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WP: Christians can’t ignore the suffering of Muslims

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Luke Ford

Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post:

…American Christianity, has its own self-examination to conduct. The largest humanitarian disaster of our time — involving 4 million Syrian refugees and 7.6 million internally displaced — has mainly befallen Muslims. The response? Charitable giving by Americans to international causes has gone down for two consecutive years. Some Republican presidential candidates seem indifferent to the plight of refugees, and even some evangelical leaders have joined them.
To respond to the AIDS crisis, American Christians had to overcome a belief that the disease was deserved. To respond to the Syrian refugee crisis, Christians must overcome their discomfort with Islam and their belief that conflict among Muslims is none of their concern.
Is the Christian faith merely a cover for tribalism? Or will it demonstrate its essence in service to the refugees of another faith who did nothing to deserve their fate?

Muslims never seem to have had much trouble ignoring Christian suffering. Why should Christians help people who want to destroy them?

Comments at the WP:

* Europe is being torn apart by an influx of Muslims who cannot and will not integrate into Western culture. I’m no fan of Christianity and Judaism with their Iron Age war god and culture of ignorance, but Islam is one step worse and I don’t want to be around those who believe this claptrap and try to impose it on others.

* If they perhaps could stop video taping the beheading of their enemy or refrain from putting a man in a cage and burning him alive. I mean geeze, the optics are terrible.

* The history of the “religion of peace” is hardly that.
Feuds, mass slaughters, “honor” killings, NO economic or intellectual progress
(yeah I know, algebra for the PC apologists) and general waste of oxygen.
Then 3,000 innocent people dead on 9/11.
Let them all go to meet allah and their 72 virgins.
I wouldn’t waste a dime on this miserable blight on humanity.
A “moderate” muslim is like a “centrist” Democrat or a government “worker.”

* Michael Gerson is profoundly ignorant in any subject as he has no high school education.
Why Muslims Come to the West
Islam is incompatible with Western culture, history, judicial system and civilization. Remember, our judicial system based on Judeo-Christian values. Islam objects to these values and the Koran calls for the extermination of Christians and Jews. The Muslims’ objective is the creation of a global Caliphate and the establishment of Shariah law. All this eventually leads to civil war, unless we will take care and deport all Muslims from US and Europe. Look what is going on in Britain, France and other countries where Muslims clearly declare that their primary objective to overcome current social systems and replace it with Sharia law. Read below the confessions of leading Muslims around the world, including in America and watch the Fitna on:

Omar Ahmad, co-founder of the Council of American-Islamic Relations:
“Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam … Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes clear Islam’s aggressive role in subordinating other worldly religions to it, claiming,
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the believers our army.”
Algerian leader Houari Boumédienne said at the United Nations in 1974:
“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
Dr. Ja`far Sheikh Idris in article “Separation Of Church And State”
http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=559 said:
“Secularism cannot be a solution for countries with a Muslim majority or even a sizeable minority, for it requires people to replace their God-given beliefs with an entirely different set of man-made beliefs. Separation of religion and state is not an option for Muslims because is requires us to abandon Allah’s decree for that of a man.”

Al-Jazeera’s Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi, who is widely hailed as a moderate reformer in the West, said:
“Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor,” and “the conquest this time will not be by the sword but by preaching and ideology.”
A Saudi Sheikh, Muhammad bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-‘Arifi, imam of the mosque of King Fahd Defense Academy, said:
Muslims “will control the land of the Vatican; we will control Rome and introduce Islam in it….”
Also read the article “Arab-American author outlines secret 20-year strategy to undermine country” by FROM JOSEPH FARAH’S G2 BULLETIN; and the documentary book “Muslim Mafia” that exposes secret documents and plans for overturn US laws and government to sharia state.
Plus, remember, all Muslim organizations have close ties to global terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Hezbullah, Brotherhood.
Only the total deportation of Muslims will save western countries and civilization from collapse.

* Muslims need to stay in their own countries and fight for a civil society. What good does running away do? Muslims who immigrate to other countries rarely adapt their host countries culture; they create enclaves of sharia law and Islamic culture in their new homes. This has not worked out well for Western Europe but Western Europe’s dedication to multi culturalism, moral relativity and political correctness cloud their decisions and may doom their societies in the long run.

* What is it with liberal journalists and soft mindedness anyway?

Helping mass numbers of Muslims gain entry into a Western country is a prescription for slow motion suicide. Islamic values are counter to western values. That’s obvious except people are afraid to state the obvious because it’s not PC.

* So tired of the apology tours and sheer avoidance of the facts – yes, there are over 1 Billion Muslims world wide; yes, some of them are peaceful; but NO, it is not a religion of peace when every day there are beheadings, gays killed for just being alive, women stoned to death, incessant chanting of death to America and death to Israel, state pledges of the destruction of Israel, women and children targeted for murder to control a population…YES, we have every reason to fear Islam…it is not peaceful in its daily, worldwide war on everything that is not Muslim.

* IF WE COULD JUST FIGURE OUT WHO’S CAUSING THE PROBLEM

The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U.S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theater Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims

* Muslims tend to cut Christians’ heads off so why should we “bend over” (pardon the pun) to help them do it?

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WP: When Latino sluggers flip their bats, it’s called disrespectful. It’s also a double standard.

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Luke Ford

Chris Lamb writes in the Washington Post: “The brouhaha over José Bautista’s ALDS bat flip exposed the cultural and ethnic tensions beneath the surface in professional baseball.”

Comments at WP:

* It is quite a leap to generalize the response of one professional athlete to the self indulgent, impulsive behavior of an opposing, highly compensated, professional athlete into some kind of conspiracy of cultural oppression. In fact, the overwhelming majority of the overwhelmingly Caucasian individuals in attendance last week in Toronto had a favorable view of Bautista’s behavior. The nice thing about baseball that you seem to not understand is that it is the color of the shirt the players wear that matters, not the color of the skin underneath the shirt.

