Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/10/2010 7:51:00 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Read it,its an excellent piece and that will teach me to not go by the title alone.
The soft sciences are a joke.
Worthless degrees for those that have a hard time with math.
It’s a home for people that would rather make their living talking and dreaming up crap like this.
bttt
Two notes-
1. Obvious solution - make it illegal to capture race information on mortgage forms. Without this information - lenders can’t discriminate. (Of course - left will hate this - because what they really want is discrimination.)
2. The Global Warming fiasco demonstrates the degree to which even technical sciences have become politicized. Soft sciences like sociology - at this point - are destroyed. The ybring no value, due to political self delusion.
The word has come to mean something entirely divorced from its definition, however, so it's useful to point out that efforts to combat racism or "anti-racism" are at fault, here.
To do otherwise is to blunder into a trap waiting to be sprung by knee-jerk leftist reactionaries. Pity we're reduced to co-opting and subverting the silly word games they play, but it's come to that and worse.
Dinesh D’Souza, Dartmouth ‘83 and Laura Ingraham, Dartmouth ‘85 are doing their best to return a conservative voice to Dartmouth. And pardon a father's pride, but my oldest daughter graduated between these two notables [she was Dartmouth ‘84], and managed to learn to think for herself and not just follow the crowd. I am very proud of her.
But, back to my main theme: the sociology department was biased to the left, not as far as Columbia University, but biased none the less. They offered “evidence” against the death penalty saying it did not lower crime. [They could never argue that it prevents recidivism!] And, we now see that it has led to criminals murdering witnesses since they will not be executed themselves.
The Democratic Left insisted that houses be offered to those, who by traditional standards, could not afford them. They used ACORN tactics by threatening banks that did not do as they were told. When the “house of cards” collapsed [excuse the pun], the Dems pointed fingers at everyone but themselves. They lied about how it happened, who caused it, and how to fix it. Talk about revisionist history, Barney Frank, who said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were fine, blamed their collapsed on Pres. Bush, who had tried to address the problem but was thwarted by Barney Frank et al.
As I pause, I see I am too impassioned over this to write concisely and my fingers are beginning to tire. So, I will discontinue my rant by saying the moderate left, which includes many sociology folks, view the facts through the prism of their politics. The far left just outright lies.
We need to return to the roots that made this country great: smaller government and smaller taxes. AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY!
Vote in November to demand financial responsibility and political accountability.
[Perhaps you might leave a teabag in the voting booth to remind the next voter.]
This is a great example of the failure of compassionate conservatism. The thanks Republicans get is accusations of racism.
President Bush Mortgage Speech 2002(Helping those w bad credit buy houses)
Early in George W. Bush’s first administration, a home ownership initiative was introduced, sometimes referred to as the Blueprint for the American Dream, to close the homeownership gap by 5.5 million minority families. Along with this homeownership initiative, there were other policies implemented to dismantle barriers to homeownership in minority communities.” from :
The Great American Mortgage Scam & The Latino Community
Written by an egg head and an egg head wannabe, neither of whom likely had a real job.
AND don’t forget the ponzi called “fiat”.
A credit bubble ALWAYS ends badly. Every time it’s tried.
Bush apparently thought he had hit the Philosopher's Stone. The boom/bubble. Getting rich in America is easy. Until...
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