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Comment Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity (Score 2) 232

I mostly agree with you there. But, there ARE some women who meet qualifications. The US Marine Corps has not yet had a woman who passed the physical for combat officers - but a handful have come pretty damned close. That handful are almost certainly better soldiers than I could be. In all my life, I've not had the upper body strength and stamina to pass that course.

You know, and I know, that it is a rare women who has greater upper body strength and stamina than a healthy man - but why should we hold those rare women back? Let them do whatever they are good at.

Comment Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity (Score 3) 232

You seem to have it ALMOST right. Let me try saying the same thing, my way.

Those women and minorities who got their jobs BECAUSE they helped to meet a quota don't belong in those jobs.

However - I don't think that there is any profession which is unsuitable for women or minorities. And, sometimes, the woman, or the minority really is the best qualified.

If you're not careful with how you state the obvious, then you risk sounding like yet another asshole bigot. I cannot, will not ban women from an occupation because they are women. But, I can and will go along with any ban of women and/or minorities who FAIL TO MEET QUALIFICATIONS. Nor can I consider lowering standards just to make the unqualified happy.

Real life is not a special Olympics event. If/when I need an EMT, a doctor, a cop, an architect, I want the BEST, not some wannabe who was given the job to make liberals feel good about themselves.

Comment Re:Diversity does not imply "lowered standards" (Score 4, Insightful) 398

It's not so much an ASSumption, as it is an observation. Corporations tend to hire the most qualified people. Corporations, as opposed to small businesses, simply cannot afford to show prejudice for one demographic over another. Who are corporations hiring? Let us get this straight now - they are hiring the MOST QUALIFIED PEOPLE, who also happen to mostly be WHITE AND ASIAN MALES.

By necessity, making your labor poll more inclusive means lowering standards.

BTW - it has already been pointed out that the Asian males are significantly over represented in Sillycone Valley, whereas white males are closer to "normal". That's probably a result of "No Retard Left Behind" and the Core curriculum. Our schools are being dumbed down, so fewer white males are able to excel.

Comment Re:Too many white and Asian males (Score 0) 398

Mmmm - I see. And, I suppose that your IQ is well over 130?

Very very few blacks or mestizos with IQ's over 130 - you know, I might agree with you. But, what is the percentage of white people with IQ's over 130? Do you REALLY think there is a difference? Really and honestly, you think that non-white people suffer a 20 point (or more) IQ handicap?

OK - what about women then? If IQ is race dependent, then what about women? Are there a lot of white women with IQ's over 130? Or is it also sex dependent?

Comment Re:And when she is questioned by CBP... (Score 3, Informative) 334

It's called the "Privileges and Immunities Clause". All citizens have the RIGHT to travel in and through all of the US states, the District, territories and possessions. If you are a citizen of the United States, no one has the authority to bar you from entry into any one of the United States, etc.

It's just wikipedia - but any intelligent person can read the content, then search out arguments, both pro and con.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Gubbermint says the same thing on this page: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/...

"Citizens are also allowed to re-enter the U.S. repeatedly without being required to re-establish proof of admissibility."

If a US citizen IS denied entry into the United States, he has this to fall back on:
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/us...

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
        intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,
        Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any
        right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of
        the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;
        or
            If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the
        premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free
        exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -
            They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
        ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in
        violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an
        attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit
        aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined
        under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life,
        or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Long story short, the gubbermint recognizes that fucking with a citizens rights is serious business, potentially punishable by death.

Comment Re:For an alternative (Score 2) 581

Except - EVERYONE LOVES RACIST AND SEXIST TALK! Go almost anywhere on the web, and make a blatantly sexist or racist comment. Everyone comments. Left, right, male, female, young, old, black, white and in-between - EVERYONE CHIMES IN!

Maybe I exaggerate a little. There are some dignified souls who can just shake their heads, and go on about their own business. Not many, but some.

Comment Re:Yeah, blame the parents (Score 1) 173

I think you've failed to understand the whole social engineering thing. Google, among other corporations, are bending over backward to attract women into their workforce. They are going so far as to go into the schools, trying to influence girl's choices. They are trying to change the world. That IS NOT "let them do whatever they want to do" at all. That is in effect, an attempt to replace parental and other inputs, to change the results to something closer to what Google wants.

Google wants women - but women don't necessarily want Google. (How many of us males could say the same thing?) So, Google has decided to approach the women before they are women. Get them at an impressionable young age, and start grooming them to reject what society is teaching them.

I'll support any young woman, 100% and more, who decides that she wants to join the military, go into politics, learn engineering, learn to fly - WHATEVER she wants to do. My sister is a retired state cop. Do you suppose that I ever once tried to discourage her? Hell no!

Girls should be permitted - no, wrong word - ENCOURAGED to do any damned thing they want to do. But - WHAT THEY WANT, not what a bunch of Bozo's in a board room want them to do.

Those girls, and women, who WANT to have a house full of children, and to stay at home to raise those children, should be ENCOURAGED to do so - no less than the girl who wants to fly to the moon.

Girls. Why are we even talking about girls? This should be the case for ALL CHILDREN! Every single one. (Groucho Marx: How many kids do you have? Three, one of each.) Boys, girls, or whatever - if they have a dream, help them to achieve it.

Don't TELL THEM what their fucking dreams should be!

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