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Not sure Ian Fleming would approve.

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Steve Sailer becomes a Puerto Rican nationalist.

Cuba helped bankrupt the Soviet Union by costing the Russkies about $6 billion per year in subsidies. Economist Art Laffer estimates that Puerto Rico costs the U.S. government almost four times as much, mostly in tax breaks to corporations. And the cost of Open Borders between Puerto Rico and the U.S. has been sizable, especially to Eastern Seaboard cities during the decades before the government started bribing Puerto Ricans to stay home. And Puerto Ricans become instantly eligible for affirmative action benefits the moment they step off the plane in the 50 States, which doesn’t do Americans any good.

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As other countries watch the United States lacerate its intelligence service — for activities already investigated or never undertaken — perhaps they admire America’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law. More likely, I fear, they conclude that we are just plain nuts.

Indeed.

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In astrophysics, a black hole is also referred to as a singularity. When matter in a collapsed star is compressed past a certain point — known as the Schwarzschild radius — it becomes impossible for anything to escape the body’s gravity well, and all electromagnetic energy and matter within that radius must continue to collapse, producing a point-mass of infinite density. From the point of view of the rest of the universe, within such a singularity the laws of physics are no longer applicable.

So there’s a resemblance between Islam and this type of singularity. When the density of a Muslim population reaches a certain point, nothing can prevent a general collapse into a sharia singularity, within which normal political processes are no longer applicable.

Islam is, of course, singular in another way: it’s different from all other religions. Its apologists maintain that Islam is just like Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and all the others. So what if it has a different holy book and its own unique religious precepts? To them, it’s still essentially the same.

But this is not true: Islam is a singular religion. Its texts very specifically mandate not just a rigorous moral code, but a particular political structure, a system of jurisprudence, and an elaborate social regimen that directs the minutiae of daily life down to the finest details.

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The New Yorker is reputed to have legendary fact-checkers. That state of affairs obviously died some time ago, and now it reads just like the rest of the media — a doe-eyed journalist who sees their role more as a conveyor of what someone told them than as an investigator trying to figure out what’s going on.

In the latest issue, there’s a risibly clueless article on what makes us fat. First it confuses two levels of explanation — ultimate or evolutionary causes that made our bodies the way they are today, and proximate causes like “junk food adds pounds.” At the level of mechanisms, the author makes no mention of what causes fat to be stored in fat cells rather than flow into the bloodstream to be burned as fuel. It’s not very complicated — it’s hormonally regulated, and almost the entire story is how much insulin has been released. The word “insulin” does not appear once in her 4000-word article.

Easy access to fast food, potato chips, and the like is not necessary to drive up obesity rates, since plenty of other groups have been plagued by metabolic syndrome without any such food. There is a common factor, however: foods that are high in carbohydrates. She ends the article by ominously noting a new offering from Burger King that has lots of beef, bacon, and cheese. But of course, what everyone eats when they go to Burger King, McDonalds, Taco Bell, Olive Garden, or any other cheap human feed lot, has almost no meat or cheese at all. Most of the “hamburger” is the bun, and the rest is fries and soda. Let’s see, carbs, carbs, and more carbs — but that teensy ration of beef is what’ll get ya!

Contrast this with what you get when you eat at a place with Michelin stars — it’s animals, animals, and more animals, with a token portion of vegetables on the side or to enhance flavor. And not sissy animal products either — foie gras and caviar have some of the highest concentrations of saturated fat and cholesterol of any food. Yet somehow well-to-do French, Spanish, and Italians seem to be much thinner and freer of heart disease than lower-class Americans. Not only that, but their food — loaded with fat — actually tastes like something!

The Hog looks at abortion, eugenics, and Justice Ginsburg.

