DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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As a white male, I’m already discriminated against. So … now that I’m officially a member of a minority, where’s my government check?

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Cherokee writer Twila Barnes, whose blog PollysGranddaughter.com chronicles fraudulent claims of Native American heritage, denounced Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren for disrespecting the Cherokee people and demanded that Warren apologize.

“There are people in the Cherokee nation who don’t have running water in their homes-people who have struggled their entire lives. And (Warren) thinks our heritage is just this pretty little thing she can tie around herself to get a prestigious position,” she said.

Ah, the perils of Identity Politics.

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Always knew Cameron Diaz was good for something….

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There are mostly four kinds of coins in circulation in the U.S: 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, and 25 cents. But is it the most efficient way to give back change?

As it turns out, probably not.

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What? Don’t they know that Sharia is benign and completely compatible with humane values such as those enshrined in the U.S. Constitution? Have they been listening to greasy Islamophobes? Imam Rauf, you’re needed in Mali! These benighted folks need to learn to love Sharia — or else!

Another pointed reminder that freedom of religion is not a Muslim value.

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Delphi, a major parts supplier to automakers, is developing an engine technology that could improve the fuel economy of gas-powered cars by 50 percent, potentially rivaling the performance of hybrid vehicles while costing less. A test engine based on the technology is similar in some ways to a highly efficient diesel engine, but runs on gasoline.

Prediction: Lawsuits by enviro-nazis who don’t want anyone to burn anything anywhere for any purpose. The only uncertainly is the sophistries with which they’ll cloak their continuing attempts to cancel the twentieth century. Also, lawsuits by anybody+dog who has any vested interest in current technology, as well as massive lobbying to get the government either to ban it or to regulate it to death.

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, has some thoughts.

What had happened was that the singer’s femur had partially disintegrated, a portion of bone actually breaking away from the shaft. Incredibly, Ferrier’s singing was so mesmerizing, the audience had no idea anything was wrong. She had been diagnosed with cancer two years before and died from the disease eight months later. Ferrier was born in 1912. That’s the centenary I missed.

His stuff is always interesting, which is why you ought to Support John Derbyshire (See link at right on the home page.)

Freeberg muses upon his scholastic career.

Truthfully, I don’t know why we have career counselors in high schools. The kids who can really make something of themselves, all have the same thoughts about it: Oh alright, I’m to take career advice from some guy who’s a career counselor in a high school. Eyeball-roll. This one thought I should scrub toilets on an Air Force base somewhere. Oh, okay…thankfully, nobody took that any more seriously than I did. All these years later I have to wonder: What purpose was served by this? I still don’t know.

Never saw any use in them, myself. But on the list of inexplicable aspects of the American education system, I can’t say that it was at the top.

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One would expect the presence of large numbers of Muslims in Western European cities to strain the traditional alliance between gays and the Left-Multicultural political establishment. Muslims, after all, make no secret about the fact that their religious law commands them to persecute — and even execute — homosexuals.

But the force of denial is strong. Up until recently there were few cracks in the Rainbow-Multicultural façade. Now things seem to be changing: homosexuals are fleeing their traditional neighborhoods in Hamburg, and are speaking up openly about what is happening.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend — until he has me stoned to death. Ah, well, these things happen.

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GenomeWeb Daily News reports that DNA sequencing is able to track cancerous blood cells in leukemia patients even when currently used methods cannot.

I think that the most interesting aspect of this is that there is a daily publication called ‘GenomeWeb Daily News’.

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Studies show straight gasoline gets 2 to 10 percent better gas mileage than fuel made with ethanol, an alcohol produced from corn. It costs about 20 cents more per gallon at the pump, but Cannon says paying more up front is worth it down the road. She started using “pure gas” five weeks ago, after paying $12,000 for repairs on her 2005 Nissan Pathfinder.

“I had to change two radiators and two transmissions,” said Cannon, who blames the damage on ethanol.

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to. Next up will by a campaign by enviro-nazis to ban the sale of non-ethanol fuel, funded by the people who are getting rich off of ethanol subsidies. The Federal government will, of course, be happy to do that, and pretty soon people will be bootlegging enthanol-free gas from Mexico and Canada.

