Steve, you assume anyone wants to “fix” this who lives there.

Memphis a black urban town. Very left wing. They voted for this kind of brutality. They like corrupt cops who will moonlight as thugs for them with some bribery and who are the same color as them. Payoffs to them are just part and parcel of an ethnic-mafia mentality.

Meanwhile, the white libs there love it, they get to report on the crime and the bad police behavior as “racist” without ever noting the race of the cops or victims.

Marxists are bad people. Marxists want to live in a corrupt violent 3rd-world heckhole. They want people to die from high crime and police brutality.

So let them. Wall them off.

As long as violent crime is mostly in the “right” neighborhoods, the elites won’t care about facts.

Well, we just had the second biggest bank failure in the country’s history because of all the diversity bullshit.

Won’t be too long before planes start falling out of the sky, after they get the new “diverse” pilots.

The good news is that even our ruling parasitic verbalist overclass will praabably wake up a bit at that point and rethink diversity: they fly a lot.

The bad news is that that will not force them to deal with the fundamental problem: the desire of the verbalists to keep their boot firmly on the necks of the productive people in this country who actually deal with physical reality.

Until we can overthrow the ruling elite — lock, stock, and barrel — we will not end “Invade the world/Invite the world” or the global-warming hysteria or the “education” scam or the assault on human sexuality or…

Piloting has become much easier over the decades due to technological advancescc. I’m a lot more worried about diverse mechanics and ATC

The only systemic racism is the kind that comes wrapped in affirmative action.

Fathers. Also Fathers. How many young men in Memphis know their fathers? And among those few, how many wish they didn’t? And in how many cities is this true? The MSM tell women they don’t need no man!

In the WSJ the other day:

Why Children Need Nurturing Fathers
Research shows that a strong paternal connection helps young people to manage their emotions and deal with mental-health crises

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-children-need-nurturing-fathers-e7d84db8

Here’s a page on statistical analysis of crime by race, with some shocking results given the particular angle it takes
https://datahazard.substack.com/p/american-murder

4.5% of Black Males will commit murder in their lifetime as of 2021, if we choose to do nothing about the ongoing epidemic of violence.

Note: a Victim can have multiple Murderers and a Murderer can have multiple Victims. These both are a minority of murder offenses, and are in the same order of magnitude. Because of this, the actual ratio of Victims:Murderers is near 1:1.

6.5% of Black Males (15-74) committed murder over the past 60 years, assuming a 1:1 Murderer:Victim ratio, based on 1,084,990 actual murder victims (1968-2021).

4.4% – 7.2% of yearly Black Male deaths are homicides every year, with no exceptions, since at least 1968. Over 90% of these are Black Male-on-Black Male.

4.35% of Black Males (15-74) were murdered over the past 60 years, based on the 410,000 actual Black Male (15-74) murder victims from 1968-2021.

These are the low-end of what the rates could be in reality, given the large number of “unknowns” in the FBI data and the large number of “indeterminate” violent deaths coded by the CDC.

Whatabout repeat offenders, you ask? The most extreme assumptions can bring the 4.5% down to as low as 3.3%. I ask: does that change our conclusions? Do we continue decarceration on the off-chance that only 3.3% will commit murder?

It seems that politicians and high level administrators fail to understand that law enforcement jobs do not stop at political boundaries. If one city hires too many knuckleheads to work in law enforcement that results in a horrible work environment, then the more capable veterans can move across a political boundary and work somewhere else.

Until the lunatics acknowledge the realities of race, nothing can be fixed. In the case of the “Memphis five,” you have a microcosm of the realities of how blacks treat their own, all the time. They kill their own without batting an eye over the most trivial of matters. Yet, somehow, some way, the “white system” is to blame.

I think most reasonable people can agree that police forces, have become militarized, “brute force, ask questions later,” enforcers. Not “protect and serve,” members of the community. You might as well call them military “MP’s.”

I doubt anyone here has managed to escape being pulled over for a traffic ticket. Most not all, treat you like they just pulled you over after a hundred mile high speed chase, and you’re a murder suspect. Not in the ghetto, where some brotha might put a cap in their ass, white, in the suburbs.

I had a plain clothes detective pull his Glock and demand I get out of the vehicle, for failure to come to a complete stop before making a left hand turn for F’s sake. Also had a few let me slide, when they could have written me a ticket.
White guy, in a white suburb.

On the other hand, it’s gotten so uncivilized out there you can’t blame them for a little bit of paranoia, if they are working in danger zones, not the milquetoast, lilly white suburbs.
How do you fix that?

What pisses me off the most, is the idea that cops never harass, or kill whites over nothing!
More whites are killed by cops due to whites still being 60% of the population. It’s a numbers game, but you’ll never hear about in the MSM.

The situations they send SWAT teams out for now a days is beyond the pale! Reason magazine, a leftist rag flying under the banner of libertarian, has been running a series of articles where, in one instance, cops are arresting parents, in jerk water small, white towns, because the parents let their kids walk two blocks to get a freakin ice cream cone!

The system is broken, but you can’t cancel the cops either. Any system is only as good as the people in – running the system. And the people suck!

Amy Wax, a law professor, has said publicly that “on average, Blacks have lower cognitive ability than whites…”

Now, you know and I know that’s likely the most thoroughly documented fact in all of American social science. But nobody else remembers that anymore. And what is unsayable eventually becomes inconceivable.

Most people don’t need to remember that most thoroughly documented quote. They see it and live it. They are not to say any version of it out loud or on the record, but anyone who spends any time in heavily black areas understands. Go into an all-black-employee Wendy’s for food and Amy Wax’s statement becomes conceivable as all hell.

I think you are confounding “everyone else [but you and I]” with the elites who don’t ever need to spend time in black-run America. (Of course, I don’t NEED to go into a black-employee or any Wendy’s, but I do have a thing for Frosty’s…)

That was just one statement that I think was wrong. I agree with your take, as I wonder what you get out of trying to convince the bigger audience any of your insight from what the Washington Post writer found. Black police chiefs are mostly just as tribal as the underlings who wouldn’t go for a higher White percentage. They don’t want to hear your solutions.

What I didn’t get out of this was what the races of those Memphis Police Academy insiders were. Did the writer mention that? (I’m not saying no black guys working there would tell him the truth either.)

As with your Amy Wax post, people in charge don’t want to be convinced by you, even if they know you’re right. They don’t want you to even be able to state this, as you noticed. That’s the stage we are at – whether you are allowed to state these facts, never mind what they imply. Physicist Dave has it right.

Most White people’s solution right now, if they are in a position to do so, is to pretty much do what Scott Adams said.

Wow! I realized that among blacks, little kids and old men in wheel chairs were low on the murder picture, pointing to the young men as the primary murderers, but had no idea that black women are more likely to murder than are white men. Yikes!

Until the lunatics acknowledge the realities of race, nothing can be fixed.

They have absolutely no intention of doing so; in fact they’re moving as fast as humanly possible in the other direction. They’ve been doing this for several decades now. And why would they want to fix their own creation, anyway?

I had a plain clothes detective pull his Glock and demand I get out of the vehicle, for failure to come to a complete stop before making a left hand turn for F’s sake.

Yeah, but you were driving a Vette, right Vinny? Seriously though, I’ve had cops pull their guns on me on several occasions, and not once was I breaking the law or anything close to it. You won’t be reading about me (or anyone like me) in the newspapers. Cops know full well they can do whatever they want to white guys and it’ll never be publicized.

Much less cause a couple dozen cities to be put to the torch. Much less cause a dramatic upsurge in homicides nationwide. Etc etc.

What’s more, “Restorative Justice” now demands that cops arrest equal or “proportional” numbers of white guys, and the fact that you weren’t actually breaking the law is pretty much immaterial.

Send all the negroes back to Africa. The US becomes 98% fixed.

Of all of the damning stats in that graph, the worst to me – the Black 5-14 rate is 4.9, the White 15-64 rate is 5.2. The 5-14 rate for Whites and Hispanics doesn’t even reach a whole number.

I’m wagering the vast majority are acquainted with their fathers to some degree and that most non-custodial fathers are providing some portion of the income of the household in which the child lives. A great many of those noncustodial fathers aren’t fit for the role of father and a great many of the mothers do not want the father in the house even if he’s fit for the role.

The Chinese have noticed the Memphis Zoo is badly mismanaged-one of the two pandas they gifted to Memphis in 2003 died earlier this year and the other one looks very ill:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1287030.shtml

What kind of white person wants to work as a police officer in Memphis?

Steve Sailer wrote to me:

[Dave[“Well, we just had the second biggest bank failure in the country’s history because of all the diversity bullshit.”

[Steve] Probably not.

Have you followed Tucker’s reporting on SVB?

These guys were absolutely gaga over diversity.

Competent, responsible banking is hard. If you put all your energy into DIE, something has got to suffer.

And it did.

I’m not saying that it was necessarily Black or female executives who brought it down.

I am saying simply that whatever you prioritize gets your time, energy, and attention.

And for SVB, old-fashioned, gray-flannel-suit, pay-attention-to-the balance-sheet banking was not what they were focused on.

Ideas, especially obsessively goofy ideas, have consequences.

On the other hand, there is this:

Woke head of ‘risk assessment’ at Silicon Valley Bank accused of prioritizing diversity issues

A head of risk assessment at embattled Silicon Valley Bank has been accused of prioritizing diversity initiatives over her actual role after the company collapsed on Friday.

Jay Ersapah, who describes herself as a ‘queer person of color with a working-class background’, organized a number of LGBTQ initiatives, including a month-long Pride campaign and implemented ‘safe space’ meetings for staff. .

In a corporate video posted just nine months ago, she said she “couldn’t be more proud” to be working for SVB serving “underrepresented entrepreneurs.”

It comes after the company became the largest bank to collapse since the 2008 financial crisis, revealing a $1.8 billion loss on its finances.

The spectacular fall from grace puts Ersapah under scrutiny as ‘Head of Financial Risk Management and Model Risk’ for the company’s presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ersapah was based in the bank’s London office.

So, Steve, maybe real diversity actually did directly bring it down.

By the way, I have mentioned that I have a close family member who is a physician: the same thing is definitely happening in medicine. The immediate danger is not that the doctors are overwhelmingly incompetent minorities. The immediate danger is that the competent White and Asian doctors are being distracted from providing decent patient care by all the DIE bullshit.

The danger is very real.

AndrewR wrote to me:

Piloting has become much easier over the decades due to technological advancescc. I’m a lot more worried about diverse mechanics and ATC

Well, yeah.

