An enormous, gold-standard study by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke clearly showed that perinatal infections are the primary cause of preterm births and other perinatal illnesses.

“Acute chorioamnionitis is the largest contributor to the poor pregnancy outcomes of black women and women who have low socioeconomic status,” and it is “the most common cause of preterm labor wherever it has been studied” (RL Naeye. Acute chorioamnionitis and the disorders that produce placental insufficiency. In: Monographs in Pathology No. 33, Pathology of Reproductive Failure. FT Krause et al., eds.Williams and Wilkins, 1991, Ch 10, pp 286-307).

The NINDS study used placental pathological examinations of about 45,000 subjects. Pathological examination of the placenta is necessary to determine the presence of chorioamnionitis in epidemiological studies, because there is sufficient clinical evidence to diagnose the infection in only about 10% of affected pregnancies. Even in cases that turned out to be fatal, there was sufficient clinical evidence for a diagnosis in only one fourth of them. (RL Naeye. Editorial. The investigation of perinatal deaths. NEJM 1983;309(10):611-612.)

In contrast, charlatans use lifestyle questionnaires, which exploit the fact that poorer people are more likely to have been exposed to those infections, in order to falsely blame smoking, drinking, drugs, diet, etc. Those kind of studies are rigged to serve social engineering agendas, rather than identify actual causes.

Y chromosomes do not determine ethnicity. Each ethnicity has a mixture of Y chromosome types, and they often overlap.

When I was growing up, “white” equaled “Caucasian”, and so Armenians and Irish and Germans are all “white”.

“Caucasians” are people from the Caucasus, such as Armenians. It’s not a generic term for whites. Irish and Germans are white, and many have no ancestry from the Caucasus.

I hope your grandma lets you live in her house.

Tobacco Control will surely be outraged at exposing the kiddies to those pipes.

In French, debonair.

Apples and Oranges.

The point I responded to was absolute:

most adults agreed with the statement, “Two people from the same race will always be more genetically similar to each other than two people from different races”

No, not always.

I have a mystery cousin on Ancestry who is black. She shows up as a 2nd-3rd cousin. That means she’s closer to me than anyone in the massive swarm of white 4th cousins, never mind those farther out. Another mystery cousin was adopted. So far all we know is which side of my family she’s related to. And another mystery cousin’s mother was adopted. He’s waiting out the 100-year seal of her birth record, due to expire next year.

The allele hasn’t “endured since time immemorial.” And it’s confined to a subset of one out-of-Africa race, not the other, nor is it found in Africans.

“Schizophrenia” is just recent modern psycho-jargon. There aren’t objective biological criteria by which it is defined. As a label it has gone into and out of fashion. Also note that the allele is more common in Egypt and Tunisia than in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Lesbians tend to seem like they just got dealt an overall more masculine set of genes on average than straight women.”

More likely, an extra dose of testosterone from polycystic ovary syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome

It hasn’t “endured since time immemorial.” And it’s confined to a subset of one out-of-Africa race, not the other, nor is it found in Africans.

But the derived allele is most common in the warmer, Mediterranean parts of Europe, not the colder north. And why would they be more in need of protection against hypertension than anyone else?

“A codpiece (from Middle English: cod, meaning “scrotum”) is a covering flap or pouch that attaches to the front of the crotch of men’s trousers and usually accentuates the genital area. It was held closed by string ties, buttons, or other methods. It was an important item of European clothing in the 15th and 16th centuries…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece

Cultural appropriation!

They singled out one SNP in particular: “Convergent evidence of strong association (Z=9.74) and the highest observed probability of a deleterious protein effect (CADD13 score=34) was found for rs13107325. This missense mutation (MAF=0.065) in SLC39A8 was the lead SNP in locus 71 and the ancestral allele C was associated with higher intelligence scores.”

According to this SNP, Europeans would be the dumbest. They have the highest proportion of the T allele. It is almost absent in other populations.
https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs13107325

They look like what my great-great grandmother wore, back on the farm in Hof, Norway.

Mainly southwest + northern English.
Europe 100%
Great Britain 72%
Europe West 10%
Scandinavia 9%
Ireland 5%

Hey, I thought that this was The Unz Review not West Hunter!

