Friday, December 19, 2025

DAILY ROMANIA: Indonesian migrants working at a spa in Cluj, Romania, have tested positive for leprosy

ARCTOTHERIUM: The small business administration gives preferential loans to minorities

The SBA's loans, including those to minority companies, have essentially gone unaudited.  Inevitably, money has gone astray. When the Los Angeles Times did an informal survey of minority firms that the SBA listed as "current" 8(a) beneficiaries, it found the 22% could not be reached or had gone out of business.  --Jared Taylor

Justice Thurgood Marshall: “You guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it is our turn.”  Jared Taylor.  

I want to break the impression that Affirmative Action/DEI began in 2014 or is limited to school admissions and a handful of infamously left-wing fields. Here are some excerpts from chapter 4 of the 1992 book "Paved With Good Intentions." First, firefighting. --Arcotherium.

The FBI gives additional points on its hiring tests to nonwhites, and throws out the results if not enough nonwhites make it through anyways. State Department stopped considering foreign language skills because too few blacks spoke them and has a lower threshold for hiring them. --Arcotherium.

Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America, Jared Taylor, 1991.

JARED TAYLOR: Yet more people with names like Ahmed Mohamed charged in Minnesota with looting Medicaid. . . . Africa meets "Minnesota nice."

SAMA HOOLE: 87% of soy production is crushed for oil. 6% goes to humans directly. 7% goes to animals as whole beans.

87% of soy production is crushed for oil. 6% goes to humans directly. 7% goes to animals as whole beans. The leftover soy meal after oil extraction? That's the "cattle feed" in the statistics. So when they say "cattle are eating rainforest soy," what they mean is: Humans are demanding soybean oil for processed food and biodiesel, which creates soy meal waste, which gets fed to cattle because otherwise it's literally waste. You're not saving the rainforest by avoiding beef. You're saving it by avoiding processed food made with soybean oil.

But that doesn't fit on a billboard.