STEPHEN BASKERVILLE: When child support becomes extortion, families lose.
As a member of Virginia’s advisory Child Support Review Panel, I witnessed how officials rig the process. The panel was packed with divorce operatives with pecuniary interests in making divorce more lucrative and common. It consulted only “experts” who urged increases and ignored scholars like Bryce Christensen, who points out “the linkage between aggressive child-support policies and the erosion of wedlock” and who charges that “the advocates of ever-more-aggressive measures for collecting child support … have moved us a dangerous step closer to a police state.”
When I described these abuses in a major newspaper, I was promptly removed from the panel.
Officials acknowledged that “opinions published in the … Washington Times” were the reason. The then-health secretary wrote, “I find it difficult to see how you could effectively participate along with representatives of other groups that very likely have different perspectives than yours.”
DID I MENTION HE WAS A DEMOCRAT? Democrat Fred Phelps dead at 84.
Earlier: Fred Phelps, longtime Democrat, said to be near death.
KEEPING AMERICA SAFE: From 2000 to 2012, private citizens stopped one in six mass shootings. “49% of events stopped before the police could arrive.”
SHAKEDOWN: Jesse Jackson Protesting Tech Industry’s Lack of Diversity. Great line:
Hopefully, what Rev. Jackson is doing will bring attention to the 800-pound gorilla in the room that nobody wants to talk about. It’s high time that gets addressed.
It’s about time such a major figure takes this matter head on. I commend him for his bravery.
NOT THE ONION: Man allegedly kills prostitutes, then cuts off genitals and claims to be a new person with no connection to his past.
For the first time, we’re hearing details about why Donna Perry, who was [sic] a man named Douglas Perry at the time of the murders, says she [sic] didn’t kill the women and how her [sic] sex change operation will likely play a role in her [sic] defense. . . .
She [sic] went on to say, “I’m not going to admit I killed anybody, I didn’t. Donna has killed nobody.” Detective Burbridge replied, “Doug did.” And Perry said, “I don’t know if Doug did or not, it was 20 years ago and I have no idea whether he did or did not.”
Sounds like a good defense strategy, if you want to come off as a psycho.
UK: Female paedophile, 21, is jailed for two years [actually, just 1] after she had sex with an eight-year-old boy 50 times, starting when she was 16. Light punishment, don’t you think?
“DIVERSITY MEANS UNIFORMITY.” Guinness, Heineken, & Sam Adams Now Political Statements, Not Beer.
“Gays” and “lesbians” are not barred from marching in New York’s (nor Boston’s) parades. Not even as groups. They are only barred from carrying signs which trumpet their sexual desires. Sam Adams (Boston Beer Co.) made this same error, probably willfully like most others.
Don’t we have enough people broadcasting their lusts, whether “gay” or “straight”? Must a parade organized by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the oldest Catholic organization in these United States, a religious parade devoted to the memory of a saint, be turned into yet one more “celebration” of all thing genital? Can’t we have just one public day where our thoughts are turned from our “sexuality” to something higher?
God bless the AOH for fighting back, for not backing down, for not cowering to the despicable pressure to conform.
YES, WE’RE OMNIVORES. ALSO, MEAT IS AWESOME. Top 11 Biggest Lies About Vegan Diets. “The fact that vegans can’t function without B12 supplements or B12 supplemental foods is also a pretty strong argument for these diets not being ‘natural.'”
HERESY: Professor argues for criminal punishment of those funding “climate denial.”
The professor writes in his essay, “We have good reason to consider the funding of climate denial to be criminally and morally negligent. The charge of criminal and moral negligence ought to extend to all activities of the climate deniers who receive funding as part of a sustained campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of scientific consensus.”
From the article:
Waving aside what he calls “misguided” concerns about “free speech”, Torcello argues that these “denialist” scientists are not misinforming the public by accident. Rather, he says, it is their intentional aim because they are “politically and financially motivated.”
As evidence of this, Torcello links to an article he found in the Guardian reporting the supposed leak of documents from the Heartland Institute, apparently revealing a concerted campaign funded by Big Oil interests, aimed at “dissuading teachers from teaching science.”