I can’t figure out what your run-on sentences mean. But, the other major problem is that they’re pretending that small percentages are legitimate rather than false positives.

There’s a lot of hooey in their claims, like telling the Korean guy he must have had a great-great grandfather who was pure Chinese. This is because of population structure, where the founding Korean population happened to have Chinese genes already, and there hasn’t been a pure Chinese in that population for thousands of years. And, the Japanese are in large part descended from a group that was originally in Korea.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/07/koreans-not-quite-the-purest-race/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal

When I lived in Houston, I was told that the water table was too high for people to have basements. So much for the possibility of storing massive amounts of runoff.

So Salt Lake City is a coastal town?

Rich people have more expensive stuff. Poor people don’t have as much stuff, and they’d have even less if they had to pay more for the box to store it.

MacDougall Surname DNA Project – Y-DNA Classic Chart
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/McDougall/default.aspx?section=yresults

No African Ys in the lot.

On the radio, I’ve been hearing English-language ads touting Telemundo, which I understand is a Spanish-language network. But those who speak Spanish probably know about it already. Could they be planning to start programming in English?

My great-great grandparents were Ulster Scottish Protestants from County Donegal.

As I wrote a few days (i.e. hundreds of threads) ago, in the perfect utopia no-one will be able spend their money on food if they are on the wrong side of history – their politically incorrect thoughts will enable the private grocery stores to block him from entering. Libertarians will applaud it because “Freedom of Association! Property Rights! It’s Not The Government Who Is Doing It, So It’s Okay!” In any event, badthinkers will not have to worry about spending their money, because their businesses will be boycotted out of existence, and their employment will be terminated (again, by private employers, so it will be okay).

These people are seriously planning to make it happen.

LOL. Look what they got away with in the good old days.

“Payment for the ammunition that was shipped from the United States to the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa was made through Guaranty Trust Company. Von Rintelen’s advisor, Sommerfeld, paid $380,000 via Guaranty Trust and Mississippi Valley Trust Company to the Western Cartridge Company of Alton, Illinois, for ammunition shipped to El Paso, for forwarding to Villa.” (Chapter 4, Wall Street and World Revolution. In: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Antony Sutton.)

One of the founding directors of the Mississippi Valley Trust Co., John Dietz Perry, was the father-in-law of David Rowland Francis, the US Ambassador to Russia when Kerensky deposed the Czar, and also when the Bolsheviks seized power from them. In 1917, the Guaranty Trust financially backed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

Thomas W. Lamont was an advisor to Mussolini and secured a $100 million loan for him in 1926. And Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, a director of the Guaranty Trust from 1915 to 1935, was active as early as 1903 in planning military interventions in the Americas. After World War I, he headed the Red Cross in Europe, was involved in Morgan loans to Mussolini, and made fact-finding trips with William J. Donovan, later head of the O.S.S.
http://tinyurl.com/y9twu2y8

“As we all know by now, settling America was easy. America is a nation of immigrants, not of settlers. The real achievement was immigrating to the Lower East Side around 1900.”

That’s exactly the mentality I encountered in the Washington Post yesterday, when I dared to affirm that Americans have a right to determine who comes to their country. I even had to explain that it wasn’t even a country until after the Founders made it one.

Be a responsible parent and drown your SJW child in the toilet.

I always wondered if the surname “Patel” belonged to a caste that was known for selling temporary lodging to travelers.

“The exercise of the First Amendment does not ordinarily require governmental expenditure to protect the right to speak and the right to hear that speech. In this case, it did, and those resources were not forthcoming. When an individual or university is unable to bear the cost of security, the government bears the responsibility to do so, even if that amounts to funding scores of additional law-enforcement officers to keep the peace or beat back an organized assault.”
http://www.sgvtribune.com/opinion/20170210/uc-berkeley-flunks-a-constitutional-test-guest-commentary
By Joseph Charney, a retired Los Angeles County prosecutor.

Then they have the gall to try to blame smokers for high health costs, based on pretending that others paid costs paid by smokers, such as lost wages, and that non-smokers’ costs don’t exist at all (e.g. the CDC’s SAMMEC).

> They are patients with a brain chemical receptor disease that turns intense organic-driven “seeking” behaviors into ruined lives.

