tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post7732726202175824576..comments2024-01-25T15:09:03.714-08:00Comments on Whiskey's Place: Maxine Water's "White Men Tax": The Outcome of DiversityWhiskeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-4451542585065425302010-08-30T18:44:07.220-07:002010-08-30T18:44:07.220-07:00Have you noticed how some Republicans joke about h...Have you noticed how some Republicans joke about how useless universities' ethnic/gender studies departments supposedly are? Guess who will staff these diversity offices.<br /><br />Too bad it's impossible to determine how much the "diversity recession" was already underway because of mandatory hiring preferences. These are surely a drag on local government efficiency too.<br /><br />It's possible that the eclipse of the white athlete is also due to the influence of Title IX regs. These closed down many uniquely male sports which attracted athletes who would later prove competitive cross-overs in the big spectator sports.<br /><br />Since Title IX shut down their attractive options, instead of honing their bodies and social skills these potential athletes likely just stayed home and played video games.KJJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-23760850358222617152010-08-30T05:55:33.547-07:002010-08-30T05:55:33.547-07:00Whiskey,
The "Green Bullet ban was aborted b...Whiskey,<br /><br />The "Green Bullet ban was aborted by the EPA late Friday.<br /><br />It made the guns rights e-mail chain lists Tuesday, the the gun rights blog sites Wednesday, the Investor's Business Daily and other op-eds Thursday, the talk radio in a big way Friday as the NRA came out and openly "dis-endorsed" Senate Majority Leader Reid.<br /><br />In addition to Reid bitching to the Obama Administration about making Angle a "mistake proofed" opponent for gun huggers to part their votes with, I think here were two other factors at work. <br /><br />First, I think someone poll tested a question about the EPA Lead Ban -- to gauge effect of the primal scream from the Gun-huggers -- for the DNC Thursday night.<br /><br />Second, rural environmentalists all over the West were having heart attacks and screaming loudly about the ban.<br /><br />Sports hunters are environmentalists biggest political allies in Western states. The Lead Bullet ban was going to turn sports hunters into their blood enemies. Especially since Lisa Jackson already had a very bad history with hunters:<br /><br />http://www.nssfblog.com/tag/lead-ammunition/<br /><br /><i>With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) <b>under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey,</b> is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition. If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.</i><br /><br />Losing sports hunters in rural majority states also kills Democratic Senate chances in the West, as Sen. Reid well appreciates.<br /><br />The Obama Administration -- urban leftists all -- usually is stone post deaf such things and they acted very fast to stop it.<br /><br />I suspect the Rural environmentalist crowd and Reid got to the EPA and not the Obama Administration.<br /><br />I also think it does not matter at this point, if the talk I heard from friends who went out target shooting this a week end is any indication.<br /><br />The Urban House Democratic caucus has been introducing bills to prohibitively tax & regulate bullets purchases and reloading equipment for the last 14 years. This EPA thing was straight out of the Gun-hugger's worst nightmares about Democrats.<br /><br />Grass roots Gun-huggers have been activated in a very big, very angry, very scared, way, minus the fund raising opportunity for the NRA and other big established gun rights lobbies.<br /><br />This will be apparent in the voting returns counted on Nov 2, 2010 (and later).Mil-Tech Bardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11654312581130984629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-1731841775241177472010-08-29T07:40:54.626-07:002010-08-29T07:40:54.626-07:00I have no problem with them making a "diversi...I have no problem with them making a "diversity" dept or what have you, so long as it's race and gender neutral. This way when women end up making up too much of an office, men can call them out on it and force their hand. Anything less is not equality and is actually just special privilege.Nutzhttp://funandsocial.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-77525447380098520072010-08-27T17:09:55.487-07:002010-08-27T17:09:55.487-07:00Let's not forget, fellows, that the industry t...Let's not forget, fellows, that the industry that is now going to be (further) deluged by "affirmative action"/anti-white man hiring policies is already majority female in most fields. They also earn the majority of accounting degrees. Observe this link to hear it out of the horse's own mouth: http://www.catalyst.org/publication/245/women-in-financial-services<br /><br />This is nothing more than female supremacist warfare. It cleanly reveals their agenda, shed of all its hypocritical and transparent babble about "equal rights". But who is going to challenge it? Almost no females will, that's for certain.Zetanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-12337999340808950642010-08-26T13:49:53.423-07:002010-08-26T13:49:53.423-07:00"FWIW, the EPA plans to ban lead-based ammuni..."FWIW, the EPA plans to ban lead-based ammunition, effectively ending Private Gun Ownership."