April 3, 2015 Asians And THE BELL CURVE In Fairfax, VA–Diversity Or Meritocracy? Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Asians And THE BELL CURVE In Fairfax, VA–Diversity Or Meritocracy?

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Patrick Buchanan writes: A voracious and eclectic reader, President Nixon instructed me to send him every few weeks 10 articles he would not normally see that were on interesting or important issues.

In 1971, I sent him an essay from The Atlantic, with reviews by Time and Newsweek, by Dr. Richard Herrnstein. My summary read:

“Basically, (Herrnstein) demonstrates that heredity, rather than environment, determines intelligence–and that the more we proceed to provide everyone with a ‘good environment’ the more heredity will become the dominant factor … in their success and social standing.”

In a 1994 obituary, The New York Times wrote that Herrnstein, though he “was often harassed … and his classes at Harvard were disrupted,” never recanted his heresy. He wrote “I.Q. and Meritocracy” in 1973, and in 1994 co-authored with Charles Murray the hugely controversial “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.“

What brought this back was a piece buried in the “B” section of The Washington Post about the incoming class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County.[Asian students dominate admissions to elite Thomas Jefferson High School, By T. Rees Shapiro, March 31, 2015]

TJ High is an elite magnet school that admits students based on their academic aptitude and achievement and offers “courses in differential equations, artificial intelligence and neuroscience.”

According to the Post, 70 percent of the incoming freshmen are Asians, the highest percentage ever for a school already 60 percent Asian. Ten years ago, the student body was 32 percent Asian.

White students make up 29 percent of the school today, but are only 22 percent of the entering class. The class of 2019 will have 346 Asians and 102 whites, but only 12 Hispanics and 8 blacks.

Of the 2,841 applicants for 2015, one in four Asians was admitted and one in eight whites, but only one in 16 Hispanics and one in 25 black students. Of low-income students, only one in 33 applicants got in.

What do these numbers tell us?

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New York Post Blasts Jews For Lousy Food On UWS

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek writes: “Well, I’ve been to one world’s fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever seen on a blog. The problem with this analysis begins with its own numbers, pointing out that 2/3rds of the UWS is NOT Jewish. So how can one rationally blame that 1/3 for what the 2/3rds don’t support? Also, the overall characterization of the demographic here is weirdly out of date. The old lefty intellectual Jewish UWS was mostly gone decades ago. Now it is like any other part of white Manhattan, with just a smattering of the old (and I do mean OLD) Jewish crowd left along West End Avenue. And finally, does anyone think that the restaurants of the goyim in Judenfrei America are better? It is a sea of Denny’s and Olive Gardens out there, folks. White antisemites need to step up their game if they want to be able to look Islamists in the eye. Also, for anyone who wants to eat out at some fancy place in Manhattan without rubbing elbows with Jews, tonight is one of the two best nights of the year for that, maybe the best. Passover. Even secular Jews will be dining at someone’s home this evening. As will Luke Ford.”

BLOG: A top-featured article from the NY Post reviews how bland, generic, and flavorless the restaurant scene is in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and places blame on the demand side with the residents themselves. Restaurants that ought to do great business flounder in the UWS, while run-of-the-mill Chinese take-out will never die. Any place that tries to do something bold is immediately watered down to appeal to dull taste buds.

You don’t have to read between the lines very carefully to see who the problem is among the residents — it’s primarily the Jewish palate that the Italian-American critic is blasting.

Savvy readers may have suspected this already, given that about 1/3 of the neighborhood’s residents are Jewish. But the critic can’t come right out and say that in the mainstream media (for similar reasons that he would not be able to discuss openly). He did manage to drop a rather big hint toward the end, though, while quoting some other source (my emphasis):

And a new place that sticks to its guns must put up with what [Jewish restaurant manager Ed] Schoenfeld calls the “kvetch factor.”
On Christmas at RedFarm [Chinese food on Christmas], “A lady at the bar was counting people and seats to see who should get a table next.” She made a loud stink and “made my manager cry,” Schoenfeld recalls ruefully.
He asked her to leave — “I basically fired my customer,” he laughs. “You’d never see that downtown.”
Perhaps locals share lingering nostalgia for the days of Mexican beaneries and dairy cafeterias. Call it Karl Marx’s revenge on a neighborhood that prefers Gray’s Papaya to the eats that make this city the most famous dining destination in the world.

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The Influence Of The Jews

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

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Sex Change Regret

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

From SexChangeRegret.com: Young or old, early in transition or years later, changing genders ends in regret, and often, in a total nightmare.

I realize different people will draw different conclusions about the people who make the difficult decision to go back. I just feel you should see the stories of those who regret their transition.

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The Terms Of The Nuclear Deal Seem Unfavorable To Iran

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

If this is the deal, it is unfavorable to the Iranians. Skeptics will ask — if the the sanctions are relaxed, will they return if the Iranians cheat? That is what Netanyahu, and the neocons in the U.S. will focus on. As long as Iran has any nuclear program, the neocons want the sanctions to remain in place and for Iran to remain a pariah nation. The Iranians would never agree to that, and if they comply with this agreement, their nuclear program supposedly cannot be repurposed to provide for fissionable material. So it seems that Netanyahu, Bolton, Murvachik, Kristol, Prager, et al wanted complete capitulation from Iran or war.

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Kosher For Passover Protein Bars!

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Erica Berman writes: 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Heaping 1/2 cup almond butter
4 heaping tbls coconut oil

6 cups puffed quinoa (or other cereal)
1 lb (about 4 cups) mixed dried fruit and nuts of choice (I used currents, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews and almonds)

Slowly melt chocolate, almond butter and oil over boiling water. Stir until smooth and remove from heat. Stir cereal and fruit/nuts/seedss into chocolate mixture. Scrape into one 9×12 and one 9×9 pan, spread evenly and press down firmly. Refrigerate until firm. Remove from fridge and cut into squares or bar shapes of desired size. Store in airtight container.