But no such thing has ever been demonstrated. So they don’t diagnose addiction by testing peoples’ brain chemical receptors. They define addiction by what people do, or don’t do. At present, if they actually did test peoples’ brain chemical receptors, it would show that not all people with supposedly bad brain chemical receptors respond that way. This is really just a pseudo-scientific smokescreen to help them pretend to be scientific.

> 1. Food stamps aka SNAP can be used for seeds and seedlings (“plants”). And you can buy Gatorade to water them with too.

Gatorade has a lot of salt in it. You’d need plentiful rainfall to dilute it. However, you can get distilled water with SNAP, a necessity for certain houseplants that can’t tolerate trace amounts of fluoride in the tap water.

Thought experiments like this don’t really work because they don’t tell you anything useful. You can ask people what they would do in a given situation and I’m sure their answers are worth pondering on in a dry lecture theatre far away from trolleys and people, until all the philosophical juice is extracted. But in real life? Most people would do nothing, certainly the sensible ones. Because if you do something, and cause somebody’s death by doing that something, you are up on a murder charge and will probably be found guilty. On the other hand, if you do nothing, any deaths that may occur are not your fault.

I’m so excited about your thoughts on public health care. It works so well elsewhere for problems that don’t involve bandaids and stubbed toes. We’re such neanderthals that we don’t have it.

Yes, single payer health care does work better, if by better we mean delivering better results for less money. It works in the whole developed world. No one – no one in the whole world – wants to make their health care system American style.
You can deny it, you can call me communist, but this is all you can do with it.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-01/us-healthcare-global-outlier-and-not-good-way

Most guys are clueless about car problems nowadays. Modern cars aren’t like the ones in the old days. They’re designed to require specialized care. Even if it’s a simple problem like the microprocessor dropping dead and you know how to pop another one in, you might need a tow truck to deliver the part to you. At any rate, it’s not safe to work on a car alongside a busy high-speed road.

>Has everyone at Harvard lost all self respect, allowing their alum to be humiliated for open honesty about what they learned there, in the psychology-related departments?

I think Harvard will be proclaiming loudly that this goy definitely didn’t learn badthink from them.

Harvard is the leader in humiliating people for “open honesty”. Harvard exists to perpetuate the ruling class. Period.

Harvard is not a magical place where the best and brightest autistes ponder Life’s Big Questions and discover the truth as you understand truth. Harvard is a tax exempt hedge fund that also has a side business in telling little people what the Truth is.

Ruskaya Doroga (“Russian Road”)

Statisticians are blockheads if they ignore exceptions, because there may be a fixable reason for UTIs.

She’s probably waiting for the tow truck she called with her cell phone.

Never. I commented about other peoples’ UTIs.

You call that “boasting”? Most women I’ve known haven’t had UTIs. A very few get them all the time. I think the latter had the bad luck to get a strain of bacteria that forms a tough biofilm, which they can’t get rid of.

“UTIs” stands for Urinary Tract Infections. The “male equivalent” of UTIs is UTIs. STDs are spread by sexual activities, not failure to bathe. Speaking of which, why do you refuse to say how frequent bathing has to be?

Sometimes educating people to do things right can improve the statistics.

I’ll get the fainting couch for you, you poor thing. Perhaps you should stick to G-rated conversations until you grow up.

And how many showers per day do you require?

I disagreed with the point made in the article that women have a special susceptibility to UTIs. I did not “insert” it, it was already there. You apparently don’t realize that until recently, very few had those bathing facilities that you seem to believe are essential to life.

And how many showers per day do you consider necessary for survival?

” I can think of various reasons why military women living in tents and in combat areas would get UTIs.”

So enlighten us already. My hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in tents and later, tenements and other places that didn’t have flush toilets and running water until recently.

First a nosy question for you: How many showers do you feel you need to take per day?

Some of us just don’t stink as much as others. It has not dissuaded occasional attention that I just didn’t want. If I don’t see someone I want, then single and solitary is better anyway.

I’ve read that Europeans don’t think it’s unreasonable to bathe once a week. In the US they seem to take it for granted that everybody has a morning shower, and possibly another when they get home.

Here’s what they’re probably doing wrong.

On this page it says, “Don’t use douches or feminine hygiene sprays.”
https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/urinary-tract-infections

https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/douching

I’ll cross you off my list of potential bath/bed mates, then.

“women’s urinary tracts suffer in ‘austere environments.’”

Oh, really? Mine hasn’t. And it’s not because of great attention to personal hygiene. I’ve been single and solitary much of my life, and appreciative of the opportunity to save on clothing, hot water and laundry costs. Maybe those others are bathing too much, out of a false belief that it’s necessary for their health.

The microcephalin ancestral allele in a Neanderthal individual. Lari M., et al. PLoS One. 2010 May 14;5(5):e10648. “We show that a well-preserved Neanderthal fossil dated at approximately 50,000 years B.P., was homozygous for the ancestral, non-D, allele.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20498832/

Tuna is utterly flavorless nowadays. I attribute this to better refrigeration.

I’ve been blocked from a couple of US government Twitter accounts, with no ambiguity about their ownership. I’m hoping they win on the government issue.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is basically demanding that he abandon his religion in order to qualify for office, for no appropriate reason. The issue Bernie is hung up about is theological, namely what happens after death, not something practical like waging jihad against unbelievers in the here and now on earth.

My Catholic friends used to regularly warn me that I’d go to hell. We didn’t believe in their brand, so it didn’t bother me. Likewise with the fuss over LDS “baptizing” long-dead people of other religions.

Growing up in the 60s, I heard that mobsters used women as getaway drivers. Not because of car-chase driving skills, but because of their careful, non-attention attracting type driving skills.

“There are another 95 million Americans of working age who aren’t working.”

That’s Ted Cruz’s old campaign BS.

PolitiFact: “Of the 101.7 million people who are not employed, 37.5 million are age 65 and over — an age when Medicare kicks in and many Americans head into retirement. Another 11.9 million are between 16 and 19, meaning they’re either high-school-age or starting college. And another 8 million are age 20 to 24, when many are in college or graduate school.

“Combined, these groups account for 57.5 million Americans — or more than three-fifths of the number Cruz cited….

“Another point worth noting: Just because someone in the prime working-age range (25 to 64) isn’t working doesn’t mean that they are unemployed. They may be disabled, taking care of children full-time or have gone back to school. The actual number of officially unemployed Americans in January was a little under 9 million — just one-tenth of the figure Cruz cited as ‘not working.’”

Verdict: Mostly False
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/feb/10/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-says-92-million-americans-arent-working/

Fun Fact:
In Chapter IV, the “Schmedeman” who sent the cipher message of Feb. 21, 1918, from the U.S. Embassy at Christiana (Oslo), Norway, advising of the location of the Bolshevik funds in Sweden was Albert G. Schmedeman, a Democrat who supported Wilson, and future Mayor of Madison, Wis. and Governor of the state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_G._Schmedeman

I heard that, regardless of who they fantasize about, most men marry women who resemble their mothers.

“Higher-caste Indians are also quite a bit more resistant to giving up Hindu practices that are harmful to (largely, due to segregation, their own) public health (defecating outside instead of in toilets being the big one).”

Is this really a religiously-dictated practice, or just one that happens to be widespread among certain Hindu populations?

All the Bad Guys, such as The New York Times and the other mainstream media, nowadays say “graduate high school,” so I presume it’s EliteSpeak and I’d rather rip my tongue out than say it.

OT:
Israel police arrest suspect in threats on US Jewish targets

By DANIEL ESTRIN
Just now
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in a case that stoked fears across the United States.
…
“He’s the guy who was behind the JCC threats,” Rosenfeld said, referring to the dozens of anonymous threats phoned in to Jewish community centers in the U.S. over the past two months.
…
Rosenfeld said the suspect allegedly placed dozens of threatening phone calls to public venues, synagogues and community buildings in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia. He also placed a threat to Delta Airlines, causing a flight in February 2015 to make an emergency landing.

https://apnews.com/a6a67fb761304e3cae7497faa32dcdc9

It’s been done with a study of Norman names: “Generation game: How the rich have kept their wealth in the family for 1,000 years”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372919/Social-mobility-slower-medieval-England.html

Fake news. Snakeheads are lazy and apparently low-impact.
“But so far, snakeheads aren’t gobbling up every living thing in sight — unless it’s small and swims near their lazy heads.”

“Yet, there’s not been a single location in the United States that has actually experienced problems resulting from introduction to the snakehead. Is there cause for alarm? Or have we all been perpetuating a whopping fish tale?”

http://www.centralparksunsettours.com/somethings-fishy-fishzilla-flops-in-potomac-and-queens-waters/

Live stream of window-smashing:
https://www.periscope.tv/Timcast/1nAJEMdXpPAJL

Int J Legal Med. 2012 Nov 13. [Epub ahead of print]
First all-in-one diagnostic tool for DNA intelligence: genome-wide inference of biogeographic ancestry, appearance, relatedness, and sex with the Identitas v1 Forensic Chip. Keating B, et al.

“Predictions of sex, direct match, and first to third degree relatedness were highly accurate. Chip-based predictions of biparental continental ancestry were on average ~94 % correct (further support provided by separately inferred patrilineal and matrilineal ancestry). Predictions of eye color were 85 % correct for brown and 70 % correct for blue eyes, and predictions of hair color were 72 % for brown, 63 % for blond, 58 % for black, and 48 % for red hair. From the 5 % of samples (N = 162) with <90 % call rate, 56 % yielded correct continental ancestry predictions while 7 % yielded sufficient genotypes to allow hair and eye color prediction."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23149900

Kylie, “dual citizenship” simply means that two separate governments consider someone to be a citizen. It is not something that can be legislated away unilaterally. At least one government in this world doesn’t even allow its nationals to renounce their citizenship. So are other governments supposed to let that government dictate the terms of who they consider their own citizens, out of some phobia about “dual citizenship”?

Also, to which country would you deport someone born in the US to married legal immigrants from Canada and England, who never became US citizens even after more than 25 years? Especially considering that neither Canada nor England considers such a US-born person to be one of their own after so many years residing abroad.

The AP called Pennsylvania for Trump at 1:22 am Eastern Time, and Wisconsin put him over 270 at 1:29 am.
http://www.1410wizm.com/index.php/item/28871-it-s-over-wisconsin-the-difference-president-trump

Best of all, it looked like a Mexican girl who said, “Let go of her” and came to her rescue.

The Northern Europeans of Tanzania invented carbon steel 2000 years ago, several centuries before it appeared in Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haya_people

There was an article on Unz not long ago about iron smelting 2000 years ago by the Northern European Igbo of Nigeria as well.
https://www.unz.com/pfrost/the-jews-of-west-africa/

And, how could anyone forget that Norwegians invented skis and snow shoes?

Yeah, shame on them for wanting to eat and live indoors.

My neighbors’ glass table broke, and the chunks were sort of cubical. Any sharp edges were very small, so you could get nicks, but not deep artery-slashing gashes.

It’s easier for people who’ve been doing hard blue-collar work rather than light office work.

Getting money out of SS is not as simple as putting money in. You have to produce a whole suite of documentation, more than required for employment, and do it in person at the SS office. A more intelligent question would be, what do they do with the money if they discover someone else contributed besides you.

The Family owns all of the actual voting stock.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71691/000007169115000009/a2015proxystatement.htm

And you appear to have difficulty with the simple concept that, if the only thing they ever look at is lifestyle, the only thing they’ll ever blame is lifestyle.

Meanwhile, the anti-smokers have gotten away with scientific fraud for six decades. They falsely blame smoking for diseases that are really caused by infection. Less wealthy people are more often exposed to those infections, and smokers are more often less wealthy. So, their studies are cynically designed to cast false blame. Every Surgeon General report is proof of this fraud.
http://www.smokershistory.com/SGlies.html
http://www.smokershistory.com/SGHDlies.html
That’s how they bloat the supposed death toll from smoking. And the mass media make sure that nobody is ever allowed to point out the obvious.

(Snicker) “… marital arts with men…” no, those are something altogether different. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

“…children were routinely submitted to scans with metal detecting wands.” At least that prepares them for workplaces where they have to empty their pockets and get wanded at the guardhouse every day when they arrive for work.

Women have never been allowed to wear the kind of “cover” (hat) in that picture. See under male and female Enlisted Service Dress. They have to wear a cover that makes them look like officers, which many don’t like for that reason.
http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter3/FemaleEnlisted/Pages/default.aspx

The International Journal of Epidemiology just devoted an entire issue to epigenetics.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/4
They’re really just the same as the corrupt establishment they pretend to challenge. Namely, they ignore the role of infection in order to contrive pretexts to meddle in peoples’ lifestyles.

I haven’t had time to research birth defects in Iraq, and you can be sure that I would never do so by searching “iraq birth defects depleted uranium” in Google images, because that kind of search is merely an exercise in confirmation bias and is guaranteed to come up with unadulterated crap.

You might at least try an appropriate search engine.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22depleted+uranium%22+%22birth+defects%22

Here’s a full article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492088/
“As no enough data on pre 1991 Gulf War prevalence of birth defects in Iraq are available, the ranges of birth defects reported in the reviewed studies from Iraq most probably do not provide a clear indication of a possible environmental exposure including DU or other teratogenic agents although the country has faced several environmental challenges since 1980.”

Birth defects supposedly caused by the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a myth.
http://www.rerf.jp/radefx/genetics_e/birthdef.html

TA-DAAAH!
http://www.sierraplasticsurgery.net/faq_s/scrotum-lift-and-scrotal-reduction-faqs/

She had a right to smoke in her own car, but supposedly not to refuse to get out of the car, although the trooper’s pretext of personal safety was pretty flimsy considering that the stop was as good as over by then.

“Women are shallow. They will spend hours talking about a pair of leather boots while the country is going to the dogs.”

Better they should talk about sports, right?

“A female dentist had difficulty extracting a tooth of mine–I don’t think that she had the hand and arm strength to pull it out (she finally cut the tooth into pieces and took it out that way–a procedure that I prefer not to remember).”

I had a male dental surgeon take one out that way. He explained that most upper molars have 3 roots, and sometimes they’re curved so it’s impossible to get them out in one piece. As I recall, he simply crunched it to bits with some pliers-like tool.

As for strength, consider all the women who are stuck with hoisting and maneuvering the multitude of obese patients nowadays.

Some people are calling World War T a “distraction.” And what is it supposedly distracting us from? From noticing how a tiny little New England oligarchy can run roughshod over the will of the people and force everyone to bend over and grab their ankles and kowtow to those who do things they loathe? It seems to me that the cowards who want us to avert our eyes and join them in tedious discourses about supposedly more serious subjects are the ones attempting to distract us.

One of the reasons that fewer people got divorced in the old days was that laws required one of the parties to be found guilty of moral turpitude, such as adultery, abandonment, alcoholism, or assault. Even if both wanted an amicable divorce, somebody had to play the guilty party. Usually that burden fell on the man. And alimony means “spousal support” (to be distinguished from child support). As such, it was a particularly a necessity when women had few options in employment.

Waaaaah. There, there. Have a towel.
Actually, career women did a very good thing for man-kind. No longer is an ex-husband necessarily doomed to 1) surrender the castle; 2) financially support his ex; and 3) lose custody of the children. Divorce settlements a lot more equitable when the wife is not an economic basket case as in days of old.

“Would dr. Ron Paul send his kids or grand kids to a school knowing with 100% certainty, that they have kids with infectious diseases?”

Surely you jest, because there already is 100% certainty they have infectious diseases of various kinds. Besides, the doctor is from my generation, and we all got measles and chicken pox, etc., because there were no vaccines for them. And nobody broke out in a cold sweat about those, they saved that for important things like polio.

But Dr. Paul is wrong to blame “vaccine companies.” Vaccines are simply not big money-makers. It’s the politically-untouchable “Healthy People” gang that are to blame.

Remember that automation was promoted with tax breaks for buying machinery, but not for employing workers. That means government policy is partly to blame for high unemployment.

P250 pump weighs about 30 kg (~70 lb)
bundle of asphalt shingles usually 60 to 80 lbs

I’ve carried asphalt shingles up onto roofs. I’m only 5’4″ and 99 lbs, and I’m sure some of those big fat [broads] who got a kick out of trying to push me around could do it, too.