The reason abortion is legal is that the majority hopes that “undesirable” segments of the population will use abortion so enthusiastically that their numbers will be self-limiting. Were it not for this hope, abortion support would be very limited. Americans want to prevent the births of “unwanted” babies, and generally, “unwanted” means “black.” And our policy is working beautifully. Black women are much, much more likely to have abortions than white women, and over 16 million black babies have been destroyed. You can read all about it at Blackgenocide.com. This is the chief reason the percentage of black Americans has remained stable. Margaret Sanger’s racist hopes have been fulfilled.

Planned Parenthood is actually doing what these innocent purveyors of fast food are falsely accused of. They are reducing the black population. They put about 90% of their mills in minority neighborhoods. Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist and classist who openly admitted she wanted to reduced the numbers of blacks and the poor. Why is it that blacks patronize Planned Parenthood with no qualms, while muttering slanders against a company that sells chicken? If I were black, and I were likely to impregnate women to whom I wasn’t married, and I believed this nonsense, I’d just eat the chicken. It’s cheaper.

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The Spanish woman who became the world’s oldest mother when she gave birth to twins days before turning 67 has died, leaving her sons orphaned before their third birthday.

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

The former shop worker, who was single, sparked great controversy over her decision to become a mother so late in life. Her own family called her “selfish and irresponsible” for rendering it so likely that her children would be orphaned.

No shit.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. (What am I saying? That’s California straight up….)

Darwin Award nominees.

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Well, yeah, but unfortunately most of it is wrong.

The problem is not a lack of interest in learning among the young: it is the lack of a structure in which that appetite for learning can be satisfied. There are not enough good, useful, challenging degree courses to go around. And, with increasing numbers of pupils getting good grades at A level, it has become harder and harder for universities to sort the wheat from the chaff at the application stage.

Not so long ago, the idea that you could go to university, get a good degree, then have to join the dole queue like everyone else, was anathema. I remember, as a student in the late Seventies, staring horrified at a front-page news story about an Oxford graduate with a first-class degree who was still unemployed nine months after graduating. That story would not make the front pages today; in fact, it would hardly be worth reporting at all. The unemployed graduate, with a five-figure student loan to pay off, but not a sniff of a job, is part of the social furniture of our times.

Funny how that ol’ supply-and-demand thing works.

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The monetary value of those little moments previously considered priceless have just been calculated in a new book.

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Why Islam is doomed to failure.

Islam acts as an ESS by a variety of behaviors:

• Demanding the death of those who attempt to leave it.
• Declaring its core scripture (its DNA, if you will) perfect, immutable, and unquestionably correct.
• Requiring its adherents to marry within the system and have as little contact as possible with outsiders.
• Mandating coercive proselytization, through violence if necessary, in order to enlarge the system.

This creates a kind of homeostasis within the Ummah, which can thus remain unchanged as long as its environment stays the same.

However, because the system is parasitic — it produces no wealth, but depends on booty, slave labor, and tribute to maintain itself — the environment must eventually change. When the host dies, so does the parasite. The ESS fails, and Islam reaches a dead end.

Neither Muslims nor Leftists understands the psychology of achievement and inevitably kill the golden goose, ending up with a dismal standard of living for all but a small elite wherever Muslim or Leftist ideas predominate. They’re like evil children who destroy the things they have no idea how to build or repair.

Slate has the good news.

Well, that’s a relief.

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Well, I think it looks rather cool.

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Right on the bleeding edge, Noo Yawk.

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Well. These things happen.

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Officials say they are learning of an increasing number of cases in which immigrant parents in Finland are forcibly sending teens back to their home countries to de-westernize them.

Let’s send Barack Obama back to his home country to de-Westernize him.

It couldn’t hurt.

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Oddly enough, “American youths” don’t do that for Independence day.

I wonder why not.

Today, disaffected youths from bleak suburban housing projects around major cities use it to express their frustration with high unemployment rates and what they see as France’s failure to integrate ethnic minorities.

Perhaps that’s why.

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Unfortunately, it is incomplete; no mention of socialism.