But what if you need to put her down in the Hudson, as Sullenberger had to?

Or if the controls and readouts act goofy as happened in the 737 MAX?

Thanks, but I want a pilot who can take control of the aircraft and actually knows what he is doing.

Yes, competent mechanics and ATC would be nice too.

Art Deco wrote to HammerJack:

I’m wagering the vast majority are acquainted with their fathers to some degree and that most non-custodial fathers are providing some portion of the income of the household in which the child lives.

As always, you have no idea about the society that you live in. Oblivious to reality.

Can we please change your screen name to “Mister Magoo”?

The solution’s straightforward. Have a quadrapartite recruitment procedure for the police academy. The first is a review of the subjects history of criminal conduct and his history as a defendant in civil cases. The questions would be (1) has he committed an offense that would exclude him and is his offense vitiated by the passage of time. The second is a review of his physical fitness; is he in shape or can he get in shape? The third is a battery of psychological tests: does he score above a certain threshold on a psychopathic deviate scale and does he have excessive scores on other sections which indicate a deficit of impulse control and emotional stability. The fourth is a civil service test designed with entry level police work in mind. Failure on the first, second, and third exclude you from the police academy. With regard to the last, you’re admitted to the ration of slots in the academy in rank-order provided your scores are satisfactory on the other three recruitment gauntlets. And you design these tests to actually screen people. If you’re not excluding, you’re not screening. Academy training will weed out some people as well.

Straightforward solutions are not what they want.

In 2014, the department was 46.7 percent White, while the city of Memphis is 27 percent White, according to Census Bureau data. The department is now 37 percent White, according to the city’s website.

I’m willing to be that most of the 37% of white officers are older guys waiting on retirement. And the number of white recruits is rapidly approaching zero.

Compared to John Wayne in 12 O’Clock High, yes. There’s still a lot to it. Also, I’m wondering if you know the story of Giant 3591 Heavy (Atlas Air) that went down into Trinity Bay near Houston. That was a very good example of what Dave was referring to. Perhaps nobody got too upset because only the 2 pilots and a jumpseating pilot died …

My experience is that the diverse pilots are still very good. However, things have been under the old AA scheme till recently. The old scheme is still unfair, but it didn’t call for %-of-population numbers, so there must be still 90-95% White guys piloting the airliners. If that United Airlines 50% non-White-men program really gets going, well, the sky’s ground’s the limit!

Regarding mechanics, that’s not as much of a worry about safety rather than about shoddier, more haphazard operations (delays, gate returns, and cancellations). It’s the sharp no-nonsense inspector types at the hangars that keep the little stuff from happening on the line.

ATC has lots of new inexperienced people because the Feds ceased training people for a couple of years due to the Kung Flu. In general, they are a very professional crowd. However, that deal in Austin, though, whewww … It’s up to the pilots too (hmmm, which ones?) to manage these errors themselves.

I do have an idea and you don’t. I don’t caricature the black population and you cannot help yourself. Black adults have real problems building stable and orderly relationships with each other. That does not mean there is no relationship. The modal type of household is a woman with two children who have different fathers. Sometimes one of the fathers is in residence, usually not. Some women get regular support determined by the family court, some get dribs and drabs now and then informally, some get nothing. It’s the same with visitation. The typical black man does not have 11 bastard children scattered over as many women, he has one or two.

“How could this shortfall be narrowed without exorbitant spending…” – Steve, in his Taki’s article

I vote for the “exorbitant spending.” For the suburbs and exurbs; I don’t really care about the inner cities’ police quantity or quality. I realize that if you “exorbitantly” raise the starting salary of new recruits, salaries will need to increase at every stage, up the ladder. An absolutely crucial component of “life in the suburbs” is that there not be a shortfall of first-rate police officers. In fact, in defining “shortfall,” radically increase the old quotas; these no longer apply to what we have now. (Are you listening, Mr. DeSantis?) The cliche is “Who would want to be a police officer?” Well, at a salary commensurate with this admittedly hard job, plenty of first-rate people.

The people in charge, black and white, can make all the observations they want, but tribalism is still a very strong factor and unless the former become a lot more willing to buck that instinct and politics in their hiring then we’ll be reading these types of articles for the rest of our lives. Anyone want to bet their savings or safety that places like Memphis turn to competent whites to have authority over a largely black voting base?

What this means in practice is that black-dominated cities will accept a pretty high level of dysfunction so long as it’s blacks in charge of the show. You have occasional surprises where a white mayor is elected in a black city like New Orleans or Detroit, but most of the city personnel in key departmental positions don’t change. The other reality is that whites are far more willing to bring the hammer down on people that look like them than blacks are. Probably part of this is that most whites do not have any close relatives who are likely to do things that lead to law enforcement or the criminal legal system involved, so white criminals are viewed with contempt. For blacks, the odds are very high that you have someone (probably multiple) very close to you that has gone through the justice system and the instinct is to lessen the consequences of their behavior.

I meant to add to what Physicist Dave said: I think the Globalist elites are hoping complete automation will in place before things get too 3rd-Worldy. They don’t put much thought into who designs and maintains said automation (of aircraft, for example), in the world of incompetence coming due to Demographics to DIE for from. Nobody can think of EVERYTHING!

Black police chiefs are mostly just as tribal as the underlings who wouldn’t go for a higher White percentage.

Practically every racial/ethnic group is more tribal than Whites, which is why DEI is essentially anti-White. Once Whites voluntarily hand over management of X (whether it’s a government entity or a private one) to non-Whites, it’s unlikely to ever be managed by Whites again, and likely to become explicitly anti-White.

Per the numbers from the US Census, fewer than half of the court-mandated child support payments are made in full. I’d hazard a guess that that number is much lower among black “fathers”.

To me, the most surprising statistic in the Census report was the fact that only 50% of divorced couples with kids had child support agreements.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-269.pdf

One of the other banks taken over by regulators seems to have been a real comedy show.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-woke-signature-bank-videos-go-viral-after-fed-shut-down

ATC has lots of new inexperienced people because the Feds ceased training people for a couple of years due to the Kung Flu. In general, they are a very professional crowd.

Here you can hear the voice of the female Burbank airport ATC person who nearly killed two planeloads of human beings last Friday.

She confused her left and her right.

Hey, mistakes happen, nobody's perfect! https://t.co/tIUiozmjDP

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) March 1, 2023

“I think the Globalist elites are hoping complete automation will be in place before things get too 3rd-Worldy.”

Too late. Things already ARE way, way *way* too Third World-y. There’s no turning back, there’s no fixing it. The only viable solution is secession and separation.

Pro-tip: the reason the Globalist elites became “elite” in the first place, is because they engage only in short-term, self-interested thinking. They don’t care about the system at large, or how it will function 150 years from now, or what the failure of one system will do to all the other systems. They are at bottom a class of rentiers, skimmers, percentage-takers, double-dealers, extortionists and slave traders (labor arbitrage is at bottom a form of slavery). They are rent-seekers, and as the old saying goes, Nobody washes a rental car.

Bai Dien and the captured Michigan legislature are both today throwing together baseless inconveniences for legal gun buyers (who as a matter of definition have no criminal record), and plotting Red Flag murders, while our banks and infrastricture fall apart, and real violent crime is voluntarily unpoliced and unprosecuted. As long as the police serve lunatics detached from reality, should we want the police to be effective? Are we asking for a police department which will continue to ignore violent criminals but which will hunt down to the last known address non-violent activists for the wrong causes?

Gregory Peck was in 12 O’Clock High. Robert Lansing played the same role (General Savage) in the first season of the TV series.

The rest of your comment is spot-on.

Yeah man, you know those Vettes are brotha mobiles right? Not Beamers, Mercedes, Lexus, or even Jap tuner cars!
Didn’t have the Vette at the time, it was a lowly Ford Taurus!
You are right! You and I know what needs to be done, but we’re aren’t going to get much back up from the Civnat crowd here.

Black police chiefs I believe are a little bit “red pilled.” And know damn well how their brothers “roll.” So maybe it’s a little hit and miss. Black police chiefs in red localities have a completely different mindset than Black chiefs in blue localities.
The red local chiefs, are probably living in red locals in the first place, because they don’t want to deal with black disfunction , or were raised in those low crime environments and want to keep it that way. They “get it.”
Blue locals, they either run the hamster and look the other way due to their political environment where they have to play the game to survive politically, or they are apologists for it.
Obese, black female police chiefs? Forget about it!
Now you’re talking feminazi mindset, plus “protect the tribe” instinct.

True. Many of the Portland police officers who have left their jobs because they are hated and reviled in that city have found employment in other cities where they are valued and respected. Who wouldn’t make that move, even if it means a reduction in salary?

We’re constantly told that the police should look like the community they “serve”.

Memphis took great strides to achieve that ; They hired stupid violent liars.

Now they whine?

The Osundairo brothers were hired men for a con created to dupe America. They share what they were instructed to do the night of the staged attack on Jussie Smollett. https://t.co/jvWwGloz8k #FoxNation #JussieSmollett #AnatomyOfAHoax pic.twitter.com/3uOEHLFSoN— Fox Nation (@foxnation) March 13, 2023

FOX Nation got the Osundario brothers to recreate their attack on Jussie Smollett. They helpfully walk the viewers through it step by step. This looks like the best comedy to air on TV in years.

The obvious solution is to build upon the example set by Marion Barry’s DC police department: just recruit prisoners! They’re “diverse,” in-shape, and obviously have prior experience with law enforcement. Plus, they have respect from their community. What could possibly go wrong?

I agree.

I am in banking. I have worked for several banks. I know some of the diversity people in my bank.

Here are some facts:

EVERY decent sized bank has a diversity department of some sort.

My bank talks about the billions they are investing in minority businesses. Then I look deeper. That is a few percent of the total assets for the bank. Also, they are looking for the most profitable minority businesses. For example, I know one guy whose job it is to deal with Indian casinos, and another guy whose job it is to get tribes with casinos to keep their money in his bank. This emphasis on tribal businesses is something akin to Don Drysdale’s deep commitment to hillbilly business in the old “Beverley Hillbillies” show.

I am sure the SVB had a very deep commitment to minority businesses. Especially those businesses run by Indians. Except their Indians had dots rather than feathers. More like Brahmin tech bros sort of Indians.

The problem with SVB is they had a business model which was great in a bull tech market with low interest rates. They forgot to account for bears and high interest rates.

How to Fix the Memphis Police Department

You can’t, next.

