Posted on 07/16/2010 4:35:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
Bump for later.
Yep, that’s right but I wish I could change it.
I was once a Dem and signed up as a semi-troll. FR showed me the way within a few months :)
Take care FRiend
The only problem being a guillotine operator in such times is the distinct chance of being bumped out of position by a still more eager operator, and into the waiting line for its services.
Well, we are glad to have you on-board. Regards, TQ.
“(well, they may interview the guillotine operator and ask him whether he realizes he got a $400 tax refund)”
Now that did make me LOL. So true, so true.
..A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
I’ve a feeling NFHale already has a few in mind...”
Horsewhipping comes immediately to mind...
I’m just SAYIN’, is all....
People who have the experience or knowledge or will or cunning or ruthlessness or energy or information always come out on top of those who don't.
Overturn one elite with a mass movement and when the dust clears what you've got is another ruling elite in charge.
Current elites learn from the mistakes of past elites. They try to avoid the policies and attitudes that were the undoing of their predecessors.
Yet in a deeper sense, the new elite doesn't entirely escape the arrogance and complacency of the earlier elite it displaced.
Over time the new rulers come to resemble what they rebelled against.
James Burnham's The Machiavellians deals with this dilemma.
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Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to favor black and Hispanic applicants, while whites and Asians needed higher grades and SAT scores to get in. But what was striking, as Russell K. Nieli pointed out last week on the conservative Web site Minding the Campus, was which whites were most disadvantaged by the process: the downscale, the rural and the working-class.
This was particularly pronounced among the private colleges in the study. For minority applicants, the lower a familys socioeconomic position, the more likely the student was to be admitted. For whites, though, it was the reverse. An upper-middle-class white applicant was three times more likely to be admitted than a lower-class white with similar qualifications.
This may be a money-saving tactic. In a footnote, Espenshade and Radford suggest that these institutions, conscious of their mandate to be multiethnic, may reserve their financial aid dollars for students who will help them look good on their numbers of minority students, leaving little room to admit financially strapped whites.
But cultural biases seem to be at work as well. Nieli highlights one of the studys more remarkable findings: while most extracurricular activities increase your odds of admission to an elite school, holding a leadership role or winning awards in organizations like high school R.O.T.C., 4-H clubs and Future Farmers of America actually works against your chances. Consciously or unconsciously, the gatekeepers of elite education seem to incline against candidates who seem too stereotypically rural or right-wing or Red America.
This provides statistical confirmation for what alumni of highly selective universities already know. The most underrepresented groups on elite campuses often arent racial minorities; theyre working-class whites (and white Christians in particular) from conservative states and regions. Inevitably, the same underrepresentation persists in the elite professional ranks these campuses feed into: in law and philanthropy, finance and academia, the media and the arts.
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wondermark.com
>>I was once a Dem and signed up as a semi-troll.
Seriously?
Correction: “The American way is to get the folks out of power, undo their mistakes, and then go on from there... and merrily spend generations paying off the 12 trillion dollars looted from the national treasury by the former ‘folks’.
Another bump
...for those interested and who may have missed it. :D
Excellent! Thanks for posting this! ............................ FRegards
This is a MUST read!
There does seem to be a bit of frustration building up among American fans of liberty these days. At the same time that the left seems more conniving and desperate to close the deal on the conversion to what ever pseudo-socialist despotism they have in mind.
Fertile grounds for anger and action. Ample reason for discussion to turn to the possibility of Civil War II..
...such discussions always result in the inevitable: A CWII Ping!!
The last recourse, but not one that couldn’t happen.
Bump for an important, comprehensive, and clearly written article offering insight into the scum that presumes to “rule” us.
Lock and load. The time is at hand.
The PROPER way is to make tyranny so expensive in terms of the lives of tyrants that no one will ever want to do it again. That means using the guillotine or the gallows liberally.
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