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"Kin Selection"

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Anonymous Spearchucker McGee said...

This is why Steve is the funniest man in America

'Granted, when you have the U.S. Army and the CIA at your beck and call, you ought to be able to do pretty well for yourselves'
keep it real since 2001...

10/6/10, 2:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Anyone who wants to start a business and has problems becomes partners with them.”

Sounds like Goodfellas:

"Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with a bill, he can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's got to come up with Paulie's money every week. No matter what. Business bad? F--k you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F--k you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning, huh? F--k you, pay me. Also, Paulie could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match."

10/6/10, 2:28 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lets just get out of Afghanistan.

10/6/10, 2:41 PM

Blogger agnostic said...

You'd think most people would know about the Pashtun level of ruthlessness from the showcase of one of their favorite sports, buzkashi, from the beginning of Rambo III:

Buzkashi

Shows how easily we forget what the lives of strategically unimportant people are like, no matter how vivid and cool their portrayal is in our pop culture.

10/6/10, 2:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder for how the long the "World's Sole Superpower" will keep meddling in other countries' business and spending billions of their own Dollars when they have a public debt of eleven trillion Dollars, or 85% of it's GDP, the highest of any nation ever, and when it's economy is 90% consumption and financial services with no production to speak of. I wonder for how long the World will keep financing the wars and the enormous voraciousness of "The World's Sole Superpower" for consumer goods. The U.S is truly a paper tiger. It is as bankrupt as Russia in 1991 and makes the Weimar Republic wealthy comparison. It's basically a nation of pashtas that only consume and have the rest of the World work for them. Oh well, I guess you Americans can hold China hostage with your nuclear weapons - a creation of mostly European scientists, as well as the rockets used in theri deployment - and force them to give you for free the goods you need to keep your standard of living when they refuse to accept the worthless Dollar as payment. You could also do that to India so they will keep sending you the engineers you need to keep the little industry you still have producing when the broken U.S.A is no longer attractive to them.

10/6/10, 3:14 PM

Blogger Tarquinius Superbus said...

Off topic comment ahead:

Steve, I just got the book; however, I wonder why you don't have it for Kindle (or whatever electronic format)? The same goes for "200 Years Together," why doesn't his estate release it and bypass the old guard?

10/6/10, 3:22 PM

Blogger syon said...

Steve Sailer:"I've noticed that a lot of the new immigrants in LA are rather like the Karzais: they're Caucasians from West Asia or Eastern Europe, and they're definitely not peasants."

A minor point, Steve, but I really think that people should use Caucasoid instead of Caucasian, especially when they are referring to people from the Middle East/Central Asia. It's more precise, and it keeps people from thinking that you are talking about people from the Caucasus.

10/6/10, 4:22 PM

Anonymous Mercer said...

" A famous phrase often associated with the Pathans is, of course: I against my brother, my brother and I against my cousin, we three against the world."

I have read the same phrase used to describe Arabs. It was used to explain why Israeli and Western armies beat Arabs. A large army needs effective cooperation among people who are not related.

10/6/10, 5:26 PM

Anonymous wooops said...

syon said...
A minor point, Steve, but I really think that people should use Caucasoid instead of Caucasian...

how come they don't have Caucasoid in the porn search engines?

10/6/10, 5:26 PM

Anonymous Wanderer said...

Of the seven sons of Abdul Ahad Karzai...only one — Hamid Karzai — had never lived in the United States.

"[From the 1980s till 2001,] Hamid Karzai lived in exile in Quetta, Pakistan. From there, Karzai worked to reinstate the former Afghan king, Zahir Shah." [-Wiki]

If he spent his youth in Afghanistan and his young-adulthood in Pakistan (also apparently a time in India), it's amazing how good at English he got. I'd always assumed his English ability comes from his having lived in the USA. It turns out that's just his six siblings!

10/6/10, 5:35 PM

Anonymous Chicago said...

Regarding the commentator who wonders about what happens when the world will "refuse to accept the worthless dollar", well, that's partly what the permanent warfare state we happen to be is all about. It becomes dangerous for any country to think twice about accepting our dollars. War has a demonstrative effect. And don't even think about things like pegging oil to other currencies like the Euro, lest a leader wants to end up at the end of a rope like Saddam did.

10/6/10, 6:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

@Wanderer, Hamid Karzai went to college in India, and most Indian colleges teach in English

10/6/10, 6:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

An undeniable advantage of being the President's brother can be seen here; apparently you're not roughed up before ending on the wrong side of a crane.
I guess Karzai et al have had the good sense of purchasing this.

10/6/10, 8:37 PM

Anonymous Bantam said...

It seems like James Michener's Caravans had been written last month.

10/6/10, 8:57 PM

Anonymous Rohan Swee said...

It's basically a nation of pashtas that only consume and have the rest of the World work for them.

"Pashta"? Is that a cross between a pasha and a gangsta?

Works for me.

10/7/10, 8:08 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I've noticed that a lot of the new immigrants in LA are rather like the Karzais: they're Caucasians from West Asia or Eastern Europe, and they're definitely not peasants. They are typically from Old Country political and/or mercantile elites. They remain plugged into complex multinational social structures that we poor dumb Americans can only begin to fathom."

So this is what it comes to: over a thousand years of the West struggling to fight its way free of the Eurasian eucumene, only to be sucked right back in thanks to globalism and Empire. I hope everyone likes their future as peasants because that's what your children have to look forward to if they aren't "plugged into complex multinational social structures".

10/7/10, 12:10 PM

Anonymous Has to be said...

Steve, do you think that our political or mercantile elites are not plugged into "complex multinational social structures"?

Oh, I see. You meant dumb Americans.

10/8/10, 1:03 PM

Blogger David said...

>Oh well, I guess you Americans can hold China hostage with your nuclear weapons [...] and force [the Chinese] to give you for free the goods you need to keep your standard of living when they refuse to accept the worthless Dollar as payment.<

Had the same thought. A few years ago, someone wrote about what he called "China's nuclear option," meaning dropping the dollar. I imagined the POTUS writing a letter, "Dear China: You speak of your 'nuclear option.' In this connection, please remember that America, too, has a nuclear option."

10/9/10, 10:41 AM

Anonymous bruce said...

Actually whoever heard of a Superpower which doesn't demand tribute?

This is not a Superpower of any sort we are familiar with from history. There lies the problem.

10/13/10, 4:32 PM

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