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FishbellykanakaDude wrote:
mr nobody wrote:
zzazz wrote:All this civil war talk must be blah blah blah...
indoctrinated moron. the sad fact is, that without affirmative action and other racist/discriminatory policies, blacks and latinos would have much lover employment and education numbers across the board.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you, there, Nobes (your new nickname!).

Deserving blacks and latinos would be a larger part of the "successful population" if so-called affirmative action had never happened.

This is because deserving "minorities" would have started their own companies, and hired the cream of the "minority crop", which would have eventually made it much less competitive for "whites only" companies to hire only "whites".

It wasn't so-called "affirmative action" that made hiring "minorities" acceptable. In fact it placed a taint on being a "minority" in the marketplace.

It was competent people doing their jobs that "demystified" the unknown quality.
Virtue signalling. Okay. Got it.

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Guest wrote:... Virtue signalling. Okay. Got it.
I have no virtue to signal, so I'm not sure what you're talking about :)

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FishbellykanakaDude wrote: I'm gonna have to disagree with you, there, Nobes (your new nickname!).

Deserving blacks and latinos would be a larger part of the "successful population" if so-called affirmative action had never happened.

This is because deserving "minorities" would have started their own companies, and hired the cream of the "minority crop", which would have eventually made it much less competitive for "whites only" companies to hire only "whites".

It wasn't so-called "affirmative action" that made hiring "minorities" acceptable. In fact it placed a taint on being a "minority" in the marketplace.

It was competent people doing their jobs that "demystified" the unknown quality.
i agree to an extent. but racism/discrimination against group of people was replaced by racism against other group of people. and the political elites could continue to milk the racial card for their own benefit. most blacks don't even know which party enacted Jim Crow laws and they vote Democratic, oh the irony.
but you can't deny that the "playing field" in more ways than on is highly distorted, especially against white men.
Nobes (your new nickname!)
:D

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** 23-Jul-2019 World View: Everyone's happy with proposed bipartisan budget deal

The House and Nancy Pelosi have reached agreement with Donald Trump
about a budget deal. This is being hailed as a rare moment of
bipartisan cooperation. The proposed agreement still has to be passed
by both houses of Congress and signed by Trump.

The terms are:
  • The budget deal is for two years.
  • It will prevent a government shutdown in the fall, since the
    national debt limit will be increased.
  • There will be a lot of spending on social programs.
  • There will be a lot of spending on the military.
  • It's almost free, increasing the public debt from a mere $22
    trillion to a mere $23 trillion.
There are some Debbie Downers, like Rand Paul and other so-called
"fiscal conservatives," who are whining that this is going to
negatively affect our grandchildren, who will have to pay the bill.

Such protests are silly. To reduce the deficit, we'd have to cut
social programs like welfare, medicare, medicaid, and a thousand
others. You'd have to be totally delusional to believe that could
happen.

Long-time readers will be aware that I was always posting various
charts that showed such things as surging public debt, surging
price/earnings ratios, super-exponential growth of stock prices, sharp
falls in velocity of money, and so forth.

But basically I've decided it's not worth the trouble. If we're going
to a world war with China, and we are, then what difference does it
make whether the public debt is $22 trillion or $23 trillion? Either
figure might as well be infinity.

That reminds me that 10-12 years ago I used to make reference to the
1950s book by George Gamow, One, Two, Three ... Infinity. That
book title kept popping into my mind whenever I thought about public
debt. So today we're pretty much at infinity.

Some major financial event (such as the collapse of Deutsche Bank or a
stock market panic somewhere) could trigger a chain of bankruptcies
that lead to a global financial crisis and a world war. Or,
alternatively, some geopolitical event (such as the rapid
deterioration of law and order in Hong Kong that I've been reporting
on) could trigger a regional conflict that spreads to a world war, and
causes a global financial crisis. Either way, it doesn't really
matter whether the debt is $22 trillion or $23 trillion.

And at that point, is Higgenbotham has pointed out, the living will be
envious of the dead.

So we might as well lean back and enjoy the Biblical proverb, "Eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die."

---- Sources:

-- Trump announces 'real compromise' on budget deal, as fiscal hawks
and some Dems cry foul
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump- ... al-leaders
(FoxNews, 23-Jul-2019)

-- Budget deal / Why a strange bit of bipartisanship may be breaking
out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... aking-out/
(WaPost, 22-Jul-2019)

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Looks like China will soon crack down hard in China. A friend in HK sent me video he took himself of the triads attacking people inside a subway train. It was horrific. His video was the worst I've seen. Women were screaming and the gangsters were beating one guy nearly to death because he fought back. He said the worst footage has already been taken down off the Internet. He only shares his personal video with his friends.

He emailed me and told me he was flying to Taiwan in a few days. He said HK was over. From what he told me, a lot of Hong Kongers are escaping to Taiwan before the onslaught. Taipei is offering unofficial asylum to any Hong Kongers who want to flee. I can't imagine the bosses in Beijing will like that.

It's spooky how close everything is now. Now people are leaving HK quietly, but how long before they start streaming out? I wonder if this is not part of the mainland strategy? Get the Cantos to flee on their own?

I don't know if the mainlanders will allow the key leaders to runaway from HK because they will set up a government-in-exile and cause a lot of trouble from NYC and Taiwan. Also cantos in NZ and Australia and Canada will cause trouble. Exiles historically cause China a lot of trouble. The Chinese government knows this. I think they will kill them before they leave. (But secretly)

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sout ... SKCN1UI072

Russia carried out what it said was its first long-range joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region with China on Tuesday, a mission that triggered hundreds of warning shots, according to South Korean officials, and a strong protest from Japan.

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** 23-Jul-2019 Cantos vs Mandas?
Guest wrote: > It's spooky how close everything is now. Now people are leaving HK
> quietly, but how long before they start streaming out? I wonder if
> this is not part of the mainland strategy? Get the Cantos to flee
> on their own?
I've never heard the word "Cantos" before to refer to the Cantonese
speakers. Is that word in common use? What do you call the people
who aren't Cantos -- Mandas?

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John wrote:** 23-Jul-2019 Cantos vs Mandas?
Guest wrote: > It's spooky how close everything is now. Now people are leaving HK
> quietly, but how long before they start streaming out? I wonder if
> this is not part of the mainland strategy? Get the Cantos to flee
> on their own?
I've never heard the word "Cantos" before to refer to the Cantonese
speakers. Is that word in common use? What do you call the people
who aren't Cantos -- Mandas?
We call them mainlanders.

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** 23-Jul-2019 Cantos vs Mainlanders
Guest wrote: > We call them mainlanders.
So, just to be clear, the Cantos speak Cantonese, and the mainlanders
speak Mandarin?

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Notes on the Budget Deal...

The Repubs can inflate to the hearts' content, expanding the debt to infinity...and beyond!

the deal expires in 2012, JUST IN CASE A DEMOCRAT WINS THE PRESIDENCY, so we can go back to holding the debt limit hostage to a Republican Senate (which will last forever 9gerry mandering))..

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