Torcello appears not to be aware that the documents quoted in the article had in fact been doctored or faked by an environmental activist (climate scientist and Macarthur genius award recipient) Peter Gleick.
TOM JAMES: Neutering custody law in the 20th century.
Nineteenth century feminists had sought to . . . preserve and secure preferential treatment for women with respect to matters as to which women either had, or were believed to be entitled to have, an advantage, such as the custody of children. . . .
Unlike their predecessors, however, feminists of the 1960’s and 1970’s opposed sex-based stereotypes, and challenged the sex-based division of labor that resulted from them. . . .
Influential feminist writers of the period saw the maternal preference doctrine and its corollary, the tender years doctrine, as limiting women’s opportunities. Although these doctrines had become established in the law at the insistence of an earlier generation of women, the new generation portrayed these laws as strictures that men had invented to keep women “in their place,” i.e., at home, bearing and raising children. This is undoubtedly what feminist Simone de Beauvoir had in mind when she wrote to one of her contemporaries that “as long as … the myth of … the maternal instinct /is/ not destroyed, women will still be oppressed.”
State and federal legislators responded by enacting laws designed to bring an end to sex discrimination. . . .
By the end of the century, judicial protestations notwithstanding — and subject to two important exceptions (children born out of wedlock, and very young children) — most states, either by judicial decision or statute, had abandoned the use of the maternal preference as an explicit basis for the decision of custody cases.
Earlier: The maternal preference in the 20th century.
Also: What judges really think about fathers: Responses to court-commissioned judicial bias surveys.
RENEWABLE ENERGY & “SUSTAINABILITY” VERSUS CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION & WILDLIFE PROTECTION: Wood pellets shipped 3,800 miles and burned for energy at British taxpayers’ expense.
North Carolina’s ‘bottomland’ forest is being cut down in swathes, and much of it pulped and turned into wood pellets – so Britain can keep its lights on.
The UK is committed by law to a radical shift to renewable energy. . . .
The only large-scale way to do this is by burning wood, man’s oldest fuel – because EU rules have determined it is ‘carbon-neutral’.
So our biggest power station, the leviathan Drax plant near Selby in North Yorkshire, is switching from dirty, non-renewable coal. Biomass is far more expensive, but the consumer helps the process by paying subsidies via levies on energy bills. . . .
Drax’s wood-fuelled furnaces actually produce three per cent more carbon dioxide (CO2) than coal – and well over twice as much as gas: 870g per megawatt hour (MW/hr) is belched out by wood, compared to just 400g for gas.
Then there’s the extra CO2 produced by manufacturing the pellets and transporting them 3,800 miles. According to [Drax’s head of environment, Nigel] Burdett, when all that is taken into account, using biomass for generating power produces 20 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than coal.
And meanwhile, say the environmentalists, the forest’s precious wildlife habitat is being placed in jeopardy.
A LOOK BACK ON THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE BOOM: Senator Warren Gets Taken In by a False Analysis. “As we will show, the affordable housing goals created substantial demand for subprime loans, a high percentage of which — as the paper notes — met the technical requirements of the goals. For this reason, Fannie and Freddie, the two GSEs were, by far, the largest buyers of securities backed by such loans. Indeed, as shown in the chart below, the GSEs bought more than 40 percent of all these securities issued in 2004, a dramatic increase from their purchase share only three years earlier. To achieve this rise in market share, the expansion of GSE purchases in 2002, 2003, and 2004 accounted for more than half of the growth in the market for private mortgage-backed securities (PMBS) backed by subprime mortgages.”
STOPPING THE TRUE THREAT: EMT TRAINEES. High school senior jailed, kicked out of school and may lose Army dream because of pocket knife in car.
Wiser, an EMT trainee who hopes to become both a police officer and a soldier, spent 13 days in the Ashtabula County Jail following the incident. The knife, which Wiser said is part of his first responder’s kit and can be used for slicing an accident victim’s seatbelt, was found tucked inside his EMT medical vest in the trunk of the car. . . .
School officials told FoxNews.com that possession of the pocket knife was a violation of the school’s zero tolerance policy for bringing weapons on campus.