Bob Dinneen, CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, says it’s an American success story, utilizing fuel sources like corn, reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reducing gas prices by $1.09 a gallon in 2011.

“Ethanol is an American-made product,” Dinneen said. “We are creating jobs here. We are creating economic opportunity here. We are lowering gasoline prices here, as opposed to a pure gasoline that is lining the pockets of regimes in parts of the world that don’t like us very much.”

And the reason for that is because the Federal government (need I say, lobbied by the ethanol-subsidy tycoons?) is refusing to let us drill in this country for the oil that we could be using but aren’t allowed to. Dineed, of course, is a lobbyist and has to tell the lies he’s handed, but you’d think he’d blush when he says them.

The ethanol industry petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to add 5 percent more ethanol to fuel, creating a mix known as E-15. The EPA recently approved it for use in cars made since 2001.

Proponents say E-15 will save drivers 5 cents more a gallon and is expected to be available as early as this summer.

No mention of the repair expense for auto parts destroyed by the alcohol that the engines weren’t designed for. But what’s that in the face of feeling good about ourselves and incidentally paying off lobbyists who contribute so generously to our re-election campaigns?

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Vermont became the first state to ban the controversial natural gas drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the ban into law Wednesday afternoon, The Burlington Free Press reported.

However, the law will have no immediate effect — Vermont does not have any drilling projects underway, and there is no information to suggest that the state has underground gas reserves that could be tapped by fracking.

One of the most pernicious effects of ‘progressive’ ideology is the predilection of its practitioners to enshrine ideological statements in the statute book, even if (one might go so far as to say ‘especially if’) said laws have no practical effect. It doesn’t matter if such SWPL laws are totally silly, so long as it makes them feel good about themselves.

Next up, I suppose, will be a law banning drilling for oil in Vermont’s coastal waters — and the fact that Vermont has no coastal waters merely recommends it more strongly, as being an expression of ‘solidarity’ without any inconvenience attached.

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After all, your checks contain both your account number and your banks routing number — exactly what someone would need to help themselves to your money.

This is especially troubling given the ease with which checks can be printed, as well as the fact that bank accounts don’t typically have the same level of fraud protection as credit cards do.

Well, guess what? Now that more banks are accepting remote deposits using photos of checks, you have reason to worry even if the recipient isn’t a crook.

And of course it’s not the bank’s fault. No, it’s never the banks fault. Hence the term ‘identity theft’, as if the financial institution were merely a passive victim rather than having insufficient verification processes in place to prevent what is actually financial fraud.

According to detectives in Santa Clarita, a couple managed to steal a total of $16k from 20 victims by dumpster diving at a local self-storage facility.

The couple apparently managed to piece together hundreds of “partially shredded” checks. Once they had the account and routing numbers from these checks, they were able to print and use counterfeit checks that were drawn on the victims accounts.

And of course it’s not the bank’s fault. No, it’s never the banks fault. Hence the term ‘identity theft’, as if the financial institution were merely a passive victim rather than having insufficient verification processes in place to prevent what is actually financial fraud.

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Taliban leadership infighting between hardliners and commanders over US talks has broken down into a terror campaign against senior dissidents who support negotiations, a senior insurgency leader has revealed.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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President Obama has inserted his name into almost every official presidential biography on the White House website, dating back to Calvin Coolidge.

Of course. All these previous Presidents were merely precursors of the Obamassiah.

Daniel Foster fills in the gaps:

“In the 12th Century B.C., Moses the Lawgiver delivered the Ten Commandments to the Israelites. President Obama the Lawgiver has added significantly to them, overseeing the enactment of a record number of new regulations.”

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A secretive network of left-wing billionaires and their political operatives descended on the luxurious Biltmore Hotel in Miami over the weekend to discuss strategy for the coming elections.

The location of the conference had been kept a closely guarded secret by the members and guests of Democracy Alliance (DA), a collection of ultra-wealthy liberal donors formed in 2005, and is reported here in a Washington Free Beacon exclusive.