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Why No Riots for Ricky Shawatza Hall?

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

American Thinker: What demands explanation is why the media and the Department of Justice have applied such disparate standards in the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on one hand and Miriam Carey and Ricky Shawatza Hall on the other.

The answer is fairly obvious. “Black lives matter” or “LGBTQ lives matter” only when those deaths advance the agenda of the Democrat-media complex. With Obama in the White House, the shooting death of a black person and/or a gay person by federal officers scores no political points.

The heads of America’s major newsrooms sense this instinctively. They don’t need to be told. The minor newsrooms follow the major ones. Activists, black and gay, are reading the same tea leaves.

On March 15, 2012, just a few days before the story of Trayvon Martin’s killing in Florida became a national sensation, Jose Carranza, 32, was quietly sentenced to 155 years in prison for brutally executing three innocent black college students in a Newark, New Jersey playground.

Who is Jose Carranza? Like George Zimmerman, Carranza is of Peruvian descent. Ironically, what protected Carranza was the fact that he was “undocumented.” The headline, “Illegal Alien Kills Black Innocents,” appealed to no one in the Media-Democrat complex. Had Zimmerman been illegal, we never would have heard of him.

Twenty years before Zimmerman was arrested, almost to the day, the decision makers in America’s newsrooms had even less use for a headline that read, “Clinton Tank Attack on Religious Community Kills 26 Blacks, 13 Other Minorities.” So they fully suppressed the race angle. I doubt if even Al Sharpton knows that most of those killed at Waco were minorities.

And fifteen years prior to Waco, no major media publisher anywhere would have dared run a story with a headline, “Bodies of 250 black children dumped in Oakland mass grave: Communist killer had close ties to the Carters, Jerry Brown, Harvey Milk.”

To state the obvious: some black lives matter a whole lot more than others, and Ricky Shawatza Hall’s was one that did not matter much at all.

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‘Beer Talk’ From Blowhards: Pat Buchanan On Iran Hysteria

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Ilana Mercer writes:

“Are we going to be frightened by words from an Iranian blowhard?” Pat Buchanan tries to school Sean Hannity on the insignificance of Iran’s military as compared to American and Israeli might (and Bibi’s 200 plus atom bombs). It has not dawned on Mr. Hannity that the Arab alliance forming in the Middle East against ISIS, our mortal enemy, is exactly what the US needs if she is to get the hell out of the business of meddling where we are hated.
I like Pat’s description of Britain ending up on US food stamps because of WWII.
What is so disconcerting is the blowhards of cable. In Pat Buchanan you have a learned man who partook in successive American administration, at crucial times in our history; who has so much too impart. And rather than let him teach you something, you scream him down.
Anti-intellectual.

A friend says:

Is a Jew a paleo, a liberal, or a Neocon?
Many in-between have come around to view Buchanan with the respect he deserves. Certainly I have friends and family who may be somewhat liberal or neocon but who still quietly admit they hold him in high esteem.
So I don’t think you have to be a paleo or a realist to like Buchanan like you did in the late 90s.
Rather, I would argue that Jews who seeks to dismiss Buchanan for politically incorrect views, Israel, minority, or otherwise, are firmly in the Israel-first (tribal Right) or Minorities-first (tribal Left) camp.
Of course, this barometer only works for the exceptionally well-informed. Your average co-ed doesn’t know anything about Buchanan except that Rachel Maddow and Jezebel disapprove.

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American Environmentalists Used To Oppose Population Increase

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

I hear: In the late 1960s, the environmental organizations all supported immigration restriction and wanted to stop population increase, especially in less developed nations. The intellectual heavyweights of that time, Garrett Hardin and others were clear.
As you can see from this post by Brenda Walker at VDARE, Peter Gelbaum who was married to the child of illegal aliens from Mexico made a huge donation to the Sierra Club to get them to change their policies on this, without any input from the membership. Now the Sierra Club is just another left-wing organization. It’s an arm of the Democratic Party. You never hear environmental organizations challenge immigration, illegal or legal, from the third world to first world countries on the grounds that the carbon footprint increases many times over from what one person does in a relatively primitive country to what one does in a developed nation.
Anyone who looks at the infrastructure of California, including specifically its water storage and distribution facilities, its highways, prisons, higher education facilities, and health care facilities can see how severely they have been taxed by the unanticipated flow of illegal immigrants, primarily from Latin America, but some from Asia and other areas of world (including Israelis overstaying their visas), yet no one talks about it.

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If you don’t want for your group to dominate the world, a hostile group will

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

It’s a shame Jews are so retiring and humble. It must inhibit their success.

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Shifts in the world’s major religions will see Islam growing faster than any other faith, with the number of Muslims nearly equaling that of Christians by 2050.
A new Pew Research Center study finds that with the exception of Buddhists, the world’s major religions will all see an increase in numbers by 2050, although some will make up a smaller percentage from today. Muslims are the only major religious group projected to increase faster than the world’s population as a whole.
Over the coming four decades, Christianity will remain the world’s largest religious affiliation, but Islam will see a major increase that will make the two religions nearly equal in numbers by 2050. In 2010, Christianity was by far the world’s largest religion, with 2.2 billion followers of the faith and composing nearly one-third (31 percent) of the Earth’s 6.9 billion people. Islam was second, with 1.6 billion adherents, or 23 percent of the world’s population.
If current fertility rates and youth populations continue to grow at their current rate, Muslims will make up 10 percent of Europe’s overall population by 2050. Islam is expected to nearly match Christianity in the coming four decades as a result of a “comparatively youthful” population with high fertility rates.

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