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Of course War Nerd is against the Iraq War — that’s one reason why Steve Sailer likes him so much. Steve’s pretty soundly against it too and has been for awhile. War Nerd articulates the American Conservative position better than they do.

Hostility towards science? Or hostility towards science skewed with a political perspective opposite their own? I’d say the latter more often than not.
As to the rest…Such a circus.
We have those whose religious ideology prevents them from accepting evolution. Who then are constantly ridiculed by others who share an equally rigid adherence to their politcal ideology.. Which allows them to effortlessly weave their ideology and science together. Then accuse those who reject such a pairing of being hostile towards science.
A laugh riot for sure..
If you’re not trying to seriously pursue science…
M

Nasr’s book, The Shia Revival, is a great read for general background. His treatment of the Iranian “Red Shia” revolution is interesting, as well as the way he traces the Sunni (esp. Saudi) reaction to that revolution.

Seems to me someone is remembering the past a little too rosy. I went to high school as a white kid in Hawaii. Wasn’t fun at all. This notion that Haole is non offensive is rubbish, I heard “Hey Haole boy you got quarter?” so many times usually accompanied by a punch that I have not forgotten it. Course the Teachers were racist too. I’ll never forget a favorite social studies teacher lobbying to keep the military dependent kids from being eligible for homecoming king/queen. Oh lest we forget what was the last day of school called? Kill a Haole day. Hmm no not offensive at all O

Nijinsky wasn’t a bandit, Steve. Read The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

You should post the emails from SiteCoach explaining the “error” in translation. They claim not to block political sites. I will reply and inquire about http://www.isteve.com. I will point out that your blogspot page has people leaving very anti-semitic remarks (reminds me of Daily Kos). Given that SiteCoach is a German company, they are very sensitive regarding antisemitism. Best of luck.

SiteCoach is claiming that they do not censor isteve.com. They claim that the administrators must be choosing to do so. I think the issue here is with KMart and whomever they employ to handle those kiosks. Take Care.

We are not fighting genes or blood or a race; those are Talmudic and Kabbalistic obsessions clandestinely conveyed into our civilization by means of the Social-Darwinist and Hitlerian belt of transmission. Originally this racism was a rabbinic meme, reflecting the ancient megalomania of the Pharisaic sect at Jerusalem.

When the great French writer and virtuoso anti-rabbinic polemicist, L.F. Céline, wandered the salons of Paris during the Nazi occupation, he was invited to speak at various anti-Jewish conferences, where “Jews” were denounced with great fervor. He sat in the back of the room at one such gathering, disgruntled and mumbling imprecations. Thinking Celine resentful because he was in the rear, the organizers invited him to come up to the dais and join the assembled Vichy dignitaries as they denounced “Jewish bullsh**t.” But Celine only stood up and shouted, “What about Aryan bulls**t? Why don’t you talk about that for a change?” and then he stalked off.

http://www.revisionisthistory.org/essay23.html

I hate to tell you but
1. the Hispanics and native Americans in new Mexico were there first. Just because someone signed a bit of paper doesn’t mean they are going to change the culture that quickly. heck there are areas in NYC that are italian, or polish etc.. and no ones mad at them for not “assimilating”

Also If you think Hispanics only have low paying unskilled labor jobs, well your just ignorant.

Paul Graham. Healthy, but even more importantly, brilliant on both sides of his brain. Driven. Philanthropic. Personable.

Just a follow-up on my Paul Graham comment. You may want someone on the younger side: that way their DNA is still in good condition. No sense copying horribly mutated and degraded DNA into people.

And looking at ones family is a better way to find early death/disability/etc genes anyway.

Hi, I had a question about one of the supporting links that you provided about the chart displaying Wellesley College majors and the amount of virgins associated w/ each major. You claim that the chart correlates with the average GRE score for each of the majors, and that the CAT.INIST paper could prove it. When I followed the link though, it took me to a study that only compared gre scores of asian and white students at an unspecified university/ies. I was wondering if you might be able to provide a link to a study that actually correlated to the survey conducted at Wellesly College.