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Yeah, like a potter’s vessel. But that’s me.

The Other McCain puts it in a nutshell.

People who like Sarah Palin don’t hate women. But everybody hates whiny bitches like you.

And that about says it all.

Steve Sailer uncovers the seamy side of college admissions.

At the heart of the Ricci case, which Judge Sonia Sotomayor attempted to bury so that it couldn’t be appealed when she heard it by upholding the lower court’s anti-Ricci decision without an opinion (outraging her mentor Judge Jose Cabranes), is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Four-Fifths Rule.

This regulation says that on any employment test, the lowest scoring ethnic group better pass at a rate at least 80% as high as the highest scoring ethnic group.

The fashionable Advanced Placement tests provide us with a database to test the reasonableness of the rule that gives the Disparate Impact theory its teeth. As I mention in post below, blacks only pass AP tests at a per capita rate not Four-Fifths but One-Twentieth of the Asian rate.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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A German chef accidentally blew off both of his hands while attempting to create a dish with liquid nitrogen, according to a newspaper report.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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It is a guarantee that whenever it is announced that a popular book is being turned into a movie, white people will get upset. This is partly due to their fear that something they love will be made accessible to more people and thus enjoyed by more people which immediately decreases the amount of joy a white person can feel towards the original property. Yes, it’s complicated.

But more importantly, once a book has been made into a movie, a white person can no longer read that book. To have read the book after the movie is one of the great crimes in white culture, and under no circumstances should you ever admit to doing this. Literally dozens of white friendships have imploded when it was revealed that someone read Fight Club after 1999.

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One man was killed and two more injured as the gate-crasher exchanged fire with guests. The gunmen unloaded nearly 50 bullets outside the gathering in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, before following one of the survivors to a nearby hospital, where more shots were fired.

Boy, those white people sure are violent. Oh, wait….

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Regina Benjamin is a family doctor who runs a rural clinic that treats many poor patients in the town of Bayou La Batre, Alabama. She has an MBA and she was the first black woman to be elected to the AMA’s board of trustees.

Look at the picture and tell me true: Would you have known that Obama’s pick for Surgeon General was a “black woman” unless somebody told you?

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The moves now being made by the world’s political establishment to lock us into December’s Copenhagen treaty to halt global warming are as alarming as anything that has happened in our lifetimes. Last week in Italy, the various branches of our emerging world government, G8 and G20, agreed in principle that the world must by 2050 cut its CO2 emissions in half. Britain and the US are already committed to cutting their use of fossil fuels by more than 80 per cent. Short of an unimaginable technological revolution, this could only be achieved by closing down virtually all our economic activity: no electricity, no transport, no industry. All this is being egged on by a gigantic publicity machine, by the UN, by serried ranks of government-funded scientists, by cheerleaders such as Al Gore, last week comparing the fight against global warming to that against Hitler’s Nazis, and by politicians who have no idea what they are setting in train.

What makes this even odder is that the runaway warming predicted by their computer models simply isn’t happening. Last week one of the four official sources of temperature measurement, compiled from satellite data by the University of Huntsville, Alabama, showed that temperatures have now fallen to their average level since satellite data began 30 years ago.

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All sorts of silly fads catch on among smart people, but it doesn’t make them smarter. Does wearing a tie boost your brainpower?

Vegetarianism is God’s way of distinguishing the herd from the pack.

Be afraid.

Best Tombstone Ever.

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In light of the political biases of New Scientist, it will probably nag you about Global Warming.

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No doubt payback for the “eat more chikin” campaign.

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Since December 2007, when the current recession formally began, the nation has lost approximately 6 million jobs. Only two states, Alaska and North Dakota, have lost a smaller percentage of jobs than Washington, DC, which has seen a job loss of 0.6%, or 4,400. Simply put, Washington has done better in this recession than 48 of the fifty states when it comes to job performance.

