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New Yorker: Five Centuries of White Racism Against Asian Americans

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

* According to Pew Research, as of 2010 every single Asian-American subgroup (Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, etc.) has a higher median household income than whites.

* It does seem to me that historically, Asians have faced far worse racism and government-sanctioned discrimination than Hispanics. So why is it that Hispanics get preferred AA and victimhood status relative to Asians? If they were smart, this is the argument Asians should use in those college admission lawsuits.

* This article’s existence says nothing more to me than the left is getting nervous about losing Asian-American votes to Trump in the short term. Hence why the New Yorker is seeding the ground to encourage Asians to think of themselves as “oppressed minorities” hated by evil whitey —all in order to drive them back to the leftist fold.

Why would lefties be threatened that Asian-Americans might be defecting to Trump?

Well, they’re already angry that their kids are getting the shaft at the Ivys big-time, and those slots given to to blacks and any Hispanic they can find. Tiger Moms don’t like pushing their kids to breaking points and then seeing some stupid welfare-roller take their kid’s slot.

But now immigration is hitting Asian-Americans where it really hurts–jobs. H1B1 visas kill Asian-American kids in Silicon Valley; the tech companies can get an FOB guy at 1/3 the price, work him double time, and then kick him out if he gets uppity. Why hire the local American kid, Asian or not, who can demand more?

And let’s not forget those Asian kids in California are feeling a lot of the brunt of illegal immigration first-hand.

If Trump starts successfully uniting white collar immigration concerns on H1B1 visas and the like (say it with me: “moratorium”) with the blue collar concerns on illegals and Americans of all levels fed up with illegal crime and parasitism—well, gee whiz, then Trump does look like an unstoppable juggernaut. Not only will it get him a ton more votes, but the Asian-American upper-middle class community might be inclined to open their pocketbooks for him–and similar immigration restrictionists. That might be a tipping point to finally counter other racial groups big-money donations that keep the borders unchecked.

* Because obviously immigrants ought to have instant income parity with Americans as soon as they arrive.

In short: Allow limitless number of poor and unskilled people to immigrate to the US. Then blame American racism and nefariousness when the immigrants aren’t at the same income levels as Americans. Advocate “social justice” programs to fix this problem.

* I don’t believe white guys get an inordinate amount of white fever Asian girls. It’s not so much that but rather than Asian men don’t get reciprocal attention from non-Asian women. Like black women, when the dating rules become deregulated due to race, Asian men lose out, as more opportunities leave than come their way. Asian girls might choose a white or an Asian dude, but non-Asian women aren’t choosing Asian men. They get increased competition for their resources but do not get to compete for the competition’s resources

When intra-ethnic and intra-racial dating prohibitions were in place, I’ll bet a lot more homely people of all races got laid, marriages, kids, etc. than today. Because of the smaller pool to choose from; it functioned as a de facto union for girls. As a girl, break the union rules and become a scab–i.e. date outside your race or ethnicity—and be shunned, lose your position, perhaps face violent reprisals. Stay with the union—i.e. only date your race/ethnicity—and you’d get a guy whose value might not be as high as the man in the other race/ethnicity you could get, but you’d keep social standing, have a pride of place, and see your kids look like you, and be guaranteed a pleasant homogeneous community.

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German intel: Migrants will bring anti-Semitism

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jerusalem Post:

BERLIN – Germany’s security and intelligence agencies expressed alarm over the influx of refugees and migrants who harbor radical Islamic views and hatred of Jews, according to a Sunday report in Welt am Sonntag.

According to a security document obtained by the paper and read by top-level agency personnel, “We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples as well as a different societal and legal understanding.”

The newspaper wrote that security sources warn that “the integration of hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants Germany is no longer possible in light of the number and already existing parallel societies.”

The term “parallel societies” in Germany is frequently defined as insulated Muslim communities that have little or no contact with mainstream society.

The document, called “the non-paper” because it was not signed, stated: “German security agencies…will not be in the position to solve these imported security problems and thereby the arising reactions from Germany’s population.”

A senior level security official told the paper that, “The high influx of people from all parts of the world will lead to instability in our land.” The official added, “We are producing extremists through immigration. Mainstream civil society is radicalizing because the majority don’t want migration and they are being forced by the political elite.”

He predicts that many Germans “will turn away from the constitutional state.” The paper’s exclusive information came from the four major security agencies in Germany – the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Police and Federal Criminal Police Office.

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Steve Sailer: Professor of Ethics Convicted of Seducing Mentally Retarded Patient

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve writes: “Forty years sounds pretty harsh for somebody being an overly true believer in today’s conventional wisdom. There is a lot of talk about “over-incarceration,” much of it soft-headed. But this would seem like an example where the kind of Clockwork Orange-style technocratic interventions that the British have focused upon — restraining orders, GPS ankle-bracelet, mandatory psychiatric monitoring, blacklisting from her profession, etc. — ought to keep this lady from running too amok again without putting her in prison for a long time.

A lot of white-hating whites like this Anna Stubblefield aren’t quite right in the head. I mean, you know and I know and Daniel Engber knows that this lady was brought up and continued to live in a pretty mind-warping atmosphere of ethnic hatred, but how often do you think Professor Stubblefield was ever apprised of that fact? “Anti-gentilism” isn’t even a word …”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The people who rule over us, the political class, The Economist magazine, the WSJ etc are pretty much people who take their cue from people such as Anna Stubblefied. In an attenuated form, of course, but the Stubblefields of this world are the policy trail blazers.