* What a BS article. Using the Braves/Marlins games was a perfect example of trying to compare apples to oranges to make your pre-ordained point. Gattis did not stare the ball down as it went over the wall. And you can tell he did nothing wrong, because _nobody_ on the Marlins even looks at him sideways as he rounds the bases. On the other hand, Jose Fernandez behaves like an absolute punk. He flips his bat(!) then he stares at the ball as it sails over the wall, only then does he start running. Then he SPITS towards the inside of the baseline as he rounds third. With dishonesty like this, is it any wonder journalists are considered about as trustworthy as politicians by the general public. Another ‘racists everywhere’ journalist. What a surprise.

* It’s disrespectful no matter what the race or ethnicity. But, while on the subject, let me ask why every sport, cultural, or societal aspect of life has to be degraded to the lowest common denominator? From language to dress to conduct, we are asked to be not just inclusive of lowered standards, but to celebrate the coarsening of American life.

From Steve Sailer August 8, 2005:

“Brain dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly” ranted Bay Area sports radio talkshow host Larry Krueger about why the San Francisco Giants are playing poorly this year. He also said 70-year-old manager Felipe Alou had a brain “had turned to Cream of Wheat.” For his “racist” and “ageist” comments, he was promptly suspended (although nobody could explain what race “Caribbean” players are). Manager Felipe Alou refused to accept Krueger’s apology and continues to demand that he be fired.

Personally, I think the Giants are so much worse this year because Barry Bonds hasn’t been coming through in clutch situations. Or in unclutch situations, for that matter, since Bonds hasn’t played all year. Last season, at the implausible age of 39, Bonds had the highest single year OPS statistic (on-base percentage plus slugging average) in the history of baseball. In 2005, he’s having his knee tinkered with as he tries to lay low out of the glare of the steroid scandal.

But what about Krueger’s charge that the Giants are swinging at bad pitches? Is it true? Well, the Giants are 15th out of 16 teams in the National League in number of walks, and 12th in on-base percentage, so the charge has some prima facie merit. Last year, the Giants led the league in walks with 705, but that was mostly because Bonds set the all time record with 232, which was 33 percent of the entire 25-man team’s walks.

On the other hand, this year on the Giants, the Hispanics are doing badly at getting walks, but the Anglo (white and black) players are even worse. Among the Giants with 100 plate appearances, the Hispanics are taking walks 8.2% of the time and the Anglos 7.7% of the time. So, Krueger may be off base talking about the Giants in 2005, although he’s watching the team every day, and I’m not.

Nonetheless, the easiest way to get people mad at you is by telling the truth, and the unhinged response to Krueger’s “gaffe” stems from the fact that Latin players have long benefited from what I called “Baseball’s Hidden Ethnic Bias.” In my 2003 article, I pointed out that because baseball executives long didn’t understand the run-producing value of walks, “the Anglo white-dominated baseball establishment had actually tended for decades to discriminate irrationally against Americans and in favor of more free-swinging Latin hitters, who on average weren’t quite as productive as their batting averages indicated.”

This bias has been mitigated somewhat by the recent rise of Bill James-inspired general managers who correctly emphasize on-base percentage over batting average, like Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics and J.P. Ricciardi of the Toronto Blue Jays (who was criticized for dumping highly paid Latin players like the Raul Mondesi and signing cheaper American whites who were better at getting on base). I pointed out:

Although they are slowly improving, Hispanic players are on average less likely to accept walks than whites or African-Americans. “It’s not easy for a Latin player to take 100 walks,” said Sammy Sosa early in his famous 1998 season.
In 2002, Hispanics had a combined batting average of .264, while everyone else together hit .260. On the other hand, the Hispanic “walk average” was 0.060, while the non-Hispanics’ bases on balls ratio was 0.069, a significant 14 percent higher, leaving the non-Latinos with a five point better on-base percentage.
The patience gap has declined somewhat, from 16 percent in 1992 and 19 percent in 1982, probably because Latinos have largely closed the power gap. Twenty years ago, non-Hispanics hit home runs 42 percent more often than Hispanics, but that difference was only 4 percent last year. More.

Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen weighed in, demanding Krueger be punished more. Guillen is particularly sensitive about aspersions on Caribbean players’ plate discipline because he himself was famously bad at laying off pitches out of the strike zone. His career on-base percentage was a terrible .287.

The San Francisco Giants were the first big league team to seriously tap the mother lode of baseball talent, the sugar cane fields of the eastern Dominican Republic, where black immigrants from Jamaica settled a few generations ago. Besides Hall-of-Famer Juan Marichal, the Giants featured the first all brother outfield in history in 1963, with Felipe (now the manager), Matty, and Jesus Alou.

All three Alou brothers exhibited poor plate discipline. In a combined 47 seasons in the big leagues, none of them ever managed to get 50 walks in one season. Still, Felipe was a good hitter, with some power, and Matty put up gaudy enough batting averages to make up for his lack of homers and lack of walks.

But the only reason Jesus Alou could have stuck around for 15 seasons was because general managers back then evaluated players more by their batting averages (Jesus had a solid-looking career average of .280) and “how they looked in a uniform” rather than their on-base percentage (Jose had an awful .305) and slugging average (a lousy .353 for Jose, who was a slower than average outfielder and miserable base stealer), which dysfunctionally favored Latin ballplayers.

At 6′-2″ and 195, Jesus looked like a terrific baseball player, but for his career, he was only 87% as good as the average hitter, which makes him, among below-average fielders, one of the worst hitters to hang around for 15 years. Today, Billy Beane of Oakland would have immediately traded Jesus for a pudgy-looking college educated white ballplayer who could refrain from swinging at bad pitches.

(Felipe’s son Moises is playing for his father this season at age 38, and he remains a strong hitter. Moises’ plate discipline is better than that of the previous generation of Alous, although it’s not great for a power hitter. Moises peaked at 84 walks when he hit 38 homers in 2000.