Impossible. Everybody knows that rich people are all Republican assholes. (Except the Kennedys, of course, and it’s not their fault that they were born rich. And maybe the Rockefellers. And John Kerry, of course. And those guys in Hollywood. And the people at Goldman Sachs, like Robert Rubin and John Corzine. But the rest of them are certainly Republican assholes.)

“These are individuals of considerable means” who often support policies that run contrary to their own interests, Visher said, as she escorted the reporter out of the party.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Contrary to Visher’s claim, in the past Soros has boasted that he “made many millions” off of similar political philanthropy, “which had at first looked like a fruitless venture.”

Yup — policies contrary to their own interests, all right … that just return many millions.

Ari Rabin-Havt, executive vice president of Media Matters for America (MMFA), was overheard speaking to colleagues about his plans for a new MMFA fellowship, and bragging about a phone call he had received from Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for the Obama re-election team.

Barack Obama, candidate of the 1%. What do they know that you don’t?

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Boy, those U.N. sanctions are certainly effective. What would we do without such an excellent international body to show tyrannical regimes that they can’t get away with whatever it is they’re doing?

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Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

What a racist, to beat himself up like that after shooting poor Trayvon just to make it look as if he were defending himself.

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Franciscan University in Steubensville, Ohio, said it has so far excluded contraceptive services and products from its health insurance policy for students and will not participate in a plan that “requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life.”

A university official told Fox News Radio the students’ basic $600 policy was going to double in cost in the fall and triple next year and that the school’s insurance provider said the increases were the result of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The school cited the contraception mandate, but also a requirement that the maximum coverage amount be increased to $100,000 for policyholders.

“This is putting people in a position where they are having to choose between their faith and their morality, and now an unjust cost,” said Mike Hernon, the school’s vice president of advancement. “These sorts of regulations from the government are forcing our hand in a way that’s really wrong.”

But hey — if you like your existing coverage, you can keep it! Or maybe not….

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“Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider it a mere courtesy to the husband.)” — ‘Umdat al-Salik e4.3

Will the Islamophobia never cease! Oh, wait….

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Taxpayer-funded welfare money is being spent in strip clubs, liquor stores, and other inappropriate locations, NBC Atlanta reports.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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One of the most tired talking points of the “hydrocarbon deniers” (as I am going to call them) is that the U.S. must move beyond oil because we have less than 2 percent of the world’s proved reserves, though we consume about 20 percent of global oil production. After last week’s testimony from Anu Mittal, the director of natural resources and environment for the Government Accountability Office, to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, anyone who persists in using this talking point again (that would include the president) deserves to be labeled an anti-science ignoramus.

Mittal reviewed the geological survey data of oil shale in the western United States that show we have about 3 trillion barrels of oil equivalent. This represents about two-thirds or more of the total shale oil estimated to exist worldwide. About half of it, according to Mittal’s testimony, is thought by public and private analysts to be recoverable. With droll understatement, Mittal offered the following conclusion, which should be read slowly: “This is an amount about equal to the entire world’s proven oil reserves.”

Not that the bureaucrats and enviro-nazis will ever let us do anything about it.

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Kris Barrett, the politically active spouse of Tom Barrett, current mayor of Milwaukee and the Democratic nominee running against Gov. Scott Walker, has been caught using her taxpayer funded e-mail account to lobby and campaign for Democratic candidates and causes. Mrs. Barrett is a public school teacher and last year she was employed by Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin’s largest school district. The district has two policies that prohibit employees from using any government resources, including e-mail addresses, for political purposes.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Yet human nature still prevails, doesn’t it? It turns out that the euro couldn’t turn Greeks and Italians into Germans, that cradle-to-grave welfare benefits have the same impact on the work ethic and productivity of millions of Europeans as they had on millions of Americans, and that “post-Christian Europe” was hardly a more-rational Europe.

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Really, there is no issue so trivial that some Democrat somewhere won’t demand that it be regulated by the Federal government. It must come as a great disappointment to Congressman Polis that Soviet Communism is no longer available for him.

“Pizza has a place in school meals,” Polis said in a statement. “But equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation’s efforts to support children’s health and their ability to learn through better school nutrition.”

None of which is the business of any level of government, much less the Federal government. Perhaps he could move to North Korea.