* The good news is that there are lots of black prison guards who will gladly give this twisted women exactly what she craves.

* I assume movie rights have since been sold, the sentence immaterial to the strangeness of the story. But then, by one judgment, that would be half a movie we’ve already seen, I mean if the sentence made it stranger. This blunderbuss of an act of contrition aside, the thing with special snowflakes who are not right in the head is that we don’t let them be marginalized. There once were actual bohemians among us, yes there were, and they were forgiven many insanities for the sake of inspiration, and a great book is called Touched with Fire. Modern medz and especially the mainstreaming awareness of them has left Bohemia sundered. I actually think that’s about the most interesting social phenomenon in Western Civilization, because the phantom white menace really is a phantom but manic depression is, well, the true one percent. Strictly Bipolar is another book, very short, that explains big gifts.

* She’s a direct victim of feminist political correctness.

A man who has sex with a retarded woman under his care (1) likely has done so many times before he was caught and is otherwise a sexual predator (2) risks producing a very expensive state charge or requires the family to deal with getting an abortion for a retarded woman.

A woman who has sex with a retarded man does none of this harm, but feminism requires they two be sentenced equally for what is not even remotely the same crime.

At least 20 years in prison is just insane. If anything, she was performing an act of charity.

* Remade into a heart-warming movie after Anna is let out early (San Fran Federal court rules on appeal she is a political prisoner of ableist supremacy)- THE TIKKUN SESSIONS. Wayne Brady will play DJ in an Oscar-winning performance.

* Follow the money, this is ghetto lottery.

* I will say this for the New York Times. I wouldn’t have expected them to publish all the stuff about her and her background. They’re basically just giving the BadWhites ammo.

* Steve Sailer: The biopic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly about the editor of Vogue in Paris being completely paralyzed and dictating a book through pointing with his eyes was accused of being this kind of put up because the secretary who took the dictation for his book was also a professional writer. I did a little spreadsheet to test whether they could have actually gotten the book written the way they said they wrote it in the time they said it took. My finding was: barely, but it couldn’t be proved to have been hoax: there was just barely enough time to get it done.

From my review of Oscar-nominated “Diving Bell and the Butterfly” in AmCon:

“Blink” would have been a simpler, more evocative title because his speech therapist taught him to communicate using his eyelid. She would repeat the alphabet (re-sorted in order of frequency of use in French) until he blinked his one good eye to stop her at the right letter.

Director Julian Schnabel, the New York artist turned moviemaker, employs prodigious imagination to liven up the proceedings, filming much of it from Bauby’s perspective. Nevertheless, “The Diving Bell’s” pace is necessarily languid. With time on my hands, I wondered if Morse Code, which POW Jeremiah Denton used to blink “t-o-r-t-u-r-e” when displayed on North Vietnamese television, wouldn’t have been faster.

Bauby composed his text in his head each morning, memorized it, and then dictated it to a secretary for three hours per day for two months. His short book of about 25,000 words was published in 1997 to rapturous reviews two days before his death.

It’s a wonderful story, but is it true? Reporter Susannah Herbert has raised doubts in The Times of London, pointing out that Bauby’s “secretary,” the self-effacing Claude Mendibil, is a professional ghostwriter who refused to show her the original notebooks.

I calculate that to complete a first draft in two months, Bauby would have had to dictate 135 words per hour (or one letter every five or six seconds). That would be difficult, but not impossible, because Mendibil would often correctly guess many words’ endings. So, I won’t reject the movie’s authenticity, especially because I want to believe it’s true. (Certainly, though, Mendibil deserves the credit she’s never claimed for the sheen of the final draft.)

* For all her “Tikkun Olam”, this lady failed at preventing her mulatto daughter(!) from developing a form of white identity:

Stubblefield’s daughter, Zoe Stubblefield, told DailyMail.com today that the victim’s family, who are black, were targeting her mother because she was white and they were ‘money-hungry idiots’.
Speaking at her mother’s home in West Orange, New Jersey, Friday, the younger Ms Stubblefield told DailyMail.com that D.J.’s relatives were ‘huge a**holes’.
She said: ‘They have done this because my mom is white and we used to have a lot of money and they’re poor.’

* We bandy about words like moron, imbecile, and idiot when describing our political opponents, but these words are actually official psychological classifications:

Moron (IQ 50-69)
Imbecile (IQ 20-49)
and Idiot (below 20).

The black bell curve is shifted 15 points to the left relative to whites so we might give the nutty professor of “ethics” the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps she mistook an idiot for an imbecile. Still, there must have been microcephaly or severe facial deformity (google images for imbecile), and if that didn’t tip her off, this man’s total lack of control over his bladder and bowels should have signaled to her that she is dealing with someone incapable of giving consent to anything except “baby want juice?”

This woman has more than just a fetish for social justice.

* I wish more Scot-Irish were raised to mind their own business. When they repair the world, it tends to lead to millions of people dying or millions of dollars disappearing. Russia has experienced both:

Stalin’s willing executioners

Marc Rich and rape of Russia

* Her ex-husband and father of her two children (Stubblefield- not Reuben, though) was black, but apparently disgustingly privileged with all his able-bodiedness.