A reader writes:

It’s the “John Rocker” incident of the this decade, but it’s getting surprisingly little play outside of Northern California.
Bay Area sportscaster Larry Krueger made the above-referenced comments about Latino baseball players with low batting averages and on-base percentages due to poor judgment about the strike zone.
Felipe Alou, manager of the Giants, and his son Moises have declared an ethnic “no fly” zone over KNBR, the Giants flagship station that employs Krueger – so already the crawling has started, the apologies that aren’t being accepted and the usual sort of thing that inevitably follows an incident like this.
And truth to tell, Krueger’s comments certainly indicate a lack of discretion on his part. He might have made the same point with less inflammatory language. But he also must have the balls of a burglar to say such things in the Bay Area.
But while liberals had a field day with Rocker, I imagine that the relative obscurity about this story is the ultra-liberal SF Bay Area deciding “This doesn’t happen in OUR family” and waiting for the story to go away. Then too, Rocker was a ballplayer and Krueger is himself a member of the media. The news media inevitably protects its own to a greater extent than it protects those whom they cover.
And like Rocker’s comments, Krueger’s have more than a little grain of truth to them. I don’t think that there’s much doubt that if one examined the ratio of walks per plate appearances of Latino versus non-Latino ballplayers, you’d see the Latino ballplayers drawing noticeably fewer walks. Observers of the game – in both the Caribbean leagues and the American major leagues – have politely noted this for some time.
It’s said that Latino hitters are free swingers because they are anxious to impress major league scouts with their hitting prowess. The expression is, “You can’t walk your way off the island”.
But I’m not so sure. I imagine that major league scouts are savvy enough to appreciate a smart hitter who displays patience at the plate, draws his share of walks, and fattens his on-base percentage.
I imagine that the reason why Latino ballplayers swing the bat so readily is more due to the flamboyance with which Latino culture displays itself. Manny Sanguillen, a very good-hitting All Star catcher for the Pirates during the 1970’s, was once asked why he ALWAYS swung at the first pitch, and he replied happily, “Because it makes me feel good”.
Obviously, there have been some great Latino bad-ball hitters (Roberto Clemente possibly being the best example from the past), just as there have been some great non-Latino bad-ball hitters (Yogi Berra).
But mediocre hitters of all backgrounds (there’s a reason why .220 is referred to as the “Mendoza line”; that expression was coined after good-hit, no field shortstop, Mario Mendoza) could probably use a little more patience at home plate.
But I don’t imagine that any of this is going to be discussed intelligently now that the latest auto de fe has started.

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WP: Asian Americans speak out against a decades-old ‘model minority’ myth

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Luke Ford

Yanan Wang writes in the Washington Post:

A column published over a week ago in the New York Times began with what the writer calls “an awkward question”: “Why are Asian Americans so successful in America?”
Nicholas Kristof is no stranger to controversy, and the framing of his first sentence indicates that he knew he would be wading straight into it with a piece titled “The Asian Advantage.” But perhaps even Kristof did not expect the magnitude of the pushback from the Asian American community to be so great that it would prompt him to post a follow-up on Facebook this Saturday.
“My column last weekend on Asian-Americans sparked lots of conversation and criticism,” he wrote, addressing at length the various objections to and interpretations of the column. “Thanks for joining the conversation, whether you were patting me on the back or whacking me over the head.”
While many Asian American commenters said they appreciated Kristof’s attempt to clarify his points, the post likely befuddled others. What could be objectionable, after all, about a column representing as fact the achievements of Asian immigrants in America?
But to many Asian Americans, the column’s opening gambit isn’t just awkward. It’s offensive — and dangerous.

Comments at WP:

* Yanan, you’re posing strawperson arguments. Which conservatives have said “ALL” Asians of color are successful? Which have said all Asians of color are “IMMUNE” from white privilege? A few idiots, and now that’s the dumb argument you’re going to easily topple?

And now to criticize the progressives: they LOVE to trot out the Hmong (and a few other groups as Cambodians) who admittedly do poorly. But it’s funny to see the progressives virtually CELEBRATING the Hmong so that they can claim the evil racist policies of the privileged boring white dominant people are alive and well . Unfortunately for progressives, these Asians of color represent a very small part of the dominant Han, Korean, and Indian students of color who, e.g., dominate STEM majors. Notice what I said: they dominate. I didn’t say ALL stem majors are Asians of color. Some Asians of color even major in education (mostly a joke among other majors). And some Asians will be working in the restaurant or the factory for the rest of their lives. But an amazing number are becoming physicians, computer scientists, lawyers, businesspeople, et al., BOTH women and men.

So Yanan, please stop with the supposed strawperson arguments by calling out the conservatives who claim ALL Asians of color are successful and recognizing not all make such a stupid claim, and please call out the progressives who LOVE to use the relatively small groups of Hmong, Cambodians, etc. as the CELEBRATED example of Asians of color doing poorly in hopelessly racist AmeriKKKa, while there might be other factors (which hopefully can be overcome) to account for the anomaly occurring with these small groups of Asians of color.

* Good God, this is the fourth Post article of this morning that is nothing but standard Post race-baiting…I mean RACE-BLEATING. We’ve already been treated to a middle school that canceled its student officer election because too many white kids won; former NBA player Chris Webber teaching a Master’s-level course on Sports and Race at Wake Forest; and comedian Chris Rock making a “joke” insinuating that RGIII was benched because he was black.

Old newspaper philosophy was “If it bleeds, it leads!” Now it is “If it’s Race, Make it a Headline – Post-Haste!”

