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I take umbrage in your demeaning Louis Farrakhan as "Looney Louie" as it disregards his only achievement during his life: he was an accomplished musician. Because of that he deserves the appellation of "Calypso Louie" as he performed on tour and recorded a number of calypso albums before developing his current gig.
Dan Kurt
Commented Apr 15, 2012 on Obama’s America: Why Black Grievance Will Never End at SelwynDuke.com
Obama’s America: Why Black Grievance Will Never End
By Selwyn Duke When I was 12 years old, I played tennis at a certain public park in the Bronx. One day it got back to me that a black fellow at the courts, whose name I forget, said “Selwyn doesn’t like black people.” This raised my eyebrows. You see, I had never really thought about the man ...
A science fiction book was written about this by Dean Ing: Butcher Bird, 432 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (November 15, 1994)
ISBN-10: 0812522419
Dan Kurt
Commented Apr 14, 2012 on Smart Bullets and Micro-Missiles at Global Guerrillas
Smart Bullets and Micro-Missiles
What's the best armament for drones? Smart bullets and micro-missiles. Simply: extremely small devices that are smart enough to guide themselves to their targets. In the case of the smart bullet, like the one currently being developed by Sandia Labs (video) guides itself to the target using...
re: "How long will the free world refuse to recognize the current government of Honduras as legitimate?"
The real question is how long will it take for the Russians take to treat Obama as an Alpha male. See these videos on how to show a Beta male that he is lower than dirt: [http://tinyurl.com/my9em5] and here
[http://tinyurl.com/nmfw67]
Dan
Commented Jul 16, 2009 on Honduras Update at Half Sigma
Honduras Update
Good news is that Manuel Zelaya is still out of Honduras and the government will not let him back. But the latest word is that interim President Roberto Micheletti has offered to resign immediately and have an election, as long as Zelaya stays away. Unlike the power hungry Chavez-protégé Zelaya...
Results of non-tracking:
Just returned from my son's commencement. He received his Ph.D. along with 5 other individuals in Mechanical Engineering. A total of 17 Mechanical Engineers were listed in the program as having received the degree or will receive the degree through 2008 and 2009 and ?2010?.
Three of those 17 are white. Two of the whites are from the USA; one is my son. The third white is a Hungarian from Europe. The other 14 are North Asians mainly from China with a few from Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
This event happened in an American University considered to be in the top 20 of the World for Science and Engineering ( Harvard is number 1. ). Where are the American Ph.D. students? Thanks to the absence of tracking our bright students are not being given a foundation that permits one to "make the grade" and be selected to a Ph.D. program in Science and Engineering unless the American is unusually brilliant given the competition that the North Asians and European educated students exhibit.
Dan Kurt
Commented Jun 16, 2009 on The shamefully liberally biased NY Times article on tracking at Half Sigma
The shamefully liberally biased NY Times article on tracking
Steve Sailer has already blogged about the outrageous NY Times article about how Stamford, CT is ending “tracking” in its public schools. The article demonstrates how HBD-denialism leads to lousy education policy which harms children. From the left-wing perspective, we all know that there is ...
re; "for cultural reasons, the children of wealthy, successful Blacks backslide and underperform even poor Whites" Sheila Tone
Explained two ways:
1) Blacks have low mean IQ and smaller SD compared to whites so children of relatively high IQ Blacks who are successful because of their IQ regress usually toward the mean Black IQ.
2) Low IQ Blacks ( within 2 SD of mean Black IQ ) are successful not because of unusual smarts for Blacks but because of some "winning the lottery" like event, e.g. Obama and Michelle Obama IMHO, having typical Black IQed children.
Dan Kurt
Commented May 15, 2009 on NAM = non-Asian minority at Half Sigma
NAM = non-Asian minority
New readers keep asking what the word NAM means, because it's thrown around here quite frequently, but when you Google it, nothing comes up. So in order to correct this problem, I am devoting a post to the word. NAM is an acronym for "non-Asian minority," and it's a significant distinction fr...
re: "...and so MIT and Caltech have turned their courses into the best on earth for teaching math..."
B.S. To really teach math there are two necessary ingredients.
1) Math talent, something inborn; can't be taught. If you don't have it, too bad. If you have never met one with it also too bad.
2) Instruction from circa age 14 onward that emphasies drill. Yes drill to make elementary math subconscious.
If one has not achieved the above by the time one reaches MIT, etc., it is already too late.
Dan Kurt
Commented May 9, 2009 on The SAT and social norms at Half Sigma
The SAT and social norms
Steve Sailer has an excerpt from the book Spent by Geoffrey Miller regarding IQ and elite education. Generally, it’s a very well written argument, the only part of it I take issue with is the emphasis, often repeated among the HBD community, that elite college degrees are used as proxies for I...
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