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One Last Word On 2012 Election Polling

By Steve Sailer on March 4, 2013 at 8:26pm

I'm going to superstylize the numbers here to make a point.

A hugely common trope since the election is that the Republican Party has been permanently discredited for being optimistic in the last few days of the election, for not believing the polls that showed, on average, Obama with a 51-49 lead in the two-party vote, and for not, therefore, giving up or something. This just proves Republicans are against Science, because polling is the essence of Science and can never go wrong.

Oberlin Roots of the Great "Girls" Whiteness Crisis of 2012

By Steve Sailer on March 4, 2013 at 5:35pm
Now we perhaps know why Oberlin graduate Lena Dunham didn't put black characters in the first season of her sit-com "Girls:" she may be part of Oberlin's pervasive Ku Klux Klan movement.
From the NYT:

Monday's One Old Vet Amnesty News Collection 15 (One Very Annoying). Drudge 0

By Patrick Cleburne on March 4, 2013 at 2:36pm

Binswager

Forbes' Binswager: "America owes Illegals Amnesty AND Apology."

One Old Vet has already swung into action today, posting a compendium of 15 Amnesty related stories.

Of these, by far the most annoying and, alas, probably significant, is Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants Is Not Enough, They Deserve An Apology by Harry Binswager Forbes 0/04/2013

An “illegal” immigrant is, in principle, like a Jew in Nazi Germany who refused to wear the yellow star…

The principle established at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials was that a monstrous act cannot be excused by saying that one was merely obeying the law–”just following orders.” …A monstrous law should neither be obeyed nor enforced. It must be repealed.

It is not enough to give “illegals” amnesty. These long-oppressed individuals deserve an official apology from our government

Life Regrets Of A Childless Liberal At 50

By Anonymous Attorney on March 4, 2013 at 10:49am

A relative on my wife's side was on the phone with his mother recently, reflecting on his impending 50th birthday. He wondered if he'd leave a legacy of any kind. His career has been spent on the Internet—he made a nice bundle during the tech boom, but as with all things Internet, it flits off into cyberspace.

He and his wife have lived in an apartment—albeit an impressive one—all their adult lives. When they're gone, it'll be turned over to another tenant.

Celebrities In The News And Their Philoprogenitive Relations

By Steve Sailer on March 4, 2013 at 8:49am

With Dennis Rodman back in the news for his exercise in basketball diplomacy in North Korea, it's worth mentioning Dennis's dad, Philander Rodman Jr., who is the father of between 29 and 47 children, according to various published reports and what kind of mood Philander Jr. is in when reporters visit his Rodman's Rainbow Obamaburger in the Philippines.

No word yet on Philander Rodman Sr.

Also in the news is Barack Obama, whose favorite half-brother and Best Man at his wedding Roy Abong'o Malik Obama is running for governor of Siaya County in Kenya. According to the always informative Daily Mail, Roy-Abong'o Malik has had approximately 12 wives.

Indeed, female members of his extended family accuse him of being a wife-beater and philanderer, who seduced the newest of his estimated 12 wives while she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl — a crime in a country where the legal age of consent is 18.

As opposed to the United States in November 1960.

To the dismay of teachers and the girl’s mother, Mary, Obama had secret trysts with the girl after spotting her attending prayers at the mosque he has built in Kogelo — he and his brother’s ancestral home — as part of his promotion of the Islamic faith across the country.  

Now in hiding at her mother’s mud house, down a rutted track, Sheila Anyango, 35 years younger than her husband, told me this week that marrying him was the ‘worst decision’ of her life — and confirmed that they had ‘kept a secret’ since she was 17. 

Shy and softly-spoken, Sheila, 20, says: ‘At first he was good, after he started speaking to me at the mosque. But he has changed. Marrying him has been the biggest mistake of my life. He beats me, but mostly he’s just nasty and quarrelsome.’ ...


Dreams from My Father, indeed.

Sheila, who has an 18-month-old daughter by Obama called Hafifa, had spent the past two years living with three of Malik’s other wives at the ‘Barack H Obama Foundation rest and relaxation centre’ — a restaurant complex built by her husband to profit from the visitors attracted to the area by his links to his brother. 

Nor is Sheila the only one of Malik’s wives to accuse him of beating her.
Hafsa Abwanda, now 33, also  married the politician as a teenager, but escaped in 2008 after five years of marriage, saying he beat her and her ‘co-wives’, of whom she says she saw at least 12 come and go over  the years. 

Before Hafsa fled her miserable  marriage

"Pit Bulls and Parolees"

By Steve Sailer on March 4, 2013 at 2:21am

When my father was in the hospital in 2011, I watched an Animal Planet show called "Pit Bulls and Parolees," but I guess I'm not really part of the pit bull target demographic. Let me say upfront that I'm aware that put bulls are wonderfully loyal and they don't bite very much (the problem is that when they do bite they often don't let go). In contrast, Labrador retrievers are bred to retract their teeth and gum rather than bite down. So, Labs are unlikely to maul your children's friends.

Diversitopia, U.S.A.: If New Orleans were a Country, It Would Have the World’s Second Highest Murder Rate

By Nicholas Stix on March 4, 2013 at 1:36am

[See also: “The Color of Crime.”]

If they have third-world murder rates, it’s because they are third-world cities!

As for New Orleans, I guess Nicole Gelinas was wrong when she said that NOLA knew how to do recovery right. But that was after she got the memo. (Here she is in her glory, before she got the memo.)