* I see these “We’re not the model minority you think we are” articles pop up occasionally, usually written by some Asian Democrat apologist. Yes, we get it that not ALL Asians are smart and successful, but statistically speaking (and statistics don’t lie), Asians outperform all other ethnic groups when it comes to graduation rates,out-of-wedlock pregnancy rates and incarceration rates. Look at the student populations of UCLA and USC and any number of other universities and it’s quite obvious they’re doing something right. We understand that Asians, who mostly vote Democrat, kind of spoil the Democratic agenda that minorities can’t get a fair shot in America, but it is what it is. Take a compliment.

* A genetic disposition towards intelligence combined with a culture of intact families and respect for academics and work. How could they not succeed?

Prejudices are another word for experience.

* Sorry Asian-American whiny people, If you really want white Americans to think less of you it will take a lot more than a few posers in academia and the media shouting out their grievances about “orientalism” or whatever else they picked up in America Sucks 101. Nope, you’ll really have to up your game and do a lot worse in things like divorce, children out of wedlock, incarceration, etc. Oh, and you’ll have to tell your younger siblings and other relations to stop studying and drive down those GPAs and standardized test scores! Until then, we in white America aren’t even going think about coming up with any new racial slurs to apply to you.

* But Asians in America ARE smarter than average (excluding Cambodians and Laotians).

Indians, Chinese, and Filipinos are far more likely to immigrate to the US for their skills as MDs, nurses, STEM graduate students, computer programmers, entrepreneurship, and engineers; when compared to, say Mexicans and Central Americans who are here to work in the fields and clean our bathrooms.

It is not just work ethic, intelligence is mostly inherited and work ethic is inherited in part (there is a test that can be administered to 4 year olds that is highly correlated with adult success). European Americans even after all of these generations are also a cut above those that stayed behind. Blacks descended from slaves were inversely selected. Cambodia killed all their smart people, which is why the refugees are near the bottom of the list in success in the US.

Asians are stereotyped as highly intelligent because so many of them are. Blacks are stereotyped as lazy, welfare criminals because so many of them are. If they don’t like it, they should convince their fellow Asians to dumb down or their fellow blacks to book it up and get a job.

* Asians don’t fall for this PC trap. You are a model minority. People who process refugees from all over the world tell me that Asians are the most obedient, rule following people while Africans and Middle East people act the most entitled, and always complain about how everything is not up to their expectations. Unfortunately, these are the people who become a burden on our societies. Not so much Asians. They are exceptional and how funny they work from Wall Street to Silicon Valley and yet I have never heard a single one of them complain about racism. In fact they are extremely well settled and integrated into American society while maintaining their unique identities. Also, I am not sure why Black Lives Matter people talk about brown people. I have never seen any brown people complain like these radical, lazy, entitled , people who constitute Black Lives Matter. Look what happened to Venezuela after the radical left took over that country? Never, ever let them do it here. They are immature with ego and narcissistic tendencies who like to constantly find victims because that gives them an adrenal rush and makes their useless existence worthwhile.

* Oh please, a minority of who went to study some useless degree in identity politics or cultural studies took to twitter to criticize Kristoff doesn’t negate the fact that Asians are model minorities. Also, the majority of who are extremely successful don’t have time to take to twitter and criticize an article. In Germany the Vietnamese community which came during the war and then faced incredible backlash by the Germans has now go on to become the most successful minority community in Germany even surpassing Germans. That says a lot about Asian community. You don’t like because then it negates the idea that everyone else is responsible for your fate and destiny.

* So Kristof is a racist. We kinda knew that already didn’t we?

But kudos to the ostensibly Asian reporter for highlighting Asian grievances without acknowledging the biggest one of all; enthusiastic state-sponsored anti-Asian discrimination in university admissions.

* The reason the liberal intelligentsia is so sensitive about this point is that it has the potential to blow a massive, catastrophic hole in their central argument about “white privilege.”

South Asians are brown-skinned. In some instances, really brown skinned, as in darker than African-Americans. Although many immigrants from there are doctors and lawyers and engineers, many others are cab drivers and gas station attendants. Considering how little time they have had in this country, their success in not only medicine/engineering but also law, journalism, business is astounding. To deny that fact is ludicrous.

It gives liberals the willies.

* Well, all I know is that Asian-Americans don’t riot and loot, don’t shoot each other daily in the ghettos, and don’t have Asian Lives Matter militancy, in America, like another race.

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WP: S.F. middle school delays election results because winners not diverse enough

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Luke Ford

Washington Post:

When Everett held its election three days later, its principal promptly refused to release the results, saying she was concerned that the winners were not diverse enough.
While she would ultimately relent and release the results, her decision spurred anger among parents and kids who felt that the principal was putting diversity ahead of democracy. Critics compared her to a dictator who scraps elections when results don’t go her way. It was the middle school equivalent of hanging chads and a near political crisis, only without a Supreme Court to hear the case…
“It’s not okay for a school that is really, really diverse to have the student representatives majority white,” she told the Chronicle. “The easy thing would have been to announce the results and move on. I intentionally did not choose the easy way because this is so important.”
…“I could never have predicted things would get to this point,” she told the Chronicle, adding that she hoped the civics lesson gone wrong could still be “a teachable moment.”

As soon as I read the first few paragraphs of this story, I figured the principal was a woman.

Comments at WP:

* When are the WASPs going to riot about lack of representation in NBA/NFL/MLB?

* A. That things would “get to this point” was obviously predictable to anyone who understood civics and Americans’ love of the democratic process.
B. Yes, this is a teachable moment about how the Left finds democracy to be in the way of its agenda. (Also, how to not make a PC fool of yourself).

* Basically this white liberal woman does not feel that when people of color are given their freedom they are able to act in their best interest and need an intelligent white overseer to correct them when they make a stupid mistake like voting to have white overseers.

* A civics lesson in liberal racism and tyranny. The students had the right to vote only if their vote conformed to the expectations of the principal. Next we will hear that those who voted incorrectly will be required to attend “vote counseling” so they won’t vote contrary to the dictates of school administrators in the future.

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LAT: Why Iowa’s graduation rate is so much higher than California’s

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Luke Ford

Such a mystery. I just can’t figure it out.

From LATimes.com:

It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on with the numbers, Howard said. “We gotta dig deep to figure out what’s at play.”

I went to Wikipedia and looked at Iowa’s racial demographics: “According to the 2010 Census, 91.3% of the population was White (88.7% non-Hispanic white), 2.9% was Black or African American, 0.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.7% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 1.8% from two or more races. 5.0% of the total population was of Hispanic or Latino origin (they may be of any race).”

Perhaps that has something to do with Iowa’s high graduation rate? White and East Asians tend to graduate from high school, blacks and latinos struggle to graduate from high school.

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Right-Wing Grows In Europe

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Luke Ford

REPORT:

The growing popularity of the far-right Sweden Democrats mirrors a backlash being felt across Europe as the continent reckons with a refugee crisis that has broken all modern records and shows no sign of abating. The impact can be seen in country after country, with far-right parties hammering away at authorities deemed too permissive in allowing those fleeing war and persecution to find a home in Europe.
Anger over the refugee influx is increasingly fueling violence, as it appeared to do over the weekend when two Swedish schools that were being converted into shelters for asylum seekers burned down in what police said were suspected arson attacks. In the German city of Cologne, a leading mayoral candidate and ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel was stabbed in the neck by a man whom authorities said had “anti-foreigner motives.”
Meanwhile, the backlash is already having an effect at the polls. In Austria, the far-right Freedom Party achieved its highest-ever vote share in municipal elections this month while in Switzerland on Sunday the ultraconservative Swiss People’s Party won a clear victory after campaigning against asylum chaos.” In Poland, a nationalist party whose leader has warned that refugees will bring “parasites” and “cholera” to Europe is expected to triumph over the ruling centrists in a vote coming up on Sunday. Merkel’s approval ratings have dropped as Germany has accepted a historic number of refugees. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has only been strengthened as his government has rolled out mile after mile of barbed wire to keep them out.
“In terms of popularity, the real winners of this crisis are almost exclusively on the right,” the Eurasia political consulting group recently concluded in a research note.

Comments at WP:

* How we are handling the Islamist problem is akin to treating cancer by disseminating the tumor cells throughout the body.

* One massive study done on immigrants in 16 European countries shows crime rates at min are 300% in some countries and as much as 500% higher in others than those that were of that country’s ethic background. The highest crime rates for immigrants were in France and Germany at a bit over 500%. And as for sexual crimes the rates climb 400 to 700 percent for first and second generation immigrants in those sixteen countries over those of that country’s ethnic background.

* In this case, the facts are hateful and racist.

Right now, in the “refugee camps”, the Muslims are talking about how best to co-exist with the LGBT communities, and instructing their young men on when a woman says “no”, she means “no”.

* Maybe the so-called “far-right” is just reacting to a huge mistake by the “far-left.” Maybe the people of Sweden (and Germany) are finally realizing how big a mistake Merkel made, a decision in which they had no voice.

* To progressives the far right are people who ask crazy question like:

“So who’s going to pay for this?”
“What’s the impact to our society if we absorb this many people?”
“Are these people willing to assimilate?”

In fact, progressives consider these types of questions as “hate speech”.

* Huh, you think this is bad. Check out the NY Times editorials. Their editorial board is usually too liberal for me. And I’m not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. They just had one about how sanctuary cities laws should not apply to the laws of the Federal government! I saw maybe 2 comments out of 1,000 agreeing with their editorial board.

* Muslims will rapidly assimilate into Swedish culture.

* Apparently, there are a lot of Swedes unwilling to commit national suicide.

* Every country had a duty to absorb some Islamist casualties.

* It seems that the Muslims pretty universally hate the Jews. Why would any country afford its hospitality to a populace that seeks to spread its hatred of the Jews? Why welcome such a group that does not come to assimilate but to cause dissension among citizens when they realize they have imposers of Sharia within their midst! Canada is now feeling the pressure. Obama’s efforts to bring this same incompatible populace into the USA can only result in chaos!

* I still haven’t heard anyone guesstimate how many refugees can be brought into Sweden, Austria, Germany, Belgium, etc. without changing the culture; when will the WEST no longer resemble the WEST? Does that matter at all to the irrational morons who are all in favor of this?

* The typical liberal take on the problem. The nice left wing, along with the Muslims are welcoming them with open arms, and only nasty right wing racists and fascists are opposed.
Somehow, in this discussion the attacks by Muslims on the Jewish residents has been omitted, especially it was pretty much ignored by the government. Have there also been other problems with the earlier immigrants that are concerning the residents about a larger influx? Not if you read the Washington Post.

* Swedes do not want to one day wake up to the call to prayer blaring from loudspeakers in minarets across the land at the crack of dawn and then five times a day while their church bells are silenced in the name of “cultural sensitivity.”

* WHY is it that Frenchmen and -women, Germans, Swedes, the Swiss, Dutch, and others who wish to *preserve* their unique cultures against a religion whose political and religious scripture requires the forcible conversion of “infidels”–WHY is it that these conscientious Europeans are by definition called “racist”?

Are they not the indigenous (at least for the past five to seven thousand years) inhabitants of their lands? Even in the most turbulent lands, their soon-not-to-be-majority inhabitants have been there for at least 1500 years. Why should everything be handed over to “migrants” who are just looking for handouts? If these “migrants” were true refugees, they would stop at the first free country and kiss the ground.

But no: they want a free this, a free that, and everything free forever, because that’s what the propaganda they believed in-country told them.

* No mention of what is happening in Gothenberg where the Islamic mob has declared a Caliphate. They are demanding Swedish girls cover themselves while gangs of Islamic boys attack Swedish girls at will. They are inscribing Swedes homes with the Arabic symbol for Christians and demanding they convert. Europe, under the leadership of Progressive Liberal Useful Idiots is committing suicide.

