of Hezbollah.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3297819,00.html

I wonder if he wants to cut their nuts out now?

ScottW

Wall Street Journal admits Problems With H-1b!
[Randall Burns]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121623686919059307.html?

In 2002 Sprint, reeling from the collapse of the telecommunications
industry, initiated a wave of layoffs that eventually totaled 15,000
workers in 13 months, Ms. Dewing among them. She remained in the Kansas
City area, posting her résumé on job boards. When recruiters called, she
would usually put her expected salary at something close to her old salary.
As time went by without an offer she lowered it steadily, to $60,000. She
found herself competing for jobs with employees of outsourcing firms
brought over from India on temporary visas, such as the H-1B.

Basically the truth of what H-1b expansion has meant is becoming so
obvious that even corporate infomercials like the Wall Street Journal are
having to tell something of the truth sometimes."<<

((Oh, the implied misogyny. Usual disclaimers-but you have to admire old
Schroeder a little, or Van Cliburn as he deals with people who either
think he's Van Halen, or know his name from "LML". Bret.))

19 July, 2008
What Are Paleoconservatives?
Posted by alex in paleoconservatism at 8:07 pm | Permanent Link

They’re making ethnicity outweigh race. Which is like saying that the
Grand Canyon is nothing compared to a crack in the sidewalk. This is a
very common ploy with their paid writers and the sheepdogs like Sid
Cundiff.

Comment-dropper Cuntlips is a queafing sophist liar . He serves as a
sheepdog to bark the easily intimidated conservatives back into line every
time they approach the plantation’s border: the agreement...

I am one of them.

I liked the LTC's logic: substitute "blacks" for "gays" and you're
right back into the days of segregated battalions.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=8894685&ch=4226713&src...

What, you support letting open gays serve in the military, or you are an
openly gay currently serving in the military? Not sure how to interpret
that. If the latter, I will give you this: you have guts if not the best
judgment to post this, even under pseudonym!

I will say that although I disapprove of witch hunts and prefer those
capable of keeping their gay activities well closeted be left alone so
long as it doesn't present issues, I do not believe _openly_ gay or
lesbian persons should be in the US military.

This is because it causes no end of disruptiveness and is militarily
destructive. There are a limited number of gays out there and to have them
safely and effectively serve _as open gays_ (( and I am using 'gay' here
instead of "gay and lesbian", because as Sailer says lesbians aren't Gay,
out of sheer laziness )) would take more resources and diversion from
uniformity than would be worth it.

I wonder whether that's a suitable idea or not.

Why a career in computer programming sucks

sucks.

Temporary nature of knowledge capital

Let’s being by reviewing what I previously wrote about the four types of
human capital. Computer programming is a job that’s heavily dependent on
temporary knowledge capital. It’s temporary because the powers that be
keep changing the languages and tools that programmers need to do their
jobs. In nearly all other professions, knowledge capital increases as you
grow older because you keep learning more about your field. But in
computer programming, the old knowledge becomes completely obsolete and
useless. No one cares if you know how to program in COBOL for example.
It’s completely useless knowledge.

Even though I haven’t been working in computer programming all that
long, I have already seen most of the technologies that I first began
working with become relegated to the garbage pile. Visual Basic 3.0-6.0?
Useless knowledge. I haven’t seen any vintage Visual Basic since 2002.
And don’t confuse Visual Basic.NET with the classic Visual Basic. They
are really completely different technologies.

((Making Manhattan rent control untenable by federal means would break that
town by making it economically infeasible even for the day to day
activities of Big Media and Wall Street, which is why a real conservative,
much less a nationalist/stratificationist like me, would do it. Bush is a
Big Pussy. Bret.))

July 11, 2008
Rep. Charlie Rangel, the crook

apartments in a “luxury” apartment building “owned by one of New
York’s premier real estate developers.”

No one else in the city has four rent controlled apartments in the same
building. Landlords zealously kick out people who are not using their
apartment as their primary residence. This is obviously in the nature of a
kickback from The Olnick Organization. “Mr. Rangel, a critic of other
landlords’ callousness, has been uncharacteristically reticent about
Olnick’s actions.”

Marriage advice from an old maid and a Catholic priest

list for the last week?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/opinion/06dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Maureen Dowd repeats the advice of a Catholic Priest who tells women whom
not to marry. Here is his list:

(1) Men who have no friends.
(2) Men who are too attached to their mothers
(3) Men who don’t have an adequate sense of humor
(4) Men who don’t talk enough
(5) Men who have the wrong attitude towards money
(6) Men who are heavy drinkers
(7) Men whose parents are racist, sexist, or prejudiced
(8) Men who have the wrong goals
(9) Men who have the wrong religious beliefs
(10) Men who are control freaks
(11) Men who are envious
(12) Men who are secretive
(13) Men who lack the willingness to forgive, praise, or be courteous

((Counterintuitive. Bret.))

The Half Sigma theory

http://www.halfsigma.com/2008/07/best-blog-comment.html

IQ is more highly correlated with life outcomes for people with below
average to average IQs. Most career tracks have an IQ floor, and if your
IQ isn't high enough to meet the floor level, you can't perform that job
adequately. Few career tracks have IQ floors much higher than 115, so if
your IQ is higher than that, your parental wealth and connections become
very important.

Thus, the higher your IQ, the more important the wealth of your
parents becomes (the very opposite of what most people think). People with
exceptionally high IQs but inadequate parents often have poor life outcomes
because of the mismatch.

So, JFK and GWB would be examples of people just above the Presidential IQ
cutoff who became Presidents because of their fathers.
An interesting idea. I haven't had time to assess it, but it seems worth
thinking about.