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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
November 24, 2008
Fraud and the Bubble
In a past life, I helped with the database integration of one of the first commercially successful neural net credit card fraud detection systems. I learned a lot there about how fraud artists think and operate.
I wonder what percent of the mortgage equity loans were sent south of
the border as remittances prior to default and foreclosure?
The Secret History of the Bush-Rove Years, Cont. -- Part 27: How Faith-Based Initiatives Helped Blow Up the Housing Bubble
What just happened?
How did eight years of a supposedly "conservative" Administration get us to this point where the country feels like a tapped out Vegas binge gambler ejected from the plush casino into the harsh mid-morning light without even cabfare in his pocket?
We have a general framework for explaining it: Invade the World / Invite the World / In Hock to the World.
The Politics of Public Works
A major goal of the Obama Administration will be to keep millions of illegal immigrants from going home, which would deprive the Democratic Party of large numbers of votes in coming decades from them (after they are put on "the path to citizenship") and, more importantly, their American-born (and thus birthright citizen) children. Spending hundreds of billions of the taxpayers' dollars to keep illegal immigrant construction workers previously employed putting up unneeded McMansions in exurban Las Vegas from leaving the U.S.
From Out Of The Memory Hole
Here is an informative June 24, 2002 article from Realty Times about Bush's plan to increase minority homeownership by 5.5 million households. This trade journal emphasized six years ago that the core of Bush's plan was raising the minority/low income quotas for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage activity by a total of $440 billion. This is the kind of thing that gets lost in time because there's no partisan point to remembering it.
"Katyń"
In an essay entitled "Never Forget. You're Reminded" in today's New York Times, film critic A.O. Scott cautiously raises the question of why there will be, once again, so many Holocaust-related movies opening during the upcoming Academy Awards season:
A Texas Reader Says Auto Industry Bailout Will Accelerate American Worker Lay Offs
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11/23/08 - A Florida Reader Says Miami Mayor Manny Diaz No Prize For Obama's Cabinet
From:
Don Reynolds (e-mail
him)