<br /><br />Cor-Bon manufactures ammunition that is lead-free.Truth(er)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-25604122073218781762010-08-26T04:42:27.533-07:002010-08-26T04:42:27.533-07:00"This is how gun and ammo purchases are going..."This is how gun and ammo purchases are going to be tracked."<br /><br />Dude, the gummint already makes you fill out a form whenever you buy a gun. And I don't buy ammo in greater than $600 amounts at a time anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-5819593769032950272010-08-26T00:31:13.380-07:002010-08-26T00:31:13.380-07:00FWIW, the EPA plans to ban lead-based ammunition, ...FWIW, the EPA plans to ban lead-based ammunition, effectively ending <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/25/epa-considering-ban-on-lead-based-ammunition/" rel="nofollow">Private Gun Ownership</a>.<br /><br />While Hot Air (Allahpundit) thinks Obama will sign any over-ride, he would have instructed the EPA not to make waves in the first place right before the Midterms. I fully expect the NRA to come out against almost all Dems on this issue, the EPA to issue the ruling, and Obama to veto any law over-riding it.<br /><br />Obama either figures "something will turn up" or he will be worshipped as "awesome" by the media in 2012, or he does not plan to do anything than the full Jonestown. I.E. Martial Law, etc.<br /><br />I don't know about generational conspiracies, I do sense that most White women find most White guys too effeminate and "nice" (they have a point, but they largely created it) if you watch TV advertising. Where the White guy is an idiot and the non-White guy cool and competent. NBC's "Outsourced" is a good example of that and look later this week for a column on NBC's loser schedule and what it says about the attitudes of elites.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-65533352800932282882010-08-25T16:28:08.507-07:002010-08-25T16:28:08.507-07:00Whiskey:
Thank you for your respectful reply. Thi...Whiskey:<br /><br />Thank you for your respectful reply. This will be my last post on Commodore because I want to explain why I felt you slighted it and clear a few things up.<br /><br />I felt you slighted it by comparing it to all those other internet start ups that gained tons of publicity but never produced a product or a profit.<br /><br />Commodore was not an internet start up, it was originally a calculator and business machine company that branched into computers in the late 70's. For the first 7 years or so of this shift it grew rapidly and had many successes , destroyed TI and most of its other competitors in the burgeoning home computer market, and even scared Apple quite a bit as it was beating Apple in sales for a few years in the early 80's.<br />IBM wasn't scared, but IBM was mostly in a different market then, as you know -business pc's , mostly costing not hundreds but thousands of dollars. Commodore later did make some clones, like HP and the rest, but it was never a big competitor in the business computer market, partly because it never focused its efforts there.<br /><br />Amiga first came out in 1985, had an operating system that was similar but better than the MAC and the Atari ST (which was its other competitor) and more to the point had separate processors for sound and graphics. It was far ahead of the Apples and IBM pcs of the time, and cost less partly because Commodore brought the technology and was able to fabricate the chips on its own. So by the time you mention the Amiga, that was a second or third generation Amiga, the computer had already been out for ten years. <br /><br />I blame the demise of Commodore on the fact that the Amiga wasn't 64 compatible, and even more so that the succeeding ownership after Tramiel (lots of leveraged buyouts and all that fun 80's stuff) never really put money into pushing it in the US, indeed, they seemed surprised it caught on in Europe.<br /><br />Financial people running a hardware company is never a good thing in my view.<br /><br />Anyway, that's it for my defense of Commodore. Thank you for not taking offence, I'm just a geek who STILL occasionally runs a Commodore 64.<br /><br />By the way, the way Merril Lynch handled its data analysis is both smart and fascinating. Too bad the others weren't really ready to look under the hood. Thanks for that fascinating explanation.<br /><br />ClarenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-30133546078994165162010-08-25T15:01:34.861-07:002010-08-25T15:01:34.861-07:00...file the 1099 to the vendor AND the US Governme......<i>file the 1099 to the vendor AND the US Government and file when you get to $600 or more....</i><br /><br />This is how gun and ammo purchases are going to be tracked.<br /><br />Again, someone has thought this through and it wasn't Obama or Van Jones.