A note to readers, regarding murder rates around the world. Garth Kant maintains, linking to a graphic from Richard Florida, that South Africa has a murder rate of 17 per 100,000. That official number is surely a fraction of South Africa’s real murder rate. Approximately 10 years ago, the country was the world’s murder capital; since then, the authorities have more or less stopped keeping any sort of credible records.

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U.S. cities as bad as deadliest 3rd World countries

Gun murders worst in urban areas with toughest gun laws

By Garth Kant

February 27, 2013

WND

Those pushing President Obama’s gun-control agenda often portray the United States as one of the murder hot spots of the world, but the numbers tell a different story.

Even more revealing, gun murders in the U.S. are concentrated in big cities that typically have the strictest gun-control regulations. And it is those cities’ gun murder rates that are comparable to the rates in some of the deadliest countries in the world.

A United Nations 2010 chart lists the U.S. as having a murder rate of 5.22 per 100,000 people. The world average homicide rate: 9.63 per 100,000.

And [only!] 89 countries have higher murder rates than the U.S.

America is not even in the same league as the worst offenders. Honduras has a murder rate of 60.87 per 100,000. Jamaica 59.5. El Salvador 51.83. Guatemala 45.17. Colombia 40.1. Trinidad and Tobago 39.67 Angola 38.59. South Africa 36.54. Burundi 37.38 Lesotho 36.69 Zimbabwe 34.29. Belize 34.26.

The statistics on gun murders shed even more light.

The U.S. may have the highest level of gun ownership

Death By Quota—Affirmative Action FDNY Recruits Failing In Droves

By John Derbyshire on March 4, 2013 at 12:37am

What's being murdered here is the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY). A crazy judge has imposed race quotas on the Department. The Department has complied, and so is now taking in its first draft of recruits since 2008.

Secret Amnesty Plans Continue Apace in Senate

By Brenda Walker on March 4, 2013 at 12:29am

In the big capitol city, the Gang of Eight senators continue working in secret to create a “compromise” plan to legalize the 11 million illegal aliens mooching in America. Doubtless the plan is to spring the complete amnesty scheme as a done deal and shove it through the Congress as rapidly as possible. Senator Durbin remarked on Sunday that the ad hoc group meets “virtually every day.”

Government Releases Thousands of Criminal Aliens

By Brenda Walker on March 4, 2013 at 12:17am

How much does the Obama administration care about the safety of the American people?

White Mormon Team Ranked #1 Nationally In High School Basketball

By Steve Sailer on March 3, 2013 at 10:56pm

Lone Peak High School in Utah is ranked #1 nationally in boys basketball by Maxpreps, despite being pretty much an all-white team of Mormons. (From the pictures, there don't appear to be any black players.) It played 10 games out of state this year and won 9, five of them over teams now ranked #1 in their own states.

Average IQ in Jamaica

By Steve Sailer on March 3, 2013 at 10:43pm

Over at Human Varieties, Jason Malloy gives a seminar on the the difficulties and methods of calculating the average IQ for a single country. He works through two dozen scientific papers involving IQ in Jamaica, a small English-speaking country with a not undeveloped academic infrastructure. 

Saturday's One Old Vet Amnesty News Collection 13. Drudge 2 (Same, All Weekend)

By Patrick Cleburne on March 3, 2013 at 6:12pm

No Amnesty

H/T One Old Vet

                               
On Saturday One Old Vet posted a compendium of 13 Amnesty stories.

Of these perhaps the most interesting was Immigration Reform -- Not Amnesty by David Sperling The Huffington Post 03/01/2013 - mainly because of the debating ground conceded by this in fact pro-Amnesty piece.

Some knee-jerk immigration advocates would have the American public believe that nothing less than a speedy "path to citizenship" for 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only just and humane solution to our dysfunctional immigration system.

Nonsense.

The Unbearable Cluelessness of Republicans

By John Derbyshire on March 3, 2013 at 4:20pm

 Mitt Romney was interviewed by Fox News Sunday:

The chief weakness of his effort, he said, was that "we weren't effective in taking our message to minorities, to Hispanic-Americans, African-Americans. We did well among the majority population. But that was our failing."

The forgotten Barbara Jordan Commission on Immigration

By Steve Sailer on March 3, 2013 at 12:22pm

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Are you telling me you want more

A good example of how "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past" is the flushing of the reports of the 1990s U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform down the memory hole. Bill Clinton appointed black lesbian Democrat Barbara Jordan, a former Congresswoman who gave a famous keynote address at the 1976 Democratic convention, to head the in-depth study of immigration policy. 

In 1994, the Jordan Commission reported on illegal immigration:

In particular, we believe that unlawful immigration is unacceptable. Enforcement efforts have not been effective in deterring unlawful immigration. This failure to develop effective strategies to control unlawful immigration has blurred the public perception of the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. 

Time to stop and think before amnesty

By Steve Sailer on March 3, 2013 at 10:26am

A reader writes:

Are you aware that the 2006 bill—Senate Immigration bill 2611—had a whole section requiring an impact report? It was pretty detailed and thorough—just one problem—it was only required “Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this act. Pretty cute. I am sure that the point of an impact report is to have it done before legal action is taken!

Here's the text of Sec. 401 of the 2006 immigration legislation. This may have gotten amended out at some point, and its confused post-hock nature was perhaps deliberate sabotage, but this is perfectly reasonable text to be reused in a bill calling for an Impact Statement before any new amnesty or guest worker program:

SEC. 401. IMMIGRATION IMPACT STUDY. 

(a) Effective Date- Any regulation that would increase the number of aliens who are eligible for legal status may not take effect before 90 days after the date on which the Director of the Bureau of the Census submits a report to Congress under subsection (c).