sounding disco. Listening to the KC (two white guys and a bunch of black session musicians) from the mid-1970s, I can hear that Chic was doing something similar to KC in the late 1970s, but their guitar sound was janglier and more alien, kind of like what Johnny Rotten’s PIL was doing in the late 1970s and that U2 perfected in 1981.

And sure enough, it turns out that the first time Rodgers ever heard anybody rapping, in late 1978, it was at a NYC show that he had been invited to by … Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, the wife-husband leaders of the New Wave band Blondie. So the fact that Blondie had the first #1 rap hit turns out to make all sorts of sense.

Soon after Chic played in a show with Blondie and the Clash, who were living in New York in the second half of 1979, and the Clash released their own rap song in late 1980, “Magnificent Seven.” (I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some direct connection to Talking Heads, who released their own rap song in 1980, “Crosseyed & Painless.”)

Reading up on Nile Rodgers, I see that his stepfather was a Jewish beatnik drug addict in NYC. So it’s not surprising that black rap and white new wave were closely linked 35 years ago.

Here’s a 1981 bootleg recording of a concert with Blondie / Chic / Fab Five doing a version of Good Times / Rapture / Rapper’s Delight.

So it turns out that 35 years ago, people got the joke, but now it all sounds like Verboten Cultural Appropriation.

From Wikipedia:

“In late 1978, Debbie Harry suggested that Chic’s Nile Rodgers join her and Chris Stein at a hip hop event, which at the time was a communal space taken over by teenagers with boombox stereos playing various pieces of music that performers would break dance to. Rodgers experienced this event the first time himself at a high school in the Bronx. On September 20, 1979, and September 21, 1979, Blondie and Chic were playing concerts with The Clash in New York at The Palladium. When Chic started playing “Good Times”, rapper Fab Five Freddy and the members of the Sugarhill Gang (“Big Bank Hank” Jackson, Mike Wright, and “Master Gee” O’Brien), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band. A few weeks later Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club Leviticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards’ bass line from Chic’s “Good Times”. Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem. The song turned out to be an early version of “Rapper’s Delight”, which also included a scratched version of the song’s string section. Rodgers and Edwards immediately threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in a settlement and their being credited as co-writers.[5] Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but later declared it to be “one of his favorite songs of all time” and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled (or in this instance interpolated) Chic[6][better source needed]. He also stated: “As innovative and important as ‘Good Times’ was, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ was just as much, if not more so.”[7] “Rapper’s Delight” is said to be the song that popularized rap music and put it into the mainstream.[citation needed].”

* According to Rogers, it was Disco’s increasing elitism and overt gayness that killed the genre, not necessarily racism, homophobia or even Steve Dahl. Early rappers simply learned to cater to young people who could not afford, or were not stylish enough, to get into the hottest clubs.

Meanwhile Mutt Lange helped AC/DC to a huge hit with “You Shook Me All Night Long” by giving it a beat even uncoordinated white guys who thought disco was for fags could manage enough liquid courage to ask a girl to dance to.

Chic’s repertoire, especially “Good Times” along with Tony Thompson’s beats are pretty much rap sampling staples to this day.

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