* This is a product of extreme religious belief, if you ever needed proof that leftism is a religion.

Faced with a mentally retarded, crippled black male, the extreme leftist hamster spins a story about how he’s really an erudite genius trapped in his beautiful black body that is differently-abled (probably due to racism). She really did believe this nonsense because she is a true believer, darn it.

* Modern society pathologizes white identity politics or tendencies, it pathologizes “homophobia”, but this fetish-like attraction towards the “marginalized” goes undiagnosed, generally speaking. And it happens a lot.

I received a bad check from a black guy through my business many years ago. He was caught, charged and convicted (he’d written bad checks at other businesses as well), but rather than put him in jail, they told him to make restitution, which was fine with me. The problem was, he wouldn’t pay up. Whenever I told his white female probation officer that he wasn’t doing the restitution thing, she would always make excuses for him, saying, “he’ll be in next week.”

She did this for many months, so I mentioned it to a friend of mine who was a judge. He said out loud what I had suspected all along: She was probably having an affair with the guy.

I called her and told her that lover was going to jail if I didn’t see any money in 48 hours. He came in the next day and paid in full. I should’ve filed a complaint against her, but I wasn’t inclined to do things like that back then.

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FBI Raids Riverside Nursing Home as California Targets Shlomo Rechnitz

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Very few people, if any, have a better reputation in Los Angeles Orthodox Judaism than Shlomo Rechnitz, but he’s getting hammered in the Sacramento Bee over the past few months.

It’s hard for me to read anything negative about Shlomo Rechnitz when I know of so many people he’s helped.

Sacramento Bee: California’s largest nursing home owner is facing a new round of government scrutiny as the FBI served search warrants last week at his Riverside facility, and two more of his former top administrators have been charged criminally by the state attorney general’s office.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed Saturday that FBI agents executed search warrants “seeking evidence in relation to alleged criminal activity” at a 99-bed facility in Riverside owned by nursing home magnate Shlomo Rechnitz.

Eimiller said she could not comment on the exact nature of the federal probe because the affidavit in support of the warrants is under seal. However, the FBI spokeswoman said it was her understanding that agents took documents, and that “patients were not removed or even disturbed” during Thursday’s raid at the Alta Vista Healthcare & Wellness Centre.

The latest investigations shine the spotlight again on Rechnitz, a 44-year-old Los Angeles entrepreneur whose facilities have been the focus of multiple local, state and federal probes, along with stepped-up scrutiny by health officials.

His stable of nursing homes in California has expanded rapidly in the last decade, giving him control of about 1 in every 14 skilled nursing beds in the state, according to a Bee investigation. With an estimated 80 homes under his control, Rechnitz has widespread influence on the quality of care being delivered in skilled nursing facilities, which serve some of the state’s most vulnerable residents.

The Bee found that homes he owned for all of last year were tagged with nearly triple as many serious deficiencies per 1,000 beds as the statewide average in 2014, according to the latest figures from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Sallie Hofmeister, a spokeswoman for Rechnitz and his facilities, said Saturday in an email to The Bee: “We are not aware of any basis for the (FBI) investigation, but are cooperating fully with authorities. We cannot comment on the specifics of the discussions with the authorities, but at this time we have no reason to believe the investigation has anything to do with patient care. Alta Vista is proud of the care and treatment it provides to its patients.”

Besides last week’s FBI raid, several Rechnitz employees are facing their own legal challenges.

The former administrator and former top nurse at one of his Orange County nursing homes were charged criminally in August in connection with the alleged abuse last year of two residents – one of two criminal cases filed by the California attorney general in August against employees at facilities owned by Rechnitz.

NorCal Vs SoCal

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I always feel like saying to the mainstream press, it’s the demographics, stupid. I could have written a better article just using about 5 sentences. Of course, that wouldn’t fill the space, but still.

* In other words, “Keep Portland weird… and white.”

* San Francisco grew up as a port even if LA is now a much bigger one and San Francisco’s moribund. That is why SF was the biggest city on the West Coast until the early 20th century. Prior to Silicon Valley, SF was also the financial capital of the West. Wells Fargo and Bank of America had their headquarters in SF. The nascent Silicon Valley was another world from SF, 50 miles down the peninsula. That owed more to Stanford University being the epicenter of electronic research. The big money in California in the 60′s and 70′s was in real estate development and finance. In fact, the FIRE economy pushed out blue collar workers and industry from San Francisco and its nearby suburbs and now the Tech economy is driving the FIRE industry out. Bank of America, e.g., no longer owns its signature building in downtown SF and is headquartered in Charlotte.

I suspect Nolan Bushnell might be the true father of San Francisco’s current position as a tech capital. Atari made computer technology into a consumer good and both Jobs and Wozniak got their start working for Atari. Once computer technology became cheap enough and user friendly enough for everyday use the money poured into Silicon Valley. In a world were twenty something Yahoo entrepreneurs could make hundreds of millions of dollars and cellphone applications became billion dollar unicorn companies the idea of living in Milpitas when you could afford Pacific Heights didn’t make much sense.

* I do find it interesting now that California’s three most prominent office holders are Bay Area residents: Jerry Brown (Oakland), Feinstein (SF), and Boxer (Marin County). From what I see, the odds on favorite to replace Boxer in the Senate is state AG Kamala Harris (San Francisco), the only “Republican” who was ever said to have a prayer was Condoleezza Rice (Stanford/SV).

And the reason why NorCal is wiping the floor with SoCal is that MIT will always beat Guatemala.

* Steve’s point is that closeted-race-realist limousine liberalism made SF turn into MIT, whereas whatever they had in LA had it turn to Guatemala.

* I wonder what Joel Kotkin thinks of this analysis. He championed immigration at the beginning of his career but I sense he had gradually shifted his opinion without coming out and actually saying so.

* I grew up in San Diego Co. My family was there because of the defense industry, and all of my childhood friends’ fathers worked for GD, GA, M/A comm, SAIC, or the biotech firms, if they weren’t outright Navy or Marines.

The defense industry crowd is what propelled UCSD to bring the second best engineering school in the UC system, above UCLA.

The engineers in those companies were all transplants from the Midwest, with high hopes for their own kids. But something about San Diego killed it for their kids. Their own kids wanted to be surfers and stoners, and culture was anti work and anti intellectual. Masters and PhD holding parents were becoming okay with their kids bumming it at SDSU or surfing.

Then the Berlin Wall collapse defense industry recession hit hard, and LA lost its aero industry, and San Diego survived because of cell phones and what became Qualcomm. But the culture wasn’t there for young twenty somethings who were nerdy because it was still overwhelmingly for stoners and surfers.

The bay area did attract them. They were attracted to Apple, Oracle, Cisco and a hundred semi conductor manufacturers.

Meanwhile, the nerds hated Hollywood. And after the aero collapse, LA became just a media industry town, and nerds couldn’t compete with glitz and self promotion. Young people in LA were all writing their own screenplay. Nerds wanted to get away.

* Stanford and Harvard have generated a lot more computer billionaires than Cal Tech (strict merit, no AA) and MIT (subdued AA compared to other top schools).

It seems that the Cal Tech policy of filling the class with the highest possible non-verbal IQ does not produce software entrepreneurs like Harvard and Stanford’s “mix of the smartest and richest, together with athletes and leaders with very high IQ.”

* I wonder what the average IQ is in the Bay Area. I suspect that for an area of its size it has by far the smartest population in the US, and probably the world. If the nationwide average is ~100, then the Bay has to be at least, what, 110?

* An aunt of mine and her husband, he with a doctorate, she with a masters, had four children and lived right on the beach in a place called Capistrano Beach, one of the early gated communities.When I say “right on the beach” I mean you stepped out of the house and on to the beach, where the breakers and the pristine sand stretched out for miles in either direction.
Result: beach bum boys, not one of whom graduated from college (well, one did, but only after he realised in his mid-twenties that otherwise his already growing family was going to starve). Another was still surfing nearly full time at age 40. They were not stupid: the graduate was tested with a 150 IQ, and the surfer is a very articulate and very amusing conversationalist.
What was it? The fatal pull of the sun, the sea and the sky I suppose.
I was lucky in at least two ways: It all meant nothing to me, and I grew up in Palo Alto.

* Steve, have you seen the NY Times Mag “Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield” piece yet? It’s insane — like the Frankfurt-School-Sinatra-Has-A-Cold of IQ denialism, ableism, molestation hysteria, real molestation under color of “science,” pseudo-medico-novelty obsession, and crazy PhD’s gone wild; it’s like the Citizen Kane of irreplicability, man.

* I’ve lived in both locations. I think overall SoCal is a nicer place to live, but I admit there are times when I travel to SF that it feels as if I’m entering civilization. But that’s probably largely because it’s an older city with top restaurants, boutiques, etc.

And don’t forget all the surf/skate/clothing/car/motorcycle start-ups in SoCal, especially in OC. There are a lot of e-cig and “vape”start-ups in the area, too. Costa Mesa seems to have a lot of new companies. And of course there’s a huge bio-tech community centered around UCI.

There are so many tech start-ups in Westside LA that the area has been dubbed “Silicon Beach.”

I get the impression that SoCal attracts a lot more wealthy foreigners than NorCal does.

* The 2009 list of where the Forbes 400 went to school:

Harvard 54
Stanford 25
Penn 18
Yale 16
Columbia 16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (11)
Northwestern University (10)
University of Chicago (10)
Cornell University (9)
University of California, Berkeley (9)
University of Southern California (9)
University of Texas, Austin (9).

* The beach bum problem definitely appears to have been an issue from my youth in Santa Cruz. It’s a fun place to grow up–I had a ball–but the achievement level of the natives is not high. Most of them are very happy, so one might wonder whether achievement is all that. However, way back when it was still quite cheap to live there. Now that all the achievers have figured out how easy is to get down 17, they’ve sent housing prices into the upper atmosphere. It’s not quite so easy to be a bum there as it used to be.

* So called white Conservatives did nothing but ruin Los Angeles, they made it unfit to live in. Even before the flood of illegals in the 90′s, the place was going to pot. Developers and their pet council members ate up chunk after chunk of beautiful land and replaced it with junk tract homes, strip malls and assorted architectural monstrosities.

