Archive for February 2010

Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart called out the mainstream media Saturday saying, “The gig is up. We figured you out. You’re not on our team. You’re not on the American team.”

Speaking to a lively crowd at CPAC, Breitbart attacked the entire liberal establishment: “This multicultural crap that you instill in our kids the second they get into college, and you separate them and pit them against each other so that you can get votes every election cycle, that’s ending right now.”

He marvelously continued, “Your Alinsky tactics to try and destroy Hannah [Giles], James [O'Keefe], and me: Bring it on!”

Breitbart also had some choice words for his “friends” at the most liberal television news outlet on the planet asking, “Hey, how is that Watergate Junior story, MSNBC?”

Andrew Breitbart of breitbart.com and biggovernment.com gets into a verbal altercation with liberal blogger/columnist Max Blumenthal at CPAC 2010.

Cultural Marxism and Freudian gave birth to the critical theory that criticizes basically every pillar of the western civilization, promoting the leftist, liberal, multicultural, feminist, antifascist, anti racist view point.

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Reporting from Washington - The controversy over racial bias, testing and firefighters that blew up at both the Supreme Court and the Senate last year returns Monday, this time as the justices decide whether blacks who were not hired in Chicago because of their test scores are due damages for years of lost wages.

The potentially $100-million civil rights case comes before a high court that has already shown its skepticism toward such claims.

Last year, the justices ruled for white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were victims of illegal racial discrimination when the city threw out the results of a promotion test. The whites had earned high scores and would have gotten nearly all the promotions. City officials dropped the test results because they feared being sued by blacks who were denied promotions.

By contrast, the city of Chicago was sued for illegal discrimination by more than 6,000 African Americans who earned “qualified” scores on an entry-level test given by the Fire Department, but who lost out to mostly white applicants who had higher, “well qualified” scores.

“This case is the flip side of Ricci,” said Benna Solomon, deputy corporation counsel for Chicago, referring to the New Haven case. “It illustrates the tension that public employers face.”

The outcome of the Chicago case may well turn on whether the lawyers for the black applicants waited a few months too long to file their suit. It’s likely to have a national impact, however, because most state and city agencies are required by law to use competitive tests for hiring.

It began in 1995 when 26,000 applicants jammed into Chicago’s United Center sports arena to take an entry-level, paper-and-pencil test for jobs in the Fire Department. Only those who scored 89 or above were considered “well qualified” for the jobs, the city said in January 1996. Assuming they passed a physical and medical test, these top scorers stood a good chance of being hired over the next eight years.
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The Obama Regime as a four year OJ Simpson trial? Peter Brimelow, editor of VDARE.COM, predicted it a year and a half ago when he wrote an intro to Steve Sailer’s book, AMERICA’S HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. What he wrote specifically was this:

“I think the contradictions that Steve has identified in his book will turn any Obama Presidency into a four-year O.J. Simpson trial and that the consequent melt-down will compare to the Chernobyl of the Carter Presidency in its destructive partisan effects.”

Brimelow a few months ago wrote that it’s happened even quicker than he anticipated. And he was a pretty good prophet. Last March he wrote: “In Kevin MacDonald’s terms, a powerful ‘implicit community’ is blossoming in opposition to Obama’s racial-socialist coup. The backlash is likely to be faster and more furious than the Beltway Establishment, Right or Left, anticipates.”

I don’t know about the ’socialist’ part but the racial angle is spot on. Again Brimelow:

“The plain fact is that the Obama Administration has very shallow roots in historic America. It is, to put it brutally, a minority occupation government. Government and governed have little real contact or mutual understanding. It’s a recipe for continuous clashes.”

Just think back to the black Harvard professor and the white cop. Normally government officials at all levels will automatically side with the police out of necessity. Not Obama. On auto-pilot, he sided with Professor Gates against Officer Crowley. And so it goes.
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From: Henry Chen, M.D. (e-mail him)

Re: James Fulford’s Blog: Illegals Cost Money Even When You Send Them Home

In response to Fulford’s blog about how health care costs for illegal aliens drag on endlessly, I relate my story of an illegal alien patient with renal failure.

I first met “William” when my hospital asked me to care for this 60-year-old man from Senegal who had no insurance and could not receive outpatient dialysis because of his illegal status.

Hemodialysis

He would come into the hospital to receive hemodialysis only when he was ill. At one point “William” changed his name to “James,” got a job at a large suburban hospital and obtained private health insurance that paid for outpatient dialysis. How he changed his name remains unfathomable.

Like so many of my foreign-born patients, “William/James” knows English only when it benefits him. If not, he can’t understand English at all.

This week, I received a phone call from a nearby doctor at a university hospital stating he was putting “William/James” on the kidney transplant list.

The doctor (I perceived a Punjabi accent) stated that “my patient’s brother still in Senegal is also in need of a transplant” and that his hospital would facilitate bringing him to the U.S. for a medical evaluation.

Should Obamacare pass, we will be faced with hospitals recruiting more patients from overseas for high value surgery and treatment.

Open heart surgery, transplantation, joint replacement will be promoted outside of the country with the costs passed on to the taxpayer and health insurance purchasers.
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The demographic transition — the tendency for richer societies to have fewer rather than more children — is, I think, most often attributed to social causes. For a variety of reasons — because each child costs more, because they are more likely to survive and take of parents in old age, because of social stigma associated with large families, because of birth control, etc. — couples in richer countries often choose to have 2 children rather than 10. This demographic transition accounts for the increasing age of the population in Western countries, as I discussed in an earlier post.

I never really considered the idea that there was a biological explanation for it though. A study in Iceland suggests that fertility might be related to the degree of inbreeding and outbreeding. By increasing outbreeding in our increasingly mobile Western societies, we have actually lowered fertility.

Helgason et al. publishing in the journal Science examined the fertility of families in Iceland from 1800 to 1965. Iceland has become a big laboratory for such studies and large genetic studies because they have super-accurate kinship records going back into the Middle Ages. (Many of these studies are performed by a company called deCODE genetics, and this is one of them.)

They found two important things in their study.

First, the average relatedness of couples in Iceland has decreased over the study period:

Our data indicated that there has been a decrease by a factor of 10 in mean kinship between Icelandic couples during the past two centuries, from 0.005 for couples with females born 1800 to 1824 to 0.0005 for those born 1950 to 1965. This is equivalent to a change from couples being related on average between the level of third and fourth cousins to couples being related on average at the level of fifth cousins. The primary cause is probably a demographic transition from a poor agricultural society to an affluent industrial society, involving extensive migration from rural regions to urban centers, accompanied by a rapid expansion in population size. (Emphasis mine.)

Second, the reproductive success of couples — as defined by the number of children they have who later reproduce — has an inverted U that peaks at a relatedness of about 3rd or 4th cousins. In other words, the most fertile and reproductively-successful couples are slightly inbred.

This is illustrated in the figure below (Figure 1B). The x-axis shows a measure of relatedness with 32 being the most inbred. You can see that reproductive success peaks at a moderate value of relatedness which the authors indicate is about 3rd or 4th cousins.

What are possible mechanisms for decreased fertility for more distant relatives? Well, I would guess that close inbreeding has a deleterious effect because of the possibility of inheriting two copies of a deleterious gene. On the other side, though, high genetic dissimilarity between the parents might render one more likely to get autoimmune diseases because your MHC genes might recognize the genes of the other parent as foreign. (I don’t really have any evidence for that, but it is the reason you try and get a bone marrow transplant from a genetically-similar match. It limits the chance of graft vs. host disease.) Low relatedness might also lessen the ability of sperm to recognize eggs or limit egg implantation. I am just speculating here, but I can think of a variety of biological causes to explain this.
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Winston Churchill

Video available here.

Tom Tancredo

It’s that time of year again. Pundits, pollsters and lobbyists are gathering in the nation’s capital to tell conservative activists how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, is meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend to hear well-known political leaders like Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich talk about prospects for electoral victories in 2010. This is an annual event dating back to 1974, and I have been there as a speaker myself a few times. But CPAC 2010 is different.

This year, the Beltway leaders of conservatism are racing hard to catch up with a parade they did not launch and cannot control. Across America, grass-roots patriots and anti-Obama protests have changed the political landscape in ways conservatism’s entrenched Beltway Politburo did not anticipate.

The small Beltway Politburo that runs CPAC is worried. They are witnessing a growing conservative populism that owes its strength to ordinary people who have “had enough,” not to policy wonks and lobbyists who must work at the margins of political compromise. The new citizen activists take their moral bearing from the Constitution, not from pollsters and focus groups.
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Andrew Breitbart

The United States today has slipped toward race-based socialism: That’s the true name for an overwhelming bias for one race above others, in employment, promotion, and educational opportunities. Our media are constantly stirring the witch’s brew of racial grievances, constantly making black people feel aggrieved and white people feel accused. Our schools drive that lesson home with young and innocent kids in a totally ruthless way. Repeat that for twelve years of schooling and TV, and you have a brainwashed kid.

That is what European socialists have done with class envy for the last hundred years: whip up the poor against the middle and the rich. It’s in their standard bag of tricks. The American Left has just added racial grievances to class anger and resentment, always feeding more and more power to the racial socialists to buy peace for the very grievances they have whipped up in the first place. The NAACP today practices racial socialism. So does Obama. “Racial Socialism” drives the Left’s current assault on American values. That’s why Jeremiah Wright is such a significant part of Obama’s life. {snip}

Only 12.3 percent of Americans are black, and they cannot command a majority vote. It’s therefore necessary to add gender socialism, because half the population are women. {snip}

We are no longer a society run by talent, work, and opportunity. Like ancient Egypt and Sumer, we are a society where the ruling class exploits its productive workers by taxing their labor, talent, and ability to recognize and use new opportunities.

Barack H. Obama is the logical outcome of racial socialism. You can see it in his words and actions, and his very physical stance, all signaling his sense of superiority, the flip-side of feelings of inferiority he is reacting against. Obama’s core support came from the Leftist alliance of grievance groups in spite of his total lack of relevant experience.
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Researchers have found that the longer couples stay together, the more they look like each other — apparently due to facial similarities involved in attraction as well as shared experiences.

Forget about opposites attracting. We like people who look like us, because they tend to have personalities similar to our own.

And, a new study suggests, the longer we are with someone, the more similarities in appearance grow.

Researchers set out to investigate why couples often tend to resemble one another. They asked 11 male and 11 female participants to judge the age, attractiveness and personality traits of 160 real-life married couples. Photographs of husbands and wives were viewed separately, so the participants didn’t know who was married to whom.

The test participants rated men and woman who were actual couples as looking alike and having similar personalities. Also, the longer the couples had been together, the greater the perceived similarities.

The researchers speculate that the sharing of experiences might affect how couples look.
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