This is not a very hard question. There is no way “to fix” Memphis. What evidence is there that people want an effective police force? Why should the city employ outsiders when it can keep the jobs in the local neighborhoods. These are decent jobs that you want to give away. The residents of Memphis prefer high rates of crime to aggressive law enforcement which in Memphis means punishing your relatives and neighbors. Empty rhetoric aside, this has been the urban political consensus nationally since 2020. Best case scenario is to convince people that aggressive law enforcement in the central business district and high tourism areas should be permitted in order to maintain the economic viability of the city. Even this concession of limited civilization has been rejected. The residents of Memphis are getting exactly what they want, good and hard.

Take #1: I used to think that the end game was simply going to be blacks policing blacks and whites policing whites. But the Nichols case proved that that still won’t satisfy them. As long as there is a mewling cat lady saying that the poor miscreant never had a break in life and was just about to graduate etc. etc. there’s always going to be these incidents. And fear of getting in trouble with the cat lady chorus is going to cause police to stand down. I don’t know what the solution is. Maybe get a cat lady involved up front. Have a cat lady riding around in the back seat giving thumbs up and thumbs down to police beatings. Sometimes I think the 19th Amendment caused all our trouble.

Alternate Take (Take #2): Society has been steadily going downhill since WWII. No amount of policing is going to keep up. Because, in some sense, society has chosen evil over good. The only thing to do is to stop worrying and love the anarchy.

I’ll go ahead and relate more of what my prison-kin tells me.

The guys there are craving respect and honor, but they’re incapable of earning it. So when they get any sort of “title” in the prison, say a place in the kitchen with a smidgeon of power, they wear it with fierce pride and become little tyrants.

“I’m the ladel-counter! Not you! Don’t you touch those ladels! Do what I say!”

It’s ridiculous, but it’s what they’ve got. So I suspect that these inmates’ equivalents on the outside have similar personalities and limitations. Once these ghetto punks got the police badge, they were determined to lord it over others. That’s what ultimately lead to them beating another punk to death.

Having said all this, I still wonder if maybe this is (or isn’t?) what the ghettoes need to be well-policed. Polite white guys aren’t going to get the job done in deep Memphis. More scary, black, unpredictable officers may be appropriate for the young guys who are determined to cause trouble.

Imagine seeing a movie with the exact details of this story:

…Smith was locked up in Prince George’s County awaiting trial on drug distribution charges when the letter of acceptance to the police academy arrived at his home. “I’ve got good news and bad news,” Smith recalled his father saying. “I can’t get you out. But you got a job with the police department.”…

The tale of how a drug dealer served 18 months as a D.C. police cadet is part of a larger story of breakneck hiring and training by the department in 1989 and 1990 with still unraveling consequences.

…then walking out of that movie thinking it is one of the dumbest, most ludicrous scripts you could remember, only to find out that it was all true.

There are times that I think that Idiocracy did not go far enough.

Austin is short 300 officers, and is having trouble recruiting. Can’t imagine why.

Regarding mechanics, that’s not as much of a worry about safety rather than about shoddier, more haphazard operations (delays, gate returns, and cancellations). It’s the sharp no-nonsense inspector types at the hangars that keep the little stuff from happening on the line.

If the diversity hires can’t handle, running the planes on time: delays, gate returns, cancellations…
Why in the hell would you trust them to spin the wrenches on these planes?
Who do think is doing QC on the diversity hires’ work? Diversity hires are turning wrenches, and a white guy with nerd glasses and a pocket protector is standing there with a clip board checking off on the diversity techs’ work?
They are both going to be diversity hires!

I’d like to say you’re kidding but you’re not. “As long as I’m not inconvenienced with delays, cancellations I’m good to go!” Who gives a crap if the plane doesn’t arrive on time because it falls from the sky?” And the other guy who says these planes practically fly themselves, so you know, it’s all good! What happens when those auto systems fail? What happens when those auto systems fail, because they weren’t properly maintained and QC’d by the “diversity hires.”
For F’s sake!

SVB also sat on its ass for a year as interest rates increased and the value of its long term bonds dropped by 20%. They might not have gotten taken over if they’d paid attention sooner and rearranged their portfolio. But the queer minority Chief Risk Officer was doing other things.

I wouldn’t mind this DIE stuff so much if it was done in addition to the required work, but it seems to be done instead of the required work.

You forget that SVB put together a team that spent a lot of time on diversity. Training, hiring, celebrating. And like your bank, business probably doesn’t suffer too badly because of minority lending (many of which are shell companies with White backing), but when too many personnel are attending anti-White, anti-normal classes, worried about what they might say, competence goes down. Bit by bit. Your bank can survive it for now, but how far does affirmative action hiring have to go before it’s too far? Memphis police department is a good example, they went too far. I’ve seen it happen in a handful of businesses over the years, problem is, it’s getting worse now. When I started out we had to make up for the boss’s idiot kid or nephew and one affirmative action hire. It slowed us down, but we got through it. At what level is it too much? Employees that are attending affirmative action class, aren’t watching the markets and workers who are being applauded just because they’re pillow biters or have the right amount of melanin, don’t try quite as hard as others. Eventually it hits hard. We’ve gotten by with all the social engineering up to now, but it looks we’ve stepped over the edge of the cliff. We’ll see.

Black people in large numbers are anti civilization at their core. Could you see China or Japan putting up with a murder rate of 70 per 100,000 or higher in certain cities? Separation is the only answer. The Atlantic slave trade will still be haunting the North American continent 500 years from now.

Don’t ask Steve if he watches Tucker. Since Andrew Anglin posts on Unz and posts a lot more and more in-depth (while holding down a job and not sponging off his wife), Steve has retreated behind “respectability”. He wouldn’t be caught dead watching Tucker, because the wrong sort of people watch him, just as he wouldn’t be caught dead talking about Covid or The Ukraine.

What Memphis needs is a black female police chief…er, never mind.

Similar things are going to happen in many large blue cities, as more and more cops leave the force due to lack of respect and support by city leaders. Good cops will take jobs in the suburbs or red states like Florida and Texas.

Per the numbers from the US Census, fewer than half of the court-mandated child support payments are made in full.
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That’s a figure that’s been quoted for a generation. I think it was Stephen Baskerville who discovered it was arrived at by surveying mothers. Funny that.

The problem with SVB is they had a business model which was great in a bull tech market with low interest rates. They forgot to account for bears and high interest rates.

That interest rates were going to start rising was signaled by the Fed well before they started the rate hikes. Their inability to plan or prepare for this is accurately described as incompetence. Given their incompetence at such a basic level, absent other evidence, there is no reason to assume they were only making loans to Brahim Indians with sound businesses in the name of diversity. Here are some videos showing how the crowd at Signature Bank was spending their time. It’s not the same bank, but I doubt the mentality at SVB was much different.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-woke-signature-bank-videos-go-viral-after-fed-shut-down

In most major urban areas, police chiefs are appointed by and serve “at the pleasure of the mayor” or other public official, city manager, etc.
In Detroit, department heads as well as the police chief, fire department chief, and inspectors and above are required to sign undated letters of resignation. If the mayor does not “like” you or you don’t “get along and play ball”, all he has to do is “fill in the date” and you are gone…no muss, no fuss.
Urban police chiefs should be elected positions, not unlike sheriff positions which are almost always elected.
The 2020 “summer of love” riots were spurred on by politically-motivated “stand down” orders given to the police chiefs by the various mayors and other city heads.
Election of police chiefs would eliminate political influence imposed by mayors and other city heads and would restore accountability to the voters.

Well, we just had the second biggest bank failure in the country’s history because of all the diversity bullshit.

I’m with iSteve on this. All the nauseating, useless virtue signaling likely had nothing to do with the collapse of the bank. Techy hubris, maybe twinned with too much micro-dosing, and poor judgment (as will become painfully evident as more banks tank) probably. Banking is essentially such a disgustingly parasitic activity, these catastrophic events are baked into the system.

Urinating in public in the small white town I live in is no longer indecent exposure. It’s sexual assault.

They are having dawn raids on sleeping families, kicking down doors, shooting the family dog in front of seven-year-olds, and dragging daddy off in handcuffs and locking him in a cage for years for having used drug paraphernalia in the house and “endangering the welfare of a minor.” Recently, a local guy in his 50s received a 25 year sentence for having the equipment in his car that could be used to make crystal meth. He didn’t have any meth, just the equipment–all of which is perfectly legal and available in any hardware store.

The other day I walked twelve blocks to the only grocery store in this nearly all white town of 2,112. I counted 13 cops or sheriff’s deputies along the way. Thirteen cops in twelve blocks is insane in a town with basically no crime.

And it has an impact. On a warm Friday night in the summer, the streets are dead. If you spot a teenage boy driving a car, he’ll be alone, hunched over his steering wheel, hands at 10 & 2 o’clock, driving exactly 20 mph, the posted speed limit. He’s just hoping to get home without getting a ticket that will wipe out two week’s wages at his minimum wage after school job. One guy I know got a ticket for failure to use his turn signal exiting his own driveway.

In the black neighborhoods in large cities, black teenagers are out laying rubber and doing donuts in parking lots and intersections on Friday night, just like we did when I was a kid. And they have lots of girls with them.

I was talking to an older white woman the other day and mentioned how quick cops are to pull people over here. I like to see people getting tickets, she said. Almost all the old people here, of you say that thirty city cops in a town this size seems like a lot, will say, well, yeah, but they are doing a good job with the “drug problem.” (Of course, drugs are obviously still here, and will be forever no matter how many people are locked in cages having their lives and families destroyed.)

It’s an ugly characteristic this puritanism and the vicious old haters who take such pleasure in seeing others destroyed, and who believe they have the right to decide how others should live, will come to regret having allowed all these armed agents of the state to take root in their communities. Cuz they ain’t on our side.

The typical black man does not have 11 bastard children scattered over as many women, he has one or two.

But some do have 11, which means all the rest are below average. In fact, if 20% sire 11, then the other 80% sire about zero. It would be interesting to know what the distribution looks like. You could calculate it from a big enough sample of DNA. Maybe someone’s already working on that; it seems like a good thesis topic for some computational geneticist.

Diversity is always and everywhere a issue, I think an equally big danger in re Physicians is that they are increasingly absorbed into the Corporate Borg. My own PCP is proud of being promoted to “Medical Director” of his little pod of maybe 20 doctors. He is equally proud that he has had to report zero side effects of the Covid Jab. so perhaps it being damn near impossible to get to see him is no bad thing.

