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In the name of fairness to minorities, community organizers occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies, and confront executives at their homes – and thereby force financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgages to low-credit customers.

In other words, community organizers help to undermine the US economy by pushing the banking system into a sinkhole of bad loans. And Obama has spent years training and funding the organizers who do it.

There you go.

THE seeds of today’s financial meltdown lie in the Community Reinvestment Act – a law passed in 1977 and made riskier by unwise amendments and regulatory rulings in later decades.

Isn’t it amazing how many of our problems originated with Jimmy Carter?

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The narcissists on Facebook are going to learn the downside of having your life an open book very quickly, it would seem.

Pardon my grin.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

The family you sell it to will, no doubt, be moving to the exurbs to get their kids away from all the Guatelombians in the LA public schools. It’s not like Bush is going to close the borders and stop the flood of Guatelombians. So, there will always be refugees looking for “good schools.”

That’s one reason, you realize, why these new homes in the exurbs tend to be so big — they’re expensive in the hopes of discouraging low rent people from moving in next door. Sure, they cost a fortune to air condition during Lancaster’s summer (March-October), but it’s all in a good cause.

You start shopping around outside Lancaster. The Cypress Creek Estate sales agents talk about the new high school that’s going to be built to serve these new neighborhoods. It will be diverse, but not too diverse, if you know what I mean. Two-thirds white, one fifth Hispanic, enough Asians to show your neighborhood’s a good investment, enough blacks so that the football and basketball teams will be competitive. Sounds good!

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An excellent illustration of why I wouldn’t be happy working at Google, or Microsoft, or any company run by people whose idea of a good time is worrying about questions that have no significance.

The correct answer to most of these is “Who gives a shit?”

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Republican Newt Gingrich: “You have an administration which, in my judgment, has lost its mind.” And I agree wholeheartedly.

President Bush is so worried about his legacy – he is so afraid of being looked at as Herbert Hoover – that he is doing the very things that Hoover did: Intervene, intervene, intervene. He should do what Ronald Reagan did in 1981 and 1982 and 1987: Let the market play it out.

And that says all that really needs to be said on the subject.

Peter Hitchens is always worth reading — not always right, but always worth reading.

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Oh, yeah, G.E. is going to jump right on that one. Sure thing.

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On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

David Brooks makes an amazing discovery.

Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics: “The joyous reception from Congressional Democrats to Paulson’s latest massive bailout proposal smells an awful lot like yet another corporatist love fest between Washington’s one-party government and the Sell Side investment banks.”

If you wanted to devise a name for this approach, you might pick the phrase economist Arnold Kling has used: Progressive Corporatism. We’re not entering a phase in which government stands back and lets the chips fall. We’re not entering an era when the government pounds the powerful on behalf of the people. We’re entering an era of the educated establishment, in which government acts to create a stable — and often oligarchic — framework for capitalist endeavor.

The term “liberal fascism” comes immediately to mind.

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AFL-CIO, eat your heart out.

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Ah, but which half?

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How come nothing interesting like this ever happens in the U.S.?

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Didn’t know he could do that.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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… completing the destruction of the Parisian skyline.

My, that’s so ugly it’s yooguly.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Oh, they picked the wrong target this time. These guys have guns, and they won’t hesitate to use them.

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Well, that’s what happens when socialists raid the defense budget to fund goodies for the underclass and social engineers. Money’s got to come from somewhere, after all, and they can always depend on the stupid Americans to haul their asses out of the fire.

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Public schools lead the way in abandoning objective standards. There’s progress for you.

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It would seem so.

Except the Darwin Award winners, of course.

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Doesn’t Barack Obama come from Illinois…?

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However, a European directive issued earlier this year has, in effect, abolished more than 800 years of British history and allowed bakers to bake loaves of any size, bringing in some of the laissez-faire of the boulangerie – where bakers can create bread of any shape or size – across the Channel.

Jonathan Warburton, the fifth generation to head his family baking company, said: “This is a pretty historic moment. We’ve been baking since 1876 and ever since then our loaves have been 400g or 800g.

Britain sinks into Europe, apparently without a trace.

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I was wrong — Nixon was better.

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I can think of better excuses for killing Warren Beatty.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

What is the connection between Barack Obama, messiah, and William Ayers, convicted terrorist and English professor?

It’s a classic example of John O’Sullivan’s law that any non-profit organization that isn’t explicitly conservative always ends up being run for leftists ends.

That’s because foundations attract the sort of people who like spending other people’s money but for whatever reason can’t get elected to Congress.

Arch-Republican Walter Annenberg puts up a half billion bucks, $100,000,000 of which went to Chicago, to fix the public schools. For advice, he turns to two people at Brown, the leftiest of the Ivy Leagues. They direct his money to a proposal co-authored by unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, husband of Charles Manson fan Bernardine Dohrn. In turn, Barack Obama gets hired as chairman of the board of the organization dreamed up by Ayers to hand out money to leftist organizations in Chicago like ACORN. The $100 million of Annenberg’s money doesn’t do much for the test scores of Chicago public school students, but it does wonders for building Team Obama among his base, leftist activists and civil servants.

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Shallow left-wing materialistic narcissists are unsurprisingly bad for the environment.

Shucks, we knew that.

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I’m surprised they didn’t think of it first.

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Time for a government bailout? (Why not? Everyone else is getting one.)

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The rot spreads….

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As would I.

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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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Gareth Jones, 30, punched Deborah James so hard she left the Lloyds TSB function event on a stretcher and attached to an oxygen mask, and will be scarred for life.

You don’t mess with Marines. You just don’t.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Darwin Award nominee.

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Not your father’s Britain.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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I was right — Nixon without the 5 o’clock shadow….

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It’s official: George W Bush is Richard Nixon without the 5-o’clock shadow.

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Crime rates are up from last year. Arrests, traffic stops and gun recoveries are down. And while there is dispute over the precise reasons, the union representing police officers in this city says it is partly because officers are doing their jobs gingerly, out of fear that the controversial police superintendent won’t back them if they face misconduct charges.

Well, that’s what happens when politics intrudes into police work.

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But we won’t, because the teachers’ unions won’t let us.

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This must be what it was like living in the early 16th century.

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Thus bringing the Old World in line with the New.

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Sure, watch our Overclass destroy the Indian culture the way they’ve destroyed the American.

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Of course the stupid ones, like Sanchez, will ignore the ban, while the sensible ones are made to suffer.

Government — narrowing in on the most ridiculous solution with unerring accuracy.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Public Health.

“Today’s students want to contribute, to empower individuals and communities to take charge of their own health,” said Ruth Gaare Bernheim, who teaches health policy at the University of Virginia. “I think they also intuitively realize that the world is their community and that the gains of the 21st century will be in global public health.”

AIDS is a dramatic example of how whole populations, not just individuals, can be at increased risk for disease — a key epidemiological concept. The emergence in the mid-1990s of life-extending treatment, which is only now being brought to Africa and Asia, where most AIDS patients live, provides a lesson in equity — the principle that underlies public health.

Only if you stick your weiner where it doesn’t belong. But I guess that describes most kids today.

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Too bad — that will just encourage people to stay in California.