<br /><br />Sorry to keep posting but things are becoming too obvious.dienwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16878081733638742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-47200084765750231172010-08-25T14:56:16.708-07:002010-08-25T14:56:16.708-07:00Correction: I am beginning to believe in deep gen...Correction: I am beginning to <i>believe in</i> deep generational conspiracies on the level of Henry Makow's rants and I didn't want to go there.dienwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16878081733638742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-54103529010994679292010-08-25T14:51:48.134-07:002010-08-25T14:51:48.134-07:00Whiskey:The new rules as part of the ObamaCare law...Whiskey:<i>The new rules as part of the ObamaCare law, require extensive 1099 filings, for pretty much everyone in private business (sole proprietor, LLC, etc.) as well as charities. You will have to keep extensive records of every purchase and file the 1099 to the vendor AND the US Government and file when you get to $600 or more. This applies to purchases at Staples as well as services. Its aimed directly at the "Craig's List Economy" to gotcha for guys working off the books.</i><br /><br />Then somebody has already worked out the chess moves to the entho-sexual genocide: these rules will <b>not</b> be applied to the favored minorities. Period. <br /><br />P.S: Businesses large and small are going to need to keep extensive databases for tracking all those $600 purchases, cumulative ones included; and if you remember, Obama has already indicated database professionals will need gov't certification: again, <i><b>someone has thought way down the chessboard</b></i> -- and that raises the question as to who and at what level of education and power: I am beginning to deep generational conspiracies on the level of Henry Makow's rants and I don't want to go there.dienwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16878081733638742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-87151030966432771772010-08-25T14:37:19.342-07:002010-08-25T14:37:19.342-07:00This anti-White Male bias will spread throughout t...This anti-White Male bias will spread throughout the entire public sector to include any institution Federal monies and regulation can reach: I am an artist and can see where such bias will affect grants to art groups and individual artists; it will also affect the granting of exhibitions to individuals: I have already seen the girrrl power supremacy bias advance the careers of female artists: this is at its worst in lesbian dominated areas.<br /><br />I can see this White Man Tax atomizing the white male work world. Most work for white males will probably be with businesses that avoid government connected contracts: as the power and wealth will be with jobs on the Gov't teat, this alienation will create a subclass of dis-empowered and poorer white males. I suspect the professional class of white males will be decimated and squeezed into blue collar work: there won't be very much of that available.<br /><br />So how long will White males tolerate this without exploding? Just for fun let's say 50% of the U.S. population is male and 80$ is White; rule of thumb: 40% of population is White male; how is the government in all its aspects going to control that many white males: <i>there has to be an ethno-sexual genocide in the back of somebody's mind - this conclusion is inescapable</i>: the genocide will be slow its initial steps but it will have to become more brutal and faster as it becomes apparent to the larger body of whites.<br /><br />And where will the hypergamous White female be as this is happening? Increased lesbianism? Widespread marriage with minority males? Will the increasing Muslim, immigrant, male population find willing white wives?dienwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16878081733638742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-9671427701026711932010-08-25T13:45:11.084-07:002010-08-25T13:45:11.084-07:00Emarel -- My view is that the Prohibition Speak-Ea...Emarel -- My view is that the Prohibition Speak-Easy model is likely to prevail. I.E. lots of "off-books" or Black Market economic transactions, the "Craigs List Economy" done by trust, i.e. on racial boundaries.<br /><br />Or if you prefer, the Greek Model of a guy coming round after hours offering to do a job for half the cost of the official quote, cash only, upon completion. That requires trust and thus ethnic nepotism, in effect.<br /><br />The new rules as part of the ObamaCare law, require extensive 1099 filings, for pretty much everyone in private business (sole proprietor, LLC, etc.) as well as charities. You will have to keep extensive records of every purchase and file the 1099 to the vendor AND the US Government and file when you get to $600 or more. This applies to purchases at Staples as well as services. Its aimed directly at the "Craigs List Economy" to gotcha for guys working off the books.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-10716927731543619482010-08-25T13:38:02.920-07:002010-08-25T13:38:02.920-07:00Clarence, while I have a great deal of affection f...Clarence, while I have a great deal of affection for Commodore, and Amiga, and Be, the sad fact remains that they were not the successes of Apple and Microsoft.<br /><br />A VC deciding to invest has to look at more than *just* the internal financials of a company. Both macro (will the company find customers, financing, meet regulatory hurdles, etc.) and management ability.<br /><br />The latter is what made Apple a fantastic success, and Commodore, Amiga, and Be failures. Amiga was used in the early 1990's for the effects rendering for "Babylon 5" in the first two seasons. Yet it never caught on. Steve Jobs may be a jerk (he is) but his marketing and design genius is why Apple is a success and the other companies are dead.