Steve at Taki’s:

Since Ferguson nine years ago, American elites have been obsessing over their paranoid delusions about invisible and largely imaginary “systemic racism,” while ignoring the basic blocking and tackling of how to assemble a police force that makes more good decisions than bad decisions under stress: hire recruits with the raw intelligence and conscientiousness to become well-trained, and then train them hard.

On point. Later:

…newspapers like the Post and The New York Times that are averse to challenging their paying subscribers’ naively progressive worldviews have largely shifted to an upside-down style of structuring articles so that important and interesting counter-Narrative facts get buried deep where casual readers will never find them.

I scanned the 877 (at this writing) comments to the WaPo article; most authors are childishly naive. To them, Sailer’s “Since Ferguson…” paragraph might as well be a #DIV/0! error. I’d estimate that over 95% of this sample of subscribers are retaining those progressive worldviews just fine, thanks.

(its police academy has been made easier in order to not flunk out its new recruits, who are more fragile: mentally, emotionally, and ethically):

Hey, I’m not dishonest ………. I’m “ethically fragile”.

I like it. I think that could catch on.

I am saying simply that whatever you prioritize gets your time, energy, and attention.

This is a not at first obvious, but certainly true statement. DIE statements are included in organizational goals and objectives, yearly personnel reviews, and in almost every grant proposal I’ve seen. Adding goals always complicates the decision process and always distracts from achieving the other goals, such as safety or financial performance.

Risk management is already one of the more complicated management tasks. Piling on may be all that’s needed to make it impossible.

Or if the controls and readouts act goofy as happened in the 737 MAX?

Not DIE, but 737 MAX may be a good example on at least a couple counts.
First, this mess occurred because Boing prioritized certain goals over intrinsic aircraft stability. Adding goals obfuscated the risk management.
Second, the fatalities occurred with less well trained airline pilots , just as PhysicistDave suggested.

I don’t see any way to pin the SVB failure on diversity because there it was a root or contributing cause, not the proximate cause.

Nonetheless, less than full attention to risk management in an inherently unstable environment where even the distribution of outcomes isn’t known is idiotic.

I don’t cooperate with the Census so I don’t know, but I find it hard to believe it asks about child support payments.

Here’s how to fix the Memphis police department: Stop hiring Negroes.

I once worked at a laaarrrgge international NGO whose name rhymes with “Knurled Rank” with a negro who was supposedly a “Reiki Master”. That’s an energy healing scam, so he stenched strongly of fraud. He scammed the management into buying him an $800 “ergonomic” chair because he said sitting in a standard chair made his knee hurt. Heal thyself, motherfucker.

The problem with SVB is they had a business model which was great in a bull tech market with low interest rates. They forgot to account for bears and high interest rates.

And this is the simple proximate cause. It is quite likely that this resulted from inattention to proper risk management because of DIE fetish took the risk manager’s attention. Indicators could include the kinds of questions asked by the CEO, CFO, and Board, the structure of bonuses, and so forth. But I don’t know how to prove what causes the malfeasance.

Its my belief that in addition to “proportional numbers” the fact that most police are paid and promoted according to the number of arrests (not convictions) means that white males are MUCH more of a proportional likely hood of arrestee. to quote an actual policeman: “If you aren’t guilty of what we are arresting you for, you must be guilty of something else, so whats the difference”

The citizens have to be on your side or there’s really nothing you can do in the long run. With the citizens’ support, you can do a lot to make a better community.

The problem with police departments is that you cannot test for several vital qualities including the most important, character. The immediate power and influence you have is too great to be entrusted to just anyone.

If you want a guy that can stand his ground in front of a howling mob on the edge of violence, be willing to run into a burning building or pull an armed felon out of one, keep cordial in the face of any provocation, be able to deliver a baby, rescue a guy from the ocean or find a lost person in a hundred square miles of wilderness, be able and willing to physically handle anyone hand-to-hand, pass evoc and firearms tests, keep his cool while bringing in the vilest creatures on the planet, respond quickly and decisively to any emergency, you need a physically fit man, who’s competent and has good character.

Now police officer is not the most dangerous job, plenty are more dangerous including some I’ve done myself, but none of those other jobs demands the same type of integrity and character and that’s where cities and departments fail. Because you cannot select nor really train good character.

Oh, certainly you can keep out the known felons, the obvious drunks and druggies, the guys who have completely abandoned their children and families. At one time, we kept out the felons, gang members, pot heads, and deviants. Now you can’t.

If a man reaches adulthood without having developed a decent character, you don’t teach him it while he’s got a gun and a badge. When my grandfather was a state trooper the height standard was 6’4″. That’s long gone, back in the seventies I think. Other standards have fallen by the way side over the years.

My points being first, character counts the most and it seems the one thing they no longer care about. Second, you get what you pay for. I took a significant pay cut thirty five years ago to go back to the reservation my grandfather was from. I moved my family to a much better town and I didn’t care I was getting paid less. My children had the most important thing I could give them, a good community to grow up in.

Today Nashville has to compete with places that don’t breed crime like it’s a precious crop. And they have shackled themselves with standards guaranteed to produce poor officers. When we had 90% white population we could afford to be very picky. These were men that could build grand coulee dam and out-produce the rest of the world. Now we don’t. And it’s not getting better.

Better training helps some, but what would really help is better selection and we just can’t do that.

I was the friend and employee of a well known, extremely liberal academic, who specialized in criminal justice and drug policy. In private, he would occasionally mention opinions that he would never have revealed in public. During the 1990s, after a series of particularly egregious police and corrections scandals in NYC and LA he suggested that I take a closer look at the officers involved. He correctly predicted that most would be minority, i.e. Negro and Hispanic (Indio). He said that it was well known that minority officers had much higher rates of corruption and illicit violence than White officers but it would be professional suicide to openly acknowledge this. If anything, it seems the situation has gotten worse..

Wrong again.

They were so committed to the idea of diversity that the Board having in common any level of expertise about financial services was verboten, accordingly one one Director had a clue.

“The most obvious solution is for Memphis to hire a greater percentage of white cops”

Probably, but while many (most?) black recruits are unqualified, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a bunch unqualified white people as well. Better to have a way to weed out unqualified blacks and unqualified whites. Sure, the end result will be significantly fewer blacks and significantly more white police officers, but there won’t be dumb whites, who can cause problems, too.

I don’t think you understand the country that the United States has become. In a multiracial society, government jobs are divvied up by race. Indeed, everything is a constant negotiation about which group gets what.

You keep judging decisions by the wrong metric.

This is age-normed and challenges Ron Unz’s notion – which I found convincing over time and have defended to others – that Hispanic criminality is only slightly higher than the white norm in the U.S.

Full disclosure: I have been having a very cantankerous, personal dispute with Unz over the Russian casualty level in Ukraine (mostly due to his constant ad hominem* and straw man attacks associated with that discussion).

*Unz claimed, among other things, that I “worked closely with the worst traitors in American history” and refused to retract and apologize for that bizarre assertion.

You could calculate it from a big enough sample of DNA. Maybe someone’s already working on that; it seems like a good thesis topic for some computational geneticist.

Yes, but won’t happen. What we do know is that educated black women have even lower fertility than white women of similar education attainment. Black fertility is EXTREMELY dysgenic in the United States.

I agree with this. You can’t fix Memphis because Memphis isn’t broken. Memphis runs like its constituent population wants it to run.

The problem with SVB is they had a business model which was great in a bull tech market with low interest rates. They forgot to account for bears and high interest rates.

They didn’t forget. They counted on maximizing profits during the good times and Uncle Sam bailing them out during rough times. Privatizing profits and while socializing losses have been a time-honored practice in Corporate America, especially banking and financial services.

That said, please, please bail out the big banks and make the depositors whole if they fail, because I have more than $250K deposited in several of them. 😉

The blacks have gotten themselves into a really bad situation: a large plurality of them have completely given up on controlling themselves or restraining themselves, and just decided that they will leave it to the whites to control and restrain them. But blacks then resent whites for performing the very functions of restraint and control that they have given over to whites.

They’ve created a mess for themselves, and whites, like Scott Adams, are starting to realize the only thing you can do is stay away from blacks. You just can’t be around them.

When I was young a lot of my buddies were white cops working in inner cities. And it used to be a blast for them with all that action happening. But now I would never recommend a white work as a cop in a black city. If the DA is black and the mayor is black they are just looking for reasons to hang you out to dry.

But some do have 11,
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There was an attempt to make a reality show about one such person. Because there hardly is more than one such person in this country of 330 million people.

> That said, please, please bail out the big banks…

The Raymond James Bank Enhanced Savings Program [protects] your bank deposits by a network of banks, each providing up to $250,000 in FDIC insurance, allowing for combined FDIC insurance of up to $50 million.

So, you could have retrospectively wired your funds over from those SVB and Signature Bank accounts… had it been necessary.

Note: a Victim can have multiple Murderers and a Murderer can have multiple Victims. These both are a minority of murder offenses, and are in the same order of magnitude. Because of this, the actual ratio of Victims:Murderers is near 1:1.

Faulty logic.

While the mode and median for “murders per murderer” are both probably 1, the average is almost certainly something much closer to 2.

The plain fact is once you’ve done your first murder you are much more likely to think that a second or third or fourth is a peachy way to “settle” disputes. (Drug dealing disputes, fellow criminal disputes, personal disputes.)

Most of these murderers eventually get killed by someone else or caught by the cops and sent to prison. But the 1:1 murdered/murderer strikes me as obviously wrong.

My guess is take these numbers and divide by say 1.5 or even 2 to get a more accurate handle.

I think the Globalist elites are hoping complete automation will in place before things get too 3rd-Worldy.

Interesting thought. Sounds plausible. Right down to them neglecting the detail of what happens to all of the people they are so eagerly bringing in who lose their jobs to automation. Hope the bread and circuses work.

Per iSteve comment to a post:

“Well, we just had the second biggest bank failure in the country’s history because of all the diversity bullshit.”

Probably not.

Yes, the DIE bank emphasis was not the primary “cause” of making those bad decisions which brought it down.

But it was a “marker” just like Signature Bank in NYC.

It is noteworthy about what SVB didn’t do recently. I have read that for 9 months in 2022 (last tear) this bank didn’t have a high level Risk Manager. Whose job it is to evaluate the overall risks of bank lending and other activities (deposit structures, long vs. short term assets, etc.).

So “risk” was a much lower priority there than “diversity.” Like Dr. Phil says, “how did that work out for them?”