And when they couldn’t find anything left to ruin in Los Angeles proper they went to outlying areas to ruin them as well with more cookie cutter, soul sucking housing tracts that make people hate their lives, more low income apartments, more strip malls and shopping centers. City planning amounted to stuffing as many houses as possible onto a plot of land even if it is on active fault lines.

Locals who wanted to keep their towns as they are were hit with SLAPP lawsuits to shut them up by fat cat developers or they just sued the cities to get what they wanted.

They so over developed the place that made a water shortage all but inevitable.

In my view the real culprits in the CA drought is a your white developer, businessmen and politicians. Who put money before all else.

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Did You Know Ben Carson Is A Seventh-Day Adventist?

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Daily Caller: Carson grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and his father was an active minister. Having been baptized twice before the age of 13, he began to take his Adventist faith seriously after he allegedly attempted to stab a friend.

The enigmatic denomination emerged on the religious scene in the 1820s when William Miller, a veteran of the War of 1812, predicted the second coming of Christ. Several of Miller’s predicted dates passed without fulfillment and many of his followers abandoned the tradition. But a few carried on and attributed the faulty predictions to a misinterpretation on Miller’s part — not a flaw in the original idea.

There are two fundamental tenets of the Adventist Church: Saturday, the original seventh day of the week, is the Sabbath, and Christ will return to earth to test and judge mankind.

The religion also interprets the books in the Bible from a literal lens, taking the book of Genesis to reveal scientific truths.

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WP: Donald Trump: No apology for questioning Ben Carson’s Seventh-day Adventist faith

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

As an ex-Seventh-Day Adventist, I’m loving my former religion’s time in the spotlight.

In my experience, ex-Seventh-Day Adventists tend to have a visceral hatred for the SDA church, much like ex-Catholics have for the Catholic church.

I’d like to think that my feelings are more positive than negative, but I might be fooling myself.

Comments at the Washington Post:

* I am not a religious individual, nor do I harbor any ill-will toward those who are religious. I never knew what a 7th Day Adventist was until I moved to Chicago. I have had the experience of working with two large Adventist organizations in the western suburbs and it has been interesting to say the least. They are very much a closed group. In my experience, they highly value children and education. There always seems to be endless infighting and subversion amongst leadership which makes daily interaction uncomfortable and bizarre. They are openly discriminatory with very limited non-discrimination statements that do not protect all citizens. My overall assessment is that Adventists are educated and intelligent. Their externally projected character appears righteous, but the true intent of their actions and decisions is highly questionable and occasionally offensive. I did not know Carson was an Adventist until recently, but after learning that he was, his crazy comments and bizarre demeanor combined with his medical and educational background suddenly made perfect sense. There is much more behind this man’s motivations than he expresses publicly. Be careful and be wary.

* “I mean, Negro, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.”

* Trump knows exactly what he is doing. Any fool can look up SDA on the internet–even Trump. He knows what they believe, and once the Evangelicals know, Carson is finished.
Just try to tell an Evangelical that there is no Hell. Good grief, each one of them has lists of people that they know are destined for the lake of eternal fire, and they love the idea.

* This will be a problem for Carson when people get to know more about him and his religion. He’s already had an appearance before the Southern Baptists cancelled because of his religion.

Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference Cancels Ben Carson as Speaker for Political, Theological Reasons

* Carson also said he’s not supporting a Muslim as president, so I think it’s fine that Trump said he doesn’t know about Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) faith. Even though SDA Claims about Ellen White’s Visions and Dreams as given to her by God, Her “I was shown” visions were even copied! White is found guilty of copying extensively from other authors ( White copied “The Great Controversy” 1886, from “The History of Protestantism” 1876, not only the words, but the pictures, and claimed it was a revelation of God). Most people just know the SDA worship on Saturdays, not Sundays, but did not know according to White, the papacy is the seven-headed beast from the sea in Revelation who is accompanying by a lamb-like beast from the earth. The latter causes the world to worship the former and has an image made of it. White proclaimed that the second beast is the United States (The Great Controversy, 387–8), and that it will force people to worship the papacy by enforcing Sunday worship rather than Saturday worship. Thus SDA see themselves as the “remnant”, the one and only group that has the “truth” and all other Christian churches are anti-Christ or under “strong delusion”.

* Keep them fighting, media boys. Create the news. Divide and conquer. It works every time.

* Gotta love how all these GOP guys try to convince people that one flavor of mindless superstition is better than all the other flavors of mindless superstition.

* We can NOT have a Seventh Day Adventist for a president.

* “Donald Trump: No apology for …” fill in you own blanks. When did “dog bites man” become headline news?

* Suppose for a moment that Trump is elected POTUS (shudder). Suppose he makes remarks in advance of a State visit by Angela Merkel:

“Angela Merkel is coming to visit me next week at the Trump White House. I look forward to seeing her, although, to be honest, she is nothing to look at – and by that I mean that she may have once been great looking, but years of worry about the economy in Germany, which is, quite frankly, very, very bad, have taken a toll on her face. And that body! She should be wearing pant suits, like Hillary, because there’s nothing worse than an old woman dressing like a young one, like my wife – have you seen her? She is an amazing woman, my wife. She is as classy as me, and she looks almost as good now as when I married her. Anyway, so Angela Merkel is coming to ask me for my advice, because she read my books and she knows how amazing I am in business and how I’ve grown the economy in the US just since taking office last week. Looking forward to helping her out.”