IF ONLY THERE WERE AN ACT OF CONGRESS THAT COULD PROTECT THIS PATIENT AND ENSURE HIM AFFORDABLE CARE: Vegas man stuck with $407,000 medical bill after ObamaCare breakdown.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Larry Basich, a 62-year-old Vegas resident, has been stuck with the massive medical bill despite signing up for an insurance plan via the state exchange last fall.
Basich, according to the article, selected a UnitedHealthcare plan in November, and even paid his first premium. But he never received confirmation that he was enrolled, despite being assured that he was by Nevada Health Link.
Amid the confusion, Basich suffered a heart attack at the end of December, and had to undergo a triple bypass. Now, according to the Review-Journal, no insurer will claim his bills — and he’s caught in a financially frightening battle as he appeals to the exchange and its contractor, Xerox, for help.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Saturated fat ‘ISN’T bad for your heart’: Major study questions decades of dietary advice.
After decades of advice on the harm done by saturated fat such as butter, scientists have found no evidence of a link with heart problems.
A ‘mega’ study which analysed a huge amount of existing data also said so-called healthy polyunsaturated fats, such as sunflower oil, had no general effect on the risk of heart disease.
In contrast, a dairy fat called margaric acid ‘significantly reduced’ risk, while two kinds of saturated fat found in palm oil and animal products had only a ‘weak link’ with heart disease.
Two types of omega-3 fatty acid found in oily fish – EPA and DHA – and the omega-6 fat arachidonic acid were linked to a lower risk of heart disease. But omega-3 and omega-6 supplements appeared to have no benefit.
THE MYTH of the California Renaissance. “The California Renaissance myth rests primarily on the idea that the 2012 income-tax increase, which raised the top marginal rate for the state’s highest earners to 13.3 percent, averted fiscal catastrophe. California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office projects a surplus of about $5 billion, which seems like good news. Enjoying the good news requires looking away from the state’s ‘wall of debt,’ which Brown—to his credit—often mentions in speeches. But Brown’s wall consists only of the $24.9 billion the legislature ‘borrowed’ from education and other special funds to balance the state’s byzantine budget over the past several years. The governor himself ignores the much larger wall of debt: between $330 and $600 billion in unfunded public pensions, health care, and bonds.”
CHARLES MURRAY on allegations of racism.
Our sin was to openly discuss the issue, not to advocate a position. But for the last forty years, that’s been sin enough.
I’ll be happy to respond at more length to allegations of racism made by anyone who can buttress them with a direct quote from anything I’ve written. I’ll leave you with this thought: In all the critiques of The Bell Curve in particular and my work more generally, no one ever accompanies their charges with direct quotes of what I’ve actually said. There’s a reason for that.
SURPRISE! Has your city been chosen as a “preferred” resettlement site?
According to the feds, a ”preferred community” is one in which newly arriving refugees have the best opportunity for “self-sufficiency and integration.” I look at the list and know that many of these cities are having big problems with refugees/immigrant joblessness and poverty, and lack of integration (assimilation!).
The grants for 2010 totaled nearly $6 million. And, take note Wyoming, the grants did not go to the city or state, the grants went to the contractors, so they decide what is needed to smooth the way for refugees in your “welcoming” city!
INTERESTING: Genetic Data Suggests Convergent Evolution for Milk Digestion. “The research team found that the geographic patterns in which a genetic variant for milk digestion were present often correlated with historic human migrations and the spread of domestic cattle, camels, and sheep. ‘Our results are showing different mutations arising in different places that are under selection and rising to high frequencies and then reintroduced by migration to new areas and new populations,’ Tishkoff told Science Daily. She suspects that there are other genetic variants for the digestion of milk that have not yet been discovered, and that commensal bacteria in the gut could also help adult humans digest milk.”
SUNSHINE MARY: Homosexuals: We’re here, we’re queer, and all your parades are belong to us. “Why must homosexuals always use subterfuge in order to win public sympathy? If they were really on the receiving end of so much bias and discrimination, there would be no reason why they had to exaggerate and lie about various incidents, yet they do. What does that tell us?”