Brooks is telling all parents of children who have Mental Retardation or Borderline Intelligence that their children’s low cognitive ability is a direct result of parental inadequacy. If these parents would love their children more, the Mental Retardation would go away. 
 
No, he’s saying that growing up in a family, as opposed to growing up in an orphanage, has a beneficial result on IQ for mentally retarded children.

The above should read “beneficial effect,” not “beneficial result.”

Being a quarter Finnish (along with half-Ukrainian Jewish and a quarter Irish), I love the Finn baiting. My full-blooded Finn grandfather was absolutely the stereotypical Finn–quiet, shy, blond and an engineer. When it comes to Finn baiting, it’s usually funny ’cause it’s true.

Look, here’s the deal. Gentiles are out to get Jews. Always have been, always will be. They may act nice (like Americans try to) but you can never forget what they have done for 2000-3000 years. And you can never really trust them, for anti-Semitism is like a mental virus that, once in their cultural “bloodstream”, is utterly ineradicable. It just lies dormant for a while — sometimes short, sometimes long.

Ok, that’s the Reform, Conservative and Morthodox line.

The Orthodox and Haredi dogma is that God sent the gentiles to punish the Jews for their failure to follow halacha. They believe that the Holocaust was God’s will, and the Jews brought it on themselves

(This [ahem] slight difference in perspective also explains why many, many secular Israeli and Haredi Jews hate each other with a passion.)

Anonymous said…

“His white father impregnated his black mother during the latter days of British colonialism in the Caribbean, running back to England after finishing his time playing with and impregnating the natives.”

Ewwww. You ever get the feeling that these liberals are really disgusted by miscegenation?

In a couple more lines this guy would have gotten to his “spewing his filthy seed” part and I would have had to run for the toilet.

Something about liberalism really brings out the Victorian bluenose somehow.

Look, Anonymous 12:02PM, just turn out the lights, flip off your shoes, kick back, and catch a few Z’s.

You’ll feel better by mid-afternoon, I guarantee you.

And try to cut back on that AM coffee load, OK?

Gould and Wilson? Nope.

Gould was an unregenerate NYC Marxist. To my knowledge he never buried the hatchet with anyone who did not support party line.

This is so sad. MIT, full of the smartest propeller-heads in the country, constructs an idiot building, an architectural joke, a folly, and then acts like it is actually supposed to work.

When an illiterate one-eyed Mayan roofer can tell at a glance the whole building is going to leak like a stuck llama, it takes a pair of gargantuan brass ones to actually bring suit, knowing you are going to look like a complete and utter moron to the entire engineering world.

It’s like suing Rube Goldberg because his machines break down in a production environment.

It’s like suing Duchamp because his urinal leaked.

How can anyone give an MIT degree the same respect, knowing that no one in the entire institution had the common sense to say “no”.

Gents, I went to the NAEP report card and looked at the various categories.

Putting it bluntly, anyone who thinks that Texas is better than Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota, Vermont and New Hampshire in teaching white 8th graders mathematics, and is only JUST behind Massachusetts in 2nd place is a fool.

I don’t know how they are rigging the game, I don’t know what their score inflation tools are, but they are cooking them somehow.

And I say this as a proud descendant of Texas revolutionaries going back to 1811 and before.

Didn’t Rod Paige start the score diddling in Houston? Has it spread statewide?

I think the NGO angle is the strongest. Wherever you have refugee camps you are going to have hundreds of bleeding hearts all with a piece of the action, including the security companies, the reporters and cameramen, the bush pilots to fly to and fro, the water suppliers, the food suppliers, those who set up clinics, those who set up schools, and those who ship all the people out and replant them from Minneapolis to Maine and Dublin to the banlieus of Marseilles.

A fundamental requirement is someplace SAFE. That place is the internationally managed refugee camp. At the camp they have a concentrated group of pathetic souls, each guaranteed to have a sound bite story, mouths to feed, Western food and medicine nearby (for them), a pool of pathetic humanity they can gather and pimp to the world, international flights relatively close to bring in celebrities and politicians, and , in general, a place where they meet up and mingle like it was old home week.

