As a Zionist jew I had no idea we were so powerful. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling all over. We’re said to be super smart too. What’s not to like?

Sure it was – forcing private businesses to make loans to people against their own judgement

Is that what they were doing? My understanding is that the private businesses didn’t care about the risk, because they were just offloading the risk onto others, including the taxpayers.

George W. Bush was an ass. I have no idea what motivated his behavior and beliefs, but I’ll do him the courtesy of assuming he was smart enough to know he was screwing over his countrymen. His father, brother, and nephew are all cut from the same cloth, as well.

It was his father who was most responsible for implementing the 1986 amnesty, and we see where that got us. California is now only 38% white, and more white Americans have been moving out than moving in for two decades or more. Its state legislature is a complete and total basket case. W and his relatives are more than happy to criticize conservative Republicans when they disagree but say jack squat about all the crazy things the leftists are doing.

Lawrence M. Lebowitz, of Cohen & Grigsby, had a different take on the matter: “Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested US worker” (starting at 1:38 on the video).

Note that every single member of that law firm on the dais educating businesses on how to avoid hiring their countrymen is white.

The whole debate over revocation of TPS status for Salvadorans, Haitians, etc. sort points to the real problem with “temporary” immigration programs. In the case of both the Haitians and the Salvadorans people argued that we couldn’t deport them because they now had hundreds of thousands of children who were born US citizens. So long as we have a policy of granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on US soil, there is no such thing as a “temporary” visa – neither for workers nor even tourists.

Rubin: “Israel was founded on the premise, that`s what Zionism is–a state of the Jews. And people don`t like it, but that`s what it`s about. America is not founded on the principle of America for White People or America for Europeans.”

Note here that she doesn’t say “she” doesn’t like it but that “people” don’t like it – as in other people don’t like it. Nowhere in there does she suggest her own personal distates for Israel’s Jewish Supremacist policies.

And I didn’t have to Google this to remember it was Rubin, not Jacoby. Jacoby looks like a dude. Rubin actually looks like a woman.

Google both their names together and a post about it on VDare by Steve Sailer is the top link.

Rubin’s reply to Kaus: “That`s because the difference is, America is founded on a different principle. Israel is founded on the principle of being a Jewish state. The Arabs have 22 or 23 of them, or 29 of them, I lose track. Israel was founded on the premise, that`s what Zionism is–a state of the Jews. And people don`t like it, but that`s what it`s about. America is not founded on the principle of America for White People or America for Europeans. It is founded really on an idea. And that idea, if people are willing to assimilate, and I`m a big advocate of assimilation, should not be restricted on the basis of race or religion or language, as long as they are willing to eventually learn English and be part of the body politic. It`s a completely different situation bw the United States and Israel.”

The link to the actual video appears to be dead, or possibly behind the paywall on Ricochet, if anyone has access. Not sure if it’s still available elsewhere, but I absolutely remember watching it, too.

Just to add the vote total for Lend-Lease to this now almost 500 comment thread:

Overall the vote in the Senate was 60-31. If you compare Senate support for Lend-Lease from the 11 states that had belonged to the CSA to the rest of the country:

The South: 21-1
The Rest: 39-30

If you include the Southern fringe states that hadn’t been part of the CSA (Maryland, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky & Missouri):

The South: 28-2*
The Rest: 32-29

* West Virginia had a vacant Senate seat and Oklahoma had a senator who announced his support for Lend-Lease but who, for whatever reason, didn’t cast a vote.

So exclude the South from the vote and Lend-Lease is basically a 50-50 proposition.

The Lend-Lease Act passed in March 1941 on a vote of 60-31. Only one Southern senator – Robert Reynolds of North Carolina – voted against it. Every other region of the country was much more divided – 5 of 12 New England senators voted against it, as did 3 of the 6 senators from the Left Coast.

Of course if you read the Wikipedia article on the Act it only discusses partisan differences in support (Democrats were much more supportivre of Lend-Lease than Republicans), but makes no mention of regional ones.

Too early to tell if this means something:

A man who has been working in the area said he noticed a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything since he did not wish to racially profile those people.

“We sat around lunch thinking, ‘What were they doing around the neighborhood?’” he said. “We’d see them leave where they’re raiding the apartment.”

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/12/02/authorities-search-redlands-home-tied-to-suspect-syed-farook/

I don’t think the study of human genetics is yet at the point where you can look at two normal individuals and determine which will have a higher IQ with better than 50/50 chances of being right.

The base-rate predictor here achieves an accuracy of 50/50 (picking 1 of 2 individuals, both with the same expectation), so strictly speaking, using any genetic hit for intelligence, even 1, will give you ‘better than 50/50 chances of being right’ (you simply pick the one with a hit, or if they tie, continue to flip the coin). Since Rietveld, we have several hits and the list has expanded since to ~9 and doubtless the list will increase further.

“I mean, it wasn’t Saudi Arabia that invaded Iraq. And don’t forget the drought in Syria leading up to 2011.”

OH yeah, because Syria is like the only country ever in history to experience a drought. I mean what country *wouldn’t* respond to a drought by going batshit crazy and starting a civil war?

As for Saudi Arabia you can sure give them some credit for causing the Iraq War. They’ve been sponsoring radical Islamist groups for decades leading up to 9/11, and 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis.