When the subprime issue surfaced, the overall damage was estimated at 300 Billion dollars, not a small amount but which a 12 Trillion dollar economy like the US can easily absorb. It was the complexity of how this 300 Billion were distributed that caused the uncertainty in the market and finally the run on the banks and panic we are seeing now. I would say then that the subprime default issue was a wellintentioned fiasco, that triggered the krach. I could not even accuse the excessive leverage of the financial system, because in prosperous times that is perfectly rational. Minorities play a very marginal role in the economy, they produce little and consume little. You may not like them, but they didnt do it. Mass panics are never planned and hanging people will be unjust. On the other hand, I would select a few sacrificial victims, organize a public show trial and send them to prison, so the masses will feel the necessary rites have been carried out, the anger of the gods has been calmed and harmony restored. Then the Stock Exchange will rebound mightily.

yee,
¿ Have we been following Iceland’s financial collapse ? We have. Quoting an expert, “I suspect, on no particular evidence, just a hunch, that more than few of the most enthusiastic speculators in the Iceland housing markets were white immigrants from the Middle East and the ex-Soviet bloc.” (open sarcasm )Anybody who says that the Icelanders – pureblooded Viking blue-eyed Nordics – did it to themselves, is a despicable neo-nazzee. (close sarcasm ).

“America of 2008 doesn’t have the human capital to justify the valuations of wealth it thought it had.”

Correct. But that was true also ten years ago, in fact, it is known since Lynn published his table of correlation between IQ and GNP. America was among the few nations (like South Africa) with a GNP much higher than justified by its human capital.

With about half of its population Mexican, it is obvious that the new California should resemble Mexico. It seems that the country’s elite has yet to digest this change, and adjust the educational, financial, etc. systems to it. In fact, it seems that there is a very strong resistance even to aknowledge the fact that a deep change has taken place.

Hope the current crisis will serve to adjust those system that are based on a different America to its new demographic profile. I know many would like to change demography instead, but that seems improbable.

It is correct that the Hui share the religious indifference of most Chinese, but that is changing. Just as Chinese Christians are linking to worldwide religions, the Hui are being gradually pulled toward worldwide Islam. You can see them making the hadj to Mecca, establishing madrassas with Saudi assistance, strengthening existing organizations. There are many local conflicts in China where Hui are against Han, which never make the national scene because China is so large. But the potential for conflict is there.

Probably because my impressions relate to Western China, I feel that Hui definitely feel they are part of the ummah, and Wahhabist teachings have reached Hui communities. For example, their prayer rugs nad mosque decorations have typically Middle Eastern motives.  
 
Regarding religiousness, minority status does carry important privileges, so it is difficult to evaluate.

This conversation made me realize that Puyi, the Last Emperor, may have been subtly criticizing the Communist regime in his autobiography, when he wrote about its generosity toward his clan and nation. He describes how the Manchu were becoming culturally extint, but under the generous Communist regime, millions returned to their heritage and assumed their identity. Puyi´s clever subtlety makes a delightful reading of his ¨redention story¨. Some historian should write an annotated Puyi autobiography.

The current view is that NON PATERNITY EVENTS (Razib: NON …) are quite rare in societies which are not in war. In the general Australian population (and most of Western society), misattributed paternity is around 1-5%, and usually much closer to 1% than 5%. This backs up a 2001 Australian sex survey that looked at 10,173 adults who had been in a regular relationship for over a year. This survey found that 2.9% of women had more than one sexual partner over that year. 
 
Regarding the estimate that 20% of the men living some 500 years ago have no descendant, I think the number is much higher. Maybe in England, which was an exceptionally stable and ordered society, but not elsewhere. But even in England, almost all the family names mentioned in the Doomday Book are non-existent today. It is said that the population of the Middle Ages is not the same as we have today, and there was strong selection/evolution. This is a very active research area and it is worth following it.

In the coming years, nepotism will disappear. A dictator will be able to clone himself and fill all posts with himself.

Building a long border barrier is not an expensive infrastructure project. Here in Israel, the Army was charged with carrying out the job when terrorists were blowing up daily in Tel Aviv bars, and all budgetary, environmental and bureaucratic restrictions were lifted. An interministerial anti-red-tape commission was set up, that was never active as the Army ignored red tape. The project was finished in no time but since then there are unending legal processes because part of it is in private land, or obstaculizes the mating habits of some field rat, or it just ruins the view of the Samaritan mountains. I think about 20 – 30% has been moved once or more. Conclusion: In civil engineering projects, there is no way to avoid planning and permitting. Instead, every city and department has many projects in their archives that were fully designed but never budgeted. California water recycling system is one of those project, it needs a few billions to get started.

Anonymous

Some observations on the pics. The girl is obviously over 17 – 18, more like 27. It is Christmas, yet she has been burned by the sun while wearing a one-piece swimsuit. Did people go to the beach in winter? The shoes are totally out of context.

And Obama’s skin clearly shows that his biological father is, to use his words, “ink black”

For some reason, people are obsessed with Jews and Israel. Commenters here think it is a good thing for the Jews, but the opposite is true. On the few occasions I open The Economist and there is nothing about us, I feel relief.

About Feinman: He was faking it to avoid military service.

Maybe you too should have analysed Obama the Chicago politician, instead of Obama the novelist of ancestral dreams.

La Griffe also offers a solution to Joel Klein´s problem.

I cannot believe it.

Larry Summers was forced to resign for a non PC comment. That girls like dolls or something like that.

Is he being re-habilitated? Is this the beginning of the end of the PC dictatorship?

Only a black President could do that. May be racial quotas will also be abolished.

Most hispanos are new to the USA and have close connections to a neighboring country. When Mexico and the US merge, Presidency will be rotated. ¿No te parece, amigo Esteban?

Steve is right, a bureaucracy is unable to spend much money fast. Only the military can do that.

Who is lamenting the cultural demise of Eastern European Jewry? Not the Zionist movement, whose goal is to build a Jewish country in Israel. We are in the Middle East, we speak a Semitic language and strive to be accepted and live in peace with our neighbors. Who (unfortunately) are not Viennese.

Forget all about Dreams about Race and Inheritance, Steve, start rewriting your book. This national infrastructure and green projects program is a Chicago politician’s wet dream come true.

All thing being equal, bigger cars are irgendwie und sowieso safer for the person inside.

Madoff was so highly positioned and so well connected that his fund should have been in the priority list of funds in trouble to be ¨rescued¨ by Paulson. Maybe there is so much to rescue that even 700 billion are not enough for everybody?

May be I am wrong, but Obama named the most respected and capable people to manage the economy, energy, the military, etc. He seems to have reserved for himself only a few social programs, in education, welfare, etc. This personal budget, to be implemented by the Chicago neighborhood organizer crowd, may offend your sensibility, but if is the price for good governance in all the other fields, it is well worth it.

That Ponzi schemes are suicidal is only a supposition. Madoff operated its fund for thirty years, paying out a stable 10% p.a. to his investors. Recently he have been outgrowing the Jewish charity organizations world and have been receiving investments from important foreign banks. If not for the current world financial crisis, he could have gone on for several additional years and then wrap up and close down his fund in a quiet way, retiring to Palm Beach. The 2008 financial panic bankrupted many bona fide banks such as WaMu and Lehmann, and I dont see their qualitative difference with Madoff fund. All of them work only to the moment the public loses its faith in their solidity, and then they crash.

The Madoff scam is so shocking because most of his investors were Jewish and there is supposed to exist a solid Jewish solidarity. Unfortunately, that is not the case. On the contrary. Israel, for example, has produced many spies for the country´s enemies. The ¨vaciamiento¨ (emptying) of Argentina´s Banco Mayo – a Jewish cooperative bank – was done by its own directives. There are many examples, the most horrible are the Judenraths under the Nazis, that are accused of cooperating with the Nazis. The Nazis tried and failed to set up similar organizations with the Polish, but Polish leaders preferred to die and never to give a hand to enslave their own. Jewish solidarity is an illusion shared by the Jews and antisemites. I would wish it to exist in reality.

La Griffe´s method could be applied to everything and separate heredity and culture. He is an artist.

Experience shows that once regulations and procedures are in place, it is almost impossible to bypass them or temporarily to suspend them. When a bureaucrat is charge of implementing some petty regulation, he/she will never give up his responsability and source of power. Only in new, yet unregulated areas it is possible to spend money fast. Like space research, deep ocean exploration, war in foreign countries and the like.

Steve, Thanks for reviving the Parson project! But we were born too late, the time of heroic mega-projects taming Nature has passed, ours is a time of small people who are impotent in face of the Delta smelt and the “mighty” Leopard frog. See, even The Terminator’s Delta Vision task force was unable even to advance the miserable Delta Project. We are still waiting for the first JCB to start digging the dirt. To carry out even a fraction of the Parson Project, Giants would be needed, like Joseph Stalin, and they don’t walk the face of Earth anymore. Only Stalin’s iron will built the Belomor (White Sea – Baltic) Canal.

The idea of turning Arctic rivers Southwards is obvious but only the Russians were able to do something about it. In 1970 they diverted the Pechora and Kama Rivers toward the Volga and the Caspian Sea in the south in western Russia. A 70-mile stretch was levelled with three 15 kiloton nuclear devices. In 1980’s twelve Arctic-bound rivers were proposed to be redirected to the dry south. At the time it was feared that the projects would change the climate (cooling it), but the climate changed without any assistance and the South of Russia is drying up while the rainfall in the North is increasing and the freshwater flowing into the Arctic. Today even the Russians are impotent when faced with a Leopard frog.

In summary, I am rather skeptical about President Obama tackling the Parson Project.

Vanilla Anonymous,

Salton Sea is 70 meters under sea level so it would be difficult to drain it out to the Cortez Sea. It must be pumped. Annexing Sonora and Baja California would not advance the project but would cause endless wars. And you cannot dump your pollution (the Salton is manmade) on somebody else.

They’ll claim that it would contribute to the shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet.

O’Sullivan, the last claim was the opposite, that the loss of inflowing fresh water will cool the Arctic Ocean and provoke a new Ice Age.

Or something. Probably something.

There is an endless supply of idealist blond WASP and freckled Jewish girls willing to throw themselves in the way of the caterpillars in order to save Earth.

Or something.

I just come from the Imperial Valley, where the lining of a canal built in 1900 has provoked an transnational conflict. And the Delta Project, where the supposed rights of the Delta smelt are considered superior to the common human good and nothing can be done. We have fallen in the power of a mysterious sect, the Greens, that considers itself representing the higher interests of nature, and rules what is right and what is wrong following to misunderstood newspaper popular science.

No canals will violate the sacred burial lands with canals nor disturb the eco-sanctuary of the Leopard Lizard. Forget it.

Lets spend the money in re-inforcing the EPA bureacracy.

I hope they paid you well.

Well paid?

According to Joseph Stalin (“On Marxism in Linguistics”), language is an instrument to the change reality. Yes, Stalin took time between his duties to take part in an esoteric dispute, and wrote a seminal text in theoretical linguistics. Marxists use language to advance the Revolution, thus what you call “Hatefacts” are facts only for followers of Marr, called by Stalin “exegetes and talmudists”. We should use language to moderate racial contradictions and to make life more livable.

Does it follow that Obama´s touch cures lepra?

How could I receive Obama’s Stroke? You know, till Queen Anne, English monarchs used to administer the so called King’s Touch or King’s Stroke to cure all kind of diseases. The king only had to touch the patient and make the sign of the cross to make him recover. Hordes of patients used to descend upon the king wishing this upon themselves. However, the king did not constantly have the power to cure scrofula. It was most efficacious when he was being newly anointed for his coronation.

Steve, you should give a Prize to the best proposal, which is:

Easy. Pass a law requiring that businesses be more productive. That’ll work.

j.

Ah, to be a young tall Luo in an American university full of hot blondies !

Very professionally written manual. It is based on the childish premise that banks are the leftist caricatures: all-powerful undestructible institutions, that for pure evil racism refuse to serve colored folks. If someone had said that they were fragile operations always risking a run and on the edge of bankrupcy, maintained by effort and work, it would have been laughed off. Now that the activists have caused the sudden collapse of the banks and they have been nationalized, what? Now that the political establishment has been defeated and a black community organizer sits in the Oval Office, what? They have no program.

I hope you were audacious with those three ladies.

Mr rightsaidfred said: “… a good extortion does not bankrupt the mark. Such amateurs. Tsk.”

Exactly. They had no sense of reality, they imagined that banks were all-powerful. Now they have lots of bankrupt banks and they have to run them. So they have hired back the former bank bosses, they are giving them hundreds of billions of dollars to spend and turn back the wave of destruction, but they are not willing to pay them their habitual fees. There is a clear misalignment between the interest of the owner and that of the hired hand, who may feel he is not being paid what he deserves.

This is just the beginning.

a host of colonial wars a century or so ago; none did the metropole any good, none won anything of value. 
 
That is certainly not what Karl Marx and all the Victorians thought. Manchester for example was built on foreign captive markets. If not for English inhibition of the Indian, Chinese, Japanese textiles industries during the 19th century, Manchester´s textile industry would have died a century and half before it did, mortally hurt by the Japanese and given the coup-de-grace by the Chinese. The English barely built a railroad in Central Europe, they could not penetrate the market and had to sell their wares in South America, India and the Middle East. It appears that Greg Cochran thinks that colonial exploitation was a myth. Not one of the real people who experienced the thing – as colonizer or colonized – thought so.

No razib, if you had read my note, you would have learnt that the German industry was based on its very substantial market in Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Chechia, Turkey, Persia, etc. English capital and manufactured products barely penetrated these markets, the elite studied in German universities, the Armies relied mostly on German weapons and instructors.

link. 
 
Yes, there was ferocious colonial competition for the Persian markets, including capital markets. The British, razib, did everything they could to manage Persian loans and to build Persian railways, but they were checked for a long time by the German led alliance. In the end, Persia was occupied militarily by the British to exploit its natural resources.

It might be fun if you could name one country to which the US-imposed termination of “colonialism” brought any improvement in the quality of government. Just one. It’s okay – I’ll understand if you can’t. 
 
Mencius, I fail to understand what are you going at. Where did I said a word about US-imposed termination of ¨colonialism¨? What are you talking about? Whom are you talking to?  
 
Regarding the recently fashionable idea that colonialism was not worth it, that colonies were too expensive and a constant drag on colonial countries, it is nonsense. Just one example: The Congo made very rich a Belgian King. Talking about something I know: I happened to live in Nigeria not long after “liberation”, and the annual budgets (under the British there were such things) registered no deficits. The British left well run and profitable colonies, I still wonder why. Argentina, which was a de facto colony, paid Barclays and other British banks (that are no more) fantastic interests and rents. Colonies made rich many individual Englishmen, and made England industry viable. It is naive to imagine that the permanent competition for colonies was driven by anything that profits.

Perhaps you’re aware that “exploitation” is a word generally used, at least in the context of the modern American university, to conjure up the image of oppressed minorities slaving cruelly for the delight of top-hatted fat cats.  
 
Interesting, Mencius. I wonder how anyone could believe in that infantile caricature. In an university! By exploitation I meant the appropriation of the plus-value.

TGGP 
 
The monies spent fighting communism were well spent and the world thanks your parents for it. About “the irrelevant load of nukes, good only for movies”, please read something about what they are. Or are you being sarcastic?

mencius,  
 
Colonial life was beautiful. Firstly, the pay was the double than in the metropoli for a similar position. Help was abundant and had a very good attitude. Since good people was generally unavailable for God forgotten places, all hands were welcome, alcoholics, deviates, etc. The social life was extreemely tolerant for excentrics. Ambitious people had opportunities that only middle aged people received in the metropolis. A young architect could build original government buildings, he could experiment, he was alone. people had time for reading and writing. Colonies were paradise, and they worked very well.

mencius 
what is dog? kutya ?

For reference, Communist Cuba has long been called “La “Mulatocracia”.

Excellent note and good comments. Why President after President, Judge after Judge, etc. consistently decided in favour of quotas and positive racial discrimination – against their own people and against the will of White majority? I propose that no one ever thought that those rules and laws would change anything in real life. They may have thought that there was no risk to themselves in granting favourable treatment to the hereditary underclass, because they will not be able to make use of it and they will not hold for long the jobs they were hired for, and so on. And that is what is happening: you can allow thousands African Americans into Standford but they will drop out by the force of gravity, no need to push them out, and few or none will graduate. Life is stronger than any quotas. Fact is that American industry learned to live with the racial legislation and is doing little harm. It is in the public sector that most harm is being done, and the nationalization of banks and the car industry may end by their total collapse. They will operate with the same effectivity as the public educational system today. Steve has written about how wonderfully effective they are. Now he can change the subject and write about the competitiveness of the car industry, and of the large banks.

testing 99

They are learning fast …

The second packet will be better managed…

While the thesis is reasonable, that succesful working people leaves more living children than the scum of the society, the methodology seems to me weak. My opinion is that of a man of the street, it may have no academic value.  
 
1. The selective value of social position seems to last for one, or maximum two generations. In our days no fortune survives more than two generations, except the highly endogamic Rothschilds. If so, one two generations of ¨bad luck genes¨ should not be perceivable after 7 generations.  
 
2. The lumpen proletariat is not known to have less children than rich people, on the contrary. Malthus and Galton all talked of a dysgenic effect, which worries people today more than ever. People who spends most of their life in prison seem to leave the same number of children, or more, than rich people. Could it be that everybody has the wrong impression? 
 
3. English names are very stable and sticking, but not immutable. People is known to have changed names voluntarily to avoid identification with known criminals, and/or to fake identification with famous people somehow related. When wills are in play, people takes the names of the rich relative. Sometimes the childless rich uncle demands change of name. I cannot quantify the effect of this thing but we are talking of small differences where everything may matter.

Great post.

Reporting from the area: Israeli prostitutes do not discriminate against Chinese contract workers (legal aliens), Somali illegals or other paying customers. About marrying an Israeli, Chinese Jews have no difficulties at all except that there are no Chinese Jews.

It might be worth noting that one of the largest gaps in perception is the disparity between how conservatives view Hispanics and how liberals view Hispanics. This could account for (or reflect) some of the difference of opinion between liberals and conservatives on immigration.

This may effect the way the immigration debate plays out over time. Both liberals and conservatives incorrectly rank Hispanics below blacks, but conservatives are more egregious in their error and therefore more likely to be surprised and chastened when Hispanics eventually pull ahead of blacks in income — a development that could easily be spun toward the conclusion “See, Hispanics will assimilate toward white norms after all.”

The original post raises an important point. These surveys are done on a face-to-face basis. This may lead people to under-report the magnitude of the differences between groups. Better to err on the side of equality in front of strangers. Observe that self described liberals see a range of about 8 point between top and bottom groups, while conservatives see a range of about 11.

An other fun fact: Asians are most likely to recognize diversity.

If you take a group and then subtract their bottom perception from their top perception you get a diversity score.

W – 10.6

B – 9

H – 10.2

A – 12.3

J – 9

"The trick for us is attempt to look for small clues as to how political views are going to reconfigure themselves by the end of the next decade and beyone."

There are a lot of single mothers out there, and their ranks appear to be increasing. They tilt left. Perhaps they will greet the news of genetic determinism with relief. Children will turn out the way they turn out, barring some severe negligence on their part. That's setting the bar reassuringly low.

Once women begin to internalize genetic determinism in large numbers, they may be more selective in who they choose as bed partners.

It is possible, even likely, that political orientation is at least partly hard wired. Once the idea of genetic determinism gets some traction on the left, the idea is sure to take off. See how much traction gay empowerment activists have made on the right by arguing that homosexuality is inborn. See how much traction genetic determinism has already gained on the left by arguing that homosexuality is inborn.

Yours is a classic “Caprex” dream. Generations of students have had it and keep having them along their lives. As a rule, it happens only to very good students and they generally succeed the next morning.

A variation of the dream is that you are called to stage or podium and forgot your part, or you are paralyzed and cannot talk.

“Caprex”, by the way, means Cagazo Pre-Examen, pre-exam diarrhea.

It is a good dream.

“Therefore it burden of proof was on you to show facts supporting your point. Ya guys got nothing but speculation”

Again, don’t you think this is an argument against affirmative action seeing it leads people to believe the processes have been corrupted?

I understand that archeology must be distressing for a Black person, as African archeology is nonexistent. But also Black history and literature was nonexistent till it was invented. Nowadays you have university courses, hundreds of academic books, learned professors teaching about Black literary achievements. Mr McWhorter is proposing a feasible idea, of establishing Black Archeology Departments in universities. The subject matter will come later. If that will make him happy, why not?

A society tied to the notion of meritocracy may therefore have a particular need for minorities.” The contrary case seems more reasonable. In a diverse multiethnic society, meritocracy becomes impossible. Power sharing is negotiated between the competing ethnic groups. Like in New York City.

The kids played with Israeli kids and soon were chatting in fluent Hebrew 
 
Yes, playing with the natives is the best way to pick up a language. Then you have to learn the grammar.

Unclear. How low or high population density may stop the advance of advantageous genes?

I am familiar with logistic growth (S curve) where the rate of increase is related to the distance to the level of saturation. How is that related to differential reproduction and the velocity of diffusion of advantageous characters? An empty space will stop diffusion, agreed, but a sparely populated space will not.

David B, 
 
Then we are not talking about one population, but two dissimilar populations that produce hybrids when they mix.

Some small corrections:

(1) Most Argentines are 100% Europeans. From 165 the Spanish-Portuguese settlers carried out successive extermination campaigns against the indians, the Campana del Desierto culminating in 1880 with the last ones killed in Southern tip of the continent. In Argentina there are no reservations.
(2) To Argentina arrived the same Italians and Spaniards that arrived to America, with many arriving to Argentina after America closed its borders to immigration in the twenties. The Spanish Civil War brought a million Spaniards, many Leftist intellectuals. WWII caused the immigration of about 1 -2 million Germans, some running away fromthe Nazis, some running away from the Allies or the Communists, most just looking for food during the post-WW famines (that no one is talking about). All keep low profile. Not a drop of Indian blood here.
(3) ARgentine mentality is consequence of the incredible natural wealth of the country. No amount of stealing, mismanagement, corruption seems to make a dent on the living standard of the people. Dios es Argentino – God is an ARgentine, that is, an Argentine has no need to worry because God will provide. And it is providing. The case that Steve is analyzing is a perfect example of the ARgentine mentality, like not paying the mortgage and to keep living in the place without a worry for eight months on. They have not a care in this life, because they are convinced that God, who is Argentine, will take care of everything.
(4) ARgentines are not a people of Fiestas. Argentines are a rather sad, depressed, introspective people. Steve, your commenters are confusing Argentines with Cubans or Puerto Ricans. Well, Americans are known for their ignorance of geography. Of history. Well, ignorance in general.

Things are changing so fast that I am feeling lost. The bank used software to “translate” marketing materials into African-American vernacular. Is it PC good or is it PC bad?

.. and referred to subprime loans in minority communities as “ghetto loans”. Is the word ghetto offensive? Was it offensive when used by the loan officers? What is their problem?

All this is confusing and ridiculous. Americans – White, Black, Jewish, NAMs, Latinos, Neanderthals, Klingons, Goth, Borg, dwarves and giantesses, you name it – are becoming mud people. Mud, mud, mud. Sue me.

“I think it brings to the system more of a sense of fairness when these litigants see people like myself on the bench.”

When something like a third of the population is of Latin American origin, having Sotomayor on the bench certainly brings to he system more of a sense of fairness. I think her argument is very strong. She is a very valuable addition to the Supreme Court. She makes America stronger. Viva Sotomayor !

Important find.

Israel is missing from the list. May be it is the exception.

What is Tiffany drops out of school and gives birth at 16 and Emma completes her Ph.D. and marries at 35? If the pattern continues, you have .. how much?

Thanks, no.

I cant see any benefit in the fact that a professional group is composed by relatives. That is called a caste, like in India. Endogamic groups stop progress, they are bad for society as a whole.

What I am seeing in this case is the absolute incompetence of the State to manage even a fire fighting service. They unable even to manage personnel including hiring and promotions. The only solution is to sell the service and/or outsource it to private companies who are able to game the system.

Oh. So South Africa is not on the way of becoming Zimbabwe B, it is on the way of becoming Nigeria B, New Congo or the South Equatorial Guinea.

American journalists are a very lazy bunch, they speak no foreign languages and write their reports from the air-conditioned bars of large hotels in the capital. If they had a five minute conversation with the taxi driver or the bartender, they feel they had done their journalistic duty.

On the other hand, the American public is not interested in the world, and would change channels if a bizarre fellow speaking some foreign lingo would be up on TV longer than 20 seconds.

In terms of comparisons Thatcher won scholarships to her high school and then Oxford. I think even if she had 5 kids she would still be more knowledgeable than Palin.

Steve's commenters stand on their heads to find a common denominator to Cohen's oeuvre and it is that he makes fun of antisemites. For the sake of their moronic argument they are ready to turn Kazakhs into Slavs. They are not. They are a Turkish people. And they are very friendly to Jews and always were. Borat hurt them very much, they did not like it all, they took offense, but still are very pro-semite aka friendly to Jews. Their president-dictator has developed a Kim Il Sung-like personality cult but I for one like him.

America is wealthy enough to support a small Caribbean island. Puerto Rico's significance for America is in what it is not: it is not a Russian military base (as was Cuba) and is not a hostile dictatorship (like Venezuela). I dont know if it is worth. I mean for Puerto Rico. The island, once an agricultural powerhouse, produces nothing, exports nothing. It has lost its language, literature, culture, identity. It is America's reservoir of proletarians, in the Marxist sense.

If I understand the question (I am not sure I do) then what Steve is asking is why black people keeps taking the exams where they have little chance of success.

Well, anywhere you look in the media you see successful black people writing code, managing complex businesses, presiding world powers. How could they imagine that they are not equal or superior? Disappointment and bitterness is sure to follow if confronted with reality. But no, society will not let them get hurt, so they are kept in a world of illusions, fantasies and lies.

I think it is wrong and evil to deceive decent and hardworking black (or any other) people.

The lighting was arranged by the photographers. Have you noticed that the skin color of all the four look the same?

Anyway, the distance between the drinkers suggest formality, not friendship. It is so fake.

Farsical.

The Chinese will never be violent. No need for the government to foment foreign wars. You people mistake Chinese, a very docile people, with violent Africans. They are not.

If only American Jews could think straight and do something for their own people instead for the Blacks, for the illegal immigrants, for the African refugees, for the criminally morons, for the undermensch in its ugliest. Lily's purposeless death was consequence of the Diaspora. Her parents, liberal Jews who have dedicated their lives to the advancement of the colored people could not even IMAGINE to have to protect his precious daughter from those opressed and discriminated-against victims. A Jew in the Diaspora lacks the mental equipment to even think protecting himself and his family, a Jew in that damned Diaspora is doomed to Death from his very birth. They should have left the rich flesh pot in America and come to Israel, to this mortally dangerous Israel.

No, this calls for the MAD
strategy. Massive Attack of Denial of Service. Russians will not be served at MacDonalds.