If you don’t have a camp, if you don’t have a safe place for westerners and their contractors to gather, you will not have the critical mass of bleeding hearts and bleeding heart industries form and coordinate. And the camp guarantees that they are victims and not perpetrators.

Filled with starving women and chidren, you never see the camp-dwellers toyi-toyi with calls for blood, you never see them necklace a captured janjaweed or cut up their attackers for muti. They are presented as defenceless martyrs.

What in heaven’s name is the Department of Energy doing supporting this research?!? Look at the credits at the bottom of the paper.

I’m guessing McCain made a deal with The Powers That Be a couple years back: reign in his criticism of the neocon project and process (particularly, curtail criticism of Bush), and get a viable shot at the presidency in 08.

I’d be very surprised if this kid gloves treatment of McCain wasn’t part of such a deal.

As a long-time reader of your blog, I’m sometimes puzzled by exactly what religion means to Steve Sailer. Mostly I figure that’s Steve Sailer’s business. But with this angle on Obama’s religion things get more complicated. You’re not a public figure and Obama is running for most-public-figure, so it’s not obviously uncalled for to poke and prod in ways that would be personally uncomfortable if things were turned around. And as you imply, if something isn’t as it seems with Obama’s faith, it would be of interest to lots of voters. But comments like “the ultra-educated agnostic he looks like … We must just take his faith on faith” make my curiosity itch about your personal views on what presidential faith should be.

David,

If I meant to say something I’d say it. Don’t put words in my mouth. Or Steve’s or Obama’s, for that matter.

Alien vs. Predator II

I found it refreshing in its moral clarity!

Seriously, the absence of Jackie Robinson on this list shows how feminized schools have gotten

Nonsense. It shows, first, that baseball isn’t all that important to young kids, and second, that kids don’t care about sports figures that died before they were born.

Neither of them good things, of course.

Very clearly stated. I can’t disagree.

I must say, I’m extremely impressed by how consistently well Obama has carried himself given the emotional turmoil of his ’95 book. This may be evidence for some kind of big, sweeping transition of identity (which might, or might not, speak to your concern).

I would be very surprised, after the coming wave of genetics knowledge and biotech hits (certainly by 2050!), if affirmative action looks anything like it does today.

We’ll certainly have affirmative action ‘stuff’ to think about in 2050– but perhaps not as we know it now. I personally think it’s futile to project that far into the future without taking into account what biotech may mean for eugenics, fertility, enhancement, and so forth. Or even how deeper, less ambiguous (and thus less ignorable) knowledge of what various genes mean will change the affirmative action discussion.

If you want to see some creationist nonsense watch the video at wayofthemaster.com. Its pretty funny how ignorant some creationists can be. I think smarter people have a better BS meter detector. People with a low IQ cannot distinguish the difference between scientific fact and pseudoscience. So they are apt to have a lot of childish misunderstandings of the world around them. People with a higher IQ are better able to tell if something is phoney or not.

There is an interesting webpage below.
http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/index.php
The creator plotted the average reader SAT scores (with standard error) for the 100 most popular books on facebook. Unsurprisngly people who had an SAT score of 800-950 liked to read the holy bible. That’s on the low end of the SAT score range. People with an SAT score of 1050-1100 liked to read the book of Mormon, which is interesting. So this chart indicates that people who like to read the Bible have a lower IQ level on average. Unfortunately those are the only two holy books on the chart, so you can’t see where other religions would fall. Students in the schools with average SAT scores above 1250 like to read 100 Years of Solitude, Crime and Punishment and Freakonomics.
There are two other things that I would really like to know. One is, what is the average SAT/IQ of atheists as a group. I’m not sure if that has been studied yet, but I would assume it would be fairly high. I bet it would be the highest out of all the religions. Another “religion” I would be interested in, is scientology. Does anyone know what the average IQ/SAT score of a scientologist is? Now you might say it must be really low. However, I’ve know some really smart people who were scientologists. For some reason it appeals to certain people with a high IQ, especially if they have mental problems.