Washington has always been a one industry town: that’s why it has an intrinsically self-absorbed monotonic culture. Everyone there depends on government for their livelihood. It is fundamentally not a city of competitive industries, but a giant taxpayer-funded office park, surrounded by museums and memorials. The great presidents: Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson, have their own monuments, while more recent leaders have concert halls and office buildings named after them.

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

Steve Sailer isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade, you should excuse the expression.

This one sentence is the most interesting part of the op-ed: Sturm und Guinier give away the hushed up fact that “civil rights” — as currently understood by, say, Sonia Sotomayor — is an assault on America’s once proud tradition of civil service reforms.

Objective written tests for would-be government employees originated in Imperial China, and the idea was transmitted to Europe by early Jesuit missionaries, such as the great Matteo Ricci, who were impressed by how much better China was administered than their own countries. The Chinese tests were not seemingly all that “job-related” — they consisted of questions requiring elegant essays on the Confucian classics, with bonus points for artistic calligraphy. That doesn’t, at first glance, seem to have much to do with, say, keeping the Grand Canal dredged and open to shipping. But, of course, they were tests of IQ, literacy, and diligence, which predicts a lot more about job performance than, say, who you know.

However, as minority political power grew, minorities stopped wanting blind-graded testing extended to fight bigotry and instead wanted it rolled back to benefit themselves over more qualified job applicants. Thus, in January 1981, the outgoing Carter Administration signed a consent decree in the Luevano discrimination case junking PACE, and promising that the federal government would replace it in the future with a test that would be both predictively valid and have much less disparate impact. Of course, 28 years later, the federal government, despite its vast resources, has never been able to come up with that mythical replacement test.

Fire departments, like most government agencies, are monopolies, so they aren’t inherently incentivized by market competition to hire the most effective managers and employees. Thus, strict civil service rules have been developed to produce objective competition for jobs. The diversicrats like Guinier and Sotomayor hate blind-graded competitions, precisely because they are honest and fair.

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Here’s some economic logic to ponder. The unemployment rate in June for American teenagers was 24%, for black teens it was 38%, and even White House economists are predicting more job losses. So how about raising the cost of that teenage labor?

Sorry to say, but that’s precisely what will happen on July 24, when the minimum wage will increase to $7.25 an hour from $6.55. The national wage floor will have increased 41% since the three-step hike was approved by the Democratic Congress in May 2007. Then the economy was humming, with an overall jobless rate of 4.5% and many entry-level jobs paying more than the minimum. That’s a hard case to make now, with a 9.5% national jobless rate and thousands of employers facing razor-thin profit margins.

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Imagine, if you will, a 3D picture of Helen Thomas.

Surely one can find a better use for $600?

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Muammar Gaddafi doing to Barack Obama what we’d all secretly like to do.

Oh, I’m sure it’s fauxtography, but I still had to laugh. It would make a superb poster.

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Claessens’ team couldn’t look at fossilization-unfriendly soft tissue, but instead compared the skeletons of large modern birds and pterosaurs. Using x-ray movies and CT scans, they charted the skeletal mechanics of wing flapping in birds, then found similar bone structures in the dinosaurs. They also observed nearly identical relationships between body size and bone density.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Azad Ali, a Muslim civil servant suspended after comments appeared on his personal website justifying the killing of British troops in Iraq, has returned to work at the Treasury.

I don’t even have to say anything, do I?

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A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.

Her nation is one of the last places on Earth where large numbers of humans are still kept as property.

Paging Al Sharpton…. Paging Jesse Jackson….

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Dr Tom Shenton, a reader in engineering at Liverpool University who is leading the project, said: “We are running engines everyday in our laboratory with this system now and our ultimate objective is have it inside cars driven by consumers.

The Other McCain takes a look at David Brooks’ ordeal.

My theory is that the Senator wanted to borrow a pair and too late realized his mistake.

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Just in case you were wondering. I wasn’t, really.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.