Also, in today’s WSJ it is noted that SVB was the 6th largest national lender in the “green energy space.” This is for a mid sized regional (mainly) bank. So highly concentrated in one kind of business area.

We can assume that the actual bankers were mostly ‘diverse’ at least by banking standards. How did this improve performance here?

So diversity not a major “cause” of failure but surely not helpful or a marker of being on the ball. The Signature Bank was likewise full of pledges to lend to Woke beneficiaries, and evidently did so.

So as in all advertising touts, especially in the Internet Age, when advertisers focus on Virtue Signaling (“we are saving the planet” “feeding starving Africans”) you have to figure they aren’t necessarily providing the best product for cost/benefit.

The prettier the ad spokes-model, the crappier the product. Hello Kim Kardashian!

Goodbye, Silicon Valley Bank…

Twinkie, you’re a smart guy so probably already aware of this, but trust accounts–like POD–stretch your explicit FDIC protection as well. It’s a separate class, so just setting an account POD to anyone is a separate class from your individual and joint accounts. And the protection is not just $250, but $250 x (#of principals) x number of beneficiaries. So in our joint accounts POD to our three kids, it is $750K protection for me*3 and $750 for AnotherMom*3 … or $1.5 million.

For those unaware:
https://edie.fdic.gov/calculator.html

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All that said, I think these FDIC limits are stupid.

We are going to have these bank failure/financial crisis problems as long as we have this stupid/unstable fractional-reserve banking system, with its inherent long asset/short liability issue. We should get rid of it, which would not–ignore all the whines and protestations of finance grifters–be difficult.

But since those parasites are powerful, fractional reserve banking is not going away. Which means we have to have deposit insurance to avoid periodic financial folly from torpedoing people doing actual productive work.

I.e. the insurance is not just to protect “mom and pop”, it is to prevent large deflationary monetary destruction, leading to liquidity crisis, recession and depression. I.e. you actually want to keep everyone’s money around. (Maybe not some individual someones, but in general.)

And I don’t really want the real estate developer building his suburban tracts (to keep up with the “running away from Biden’s immigrants” demand), nor the metal bender, nor even the yet-another-app startup to be wasting time making sure their bank is healthy. Maybe you can set some high limit–$100 million–and give guys over that a 5% haircut, so the major corporations have an incentive to keep track of the health of their bank. But basically I want people in the productive economy to focus on their productive business, not acting as pseudo-auditors for their bank.

Rather the federal regulators/auditors should be doing their job. Until we get smart and get rid of fractional-reserve banking and require all short (money) deposits backed by short government debt.

There was an attempt to make a reality show about one such person. Because there hardly is more than one such person in this country of 330 million people.

Hyperbole does not go well with your self image of being a reliable source.

Pretty stupid to say something like that here. Surely you have seen Steve’s Cromartie Index post (or comments about it)?
Here is the original
https://www.unz.com/isteve/ci-cromartie-index/

Here are 5 athletes with 11 or more children.
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/the-10-athletes-with-the-most-children.htm

IJ’s 20% is likely an even greater exaggeration in the other direction, but the interesting question is: what is the distribution of children for men?

This 2014 census document gives some idea for the population at large.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2019/demo/P70-162.pdf

Among all adult men, 40.5 percent have no biological children, 37.5 percent have between one and two children, and 22.0 percent have three or more children (see Table 2).

But the reality is that none of us know what the situation is among inner city blacks. It really is a job for a computational geneticist. And, of course, will never be done.

P.S. Cromartie Index is an interesting case where Bing is more PC than Google. Try searching on both.

Interesting. Any idea how the economics of this work for them? I suppose the service does not need to make a profit. Just attract and retain enough high net worth clients to be worth it to them overall.

Makes perfect sense to view everything from a binary lens. Right?

It’s just a surmise but the “Scorpion Squad” seemed to regard itself as the official, state-sanctioned version of the multiple black street gangs who run Memphis. They were some amalgam of black Dirty Harry Callahan and the police death squad he took down in Magnum Force, but their blackness was not enough to safeguard them from the Eye of Soros during an otherwise bad news cycle for Democrats.

While there is probably some value in having a police force with local ties, it may be detrimental to have too many police officers who mirror the demographic cohort of your municipality’s all-stars at law breaking. It would probably have been better for the young Memphis Scorpion Squad members to have cut their teeth in law enforcement elsewhere until reaching a point of maturity before returning to Memphis. You get the feeling that personal conflicts can have some corrupting influence in that situation – cops and robbers are natural enemies but it’s probably something a whole lot worse when the cop and the robber went to high school together and didn’t like each other much to begin with.

There are good cops.

But the majority are some kind of hell-spawned hybrid of bully and pussy. I had to go to court a few years back (open container, I must be part Salvadoran) and there’s a cops’ section where all the cops sit. One guy, including the magazine in his gun, I counted 16 magazines, each holding 15 rounds.

If you need 240 rounds (or 241 if he topped off the pistol) to get the job done maybe you need additional training. That’s the optimistic perspective.

Being a bailiff looks like a terrible job. I imagine those slots are filled by people who fucked up as cops.

A Glock is a DAO Double Action Only pistol with a bad trigger and no safety*. It’s what they issue to people who they expect to fuck up with a gun.

* The Glock “safety” boils down to “don’t pull the trigger”.

“the desire of the verbalists to keep their boot firmly on the necks of the productive people in this country …”

I hate those verbalists so much. Because of them I live in a storage unit with my collection of action figures.

“… who actually deal with physical reality.”

Materialism is for junior minds stuck on Newton. Advanced quantum theory requires rigorous application of an opaque mathematics that most cannot penetrate. Sorry you couldn’t hack it.

I don’t cooperate with the Census so I don’t know, but I find it hard to believe it asks about child support payments.
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It would likely be in the American Community Survey, not the Census proper.

If the DA is black and the mayor is black…

New York, New York, it’s a helluva town,
The crime is up and the tourism’s down

From Tablet magazine.

“ So what sort of investments did SVB make that went bad? One type of startup appears to have occupied a large amount of space on the bank’s balance sheet: eco-tech innovators, which traditionally require large upfront investments to get off the ground. According to the bank’s website, more than $3.2 billion of its funds were invested to finance companies in “clean tech, climate tech, and sustainability industry, including solar, wind, battery storage, fuel cell, utility storage and more.” The bank’s investment in such virtuous technologies is so massive that 60% of community solar financing nationwide involves SVB. Just last week, the bank hosted Winterfest, a shindig for the climate-tech sector, at the Lake Tahoe Ritz-Carlton.

“In other words, the darling financial institution of the tech industry, which donates heavily and almost exclusively to the Democratic Party, is now bankrupt in part because it spent heavily on the Democratic Party’s pet causes.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-tech-resistance-svb

What?????

The US Government actually treating white men fairly, equitably, judiciously and perhaps even with dignity and respect?

Steve, are you out of your mind? Where have you been hiding these past 50 years?

Gangstas policing gangstas.

How do you think they lived for countless millennia until they were ferried across the Atlantic?
The four hundred years or so that they have lived in North America is but a brief blink of an eye compared to the deep deep evolutionary past which fashioned them and their psyches.

Now do the copettes.

Ghetto women do not choose baby fathers on the understanding that their lives depend upon it, but for other reasons. This starts and ends with black women and uncle Sam sugar. Black men have nothing to so with it except to perform the same role they play over and over again.

What we do know is that educated black women have even lower fertility than white women of similar education attainment. Black fertility is EXTREMELY dysgenic in the United States.

Might this be more a feature than a bug? White fertility could very well be a bit eugenic in the long run, with the largest families restricted to those with religious and often intellectual scruples. The overeducated idiot class in academia and related fields aren’t having children. Their IQ points are being lost, but considering how corrupt those points are in practice, good riddance.

Say what you will about Amy Coney Barrett and her fostering Haitians, she did give us five white children with otherwise excellent parents. A couple who are professors at the University of St Thomas have six children. I’ve quoted him here on his counterintuitive assertion that college admissions offices are no longer applying “affirmative action” to women, but to men– the male numbers have gotten so bad.

If such behavior carries on in future generations of families like this, our outlook may be rosier than it appears at present. One need merely be patient– and teach one’s children well.

Our ninth-grader says he doesn’t want to go to college, but right into “industry”, whatever that may mean. (Hey, it worked for Gates and Allen, Jobs, Ellison, Dell, Zuckerberg… Well, okay, they tried tertiary school for a semester or two.) This may be the wiser choice. Especially in today’s climate. (We need climate change!)

The most obvious solution is for Memphis to hire a greater percentage of white cops than its current 30 percent. According to the dictates of the law of supply and demand, because whites are discriminated against by affirmative action plans they are cheap relative to their quality.

But that kind of out-of-the-box thinking is unthinkable in the 2020s.

This is exactly how the New England Patriots won six super bowls.

Raising awareness who you’re dealing with

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/15/middleeast/tunisia-president-racism-africa-mime-intl/index.html

Anti-Black racism surfaces in an African country. Critics are blaming the president for it

A viral video from late February showed a man decrying the incompatibility of Black African “values” with those of Tunisians. Asked by the interviewer if he had ever met any Africans, he retorted implying he knows them well “because my grandfather used to buy and sell them.”

Fixing the Memphis Police Department would mean getting rid of ALL the low-IQ Blacks currently infesting the department and hiring ALL White police from the bottom up. Blacks and Mexicans should never, ever be police or firemen. They are too stupid, emotional and prone to engage in criminal activities themselves. Note the “lively, vibrant and diverse” police force in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina who either ran away or joined in the looting and rioting.
And then once the Memphis Police Department is fixed by making it all White, they should then come down super-hard on the nonWhite neighborhoods. This is the only way to bring down Black and Mexican crime. Blacks and Mexicans need to be aggressively policed using ALL necessary force and violence. That is all third-world savages understand.
Blacks are the worst of course. Blacks are ugly, stupid, impulsive, violent, psychopathic, obnoxious and utterly devoid of human empathy. Until we can deport them ALL, they need to be contained using the most draconian methods possible. We can never “fix” them, and we need to give up trying. This no less is true of Mexicans.
Whether this can happen or not is irrelevant. Unless the above happens, nothing will ever be fixed, and we are headed for civil war in the very near future.
A cop tells the hard truth

> Any idea how the economics of this work for them?

No. Somewhat related, last week I read a tweet from a business owner who claimed he banked with SVB, and that they set him up so that income to his SVB accounts was swept daily into multiple insured (FDIC/SIPC/etc) accounts at other institutions, for safety. Turned out that the owner of record of said accounts was the fiduciary, SVB… which had him despairing, pre-bailout.