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Maybe the experiment only showed that viewing high contrast figures helped subjects detect high contrast figures. Did they try some shape other than ‘ape’?
It would not surprise me at all to find that classes on stereotyping and prejudice create more problems than they solve. I noted some years ago that many Black grad students and professors from Africa or Caribbean countries seemed to have more relaxed and friendly relations with white students than Black Americans did. Why? My guess was they hadn’t been trained to expect a racist interaction. Their lack of prickly defensiveness allowed the whites to relax and behave normally. American Blacks and whites (especially outside the South) are so uptight about race that it is hard to relax and relate normally. In the South there are enough unavoidable interactions that the nervousness wears off and people just act like people, mostly.

Hey Steve, here’s an interesting article…

Boris says sorry over ‘blacks have lower IQs’ article in the Spectator.

That could be an interesting topic for your forthcoming VDare article…?

Yer know,… Boris’ opponent, Ken Livingstone, is kinda like a Caucasian version of Al Sharpton – and his former henchman, Lee Jasper, is the Afro-British equivalent to Jesse Jackson.

The Spectator, to be fair, has published a few articles on biological differences:

Are Whites Cleverer Than Blacks? by Sean Thomas

Let’s not be dumb about stupidity by Michael Hanlon

Black is best by Rod Liddle

Don’t blame eugenics, blame politics by Terence Kealey

I disagree with your assessment, but the way you said it had me grinning. Touche.

I’m glad you’re keeping tabs on Iraqi factions. I’ve simply lost track.

How stupid this war is makes me think about Obama, and how I think you don’t tend to give Obama a fair shake on his war stance. He was against this war (he called it a stupid war), and is for ending it as promptly as safely possible. You’re against this war (you called it a stupid war), and are for ending it as promptly as safely possible.

Post on high-fructose corn syrup as corrosive to willpower up on my blog. I’m guessing you’d find it interesting.

Interesting work. I wonder how the “whitening” of certain Asian groups in the eyes of traditionally White Americans could impact the future perceptions of other “dark” people in the eyes of Whites in the future.
Some say a rigid system of perceptions is what holds certain ethnicities from excelling in this nation. If the perceptions have already started tipping in a different direction, will it start a cycle of feedback until we reach a smiling, happy medium?

Tough question, obviously. I think the obvious first step would be to see how each axis (+under various rotations) correlates with historical ethnic latitude, and time since adopting an agricultural lifestyle.

Experience suggests that men are more interested in ideological systems. Both fundamentalists and atheists tend to strong (sometimes fanatical) support of a few key ideas.
Women might be more interested in social and emotional aspects of religion. Methodists, UCC, and black churches, for example, lean a lot more to emotional and societal appeals than to a few simple rules to avoid hellfire. They are not at all similar in tone, but the appeal is social or emotional rather than appealing to a few hard and fast rules of action. In my hometown, the Jehovahs Witnesses had the reputation of being a more ‘charismatic’ emotional church than some others.
Perhaps the remarks by Omar Ali and TGGP can be interpreted in the same vein?

I’ll summarize:
If you’re looking for a fight over ideas, look for a man.
If you are looking for comfort, emotional commitment and involvement, look for a woman.

Saudis have no reason to help America after Bush’s stupid war made Iran the strongest power in the Gulf region. Americans should be grateful the price of oil is not 250 dollars a barrel.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I also think this is a pretty merciless, no-possible-win interpretation of Obama’s actions. A few months ago you were calling for Obama to leave his radical church; credit where credit’s due.

When I was reading this post and the linked post, immediately I began to think of the differences in thinking processes between Scientific community and what is considered the realm of “Humanities and Social Sciences”. Both arguements brought up by Erwin Chargaff and Robert Sinsheimer are very weak, and I agree with Jason Failes: “I love the smell of naturalistic fallacy in the morning”.
Both people seem to miss the nuances of the subject by relying on the term “natural”. What is natural? I doubt either person could honestly tell me, and I doubt their answers would hold up compared with what millions of others would consider natural. Our natural is a constantly shifting idea, and not something that can be tagged down with the scientific method; it is inherently a theoretical topic. Discussions like these remind me that as time rolls on, the sciences and humanities need to come closer and closer to each other in their investigations of life. I don’t intend this to sound like an attack on the Scientific community: I’m an English Major, and I’ll happily admit that Scientist are doing the most important work in the world.

Very interesting. Educated guess models are good.

One initial thought:
With the combination of massive genetic diversity and pockets of relative genetic segregation in India I would expect a slightly larger standard deviation than e.g., in China. I’d like to see SD estimates built in at some later point.

THE LATEST BRILLIANT LIBERAL JEWISH IDEA

Joseph L. writes:
A book by Bernard Avishai, “The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last,” is reviewed in the New York Times.
The answer, Avishai says, in this brilliantly argued book, is not to tinker with symbols but to develop a national consciousness and identity based not on religion, but simply on being Israeli–to remove all privileges accorded to Jews and make Israel a modern, egalitarian democracy. If all Israeli citizens were simply Israelis, rather than Jews, Muslims or Christians, there would be no “demographic threat” to the state’s continuation.
Brilliant is understating it! An existential threat to Israel is eliminated with the stroke of a pen. With the entire population become simply “Israeli,” Israel is safe by definition!
LA replies:
There’s no end to the idiocy of liberals. He’s not aware that Arab members of the Knesset openly side with terrorists–and with complete impunity? He’s not aware that many or most of the one millions Arab “Israelis” openly side with the Arabs who seek Israel’s destruction?
In contrast to Avishai’s insane idea, there is the sane proposal of Arieh Eldad to require all Israeli Arabs to take a pledge of loyalty to the state of Israel in order to continue to enjoy political rights in that country.

The only group more out of touch with reality than liberal Jews are the white nationalist anti-Semites, who, following the theories of Kevin MacDonald, believe that the Jews are compelled by Darwinian evolutionary forces to destroy white gentile societies so as to advance their own power. These anti-Semitic idiots haven’t noticed that something like half the Jews of Israel (not to mention most Jews in the U.S.) support policies leading to the destruction of the Jewish state. How does THAT fit into the MacDonald thesis of merciless Jewish evolutionary competition against non-Jews?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 30, 2008 12:18 AM

What do you all think “South Park Conservatives” means?
Is it as simple as people who are cynical (realistic?) about human nature and also like dick jokes? Not that there is anything wrong with that. 🙂

I think executive function or prefrontal lobe functioning is as important as general intelligence. Suprisingly even with a lot of damage to the prefrontal cortex general intelligence is not necessarily affected, but many afflicted subjects become unable to take care of themselves. Motivation, drive, planning ahead and attention are all traits that are affected by prefrontal cortex dysfunction. Asperger’s is very similar to certain types of frontal lobe trauma especially those with medial frontal damage. 
http://www.ect.org/effects/lobe.html 
 
I think proper function of the prefrontal cortex is critical to being able to use your intelligence. With damage to this area you would have poor socializing ability, poor attention, apathy, low motivation and an inability to think/plan ahead. Mesocortical dopamine in the prefrontal cortex is associated with improved attention/interest/motivation, so drugs that increase dopamine can help executive problems. 
http://www.newsweek.com/id/139885 
 
My own theory for creativity is that people who are creative are very tangential, meaning they make a lot of seemingly bizarre and irrelevant connections. See thought disorder. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorder 
 
Tangentiality is common to schizophrenia/schizotypal, aspergers and psychopathy. Surprisingly all of these disorders have been associated with increased creativity. I thinks thats one thing that perhaps asians have a deficit. It’s not that they aren’t creative or imaginative, it just seems like they are less likely to make tangential, odd combinations of novel ideas. Combining tangentiality with a high general intelligence is like striking gold. You can make seemingly bizarre connections, but your intelligence allows you to sift out which connections are good and which are bad.  
 
Tangentiality may actually be associated with impaired prefrontal lobe function (which is found in people with schizotypal, bipolar and asperger’s). NorthEast Asians have a different level of COMT in their prefrontal cortex. COMT breaks down dopamine. I think this generally means that asians have more dopamine in their prefrontal lobe and thus have better concentration/attention/motivation than europeans on average. However this increased focus/concentration may come at a cost as they are less likely to make tangential connections. Also it could be partially societal too. Asian culture may prohibit asians from making the more bizzarre seemingly irrelevant connections. This probably interacts with the openness to experience personality trait as well. Europeans may be more open to new ideas on average than asians. The asians I know who are very creative also seem to be more more open to new and different ideas and are also able to make bizarre/weird connections. So it probably cuts across ethnic groups and is more a confluence of traits that one group may have more of on average.

Parity and negative feedback seem to cover it.

I would point toward a related but additional human (or at least Western) tendency, the drive to see/create parity where none exists. E.g., newspapers giving equal time to experts on evolution and intelligent design theorists.

It’s human nature to not only be most interested in competitive-parity situations where either side could win (perfectly understandable, from an evolutionary standpoint of how to spend one’s attention), but also to see or manufacture them when they don’t exist.

I suspect you already know the broad-stroke answer to this.

But I would submit that bilingualism may have significant cognitive benefits– this link comes with some caveats and lots of unknowns, but see e.g., http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=ba0d1591-1799-48be-abd5-f5e62cf154fe

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@Colugo
Your point is perfectly correct, and dovetails with Razib’s point nicely. Just because an individual is accomplished in one field does not give license to pretend expertise in another.
I disagree, however, with your specifics. Richard Dawkins’ knowledge of biology and evolution gives him a higher platform from which to speak than the religious thinkers he’s debating. I’ve thought of Bertrand Russell as more a philosopher than a scientist.
I guess my point is that we all have the freedom to come to our own philosophical conclusions about the “non-scientific questions.” But I think it is reasonable to listen more intently to someone who has actually studied life scientifically, even in a slightly different context, than someone who has not. A demonstration of analytical ability in any field demonstrates analytical ability in general. Their experience is not a license to spout off without criticism, of course, but it is a feather in their cap that has earned them a slightly higher stage than those with empty caps.

I follow the contours of your (interesting) argument, though the reference to ‘tax and spend democrats’ at the end seems tired and outdated.

Does Michelle Malkin ghostwrite this blog?

Odd, they must have changed the article since Ian Tindale read it, as I didn’t get that impression at all. That Slate’s national correspondent chose to use US examples of a trend isn’t exactly surprising.
Regarding the actual story – the trend is pretty much the same in the UK, although the UK government did ban using a mobile phone while driving five years ago (which hasn’t stopped people doing it, any more than they obey speed limits). But there are plenty of examples of UK satnav stupidity – people driving to a small village in Yorkshire when they’re intending to go to a Chelsea match because they’ve put “Stamford Bridge” in as the destination, or the taxi driver who tried driving up a river (not across, up) because the satnav told him to. Lorries getting stuck happens enough that there has even been a sign designed to warn them. In short, it’s people blindly obeying the instructions on the screen so they don’t have to think about it.

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Is this the English translation or the original German?

There are online javascript tools like http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/tools/word_counter.html that will do this– I’m not sure how to do it within Word, however.

It's a little different than numerically ranking wordcount, but you might enjoy a tag cloud generator. A tag cloud is basically a visual representation of what you're trying to calculate. For instance, here's the tag cloud for your site:

http://www.tocloud.com/keywordcloud.do?url=http%3A%2F%2Fisteve.blogspot.com&txt=&t=&s=a&i=g&mc=&wc=&ef=&sw=&url2=

And here someone has plugged in every presidential speech (1776-2007) into a tag cloud generator. Move the slider to see the change in presidential rhetoric.

http://chir.ag/projects/preztags/

This idea strikes me as clever, but too problematic on the levels of privacy, meta-accountability, sheer informational logistics, and power balance…

A small tweak would be to have all submitted comments be private, viewable only by the loan institution, not peoples’ neighbors.

These differences don't mean anything without the standard deviations of each variable. How many clear 95% confidence intervals? 99%?

Well, I don’t watch Adult Swim, I’m married with children and have zero belief in any deity. What does that mean? Oh, yeah, I’ve got it, generalizations are often wrong….

Holding Obama accountable for the present economy is a bit much, to be honest. I guess I don’t buy this “Obama Bear Market” label.

Here’s where the joke originated:
http://xkcd.com/552/

Funny stuff.

This looks like a nerd Friday the 13th party. Wish I would have been invited.

The WSJ has suddenly a newfound respect for the rule of law. The very folks cheerleading lawbreakers by writing editorials in favor of open borders and illegal wars in the mideast is asking congress to respect AIG’s contract with employees. It is a wonderful time to be a paleo-conservative.

T99 wants to shift the blame for the economic crisis to the AYrabs. His hysterical anti-Obama rants are no longer funny. Wall street gangsters ought to be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against America.

NYT is the voice of upper class new yorkers. Dowd is doing her job of creating a distraction by inciting racial resentment. NYT and WSJ will do everything possible to divert attention from the policies of the last thirty five years which have shifted wealth from the middle classes by lowering the top income tax rate and increasing the payroll tax. An

I’m worried that this method may overstate the hype for artists with single important works. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is a piece where everyone should own a recording, while Schoenberg managed to revolutionize modern music without ever creating an obvious ‘must-own’ work. In general, I expect that composers with single great works would be ‘overhyped’ on this methodology because there is not a lot to spend column inches on in encyclopedias, and people may generally understand that they are not important composers (i.e. Saint-Saens) even as they want to own that one piece.

You forgot the biggest reason for the similarity in names-passport fraud.

Wall street journal is out of touch with middle class concerns. It took a bombing in 1920 to wake up wall Street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

Mexican flu is the best description so far for the flu sweeping the United States but the term absolves open borders fanatics. Nafta flu is a good name for the flu. Isteve readers need to come up with a colorful name that implicates open borders fanatics in the spread of the flu in the US.

There is so much data showing vitamin D prevents cancer and has a probable role in cancer treatment. The Canadian cancer society now recommends everyone take vitamin D to prevent cancer. There is no known downside to having optimal vitamin D levels. Take a look at http://www.vitaminD3world.com for some good summaries of the data. The site also has a good newsletter

Excellent visual. I found it so useful, I linked to you in my blog.

You have limited view of God.

McCain and Palin are yesterday’s news. Gingrich is the neocon’s new darling. Gingrich recent conversion to Catholicism is suspiciously well timed for his 2012 presidential run. The republican party cannot win without the Catholic vote. Neocon slimeballs will keep scheming to control the Republican party.

The data on vitamin D and cancer prevention is as extensive as the data on smoking causing cancer. It is time for everyone to know about the facts. take a look at http://www.vitaminD3world.com The site also offers a good newsletter and has recently launched a new micropill formulation of vitamin D

@ RKU:

No offense, but I'm not sure how you are "ranking" Occidental College. Are you going by its' NCAA D3 ranking? That's for sports, buddy. Those things don't matter in the real world.

Please share how you got your "ranking". As far as I can see, it is a phenomenally well respected institution. Not only have I known many bright students that have attended or currently attend Oxy, but the US News and World Report (considered one of the most legitimate college ranking systems), puts it at 37th in the country. That's one of the best in the country. And why stop at that? US universities comprise 30 of the top 45 universities worldwide. Occidental is far from "third rank".

But, continue thinking what you will. I doubt I can change your ignorant opinion on things.

Eisenhower sounded the alarm fifty some years ago. A lot of Americans have an interest in America fighting wars. American democracy has been corrupted by defence contractors bribing politicians with taxpayer money.

The gap between any genetic truth and public perception (at least in the US) would qualify as amazing if it didn’t give me so much pause. There need to more interpreters like you. (my blog)

The food labeling discussion makes me think of the common weather reporting ‘feels like’ temperature. 98 degrees — feels like 102 degrees.
I’d like to see that on food labels. 100 cals.– feels like 88 cals.

"Every man in the world wishes he could have a blond hair Nordic Goddess"

The statement might be true today but it was different five hundred years ago. After nearly eight hundred years of Moorish rule the Spaniard's ideal of beauty was a woman with dark hair and dark eyes. The Spaniards could not believe their luck when they landed in the Americas to find women that matched their ideal of feminine beauty.

True, and I think that many of the Cape colony slaves were brought from Madagascar, which gives them an even earlier mixing.

If whites were serious about taking on the left they would start by demanding affirmative actions at Ivy league universities.

A couple of sites mentioned that the fist coloured Miss South Africa was Amy Kleynhans back in 1992. I did a GSI for her, and based on those pictures, she has a very definite East Asian look.

"One can make the argument that, ceteris paribus, it is in our long-term cultural best interest to support Westernized people over nativists, regardless of the specific moral or political situation."

It was true two hundred years ago. Nowadays westernized elites in non-western cultures feel a hatred toward the west for alienating from their cultural roots. The American media never covers the rage many westernized elites feel towards the west.

Philip,

By what right did the former Vice President have the power to order CIA to do (or not do) anything? He may have been a big pooh bah, but was he in CIA’s chain of command? Or did the CIA director just lack the cohones to tell Darth to F.O.?

Mike

"Check out his amazon wishlist. Pure SWPL, man"

How SWPL is it just to post your 667-item amazon wishlist publicly?

I'm reminded of the annoying SWPL tendency to say things like "oh, I'd love to go backpacking through South America, if only I could get the time off…"

It's an unbelievably pretentious attempt to demonstrate that you have good taste in things you can't afford.

I’ve read in many places that the mongoloid phenotype is relatively recent in the western parts of the Eurasian continent. So perhaps a more mongoloid genetics had an admixture on the original Finnic populations? Hopefully someone could shed some light on this.

On the subject of black writers who have written bookd on the black overclass you missed Lawrence Otis Graham and his book "Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class ".

I am a Mormon, am not racist, and have friends who I love and cherish of all kinds of ethnicities, ilks, and backgrounds. I have never met a racist Mormon in my 30 years as a member. We are all children of God, and “God is no respector of persons”. I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that only through Him can we overcome the obstacles of physical death (through the resurrection) and the spiritually deadening effects of sin (through our repentance and grace and mercy of Jesus). I love my life, family, and others more because of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS. Despite all the frits of history in the Church, errors made by humans, half-lies, outright lies, mischaracterizations, and anything else anti-mormons choose to hurl against the Church, the individual lives of Mormons are being enriched and brought closer to their Savior. Read the Book of Mormon! It will change your life as it did mine and bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

Andrew,
Go to http://www.fairlds.org for answers to your questions. There is a search bar that is pretty handy there, and I’m sure all of your objections are covered.
BTW – I picked up on your green jello quip, and thought it was pretty funny. I think the Mormon cultural stereotypes are well-deserved and pretty funny.
Good luck on your search for truth…I have told you what I know.

Right now Republicans ought to say the phrase "Why do democrats hate the elderly?" until most Americans subconsciously link Democrats with hatred of the elderly.

The majority of Americans find homosexuality distasteful despite countless attempts by hollyweird libs to normalize homosexuality. Republicans are right to oppose attempts to normalize depravity.

Although Caldwell does a good job criticizing the impact of Islamic immigration, when he talks about Latino immigration into the the US

Caldwell relies on neocon paymasters for his paycheck. It would be foolish for him to report the truth about latino immigration destruction of the south western united states.

If he believes it is a disease and yet would not hire based on that, does he also hold that view for all diseases?