In response to my blog Dog Bites Man. Immigration Bites White Majority, about the latest Census projections, a Texas reader writes:

Peter, I read this story in the paper this morning, it’s so damned depressing! Is there ANY hope of stopping this insanity which is turning our country into an overcrowded Third World dump? I get so damned discouraged for my kid’s future!
[Name withheld]
[Address Withheld], Texas (aka Bombay west)

P.S. It did inspire me to donate $100 to V-Dare

(Thanks!)

It is notable how little comment there’s been on this story - judging by Google, it actually seems to interest the foreign media more. National Review’s only reaction was a pathetically pollyannish squib.

My answer to our reader, of course, is that there is indeed hope - as I said in 2006, in my huge Time To Rethink Immigration (II) article, when it looked like amnesty, which was really just an acceleration of post-1965 immigration policy’s effects, was going to pass. It is the hope of the gulag - “They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures”, Solzhentisyn wrote of his zeks. But it is hope, and you will read about it on VDARE.COM, not in the MSM.

To hear the Catholic League’s William Donahue tell it, the three Hispanic families who are suing the Catholic Diocese of Wichita because of an English-only policy at St. Anne Catholic School, are, well, you know, a bunch of ingrates, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Aug. 13.

As Dobbs duly noted at the top of his conversation with Donahue:

No church, to my knowledge, has been more supportive of Hispanic immigrants into this country, than the Catholic Church. For this tone to be taken between three Hispanic families and the diocese of Wichita, I mean, that’s sort of breath-taking, isn’t it?[Lou Dobbs, August 13, 2008 ]

Said an obviously steamed Donahue:

Now look, a Catholic school is a private institution. You know what you’re buying. You can’t have somebody coming in there and saying, I want you to rid the scriptures because I don’t like the way your rules are. You can shop around. You can go down the block to another school, including a public school. Catholic schools have autonomy. (Except, as in St. Anne’s case, they are foolish enough to accept federal funding. This school just learned the hard way that there is no such thing as a free lunch).

But, golly, Mr. Donahue, are you saying you want to have it both ways?

Dobbs is right on with his overview of the problem. For years now the Catholic Church, struggling to shore up its declining membership, has been sticking its unwelcome nose into a public policy issue that affects every aspect of our daily lives and expending none of its cash to support its de facto “Welcome the stranger” program. Ever wonder how much of the Catholic Church’s money is being spent on the Supreme Court-mandated “free” public school education for illegals or their “free” medical care? Zero. Zip. Nada.

Making the Vatican’s meddling even more infuriating is the fact that while many of its leaders, most notably the illegal-alien loving Roger Cardinal Mahony , were preaching to us about our “moral” obligation to care for those here in search of a better life, they also were very busy covering up for pedophile priests across the nation.

Memo to Mr. Donahue: Stop whining and pay attention to how all of this works.

Whenever you have large numbers of people from one racial or ethnic group pouring into a country, the wheels come off the assimilation process. In this particular case, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, more than half (55 percent) of all immigrants arriving here legally or otherwise, are from Spanish-speaking nations, Mexicans being the largest of this group (31.3 percent). What happens next is that these large numbers of one group look around and notice that they don’t need to assimilate in order to survive and begin building power regardless of their immigration status. They become emboldened because of support from our pandering politicians and greedy business community that is always on the lookout for new “market niches.” Their power–and in certain cases–arrogance, also get a boost from organized religion that, as I noted earlier, wants to fill pews regardless of the cost to the rest of us.

Think about this: If this new political power, as we are now seeing used especially by the more radical Hispanic groups and their allies, is allowing them to push the federal government around, why not start leaning on the Catholic Church? Where does it say your church should be immune from having its hand bitten by those it feeds if it helps them attain their goals?

To put it another way, Mr. Donahue, would it be fair to suggest that the Catholic Church has failed to heed the warning from the Apostle Paul (Galatians 6:7) that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap?

As I’ve often mentioned, the most remarkable streak in sports is in the Olympic men’s 100 meter dash. The 100m competition typically starts off with about 80 entrants from around the world. After the first round, the top 40 move on to the quarterfinals, then 16 to the semifinals, and ultimately 8 to the finals.

Over the last six Olympics, 1984 through 2004, all 48 finalists have been men of West African descent.

Of the 40 survivors of the 2008 first round, there appear to be 3 East Asians (two from Japan and one from China), six Europeans (Poland, Italy Britain, Slovenia, Spain, and Russia), one or two mulattoes (e.g., Brazil), and around 30 blacks of West African descent, including the representative of Norway.

The Japanese can be pretty fast, as baseball player Ichiro Suzuki shows. Japanese runners made up 3 of the 32 semifinalists in the 1996-2000 Olympics.

Judging by the first round times, I’m assuming this streak will continue for a seventh Olympiad.

If I had to guess the man to break this string, it would be 21-year-old Craig Pickering of Milton Keynes, England. The British beat the Americans to win the gold in the 4×100 meter sprint relay in Athens in 2004, showing that they are a legitimate sprinting power, so Pickering even making the British team for the Olympics is impressive. In the first heat, Pickering ran a solid 10.21 to finish third just behind two West Indian stars, former world record holder Asafa Powell and two-time Olympic finalist Kim Collins. That made him the fastest nonblack in the world on Friday. (To be precise about this, you should adjust for wind velocity, which I haven’t done.)

But Pickering’s year probably won’t be 2008. His goal now is to make the semifinals. He’ll likely be more of a threat when he’s at his 25-year-old peak at the 2012 Games in front of the hometown crowd in London.

Pickering told the Guardian:

“I only get bothered when I’m asked about the race issue. I don’t believe I can’t run 100m in 9.99 because I’m white.

Of the 364 times that human beings have run under 10.00 seconds, only once was by somebody not of largely or completely West African descent — Patrick Johnson of Australia, who is half Irish, half Australian Aborigine. (A Pole and a Japanese have run ten flat.)

“And I don’t believe black sprinters think that just because of their colour they’re automatically going to run under 10 seconds without working hard. But I don’t like these questions because I’m scared of saying something that might offend black people - or even white people.” …

The prospect of both Pickering and Aikines-Aryeetey improving markedly between now and the London Olympics needs to be considered in light of Colin Jackson’s recent assertion that it would take a miracle for a British athlete to win gold on the track in 2012. “I actually endorse that,” Pickering says, while acknowledging that Jackson’s formidable record as a world champion hurdler was also forged under Arnold’s coaching. “If you look at the current state of British athletics, it is going to need a small miracle. America can produce 10 great new athletes a year. Nine of them might go to American football but the 10th will probably still beat most European athletes. The Americans won’t be quaking that I’ve run 60m in 6.55. Next year in the indoor world championships they’ll probably have three athletes running under 6.50 - so in that sense we might need a miracle.”

And yet Pickering’s strong displays this year are striking especially because, as he points out, “60m is not my best distance. I’m much more suited to the 100m and I’ll be 25 in 2012 - which is the perfect age for a sprinter. So who knows?”

The AP reports:

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and John McCain agree on Frank Sinatra.

The two presidential candidates offered widely different top 10 favorite songs to Blender magazine but shared the same appreciation for Ol’ Blue Eyes. Obama chose “You’d Be So Easy to Love,” while McCain liked “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.”
In the September issue, on sale nationwide Tuesday, the candidates delivered their list.

McCain prefers ABBA’s disco classic “Dancing Queen.” Obama favors the hip-hop jam “Ready or Not” by the Fugees.

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