I can’t vouch for this story (unless everything you read on the internet is true), but it does have that “except for this one overlooked detail” resonance to it.

Apparently, for the last 6 mos. they had no Corporate Risk Officer. Instead, they assigned those duties to their DIE Officer, who was of course busy doing the usual B.S. of that department. How much of a role this played in the asset allocation is anybody’s guess.

Society has been steadily going downhill since WWII.

I would make that “since November 22, 1963.” I am ancient and I can tell you that when I was growing up in the late 50s and early 60s, almost everything was fantastic. By the mid-60’s, just us me and Susie were having so much fun, things really changed, thanks LBJ. Otherwise, good points. I think they call the cat lady “The heckler’s veto” and we are thoroughly immersed in that.

No, you don’t fix the Memphis Police Department.

Abolish it.

They don’t deserve to be policed.

Let them have no department, who the hell cares?

Or are they gonna have police officers rapping in videos like the Fargo Police Department?

“Among all adult men, 40.5 percent have no biological children”

Have you the figures for women?

Because we seem to be going back to literally prehistoric reproduction.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110107122131/http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

The first big, basic difference has to do with what I consider to be the most underappreciated fact about gender. Consider this question: What percent of our ancestors were women?

It’s not a trick question, and it’s not 50%. True, about half the people who ever lived were women, but that’s not the question. We’re asking about all the people who ever lived who have a descendant living today. Or, put another way, yes, every baby has both a mother and a father, but some of those parents had multiple children.

Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two years ago. Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men.

I think this difference is the single most underappreciated fact about gender. To get that kind of difference, you had to have something like, throughout the entire history of the human race, maybe 80% of women but only 40% of men reproduced.

Right now our field is having a lively debate about how much behavior can be explained by evolutionary theory. But if evolution explains anything at all, it explains things related to reproduction, because reproduction is at the heart of natural selection. Basically, the traits that were most effective for reproduction would be at the center of evolutionary psychology. It would be shocking if these vastly different reproductive odds for men and women failed to produce some personality differences.

Well, we just had the second biggest bank failure in the country’s history because of all the diversity bullshit.

Won’t be too long before planes start falling out of the sky, after they get the new “diverse” pilots.

The good news is that even our ruling parasitic verbalist overclass will praabably wake up a bit at that point and rethink diversity

I’ve long advocated adopting the simple catchphrase “F**k Your ‘Color’!”.

White people should be using it every day. Take out the spaces and quotation marks, etc., and put a hashtag in front of it. Use it freely on Twatter.

It’s especially good because it’s simple and direct.

Because somebody’s skin is the color of feces or urine, I’m supposed to be impressed? And on top of that bow and scrape and allow outrages of all kinds, including the obliteration of societal standards?

Not bloody likely.

F**k Your Color.

An alternate headline for this news could be Black Americans hardest hit.

https://www.thedailystar.com/news/national/fair-illegal-immigration-costs-new-york-taxpayers-nearly-10-billion-in-2022/article_686417ba-490c-599b-8848-d5bbea060d4c.html#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20March%208%2C%202023%20/PRNewswire/%20%2D%2D%20Mass%20illegal%20immigration%20and%20misguided%20state%20policies%20that%20provide%20illegal%20with%20benefits%20and%20services%20now%20cost%20New%20York%20taxpayers%20nearly%20%2410%20billion%20in%202022%2C

Speaking of breaking arms. This piece on the Fed’s arm being twisted and what comes next is a nice summary of the story so far and a harbinger of doom for what comes next.
It ain’t pretty.

https://schiffgold.com/exploring-finance/and-then-something-broke/

The implications for smaller banks are clear and ominous.

It’s hard to argue with his case.

Those with a taste for the absurd might like this piece on the Wokel Farce previously known as Signature Bank.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-woke-signature-bank-videos-go-viral-after-fed-shut-down

Really? We’ve got two right here.

Because there hardly is more than one such person in this country of 330 million people.

My job entails working with lots of urban Blacks and I have personally known at least three men with more than 12 children by different women. I know of another, whose son told me his father had 21 children scattered about and he himself went on a date with a woman and figured out she was his unknown sister on the date. Bear in mind that the Blacks of my acquaintance are employed at a decent job. God only knows what the true underclass is up to.

Old-timers on the site may remember this one from 15 years ago.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american-murder-mystery/306872/

Another major bank failure today: Credit Suisse.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-a-failure-of-credit-suisse-matters-to-u-s-investors-6179ac85

Note that the pilots caught the error. This stuff happens. I can’t say that ATC mistakes aren’t higher – especially the critical runway incursion events – then they’ve always been. I’ll say 3 points:

1) Stuff that may never have been looked into before other than by pilots/controllers, air companies, and the FAA before, now get publicized as “Live ATC” and “Flight Aware” give the public just that, more awareness. That’s a good thing, IMO.

2) As I wrote, there are a lot of new, inexperienced people in there. Why the tower controller would clear a plane still short of the runway for T/O with a plane on 5 mile final in low IFR, as at Bergstrom Field, Austin, TX is beyond me! At the big hub airports, the controllers have lots of others to watch their backs, so they can push things to keep the traffic flow up.

3) More diversity, on the woke level, yes, that’s gonna eventually bite. What happens when many of the pilots are not smart/aware enough to catch the errors?

Thank you, Mr. Ganderson. I was way way off. I need to pull myself together! [SLAP!] That’s pretty much what I remembered from the movie besides that the guy was John Wayne. Or, am I thinking of a different one?

I do know that Robert Conrad, the Duracell battery guy, was the wing(?) commander in Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, if that helps me redeem myself. F-4Us, were there any more beautiful warbirds? (Maybe the Mustang, Lighting, and later the Tomcats?)

I have experience with this, Vinny. You are misunderstanding what goes on. Were the whole operation DIEverse, maintenance-wise, no, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it. However, the airplanes have lots of redundant systems, and they get checked out by different people every few nights, weekly at night, or on some time-line like that.

Problems are often loose wiring harness plugs, knobs and switches loose, and, lots of the time, electronic control units that fail at inopportune times. Almost every problem that seems to be actually mechanical in nature even, ends up being sa problem with an electronic box after all. These items hold up planes at the gates for the mechanics to come out and switch them out or defer them*. That’s the simple stuff. The diverse guys can do this, but it’s the mechanically-inclined White boys who can figure out the problems more rather than just swap out boxes and/or write in the logbook.

The people who keep track of maintenance and problems with each aircraft back in the office, and those crews that work overnight in the hangars, those are the ones that keep the other stuff from cropping up. Now, if those guys were worthless diversity hires, and couldn’t even do the regular “wrenching” correctly, things would go to hell quickly. Lots of planes would sit on the ground. Pilots wouldn’t fly them.

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* Which is much worse at the out-stations, i.e., not one of the hubs, as local contract mechanics have to be called out from home or their real jobs, and an hour almost always goes by even for something simple. Also, certain extra items are checked by the pilots for the 1st flight of the day, the idea being, it’s too much for every flight, but we want to do these tests/checks regularly. Well, guess what, that’s usually at the out-station. Whewww, boy!

Klemko’s parents:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErdgC0rXUAEYnaS?format=jpg&name=small

Dad’s white, mom looks more than half black (but so does Obama to me, so maybe she’s half).

Maternal grandparents:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erdg78WXYAcMWQy?format=jpg&name=medium

Twitter thread on his white dad:

My dad died two days ago. I'm going to share a part of his life that was important, but didn't define him. His kindness did that. pic.twitter.com/bmCWQEwHul

— robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) January 11, 2021

Maternal grandfather seems black (in the 8 or 9/10 sense of Descendants of American Slaves), grandmother seems somewhat light skinned. Hard to tell, maybe 6/10.

I’d say he’s half black based on the family tree, but only a quarter based on the particular genes he got in meiosis at fertilization in the genetic lottery.

There’s a Skokie police officer, Sgt. Timothy Gramins, who became famous among the gun crowd for carrying on a daily basis magazines loaded with a total of 145 rounds. He made this decision after surviving a particularly alarming gun battle. You saw a guy carrying more?

https://www.police1.com/officer-shootings/articles/why-one-cop-carries-145-rounds-of-ammo-on-the-job-clGBbLYpnqqHxwMq/

BTW, you are correct about the Glock’s “safety,” which is located on the trigger. Colonel Jeff Cooper compared this to writing the combination of your safe just above the dial.

TWS writes, “When my grandfather was a state trooper the height standard was 6’4″. ”

Hello, TWS. That’s surprising. When was your grandfather a state trooper, and in what state? So gangly people over 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) tall were not hired? Or only basketballish people taller than 6’4″ were hired?

If 5 black Memphis/Atlanta/Philidelphia/Baltimore cops beat a white Antifa young man to death, I wonder what the NYT/ WaPo/HuffPo/Atlantic would write about it?

What would they then write about all the MAGA whites who set up a defense fund for those same black cops one week later? What narrative would the CIA instruct the august journals to parrot?

I propose splitting the difference. The steep downhill skid can be traced to May 17, 1954.

I often agree with the basic points of Andrew Anglin’s posts, but he’s wrong much more than iSteve, and he’s just too juvenile… yes, even for me. I especially can’t stand posts that are made up of series’s of tweets. That is the most retarded way of communication since that Bushmen clicking deal.

I would think Tucker would be right up Steve’s alley. Tucker recovered from the Kung Flu (the PanicFest, I mean) about the same time as Steve here.

Again, the number of blacks currently enrolled in TANF is about 800,000, out of a black population of over 40 million. About 10% of the black population receives housing subsidies, about 1/4 receive food subsidies, and shy of 40% are enrolled in Medicaid. Except for TANF and the school-based meals, none of these have as their specific beneficiaries black children and / or their mothers. More blacks qualify for the programs because they tend to have deficient earning power.

I’ve carried a Glock 43 for 7 years. Amazingly, it’s never fired when I didn’t want it to.

IIRC the 1911 had 3 safeties. But the older versions would discharge a round if dropped on their hammer with a round chambered.

As with most things, safety, or safeties, are only as good as the individual employing them. The Glock is a fine weapon: Simple, reliable, and accurate enough.

He doesn’t make any case. And he’s hawking gold.

“I often agree with the basic points of Andrew Anglin’s posts, but he’s wrong much more than iSteve, and he’s just too juvenile… yes, even for me. I especially can’t stand posts that are made up of series’s of tweets.”

This is exactly how I see Anglin. I basically said what you said on one of his posts the other day.