<br /><br />Even more important -- VCs are not in it for the long haul. The ability to pick a winner, and cash out, quickly, is paramount. <br /><br />Point being that this particular skill set, the ability to assess complex financial statements, macro environments, and management ability, is pretty rare, and found mostly in nerdy White guys (to a lesser extent nerdy Asian and Indian guys). If this is cultural or not (an outgrowth of sports fans arguing over the win contributions of football coaches and baseball managers) is beside the point. <br /><br />The ability to mix those disparate skills is the difference between a winning and losing investment. Hence VCs will simply pack their bags for Zurich or Hong Kong or Melbourne and invest elsewhere.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-33893904302997988582010-08-25T11:15:19.739-07:002010-08-25T11:15:19.739-07:00Up to the present time, Democratic electoral victo...Up to the present time, Democratic electoral victories result in rewarding its voter base with goodies...those goodies currently being race-based, as the voter base is anti-white.<br /><br />The Repulicans don't currently operate the same way when they win...rewarding its base (whites) with pro-white goodies. But rather, they stab their base in the back while contiuing to placate and woo the non-white, who will never support the GOP.<br /><br />Until the Republican Party rewards is base in victory, I don't see how whites will ever get to be first in line without the violence that you don't see in the future, as we'll have to overcome both Parties.<br /><br />emarelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-76644417087400557782010-08-25T07:43:55.365-07:002010-08-25T07:43:55.365-07:00THis is nothing new. The I-banks have had diversi...THis is nothing new. The I-banks have had diversity hires for a long time, and build in the cost as part of doing business. These are entities that make vast (stupendously, obscenely vast) amounts of money through what is basically legalized theft, and they make sure to spread the wealth around as much as they have to keep anybody from stopping the gravy train.<br /><br />Here's the usual career path: a NAM is hired, put in some job where they can't do much damage, and works for a few years. The na lawyer approaches them, asking, "Now, are you sure, absolutely SURE, that you haven't expereienced any racism there?" They sue, the I-bank settles out of court, and the NAM walks away with a couple Mil. It's the wall street black retirement plan.<br /><br />Are the I-Banks going to go all John Galt in response? No effing way. It doesn't matter where they are - their criminal organizations depend on the favors they get from the U.S. gov. They will keep put and keep paying for the best government money can buy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-40891127151516361232010-08-25T05:40:23.548-07:002010-08-25T05:40:23.548-07:00"While the cost will largely be invisible, it..."While the cost will largely be invisible, it will nevertheless be present."<br /><br />Indeed. The diversity racket is a tax, and corporations don't pay taxes, people do. The added costs are offset by (a) higher prices paid by a business' customers, (b) lower or no dividends paid to the stockholders, and/or (c) lower wages and benefits to the company's employees.<br /><br />It doesn't apply in this sort of case, i.e. financial firms, but you've got to wonder, as Obama and his minions pile on regulations ad nauseum, how much of the economy is going to go "off the books." Here in L.A., the estimate is that 25% or so of the economy is what the L.A. Times euphemistically calls "the informal economy." Of course, they call it that because of who most of the participants are, i.e. Latino immigrants. If it were white men involved, it would be referred to as the "black market" or something similarly disapproving.Sgt. Joe Fridaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-3343265567691445732010-08-25T05:13:36.867-07:002010-08-25T05:13:36.867-07:00A "Commodore" computer?
What is your po...A "Commodore" computer?<br /><br />What is your point besides historical ignorance?<br /><br />For your information Commodore was in the computer business from 1977 (PET) until 1994. It had four top selling computers: PET, Commodore Vic 20, Commodore 64 (best selling individual machine of all time)and the Amiga which, while it was never very popular in the states was very popular in Europe and has the distinction of being the first true multimedia computer.<br /><br />Quite a few millionaires were made off Commodore stock. Fact is, the only reason Apple, and not Commodore ended up being IBM's big competitor is that Commodore never had stable management from the time Jack Tramiel (1983 IIRC) left all the way to the very end. Thus no consistent ideas for how to use its considerable computer and human assets. You might know Commodore owned MOS, which gave them their own chip production facility. And it would have been good to invest in Commodore stock all the way from 1974 up until about 1985 or 86. <br /><br />Here you have another useful post Whiskey, but I feel either you were hoping someone wouldn't care enough to notice about your backhanded attack on Commodore, or you are just too lazy to do in depth research when using examples to make your points.<br /><br />ClarenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com