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I am not making this up.

“Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan.  “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed.  Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers.  But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home.  If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.”

So basically “community organizers” are left-wing agitators who try to herd the Underclass together in order to exert political pressure to squeeze more oink from the public trough. I notice that these people seem to flourish primarily in large, Democrat-run urban areas, like New York and Chicago, where “enlightened public policy” have destroyed families and neighborhoods for the last 40 years.  One hand washes the other, I guess.

Wonder what these people do for a day job? I suspect that it all comes out of the taxpayers’ pockets ultimately.

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France does that to some people.

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After showing his army pass when asked for identification by the hotel’s receptionist, Cpl Stringer was told “we don’t accept military personnel here” and that this was “company policy”, according to his mother Gaynor.

He spent the night in his car after failing to find any other available accomodation late on a Sunday evening, she said.

1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

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“For more than two years, the Chinese have stalled [on nuclear talks],” said one defense official frustrated by what he called excessive secrecy and lack of dialogue. He asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.

Whoa, there’s a shock: A Communist dictatorship being secretive and stalling talks?

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No surprises here. Among Arabs, Africans, and other tribal societies, public employment is seen as hitching a ride on the friends-and-family gravy train, not as an actual job.

Any African looking at Barack Obama would see a typical waBenzi: Progressing through elite schools, getting into “public service” as a ward heeler “community organizer” and working his way up the Chicago political machine, getting plum jobs for his friends and relatives and receiving cushy deals in return.

If he gets elected President, they’ll be standing in line — with their hands out.

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We have the technology.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

There’s a line in the Stuff White People Like book to the effect of: “Is there something you like? I mean, is there something you really like? Well, whatever it is, there’s a white person who likes it more.”

What I find most interesting about this situation is that the argument seems to be focusing on whether the Demcorat Presidential nominee is or is not more qualified to be President than the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee. Does that strike anybody else as just … odd?

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Not really news, to anybody who’s paying attention, but a good reminder.

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I’ll just bet that NetFlix is feeling some pressure here.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Tell the truth — that’s the first time you’ve thought about her in a week, isn’t it?

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Not sure whether this represents progress or not….

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Engineers are very strange people. Useful, though.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Arnold Kling understands the dialectic.

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Some times the old ways are best.

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Saw that coming.

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Yang Qinghua, the vice-director of the Cultural Heritage Bureau, asked for the route of the train to be changed. But the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway company, which is in charge of the project, refused, citing its “national importance”.

The city therefore instructed the company to pay five million yuan (£410,000) to excavate the site fully before beginning work.

“These precious cultural relics absolutely must be excavated before construction continues,” said Mr Yang. “The site contains eight levels of cultural relics dating back through Chinese history. You can’t just ignore them.”

However, the company never replied and simply proceeded with the construction, destroying around 20,000 sq ft of the site in the process.

Why, those greedy capitalist bastards…. Oh, wait….

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Wouldn’t surprise me. There is increasingly strong evidence that human evolution has continued and may perhaps have even speeded up during historical time.

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And you can believe as much or as little of that as you choose to.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading, although he sometimes picks a tangent that heads off into a higher-order dimension.

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There are a number of industries that survive solely upon white guilt: Penguin Classics, the SPCA, free range chicken farms, and the entire rubber bracelet market.

Though white people do not actually listen to classical music, they like to believe that they are the type of people who would enjoy it.

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Of course, that’s only effective if the boy in question worries about what’s on YouTube.

In which case, he’s a total loser and deserves a little humiliation — good practice for the rest of his life.

Personally, I think these girls ought to thank God that they’re rid of these losers.

Mark Cuban has an idea. Thanks, Roy.

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Tell me you haven’t been in this sort of situation.

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There is something deeply disturbing about this….