* There are:
1. Roman and Eastern Catholic Christians–who trace back to the original Christianity.
2. Eastern Orthodox Christians–who trace back to the original Christianity & Councils.
3. European Reformation Christianity–a 16th century set of re-definitions of Roman Catholic Christianity
4. Later European, esp English, new forms of Christianity:eg Methodism,Presbyterianism
5. Uniquely American forms of Christianity–Colinial era:e.g. Baptists
6. Pre and Post Civil War unique forms of Christianity with founders alleged to be Prophet(esses), or founder’s dicovery of New Scriptures etc:Adventist,JWs,Mormons etc
7. Many 19th-20th century American Liberal(Social Gospel) or Evangelical(biblical fundamentalist) Christianity.

Trump is Presbyterian. Carson is 7th Day Adventist. Fiorina is Episcopalian. Rubio is Roman Catholic. Hillarious is Methodist. . . . . Their Religion does matter! Imagine if one of them were a Shi’a Muslim–intent on an apocalyptic holy war to eliminate all Sunni Muslims and non-Muslims. That would matter, wouldn’t it?

BTW Carson is a devout biblicist–he believes every word in the TORAH, the GOSPELS, and the Apostolic Letters are infallible truth! He may know his anatomy of the human brain, but not Christianity, or any other world religion.

* I used to enjoy the “Spy vs. Spy” cartoons in Mad Magazine when I was a kid. Now I get to enjoy “Bigot vs. Bigot” in the GOP primary. It’s not as enjoyable.

LINK: “Let the colored people work chiefly for those of their own race. …The best thing will be to provide the colored people who accept the truth, with places of worship of their own, in which they can carry on their services by themselves… Schools and sanitariums for colored people should be established.”

“Let white and colored people be labored for in separate, distinct lines.”

MORE WP COMMENTS:

* So now the republicans are arguing about which religion is the best one? This should be interesting.

* Trump sure doesn’t act like the Presbyterian Christians I know. On the other hand, my recent experiences with dogmatic Seventh Day Adventists make me question their ability to play nice with others.

* It’s good to know that Trump and Carson both need the help of the nutty religious right to win the GOP nomination.

It will be fun listening and watching both of these cons trying to out religion one another with their nutty ideas and beliefs when it comes to their lack of experience in governing.

* Dr. Carson really sells his religion as one of his high points for electability. So why can’t we talk about it?

* 7DAs do have their own prophet, and have some interesting views on the rest of Christianity. DEFINITELY not mainstream by any standard. Trump is the most effective politician we are likely to see in our lifetimes. His choice of words in this case is perfect. Millions will now have a look at this faith, and will have to wonder: With all that religious life in America has t offer, what compelled Dr. Carson to choose this one? He’s been born again in it, twice.
If republicans think that the Clintons won’t make an issue of it, they’re dreaming. Trump wins again. Evan Tom Bevan at RCP has to really amp up the propaganda to make Trump look extreme here, the link I followed from RCP said Trump paints Carson’s faith as extreme. “I don’t know”, he said. Trump’s on solid ground here. 70% of republican voters now see him as most electable. I wonder if Hillary will survive to face him. Can anyone ask for more than a Trump/Sanders battle? Sanders wrote that women have a subconscious desire to be gang raped. Will Trump mention that? How many times? How about until everyone’s heard it.

* Does Trump still say he’d date his daughter if he could? (She has such a great body.) He has two daughters, but, I guess, the other one doesn’t have such a great body.

* I’ll have to say that probably the only thing i liked about Trump’s campaign was his disinterest in getting into ‘religiosity’ competitions. So I’m sorry that he decided he had to throw that out – even though Carson deserves whatever he gets.

Nevertheless, from a cynical viewpoint – he’s probably doing a smart thing bringing up subtly that the Seventh Day Adventists aren’t large denomination and therefore others might find their beliefs different than their own. AND he was careful to not actually ‘say’ anything about the religion – so he can’t be accused of dissing them.

He’s a sharp operator – I’ll say that. Not someone I’d ever want for president – but very shrewd with the innuendo.

* It is the well practised dog whistle.
However Carson invited this he went further down that road with Moslems.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

* As a Seventh-Day Adventist, many of us knew this day would come. Carson views is outside of many of the tenets held sacred By SDAs:

1) On Religious liberty: SDAs have been in the forefront for maintaining the separation between Church and State. We believe that the greatest danger to Christianity is when the state become one with Religion particularly the Christian Religion.

2) The matter of free will: We believe that God in all his dealings with man, allow him to exercise free will. Therefore it is wrong to impose Christian Tenets or doctrines with the power of the State or with coercion by family or friends. Carson views on the role the STATE on Gay marriage is not a SDA viewpoint.

3) The provision of health Care: Jesus in all his interactions placed the health of the individual as primary, before addressing their Spiritual needs he would perform miracles: hence very early in SDA history, health became important to us: (See Kellogs, Post and Loma Linda) If the ACA allows for increase access to healthcare it is something to be praised, If they are flaws, then work to fix it or ameliorate it. It is from that perspective that Dr Carson approach to both Medicare and ACA is more in keeping with the Historical AMA, rather than SDAs.