Typical one sided reporting of WaPo and the other useful idiots of the MSM.

* One thing that Americans sympathetic to the migrants with their melting pot culture and a population of 320 million people that’s big enough to absorb just about anything have trouble understanding is that there is no such thing as Europe other than as a geographic entity. Europe is many distinct cultures that have existed for hundreds of years, some very small. In the face of this enormous mass migration of Islamic culture that destroys everything that disagrees with it and with its high birth rates, many of those European cultures would completely disappear. Even a large nation like Germany would be fundamentally changed.

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How Is Mark Dayton Governor Of MN?

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Luke Ford

From The New Republic in 2010: Mark Dayton’s place in Washington’s collective memory can be distilled to exactly one moment, on one day: October 12, 2004. That morning, Dayton, a freshman Democratic senator from Minnesota, appeared in front of a line of TV cameras and announced that in the coming weeks the Capitol would likely be the target of a terrorist attack. He knew this, he said, because of classified information he and his Senate colleagues had received, and, as a safety precaution, he was closing his Washington office for the fall recess and sending his staff elsewhere until after the following month’s election.

In the hours that followed, nearly every congressman, Bush administration spokesman, and law enforcement official within earshot of a reporter delivered a unified response, the gist of which was that Mark Dayton was crazy. The Capitol Police and Department of Homeland Security professed to know nothing of any new specific threat. “He’s unnecessarily panicked people across the United States,” D.C. Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton told The Washington Post.

The facts at the center of the affair are still classified. But fairly or otherwise, the office closure stands as the moment around which an unsparing consensus on Dayton crystallized in Washington, best captured in a 2006 Time article naming him one of America’s five worst senators. The magazine mocked his “erratic behavior,” his tendency to complain about “basic facts of the job,” and his penchant for Yippie-ish legislative stunts like proposing a Department of Peace and Nonviolence. The reporters dubbed him “The Blunderer.”

Four months after he closed down his office, Dayton’s poll numbers had fallen, and he announced that he wouldn’t run for reelection. By his final days in Washington, Dayton had relapsed into alcoholism for the first time in 20 years and sought treatment for depression. Asked by a high school class what grade he would give himself, Dayton—typically honest to the point of self-annihilation—suggested an F.

When I met Dayton recently, on a sticky hot Saturday afternoon in August in the Twin Cities, I asked him if he stood by that grade. “I stand by the grade I gave the whole U.S. Senate—that was never reported,” he replied. “But I give myself an A for effort.” Dayton was shaking the hands of well-wishers in the lobby of a carpenters’ union hall on the east side of St. Paul, where the central committee of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (or DFL, Minnesota’s variant on the Democratic Party) had just endorsed Dayton as the party’s candidate for governor. As of this writing, the man who left the Senate after one term with a 43 percent approval rating stands a narrowly better-than-even chance of being Minnesota’s first Democratic governor in 20 years.

At times like this it’s tempting to armchair-psychoanalyze Minnesotan voters, because in Minnesota there are a lot of times like this. Minnesotans voted for Walter Mondale when 49 other states voted for Ronald Reagan. They voted for Jesse Ventura when 49 states would have voted for almost anyone else. In 2006, adjacent congressional districts in the Minneapolis area simultaneously elected Democrat Keith Ellison, a liberal African American convert to Islam and the first Muslim in Congress, and Republican Michele Bachmann, whose opinions about Islam are—well, you can probably guess. Minnesotans have sent a former comedian to the Senate and a former Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle to the state Supreme Court. The state’s Republicans have been hanging Time’s “erratic” epithet around Dayton’s neck at every available occasion, but it’s hard to imagine a worse misreading of Minnesota’s political temperament. You might as well attack the governor of Texas for being too fond of Stetsons.

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Minnesota Governor: “Our Economy Cannot Expand Based on White, B+, Minnesota-born Citizens.”

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Someone should ask the filthy rich, born-into-wealth, Yale-educated (probably a BA in sociology) faux prole Mark Brandt Dayton, what percent of the populations of his block, his immediate neighborhood, and his ZIP Code Area are drawn from the vibrantly diverse scum that he wants to impose on all those Minnesotans not wealthy enough, as he is, to afford places of refuge from his thoughtless “policies”. OTOH, as Mencken once wrote, democracy is that form of government where the people get exactly what they want — good and hard. Some majority of the citizens of Minnesota elected this sad relic of the ’60s; to office again and again and again. Now both their more innocent fellow citizens and they must pay the full price for their pigheaded stupidity.

* Yes, to be ready for the 21st century, Minnesota needs thousands of Somalians whose education consists of rote memorization of the Koran and instruction in the use and maintenance of an AK-47. Those B+ whites just won’t cut it anymore. I mean, unless they’re gay or transgender.

* Do the Chinese watch the West in wonderment? Do their leaders sit back and laugh at the folly of their competition? If I was China, I wouldn’t do anything to provoke the West. What’s the point? Just wait another generation or two, and the U.S. will be Brazil – and Brazil isn’t going to get in the way of China.

A Dayton marries a Rockefeller and then finds a way to look down on middle-class whites for wanting to keep their communities intact and safe. Classic.

* He is as good a poster child for the open borders crowd as I can imagine. Presbyterian, hating his own roots, super rich and supported by stock market speculation, born with a silver spoon, never employed doing anything productive (nor working with actual diverse human people), and knowing better than the rest of us what’s good for the orderly, productive rank and file of the north. I guess that all fits with the view of humans as fully fungible carbon units, blank slates who can be inscribed with whatever the Mark Daytons of the world wish.

* The Nazi debacle of 1945 has pretty much ruled out an effective “Euro-nationalist” politics in the States for those of European stock, although politics of racial or nationalist solidarity are permitted to others.