Great minds!

None of this is in any way true

Silicon Valley Bank’s board was 50% female or minorities – 5 women, 1 black guy.

It’s executives were (apparently) 100% white, and 75% male. The chief risk officer was female. In fact its last three CRO’s were female.

Signature Bank’s board was 33% female, 22% racial minority, and 44% female or minority overall. Plus one board member is a guy named Barney Frank.

Of its 11 top executives, three were female, 10 were white, and one was black. Interestingly the black female happened to be…the chief risk officer.

737 MAX may be a good example on at least a couple counts.
First, this mess occurred because Boeing prioritized certain goals over intrinsic aircraft stability. Adding goals obfuscated the risk management.

I know a recent retiree from Boeing, (an engineer on the defense side of things) who said that the company can’t get rid of its older, largely White, heritage workforce fast enough, and that the vast majority of its new hires are young Asians and dothead Indians–almost all born in the U.S.A., so, technically, “citizens”. My friend was quite unimpressed with the ones he had met.

The Glock is a fine weapon: Simple, reliable, and accurate enough.

I wouldn’t argue with that. I have a G19. Just follow Rule 3 and you’re fine, but not everyone does. There’s a memorable scene in World War Z where a doctor is handed a Glock to carry and within seconds he accidentally kills himself with it.

He goes on about his Ukrainian grandmother in this piece:

Facing the Offensive Line
His Grandmother Was a Racist. He’s Black. A Former NFL Sportswriter Reflects on How His Parents Prepared Him to Cover Complex Times.

Though my job was to cover the X’s and O’s of the game, I asked [an unnamed black NFL coach] over our lunch if he thought there would ever be an openly gay player in the NFL.

“No,” he said casually, between bites of beef au jus. “No one wants to shower with a f—–.”

This triggered his white half:

The answer ignited a distinct kind of anger, one that slowly transforms into disappointment and, finally, pity. It was what I had felt as a teenager when I spoke to my grandmother about the Nazis arriving at her Ukrainian village during the summer of 1941 and marching her neighbors to their deaths.

I had asked her then what seemed like the most urgent question: Did she want to help them? “No,” she said, recoiling. Why? “Because they were Jews.”

She didn’t care for her son acting out Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, either:

One day, several months into the relationship, Antonia phoned her son to let him know she’d be dropping by his house to pick something up. That’s great, he told her. And you can meet my girlfriend … but I have to tell you, she’s Black. She paused for a moment, then said two words: “F— you.”

She didn’t speak to her son again for five years.

In a multiracial society, government jobs are divvied up by race.

Our society has a government that is represented by two parties; one for larger government, one for smaller government. When the pro larger government party is in charge, they expand government and then stock it with party loyalists. The cumulative effect is a government that is dominated by the pro larger government party. Since this is also the pro minority party, the government ends up with minority over-representation. This system is also why you end up with a “deep state” – dominated by unelected officials from one party who are willing to put party loyalty over country loyalty.

Art Deco (AKA Mister Magoo) wrote to me:

I do have an idea and you don’t. I don’t caricature the black population and you cannot help yourself.

You’re projecting: I didn’t make any comments at all about the Black population, Mister Magoo.

I merely suggested that your grasp of reality is, let us say, tenuous.

Corpse Tooth wrote to me:

Materialism is for junior minds stuck on Newton. Advanced quantum theory requires rigorous application of an opaque mathematics that most cannot penetrate. Sorry you couldn’t hack it.

Stanford awarded me a Ph.D. for a thesis that was based on quantum field theory. You can find my thesis online from around four decades ago (my name is Dave Miller).

I took Quantum Mechanics from Dick Feynman when I was an undergrad at Caltech. I took Quantum Field Theory from Steve Weinberg when he was on sabbatical at Stanford. Both Nobel laureates. Have you heard of the Nobel Prize?

Now where did you get your Ph.D.?

I see you are a newbie — I have to admit that your screen name fits you. Like a glove.

MGB wrote to me:

[Dave] Well, we just had the second biggest bank failure in the country’s history because of all the diversity bullshit.

[MGB] I’m with iSteve on this. All the nauseating, useless virtue signaling likely had nothing to do with the collapse of the bank.

Well, you see there are these things called “facts.”

Did you see the news story I linked to in this comment?

In a nutshell, the sweet young thing who was ” ‘Head of Financial Risk Management and Model Risk” for “Europe, the Middle East and Africa.” for SWB was an Affirmative-Action babe who describes herself as “a queer person of color and first-generation immigrant from a working-class background.”

I count that as being a “four-fer.”

And if you read the article, she makes clear that her obsession was with DIE.

Didn’t leave much time for “Risk Management,” it seems!

And you think DIE had nothing to do with SWB’s collapse?

I find your faith in our institutions touching. Bizarre, but touching.

The institutions of the West are now run by people who are clinically insane.

OT: (sort of) I don’t know what Sailer’s Law of Female Prison Guards is, but I can guess:

https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/18-women-exit-uks-hmp-berwyn-over-relationships-with-inmates/

The typical black man does not have 11 bastard children scattered over as many women, he has one or two.

Since the “typical black man” himself neither knows nor cares how many “bastard children” he has scattered around the hood, it’s remarkable that you are somehow privy to the information.

The actual fact is that you know nothing of the kind; in fact your knowledge of the situation appears to be approximately zero.

This emphasis on tribal businesses is something akin to Don Drysdale’s deep commitment to hillbilly business in the old “Beverley Hillbillies” show.

The Dodgers pitcher is the most famous Drysdale but The Beverley Hillbillies character’s first name was Milburn if I remember correctly.

> Hiring nice ladies to be Chief Risk Officer …

To simplify, SVB’s core problem was what to do with lots of non-sticky deposits in a low/no interest environment. Management’s core strategy was to invest those funds in long-term securities that paid a little.

(Take in a little) minus (pay out even less) equals modest profit.

2022: Inflation kicked in, the Fed raised rates, and those long-term securities accordingly lost some of their worth (if you sensibly valued them on a Mark To Market basis). Thanks to its strategy, SVB became technically insolvent (more liabilities than assets).

When SVB proposed to solve this problem by issuing more stock, its precarious situation became more evident. Bank run followed.

It’s fair to say that SVB’s risk officers and Board weren’t very good at assessing, uh, risk. Per PhysicistDave, there’s evidence that they were passionate about DIE instead of, say, how a hypothetical rise in interest rates might affect solvency and liquidity.

It’s like an airliner crash. Most happen because there are multiple underlying problems, and then One More Thing tips the situation into disaster.

SVB’s core strategy could only succeed if the Fed kept interest rates low. That was its core weakness.

Most police officers working in a large city such as Austin do not actually live in the city. As job openings increase in surrounding areas, why not take those jobs rather than work for a city that despises local law enforcement.

While I do have deposits that exceed the FDIC $250K limit in several banks, I was more poking fun at the human tendency to bailouts for other people “for the moral hazard,” but eagerly accept bailout where their money is concerned.

Twinkie, you’re a smart guy so probably already aware of this, but trust accounts–like POD–stretch your explicit FDIC protection as well.

Much of my money and land and, more importantly, those of my kids are in trusts.

IIRC the 1911 had 3 safeties. But the older versions would discharge a round if dropped on their hammer with a round chambered.

You didn’t even have to drop it on the hammer. Simply dropping it at a wrong angle (i.e. on the muzzle) could lead to the inertial firing pin striking cartridge and discharging the weapon. “Modern” 1911’s bypass this problem with either a very light firing pin (usually made of titanium) or what’s called the Series 80 firing pin safety (which purists and trigger snobs tend to despise due to its very slightly worsening the trigger pull and introducing another point of failure).

As you wrote, the Glock is a fine weapon – I also carry G43, 42, and 48. That said, from what I’ve heard, the accidental discharge rates for the Glock-equipped departments are higher than that with older DA revolvers (with transfer bars) or traditional DA autoloaders. Many of those Glock unintended discharges involve the trigger snagging on something. I know an LEO who had one – when his trigger snagged on a dangly metal part of a raincoat (that was not his normal gear) as he was holstering the weapon.

The armorer on the “Rust” set was a tatted up 23 year old nepot, not a ‘young lady’.* I doubt she was pleasant to anyone.

When I was running a derivatives desk I was constantly fighting the CRO. We always managed to find something we could live with, because the ethos was that risk is inevitable and somewhat quantifiable, at least to the degree that it can be accepted if we do the deal or rejected so we don’t. We both agreed that failure was the occurrence of a risk event we hadn’t considered. His job was to be hated by everybody including the CEO ( but excluding the Bank’s President). We’d have a beer in The Old Stand pub on 54th and Third if the day had been particularly sweaty.
Bubbly blonde girlies of any color weren’t going to make it.

The SVB clowns shouldn’t have been running a lemonade stand.

While I was always partial to the P-47 Thunderbolt, the Corsair was indeed a beautiful airplane. At the risk of sounding like my old hippie (ish) self, it’s kind of a shame that such beautiful machines were made for such a terrible ( if sometimes necessary) purpose.

I always had a bit of a man crush on Robert Conrad- “The Wild Wild West” was a terrific show- even though Jim West and Jim Rockford were very different characters, I always thought they were kinda similar- although West usually got the girl, while Rockford never really did. IMHO both shows were very cleverly written, AND “West” had great villains – paging Dr. Loveless! “Black Sheep” was decent, too

I’d argue we have two parties- the party of big big government; and the party of slightly smaller big government. Or perhaps along a slower route to the same big government.

I’m convinced that Brat Pitt told the producers that the only way he was staring in that film was if he didn’t have to cut his hair.

Most violent crime is in red states

The problem is access to guns racism ignorance low taxes and lack of education

Or maybe June 26, 1964: The debut of The Pawnbroker at the Berlin International Film Festival. We will have porn and total Jewish narrative control.

It was all men after WW2 and the official height was 6’4″ or over (which you well know). However, like many height measures, they were never strictly enforced or accurately measured.

I imagine they measured my grandfather in a couple thick pairs of socks. He was closer to 6’3″ maybe six-two than six-four.

Gangly isn’t the only body type for us big guys. I haven’t qualified as that since Jr high.

Thanks for the laugh. I dox myself enough and feel no need to over share.

“Do we continue decarceration on the off-chance that only 3.3% will commit murder?”

Depends on who they murder and where they murder.