4) Views on borders: In Christ there is no East nor West, The Bible addresses the favorable treatment of strangers (foreigners) 10X more often than it speaks of homosexuality. Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt with Christ as a child, The gospel is to be spread in all nations. On this basis we are particularly happy when walls and barriers to free movement between people are removed.
4b) The Sabbath has 3 components, 2 of which is rest and work, one cannot keep the Sabbath if you have not worked. The gift of work originated in Eden. Therefore barriers to work where-ever you are is not in keeping with Gods plan.

These positions may not be politically feasible in any modern day country, and would be the opposite of Republican Dogma.

* Tone2, the Bible does not mean just open the gates and let anyone come into the country and let the government support them and give them other peoples hard earned possessions. I do not know many Seventh Day Adventist that believe we should have open borders.

* 1) Open Gates; an entire book in the bible is based off that concept, The book of Ruth. Naomi and family was an economic refugee to Ruth’s country (something we are against) when Naomi and Ruth return to Judea Ruth would be by our definition an economic refugee, Naomi has no resources to sponsor her either, and would not be granted a visa she would have been here illegally.

When Ruth enters Boaz field she is essentially relying on the welfare system (spelt out in Leviticus) which says that a farmer cannot return and glean the crop that he misses in the first pass, it was to be left to widows and orphan. (imagine interfering with private property)
It is instructive that Ruth who is the foreigner here is in the birthline of Christ.
2) In acts of the Apostles the early Christian Church ( they had all things in common) the story of Annanias and his wife is a story about the treatment of private property in the early Christian Church. As Peter points out that it was theirs to dispose of as they see fit, but they were sharing with the other believers but lied about the extent of their sharing. A concept drawn from (Numbers 10:32)
3) You ignore that all is required to work. treating the stranger among you like yourself is allowing them to work.
4) Read again the Story of the Good Samaritan, You will notice that while all the other characters are listed by religious persuasion the Samaritan is listed by nationality, and he is not an Israelite.
Christianity is a difficult concept and in practice totally alien to our current practices and beliefs.

* SDA is the Wahhabi version of Christianity, believing in the literal Bible, including all the nutty stuff. Christian Taliban now occupies the White House, let me out of here.

* I’m a Presbyterian too! Hypocrisy is our central creed, so we welcome Mr. Trump!

* Since Carson’s whole campaign is wrapped in a cocoon of religiosity that is largely his way or the highway and he cares not a whit about separation of church and state, his beliefs and his religion should be fully exposed.

* I was wondering if someone was going to bring up Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist’s faith. People who are unfamiliar with the quirks of this sect would be in for a surprise. Not only because of their Sabbath, but SDA are generally vegetarians, against eating meat. They are also pacifists who have a history of conscientious objection to war, refusing to serve. How would that reconcile with being commander in chief? These questions have not been put to Carson by the other candidates or the media. Will it be examined now?

* Ben Carson is like Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon, who was brought up a Quaker. He does not let the pacifism of his religion keep him from beating the drums of war:

“In February [2015], Carson said America must step up its leadership in the effort to combat Islamic State. At CPAC, Carson said he would order the military to destroy the group and would not ‘tie (the military’s) hands'” (Desjardins, 2015, Islamic State, para. 2).

* The Seventh Day Adventists are extremely Anti-Catholic and Anti-Pork. Two things that should give Iowans grave concern.

* It is right that Seventh-day Adventist Church is much different from mainstream Christianity. Adventist leaders and their members use the writings of Ellen G. White to interpret the Scriptures. Ellen G. White proclaimed that: 1) the papacy is the seven-headed beast from the sea in Revelation 13:1–10, who changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday, making this change a mark of its authority. 2) Accompanying this beast is a lamb-like beast from the earth. The latter causes the world to worship the former and has an image made of it. She proclaimed the second beast is the United States (The Great Controversy, 387–8), and that it will force people to worship the papacy by “enforcing some observance which shall be an act of homage to the papacy”. This observance, she says, is Sunday worship rather than Saturday worship. Thus, Seventh-day Adventist Church worship on Saturdays, not Sundays, and view themselves as “the Remnant Church” alone especially called by God in 1844, over all other churches, which they called Babylon.

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Just For Today

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Al-Anon:

Just for today, I will try to live through this day only,
and not tackle my whole life problem
at once. I can do something for twelve hours
that would appall me if I felt that I had to
keep it up for a lifetime.

Just for today, I will be happy. This assumes to
be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that
“most folks are as happy as they make up
their minds to be.”

Just for today, I will try to strengthen my mind.
I will study. I will learn something useful.
I will not be a mental loafer. I will read
something that requires effort, thought and
concentration.

Just for today, I will adjust myself to what is,
and not try to adjust everything to my own
desires. I will take my “luck” as it comes,
and fit myself to it.

Just for today, I will exercise my soul in three
ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and
not get found out. I will do at least two
things I don’t want to–just for exercise.
I will not show anyone that my feelings are
hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not
show it

Just for today, I will be agreeable. I will look
as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low,
act courteously, criticize not one bit, not
find fault with anything and not try to improve
or regulate anybody except myself.

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Can California Be Saved?

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Victor Davis Hanson strikes me as someone who is stuck in a political no man’s land, somewhere between straight cuckservatism and soft nationalism. This is why his writings about his native and home state are such a maddening mix of hints of truth and utter bullshit.”

Victor Davis Hanson writes for NR:

Crime is back up in California. Los Angeles reported a 20.6 percent increase in violent crimes over the first half of 2015 and nearly an 11 percent increase in property crimes. Last year, cash-strapped California taxpayers voted for Proposition 47, which so far has let thousands of convicted criminals go free from prison and back onto the streets. Now the state may have to relearn what lawbreakers often do when let out of jail early.

The state may be entering the fifth year of a catastrophic drought, but California has not started building any of the new reservoirs that were planned but long ago canceled under the unfinished California Water Project. Water may remain scarce, but legislators — many of whom have their daily water needs met by the ancient reservoirs and canals that their grandparents built — don’t seem overly bothered. They prefer to designate transgender restrooms, ban plastic bags at grocery stores, and prohibit pet dogs from chasing bears and bobcats. Never has a region been so naturally rich but so poorly run by its latest generation of custodians.

California endures some of the highest gasoline taxes, sales taxes, and income taxes in the nation. Yet its roads and public schools rate near the very bottom of U.S. rankings. Traffic accidents in California increased by 13 percent over a three-year period — the result of terrible roads and worse drivers. Almost half of all accidents in Los Angeles are hit-and-runs where the drivers leave the scene.

California has lots of petroleum and natural gas. It used to be a pacesetter in building nuclear and hydroelectric plants. Yet because of inept governance, the state’s electricity and gasoline prices are among the highest in the nation. Why is California choosing the path of Detroit — growing government that it cannot pay for, shorting the middle classes, hiking taxes but providing shoddy services and infrastructure in return, and obsessing over minor bumper-sticker issues while ignoring existential crises? The cause is political.

California is a one-party state, without any serious audit of authorities in power. The California State Assembly currently includes 52 Democrats and 28 Republicans. The California State Senate has 26 Democrats and 14 Republicans. Both of its U.S. senators are Bay-area progressives. California’s House delegation is overwhelmingly liberal and Democratic. The party in power can do as it pleases without being held accountable at the polls. But what turned a once bipartisan and purple state bright blue? A perfect storm of events.

Higher taxes and increased regulations have driven out lots of small-business owners. In the last few years, hundreds of thousands of disgruntled middle-of-the-road voters voted with their feet and left for no-tax Nevada, Texas, or Florida. The state devolved into a pyramid of the coastal wealthy and interior poor — the dual constituencies of the new progressive movement. A third of America’s welfare recipients reside in California. Nearly a quarter of Californians live below the poverty line.

Yet nowhere in America are there more billionaires. California’s long, thin coastal corridor has become a tony La-La land unto itself. Some of the highest housing prices in the nation and richest communities are clustered along the Pacific coastline, from the wine country and Silicon Valley to Malibu and Hollywood, dotted by marquee coastal universities and zillionaire tech corporations.

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Everyone is conservative about what he knows best

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

LINK: Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics:

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

John Derbyshire adds this:

Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty International as examples. Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucracy sometimes actually is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies — e.g. the postwar British secret service.

John Moore thinks the third law is almost right; it should read “assume that it is controlled by a cabal of the enemies of the stated purpose of that bureaucracy.”

Francis W. Porretto notes that Cyril Northcote Parkinson studied the same phenomenon of bureaucratic behavior:

Parkinson promulgated a number of laws of bureaucracy that serve to explain a huge percentage of its characteristics. They’ve exhibited remarkable predictive power within their domain. The first of these is the best known:
Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Parkinson inferred this effect from two central principles governing the behavior of bureaucrats:
Officials want to multiply subordinates, not rivals.
Officials make work for one another.
Like most generalizations, these are not always true…but the incentives that apply specifically to tax-funded government bureaucracies make them true much more often than not. They make a striking contrast with the almost exactly opposite behavior observable in private enterprise.
[…]
That young bureaucrat will profit from deliberate ineffectiveness to the extent that he can get himself viewed as an asset by his superiors and a non-threat by his peers. His superiors want him to produce justifications for the enlargement of their domains. His peers simply ask that he not tread on their provinces.

Miltion Friedman noted that bureaucratic resource allocation involves spending other people’s money on other people, so there are no compelling reasons to control either cost or quality — but a bureaucrat will learn, given time, how to “spend on others” in such a fashion that the primary benefit flows to himself.

To do this, bureaucrats must manage perceptions, so that their work seems both necessary and successful:

Von Clausewitz and others have termed war “a continuation of politics by other means,” but when viewed from the perspective of the State Department official, war is the declaration that his organization has failed of its purpose. He sees it as bad public relations for his entire function. Thus, even when the nation’s interests would be overwhelmingly better served by war than by the continuation of diplomacy, the State Department man will prefer diplomacy. It’s in his demesne, and enhances his prestige by enhancing the prestige of his trade.
It’s not too much to say that averting war regardless of its desirability or justifiability is near the top of every State Department functionary’s list of priorities. In this pursuit, the State Department will often find itself opposing even peacetime operations of the military designed to improve its effectiveness, such as the acquisition of new weapons or the enlargement of its ranks.

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