* Gotta give the guy credit, he’s engaging in Real Talk and telling his taxpaying constituents where his sympathies lie, and it ain’t with them. It will be interesting to see how Minnesotans react–they’re very politically correct and phlegmatic and Nordic and all that, but everyone has a breaking point.

* There are definite stages to the insanity. First it’s the “we love ethnic food!” stage. Then the “sure there are problems but we were all immigrants once” stage. Then it’s the denial and denunciation stage – wreckers are upsetting the peace and harmony, the immigrants are not at all to blame. Then the “we have no choice, this is the future” stage, where Minnesota appears to be now. Then the move to the suburbs. Finally the move to Portland, before it gets too expensive.

* The thing is, Gov. Dayton, there is no other place for immigration restrictionists to go. Indeed, a certain kind of leftist takes particular pride in finding lily-white states and towns to enrich with vibrancy. Somalis in New England: cat lady achievement unlocked!

If there were some segment of the country currently permitted to preserve itself, I would say, “Let the Nordic suckers of Minnesota do to themselves what their kin in Europe are currently doing.” It’s sad to see mass immigration befall a peaceful, well-governed, high-trust social democracy, but at the end of the day, people should get the govt they deserve.

What I refuse to accept is for the rest of America to get the government that Minnesotans deserve. If mass immigration is to continue, we will have to split the country into a handful of loosely confederated regions with strict internal border controls. Regions that create high-wage economies and livable communities won’t be flooded with outsiders to arbitrage away the increased quality of life that others have created. Regions that doth protest their love for diversity will end up dispossessing only themselves, if (admittedly a big if) they actually mean it and aren’t just status-signaling, self-segregating hypocrites.

I know all this stuff sounds LARPy, but ultimately there is no meaningful self-determination without control over membership in one’s community. If that can’t be achieved at the overall level of the US it must be achieved within some subset of the US.

Of course, ruling-class gentry liberals like Dayton aren’t interested in “live and let live” with other Americans. They know full well there’s nowhere in America that’s safe from people like themselves. Not only do they know it, they get off on that fact.

This is the most despicable thing about Cultural Marxism. I doubt many of us mind if our fellow Americans in liberal strongholds want to indulge their silly SWPL affectations. They, on the other hand, are determined to eliminate their rival tribe as a cultural and political force.

* There is a lot more going on here than economics. There is real hatred and hostility toward the people by the elite and these policies of ethnic cleansing are fueled far more by this than any economic incentive. Does anyone really believe that these replacements are going to improve the economy? No. We have a hostile elite motivated by hate, revenge, and a desire to humiliate us. Things are only going to get worse and a bloody civil war is on the horizon.

* British journalist Rod Luddle once got in trouble for saying, “Somalis are widely admired for their strong work ethic, respect for the law and keen, piercing, intelligence.”

* Terrible winters, humid summers, Somalis everywhere, governor who can barely speak and when he does, insults his own people: Minnesota sounds like a great place.

* Real or imagined (or hyperbolic) Somali dysfunction is not, ought not be, the real issue.

Maintaining a Minnesota firmly rooted in Western Civilization, ethnoculturally, is a wholly goal legitimate in and of itself and needs no apology or “proxy justification”.

The Upper Midwest developed a distinct regional culture, largely rural, based heavily on the Americanization and “Westernization (as in the frontier American West) of Scandinavian and German settlers of the 1800s. This ethnoculture cannot survive if it is swamped by Africans and Asians, to state the obvious.

In other words, even if Somalis were model citizens, we still don’t want them colonizing our country. We wish them luck in their own country.

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Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Luke Ford

By Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Dave Brat:

America is about to break every known immigration record. And yet you are unlikely to hear a word about it.
The Census Bureau projects that the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon eclipse the highest levels ever documented, and will continue surging to new record highs each year to come.
Yet activists and politicians who support unprecedented levels of immigration are never asked to explain how they believe such a policy will affect social stability, community cohesion or political assimilation.
They can simply cry out, “We must pass immigration reform!” without ever explaining what they believe “immigration reform” means.
Immigration reform should mean improvements to immigration policy to benefit Americans. But in Washington, immigration reform has devolved into a euphemism for legislation that opens America’s borders, floods her labor markets and gives corporations the legal right to import new foreign workers to replace their existing employees at lower pay.
Consider the giant special interests clamoring for the passage of the Senate’s 2013 “gang of eight” immigration bill: tech oligarchs represented by Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, open borders groups such as La Raza and the globalist class embodied by the billionaire-run Partnership for a New American Economy.
For these and countless other interest groups who helped write the bill, it delivered spectacularly: the tech giants would receive double the number of low-wage H-1B workers to substitute for Americans. La Raza would receive the further opening of America’s borders (while Democratic politicians gain more political power). And the billionaire lobby would receive the largest supply of visas for new low-skilled immigrants in our history, transferring wealth and bargaining power from workers to their employers.
What would be the effect on schools? On hospitals? On police departments? On labor conditions? On poverty? What would the effect be on millions of past immigrants forced to compete for scarce jobs and meager wages against these new arrivals?
Few seemed to ask, or care.
This is not immigration reform. This is the dissolution of the nation state, of the principle that a government exists to serve its own people.
When stories broke of loyal workers at Southern California Edison and Orlando Disney being forced by executives to train the lower-wage H-1B workers flown in to replace them, our political class could not be budged to even the slightest action. No tears were spilled by a cultural elite who would march on Washington to get drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants.
Instead of pleas for justice on behalf of these discarded workers, industry and lawmakers pushed for legislation that would accelerate their replacement. They demanded passage of the Immigration Innovation Act — a bill to triple the number of foreign tech workers brought in as lower-wage substitutes.
The narrative could not be allowed to depart from the approved script.
Here are the forbidden facts which have been edited out:
The great and broadly-shared middle-class growth that occurred in the 20th century took place during a period of low immigration.
Following the 1880-1920 immigration wave, which saw the foreign-born population double from 7 million to 14 million people, Congress passed a law to reduce future immigration. Between 1920 and 1970, America’s foreign-born population shrank from 14 million to 9.6 million. For half a century, the number of immigrants declined both in total number and as a share of the population.
This period witnessed rapid wage growth.
According to the Congressional Research Service, from 1945 to 1970 — as the foreign-born population fell — the bottom 90 percent of wage earners saw an 82.5 percent increase in their wages. During this time, millions of prior immigrants were able to climb out of the tenements and into the middle class.
In 1965, Congress passed a new immigration law which helped produce an unprecedented wave of low-skilled immigration. The foreign-born population more than quadrupled, from fewer than 10 million in 1970 to more than 42 million today. In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 residents were foreign-born, today it is approaching 1 in 7. In cities such as Los Angeles and New York, almost 4 in 10 current residents were born in another country. One-fifth of our residents now speak a language other than English at home. One-quarter of our residents is now either an immigrant or born to immigrant parents.
This ongoing immigration wave continues during a time when workers are being replaced with automation, when record numbers are living on welfare and when manufacturing plants are closing their doors. All of this has combined to help create an immense wage-compressing surplus of labor: 66 million working-age residents are not working. Real average hourly earnings are lower now than they were in 1973.
The Congressional Research Service reports that during the 43 years between 1970 and 2013 — when the foreign-born population grew 325 percent — incomes for the bottom 90 percent of earners fell nearly 8 percent.
And yet, on autopilot, each year the U.S. further swells the labor supply by issuing millions of new visas to foreign nationals seeking jobs and residency in the United States.
The green card is the immigration document responsible for the overwhelming majority of immigration into the United States. One million green cards are now being handed out each and every year. This document legally invites foreign nationals to live permanently in the U.S., claim virtually all federal benefits, receive lifetime work authorization, and ultimately become voting citizens. No nation on Earth admits more new permanent immigrants each year than the United States. No nation on Earth has more than one-fourth as many total immigrants as we do today. And no nation on Earth anywhere near as large ours has a higher percentage of foreign-born residents.
Over the next 10 years, the U.S. will hand out more green cards than the combined populations of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. This has absolutely nothing to do with the border or immigration enforcement: These green cards will be issued — this year and a hundred years from now — unless Congress passes a law to prevent their issuance.
On top of this, the U.S. issues each year approximately 700,000 visas to temporary foreign workers, 500,000 visas to foreign students, and 100,000 visas to refugees and asylum-seekers.
Because these new immigrants and foreign workers arrive legally, corporations can legally substitute them for their existing workers at lower pay. From 2000 through 2014, all jobs gains among the working-age were claimed by foreign labor. Moreover, because immigrant workers are paid lower salaries, their wages are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that 3 in 4 immigrant households with kids are drawing welfare payments.
Including all forms of immigration, the Census Bureau estimates another 14 million immigrants will enter the U.S. on net between now and 2025 — that’s almost five times the number of students who will graduate from public high school in America this year.
Assuming no law is passed to reduce immigration, the Census Bureau estimates that, in less than eight years’ time, the percentage of U.S. residents born in a foreign-country will be the highest level in our history. And the bureau estimates — again, assuming Congress does not reduce immigration rates — that the foreign-born population share will keep rising to new all-time records for as long as they can project.
Pew Research Projects that new immigrants and their children will add another 103 million residents to the U.S. over the next five decades. That’s the population equivalent of 25 cities of Los Angeles.
Did any American vote for this extreme and untested policy?
Yet our politicians who have created this policy do print or speak a word about it. This remains the forbidden conversation.
And the reason it is not discussed is because it cannot withstand scrutiny. Pew Research polling found that Americans want immigration reduced — not increased — by an overwhelming 3 to 1 margin. A mere 20 percent of Democratic voters and a miniscule 7 percent of Republican voters want more immigration.
GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway found that colossal majorities of Hispanics and African-Americans — among those hurt the most by the unceasing arrival of new low-wage workers — want U.S. workers to be given preference for jobs. By nearly a 10 to 1 margin, Americans of all backgrounds believe companies should raise wages instead of importing new labor from abroad.
This is the immigration reform voters want.
Rhetorical games grow weary. We’ve had vastly more immigration than ever before, but our politicians pretend like we’ve had very little. Nearly 1 in 4 residents aged 25-53 is not working, but our politicians talk of needing more immigration to fill “labor shortages.” Billionaire CEOs bully and intimidate concerned parents into silence while helicoptering their own kids to the world’s most expensive private schools.
What is missing from this conversation is a sense of moderation, of limits and of compassion for struggling families.
It is not caring, but callous, to bring in so many workers that there are not enough jobs for them or those already living here. It is not mainstream, but extreme, to continue surging immigration beyond all historical precedent. And it is not rational, but radical, to refuse to recognize limits.
Lettered on our nation’s seal are the words E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one. It does a disservice to both the country and the immigrant when we bring in larger numbers than we can reasonably expect to assimilate. If we allow our immigration system to replicate in America the same failed conditions which people have left, we are hurting the country and any who would seek to enter it in the future.
For that reason, we should only admit as many new arrivals as we can reasonably expect to absorb into our schools, labor markets and communities. We must never admit so large a number that the immigrants themselves are unlikely to enter the middle class or achieve stable incomes. And we have to recognize that there are record millions already living inside our borders in desperate need of a job.
After nearly half a century of massive immigration it is time to turn our attention to our own residents. It is time to help our own workers, families and communities — immigrant and U.S.-born — rise together into the middle class.
We need an immigration policy that shows compassion for Americans.
Anyone running for the White House who cannot publicly commit to these principles should consider a different occupation. Americans should no longer have to wonder for whom their leaders work.
Sen. Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama and serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. Rep. Dave Brat is a Republican from Virginia.