Bubbles are supposed to be cyclical. Presumable, before the bubble there is a steady state situation, what causes the bubble mechanism to start? On the light side, your model does not take into account that a new sucker is born every minute.

How steady state passes into the bubble phase?

agnostic, 
 
Retards DO rejoin suckers all the time, because they retired with money from the market, that is, they feel good about their chances to do it again.  
 
Be kind enough to “allow” them to rejoin.

the magazine cover indicator has been improved on by google search word count and other data mining indices. Not that it did any good in recent housing bubble case.

gee cee  
 
Chimp and man are quasi identical but four inversions make the intercross difficult/impossible. I too heard that explanation in Mensa years ago.

Of course you are right and the flow of genes becomes general as organisms get smaller and “simpler”. At the bacteria or virus level they exchange genes as we exchange ideas. What is fantastic why there are so many different recognizible organisms when everything is in flux. It is the environment of course. Isnt it all so depressing?

The medical profession always had the smartest people around. When the Black Death epidemy hit Italy, the King asked the University of Paris for a report about what it was and what to do. The doctors of philosophy produced very sensible and practical recommendations and the illustrated classes mostly escaped the plague.

"The whole Anglo-Saxon, good government, ordered liberty thing."

That's the whole reason why the West is being overwhelmed by invaders who don;t play fair.

No, humanity has not gone soft, America has. For about 500 million dollars a year you can have a savage mercenary army happily pacifying Afganistan. South Africans (Boer+Zulu in wonderful harmony, British+Indian+Gurkha, North Koreans, Tungusians, Colombians, even Americans). TAlibans are heretics for other Muslims, you can tap them.

Your analysis of Obama's Nobel Prize emphasizes the racial aspect, but there are others. The Norwegians and Europeans in general are fighting American international influence, and by giving Obama the Peace Prize, they are making harder for him to take reinforce American military presence in Afganistan, to keep fighting in Iraq, to stop Iran building nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. They are trying to influence Obama to follow the pacifist, defeatist, leftist policy of the European Union.

“Look at these pictures of broken-down cars. Isn’t that terrible! Please give me $500 so I can do some different kinds of fixin’.” 
 
You are misrepresenting the message. The pictures show hungry, diseased children, and the message is got donate money for feeding and caring for them.  
 
Food (rice, wheat, dry milk) is very cheap, so the actual feeding of large populations can be done with little expense. Most of Gaza and many in the Third World are living from charity for generations.  
 
People should be fed in emergencies like drought or war, but creating bureaucratic institutions (UNRWA is now 60 years old) is wrong.

Are Palestinian Muslims entitled to AA preferencial treatment in the USA? Why? They are a people like every other one, dentists, poets, suicide bombers, airplane hijackers, pizza delivery boys, terrorist bombers, fanatic jihadists, car washers, military mass killers, etc. Just like anybody else.

War. The answer is war. War demands advanced technological weapons, and those capabilities filtrate into the business area.

And some Israelis are very capable too.

Facebook's Mafia Wars has no diversity problems. It has Russian Maffia, Colombian Maffia, they make you interact with all the imaginary organized crime world, which is happily multi-ethnic and diverse. But make no mistake, Sicilians are the elite.

The demographic history of Hungary is not so simple as you presume. The conquest of the area by the Hungarian tribes meant drastic depopulation, as was usual when Asiatic nomads conquered settled territories. The country suffered a short Mongol invasion in the 13th century, causing the loss of about 30% of the population and the extermination of the warrior classes, that is, the Hungarians. Between the 15th and 18th centuries the country was in permanent war. After the liberation from the Turkish occupation, the country was almost empty with a tiny group of large Hungarian speaking landowners. The country was opened up to immigration, with hundreds of thousands Eastern Germans (and Jews from Galitzia) settling in the 18 and 19th centuries. The current population is descended, in its mass, from these immigrants and not from the original native pre-Hungarian population.

Hungary would be positioned in the same place if it became almost empty and was recently repopulated from the neighboring countries. Fascinating.

It has been long observed that Orientals are unscrutable, bio!