Reminds me of somebody’s comment about the young lady who was the armorer on the ill-fated movie set of “Rust” where Alec Baldwin accidentally killed somebody. He said, for the job of handling guns on a movie set, you want to hire a 50 year old white guy with a globe and anchor tattoo and an unironic mustache who totally doesn’t mind telling people all day long, “No, you are doing it wrong,” even when it hurts their feelings.

I remember reading that. Fucking brilliant, although it was actually “… middle-aged dads with eagle, globe and anchor tattoos …”

Marxists are bad people. Marxists want to live in a corrupt violent 3rd-world heckhole.

Was it that bad under Khrushchev? How violent were the cities then? Corruption was actually preferable to honesty under that system.

Today’s landscape is more accurately termed Gramscian. They’ve captured the culture! But how many have heard of Gramsci? Nobody paraded his placard through the streets.

Have you the figures for women?

Oddly, I am not seeing an equivalent 2014 report, but here are 2014 tables.
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2014/demo/fertility/women-fertility.html

And a similar 2012 report.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/demo/p20-575.pdf

Here is a short report based on 2014 data for both men and women.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2017/demo/p70br-147.pdf

Here are the data sources listed for that last link.

This report utilizes fertility data collected in the June 2012 Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), as well as the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS), to discuss these and other trends.

I know a recent retiree from Boeing, (an engineer on the defense side of things) who said that the company can’t get rid of its older, largely White, heritage workforce fast enough

ALCOA was exactly the same way. They were pretty explicit about becoming more diverse, then pushed out one of my high school friends. He got a severance buy out offer, but it was also made pretty clear that he would be a fool not take it when offered.

I get the feeling that the higher up the pecking order and the more technical the work, the less personal risk. Nonetheless, if you are closer to middle of the pack, you are seen as replacable.

So total female fertility (as in having ever given birth) is 84% – pretty close to the prehistoric (as calculated) 80%.

Of course back until very recently death in childbirth was not rare, even today it’s painful to watch let alone go through.

Come the day of the rope special dindoo hunter killer teams will be dispatched to the yt areas and no quarter will be given.

RaHoWa!!!

To paraphrase Galatians 6 “we reap what we sow.”

SVB also sat on its ass for a year as interest rates increased and the value of its long term bonds dropped by 20%. They might not have gotten taken over if they’d paid attention sooner and rearranged their portfolio. But the queer minority Chief Risk Officer was doing other things.

This is so fundamental and simple that while it’s in the remit of risk officers, direct responsibly goes all the way up to the CEO. You need dedicated risk people for lower level things, like setting policies on who you’re going to make loans to.

We’re starting to hear at the rumor level risk averse people did bring up the interest rate danger as inflation went up and were ignored by the bank’s executives, who “bet the bank on 18 or 36 million dollars in profits.” Based on this there’s speculation it is why the chief risk officer (CRO) left the bank stepped down from that role in April 2022, and now I’ll go further, this was No Accident, for the first Fed rate hike was on March 16th, 2022.

Predicable as soon as April 2021 as Bidenflation started hitting, October 2021 is when it broke out of a months long plateau of 5-5.4% and went steadily up to until June 2022. Plus you’d expect people like SVB executives and financial types as well as the Fed to know the BLS Official inflation statistics are much more gimmicked than they were in the 1970s.

So, yeah, diverse U.K. risk officer standing in as the whole enterprise’s CRO is useful propaganda, and that all three are women, but also ask Gregory Becker why he was not just a greedy, cowardly, incompetent risk taking idiot, but why he wouldn’t listen to the two diverse women he’d hired back when it could have made a difference.

They didn’t forget. They counted on maximizing profits during the good times and Uncle Sam bailing them out during rough times.

While the VC cabal that forced so many companies to bank with SVB, and all the founders and employees are getting bailed out and will no doubt be even more happy to send money to Democrats (except VC money isn’t flowing like it used to and many ventures will not take flight before their runway ends), it’s SOP and has already happened that the SVB board and executives have been removed, and their reputations seriously tarnished.

Yeah, some will no doubt be taken care of to the extent needed, but gaining or retaining (for the board members) similar positions for some time will be a signal of idiocy or corruption few banks and companies will want to make. And even if the Feds are now extending deposit protection to all banks, that might not last, and a bank takeover is seriously disruptive.

See for example the rumors that any new owner of Signature Bank NY (SBNY) will have to give up the crypto business for which it was the last major US bank; new owners and new policies might not just disrupt but kill your business, this is particularly true for loans and has been a well known risk for decades and decades.

Even worked for one company that was killed by its lender, in an earlier but regional banking crisis where its bank claimed it was violating the terms of the loan. Which was a lie for the company executives of course kept a copy of the contract, but that didn’t mean they could draw down any further on it or were in a position to enforce the contract. Was something of a startup, was a tech VAR earning money selling real things and software to make them used, and the loan money was to add more value, again for real value as I can personally attest.

“Haley and the other four officers charged with murdering Nichols are black. Each joined the department after the police killing [sic] of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014, which triggered protests [sic] across the country and a renewed focus on diversifying law enforcement and revamping police training curriculums.”

That was a defamatory statement by Klemko or his editor against Officer Darren Wilson, saying that Officer Wilson murdered racist, would-be cop-killer Mike Brown, as opposed to having killed Brown in self-defense. Note, too, the fake language: “Protests” didn’t follow Officer Wilson’s justifiable homicide of Mike Brown, racist black riots did. (Only after Brown failed in his attempted murder of Officer Wilson, was he re-named “Michael.”)

Thanks for the correction.
Spring training clouds the brain?

“That’s pretty much what I remembered from the movie besides that the guy was John Wayne. Or, am I thinking of a different one?”

Greg Peck starred in the original movie version of the WWII story, 12 O’Clock High (1949), while John Wayne starred in and produced The High and the Mighty (1954), the first airliner disaster picture. Both pictures won Oscars, back when that meant a great deal.

My point was that one party consistently moves to expand government. And since that expansion occurs under their administration, they stock that expansion with employees loyal to their party. This has an inherent advantage to the party that advocates more for expansion.

In order to disassemble a Glock, the trigger must be pulled to the rear while the slide is slightly pulled to the rear as well.
For those of us who are well-versed in firearms safety, this isn’t a problem, but there are those who are less-versed who still have a problem with making sure the firearm is unloaded.
Yes, I am old-fashioned and prefer firearms with a manual safety.
Glock wounds are the result of the trigger snagging on clothing or holster itself. That is an entirely different problem…

The total fertility rate of black women in the United States is 2.1 children per woman per lifetime, per the U.S. Census Bureau. About 1/4 of all black children are born within wedlock. The notion that there’s a large population of black males with 11 children out there is tommyrot.

Some people are better off with different pistol safety designs & protocols.

LOL. As zombie movies go, that was a good one, IMO.

Black female aircrew? No biggie. There are private airlines for the well-connected, sort of like a exclusive country club. No waiting, no TSA, and no affirmative action. I have a relative who did some work for a rich richie, and as a return favor got to fly, at twice the going rate, mind you.

Steve, check out Van Nuys Airport. Busiest airport in the world, I’ve read. It’s not all P-51s and Cessna 150s.

-Discard

I knew a guy 30 years ago who worked there and he said the chances of a white guy getting hired approached negative infinity.

A former neighbor worked there and told me that the Knurled Rank topped up the pay of foreigners to account for taxes they paid and also paid private school tuition for some. The Knurled Rank is funded by you and me to the tune of many billions of dollars.

Police chiefs who had enough integrity to resign when told to stand down would be enough.

-Discard

Right, Res. People who think these people are smart and evil rather than just evil forget how dumb these ideas are. Were they made to help just the elites have a better world and screw the peons, they just don’t seem to be well thought-out.

Hope the bread and circuses work.

Indeed. I think of the Olive Garden with endless soup, salad and breadsticks and the ubiquitous sportsball as the modern Bread & Circuses.

I don’t caricature the black population and you cannot help yourself.

What makes you think there is something wrong with characterizing a population? It’s good, not bad, to understand group differences and their causes. We’re supposed to document group stereotypes – it’s called science. In the case of blacks, they are highly dysfunctional on many social metrics compared to other groups, and the cause is genetics.
I think what you are trying to say is that it is wrong to characterize an individual by the group he belongs to. But you can’t understand the difference between an individual and a group so your language is confused.

No argument from me.

Reiki is fraud (I’m actually reiki’ing you right now, for example) but expensive ergonomic chairs are real and a smart investment for office workers who spend hours sitting. I delivered and assembled ergonomic office chairs, mainly by Haworth, for a mortgage megacorp which expected its workers to put in long hours. They’re very well designed, complex, little Giger ribs going up the back, and the better ones are something like a thousand a pop, but you won’t have a medical bill complaint years later. There’s also “xchair.”
One funny white collar rat race detail: little accessories get built on as you get promoted. You start with the basic chair, the team leader gets basic armrests, the favored team leader gets good armrests, and the floor leader gets best armrests with a headrest.
https://www.haworth.com/na/en/products/lounge-sofas/ottomans/buzzipuzzle.html

There’s a difference between a characterization and a caricature.

The infamous Ramparts scandal at the LAPD in the late 1990s was, and still is, used to tar the entire force, but few of the perps were cisgendered honkies.

This Who Will Guard the Guardians failure happened at WMATA (the DC Metro) about 5 years ago when the new head guy found out that the QC guys had been falsifying their inspection reports for years. He ordered an immediate inspection of all WMATA tracks, trains and equipment which meant that many lines were single tracked and delays were common.

WMATA is not majority Amish. Shocking, I know.

Firstly, hire 10,000 officers. Next, bring back Scorpion Force, augmented with an additional 5,000 top-notch officers. Stop and frisk EVERY motorist and its occupants.

Just kidding. Fire the whole PD AFTER an impenetrable wall is built circumscribing the city. Let the trash take itself out.

You’re welcome

Ok, stop. He knows the distinction, but conveniently postures his ignorance cloaked as yet another virtue-toting do-gooder.

Projection is all he (and they) have at this juncture; we all can discern piss from rain anymore. I wouldn’t believe a word he says moving forward.

Right, but my reply to Vinny was about how things actually operate. Pilots will not fly seriously-broken airplanes, and these days you know lots (not everything, granted) about the condition before you fly. This is why the shoddiness will result in more delays, cancellations, and gate returns.

Sorry for the late reply.

I scratched my head when Glock decided to release the subcompact .40 cal (G42) before the subcompact 9mm (G43). Maybe they thought that would increase sales for the more expensive caliber.

Do you think the .40 is worth the extra weight and expense in relation to stopping power over the 9mm? At least in terms of the primary purpose of a concealed firearm.