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As is well known now, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin recently renounced his U.S. citizenship. Though no specific reason was given by Saverin for his decision, wise minds could very credibly proclaim him an American hero for doing what he did.

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Think about the above for a moment. A nation founded on skepticism about politicians and government now has as one of its most powerful institutions a revenue agency meant to badger its citizens about how much they owe a government utterly contemptuous of constitutional limits.  To this insatiable beast, Saverin is apparently saying no.  Good for him!

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Oddly here, and this speaks to how silly the economic discussion has become, founder Mark Zuckerberg is being lionized for the presumed $1 billion in capital gains taxes he’ll pay the feds. Saverin’s avoidance plan means more capital for business growth while Zuckerberg’s non-avoidance ensures more feeding of the beast, yet Saverin’s the bad guy? Yes, very odd.

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Government workers are among the employees most likely to cheat their employers, according to a new study.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

“These guys are gaming the system to get more money out of Washington, and their inefficiency and scamming is being rewarded with more money,” the insider said. “This type of behavior only leads to more dishonesty and it’s emblematic of the problem Washington has when spending this kind of money.”

Oh, say it ain’t so….

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For awhile now, I’ve been focusing on the so-called Ragtag Coalition of Leftist Identity Groups, a sort of parallel phenomenon to the proposed Sailer Strategy in which the Republican party ditches all pretenses and just goes for the white vote, exclusively.  The Ragtag Coalition refers to the tenuous amalgamation of pet minority groups under the Democratic Party’s umbrella;  Matt Yglesias alluded to this last year in saying, “Democrats are more and more seen as the party of non-whites.”  The leftist coalition, which also includes organized labor and single mothers, works as a twofold strategy – ideological and practical.  The ideological narrative focuses on white men as the primary enemy; all enmity, encouraged on liberal blogs and Ivory Tower scholarship, must be directed out of the group towards this nefarious entity.  It also works as a practical voting strategy; the collective group has the cumulative numbers to combat evil white conservatives in the voting booth.

In reality though, the coalition is made up of groups who really want nothing to do with each other.  So the professional left has a rather volatile situation on their hands – how to keep everyone focused on the right enemy (white men) and not “offend” the other leftist pet groups.  In what I foresee as a never-ending struggle to maintain harmony, here’s two more examples of why the ragtag coalition has problems.

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An Oklahoma Marine made the ultimate sacrifice when he pulled a friend out of a fiery plane wreck, saving her life but suffering fatal burns over 90 percent of his body.

Friends of Hannah Luce, the lone survivor of Friday’s crash of a twin-engine Cessna 401 just northwest of Chanute, Kan., hailed Austin Anderson as a hero who gave his life without a second thought. The pair was among five young adults bound from Tulsa for a Christian youth group conference in Iowa.

Would Obama ever give his life for another? The question answers itself.

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This is seriously cool.

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The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS.

In a series of votes, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of the daily pill Truvada for healthy people who are at high risk of contracting HIV, including gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couples with one HIV-positive partner.

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We are endlessly told that white people are racist and that white men are sexist. But in my experience people of a different color are much more racist and men of a different color much more sexist. It is just that we do not hear about this racism because no one is allowed to speak about it for fear of being branded…a racist.

Now from Britain comes the latest horrific example of nonwhite racism and sexism. And try as they might, the British media were unable this time to avoid telling us at least part of the truth.

Here it is: Nine British Muslims, eight of Pakistani and one of Afghani origin, gang-raped dozens of underage white girls in the northern England town of Rochdale between 2008 and 2010. One of the nine just happens to be a father of five and a religious-studies teacher in his local mosque.

Will the Isamophobia never cease? Oh, wait….

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Except that Democrats have ordered everybody out of the pool.

On Thursday, a representative of the Government Accountability Office testified before the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment that the Green River Formation alone–it is located at the intersection of the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and mostly underlies federal lands–contains as much oil as the entire proven reserves of the rest of the world combined.

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When there aren’t any Jews or Americans handy, Muslims will cheerfully murder each other.

That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.

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House Democrats received training this week on how to address the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner.

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While studiously avoiding and evading any investigation of Barack Obama’s “youth” (i.e. the period prior to his running for President) or devoting resources to any of the many scandals (selling guns to Mexican drug lords, politicizing along racial lines the Justice Department, etc.) which would have been front page day after day in another administration, WaPo devoted months and resources to investigating what Mitt Romney did in high school.

Media bias? What media bias?

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 One reason our sectional division finally lurched to civil war in the 1850s was the complete nationalization of the slavery issue because of Dred Scott, whose principle, as Lincoln perceived and argued, militated for the legalization of slavery in all states.  While the previous confinement of slavery to the South was unstable (because the South wanted to expand its peculiar institution), it held out the prospect that it could be placed in the course of ultimate extinction through gradual means.

Hypothesis: the nationalization of more and more issues once left to the state and local level is aggravating our divisions today in a similar way.

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Here’s the problem with the press coverage of Barack Obama: the mainstream media is so overwhelmed by his charisma that they often miss the important details. Every decision, speech, policy statement or impromptu visit to the bathroom is presented as a piece of “history” – the dawn of a new era. The Prez could go seal-clubbing and much of the media would see it as a new epoch for winter sports. “Barack Obama Becomes the First President to Kill Six Seals in Under One Minute,” the New York Times would proudly report, while Twitter would be all abuzz with how hot he looks in snow shoes.

Even Brits can see the truth.

So on Monday, Obama was losing dollars on the Hollywood fundraising circuit. On Wednesday, he endorsed gay marriage. On Thursday, he flew to Hollywood for a fundraiser, where 150 donors paid $40,000 each to meet the Prez at the home of George Clooney. Coincidence?

Barack Obama, candidate of the 1%.

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Well, that’s a relief.

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Just another day in the Workers’ Paradise. Say, that Communism is a really successful system; perhaps we could do that over here? Let’s ask the Obamassiah to see what he can do.

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The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned the deadliest bomb attacks of Syria’s 14-month uprising, urging all sides to stick to an international peace plan after at least 55 people were killed.

Actual effect on what happens in Syria: None.

Steve Sailer sounds the alarm.

In the Daily Caller, Neil Munro talks to disparate impact discrimination law experts about that photo of Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters, which, in terms of diversity, looks like a cross between the Bill James and Tilda Swinton Fan Clubs.

Oh, come now — who would dare criticize our First Gay President? (Too bad Bill Clinton was first to unlock the Black President badge in Washington.)

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But, of course, Obama self-identifies as ‘black’ so he’s cool, and Zimmerman has been forever tagged by the racist media as ‘white Hispanic’ so he’s not. Welcome to the wonderful world of Identity Politics, where your Identity is chosen for you based on Politics.

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And we’re all about slashing carbon emissions, even though compared to volcanos what we do or don’t do is about as significant as a pimple on an elephant’s butt.

The Patron Saint of Dyspepsia explains it all to you.

And after watching Conservatism Inc. for a quarter of a century running along behind History’s great rumbling juggernaut squealing “Would you mind slowing down just a teeny bit, please?” there is always the faint hope that this other crowd might actually turn us back some way towards liberty, sovereignty, science, constitutionalism.

Non-white supremacy is after all the rule over much of the world, from entire continental spaces like sub-Saharan Africa to individual black-run or mestizo-run municipalities in the U.S.A. I see no great floods into these places by refugees desperate to escape the horrors of white supremacy.

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Political correctness isn’t a political belief where people want to stimulate a discussion and get to the truth. It’s a totalitarian religion dedicated to the exact opposite. They hate hatefacts and want all sinners to be burned at the stake no matter what the collateral damage. The unfortunate thing about their holy war is that it’s virtually nothing but collateral damage.

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The United States is running out of helium.

Yes, helium. Thanks, in part, to a 1996 law that has forced the government to sell off its helium reserves at bargain-bin prices, the country’s stockpile of the relatively rare and nonrenewable gas could soon dwindle.

Sky falling. Film at 11.

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Oregon has been a hotspot for canvas reusable bags over plastic and paper bags. Portland became one of the largest cities in the U.S. to ban plastic bags in July 2011. A statewide voter initiative to ban traditional grocery bags failed in 2010, despite heavy support from environmental groups.

No good deed goes unpunished.