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Progressive Racism: The Hidden Motive Driving Modern Politics. “White progressives believe that black people are too dumb to make rational decisions on their own and too uncouth to behave civilly. So the progressive urge is to heap rules upon rules to control blacks and render them harmless to themselves and others. At the same time, progressives are terrified of being perceived as racist. So they hit upon a solution: Make rules which restrict everyone‘s freedoms, even though the progressives are actually targeting African-Americans. The collateral damage in this cynical equation — law-abiding citizens of all ethnicities — erroneously assume that the intrusive rules are aimed at them. But they’re missing the point: Progressives don’t enjoy restricting their own freedoms along with everyone else’s, but can conceive of no other legal mechanism to deal with what they see as misbehaving blacks while still appearing to be race-neutral.”
NOT OVER YET: Indiana Legislature Ends Common Core, Contemplates New Standards.
While the move to exit Common Core was an important one, there is an ongoing debate in the state about what will replace the national standards and whether what is being proposed is Common Core-lite. As Heritage’s Alicia Cohn reported for The Foundry: “Common Core opponents suspect a bias toward it already was embedded in the review process. With Iowa, Florida, and Arizona renaming their own state standards to avoid the tainted Common Core branding, critics have reason to suspect Indiana might end up doing the same thing.”
Indiana’s bill also adds a requirement that the new state standards should prepare students adequately for the ACT and SAT college entrance examinations. But with news this week that the SAT is being revamped in part to reflect Common Core, real questions have been raised about the impact this will have on states like Indiana that are working to reclaim their standards-setting autonomy.
YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN: What Happened To Coming Of Age Movies For Boys? “Boys are best served with having a strong male father in their life. Most will not be so lucky. A cheap, but positive, consolation prize would be to have positive renditions of boys understanding the growth into manhood in media. Not some mindless nonsense with booze, boobs and tomfoolery.”
NEWTOWN KILLER had pro-pedophilia and homoerotic fantasy material on his computer.
A file titled “pbear” contains a document that advocates for pedophiles’ rights and the liberation of children, according to the report. . . .
Another document titled “Lovebound” contains a screenplay about a relationship between a 10-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man. . . .
The computer also contained instant message transcripts from 2010 and 2011 that show Lanza discussing homosexual fantasies.
For all we know, there is no connection between any of this and the shooting. But the same goes for baseless conjecture about a desire on the killer’s part to be a manly man, as feminists are wont to suggest:
Eating meat is associated with male power in its most vile and repugnant forms.
In a logic that sounds positively mystical, real men, we are told, should be physically strong and virile, which means killing and eating strong animals.
This is why cookbooks aimed at men focus on the barbecue. Anything less might turn them into gay homosexual fops. For instance, the Newtown killer used a rifle manufactured by a company called Bushmaster. Upon purchase, Bushmaster offers you a “man card” that is revoked if you’re caught, among other things, “eating tofu”. Why? Because real men eat meat. Sissies do not.
In rejecting meat, feminists – both women and men – are rejecting a potent symbol of patriarchal power.
But the killer was a “moral” vegan. Whoops. Russ Hanoman, a friend of Nancy Lanza, said of him, “He was very nonviolent. He adopted a vegan, organic lifestyle out of a moral compass because he did not want to be the cause of animal suffering.” (This is transcribed from the video at the link.)
I suppose that “patriarchal power” can take many forms, even that of a homosexual-fantasizing, Dance Dance Revolution-playing, anorexic vegan.
FRED PHELPS, longtime Democrat, said to be near death.
IS IT WORTH IT? EU citizenship for sale to non-Europeans in Bulgaria for as little as £150,000.
So long as applicants can deposit sufficient funds, they need only visit the east European country for two days to obtain all the rights of EU citizens.
Even someone with a criminal record who has been turned down for a British passport can qualify for Bulgarian citizenship under the scheme, agents brokering the deal said.
The fast-track programme was quietly introduced just weeks before restrictions on Bulgarian nationals living and working in other EU countries were dropped earlier this year. Hundreds of foreign nationals are already believed to have applied for EU citizenship under the scheme.
VOX DAY: Tribalism comes to America. “There never was any ‘melting pot’; this is the new tribal reality that will launch the new dawn of nationalism.”
STEVE SAILER: 2008 SAT scores by race by income. From the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: “Black students from families with incomes of more than $200,000 scored lower on the SAT test than did students from white families with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000.” See the table at the link.
WHAT’S SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE: If I Must Sell, You Must Buy.
The man with the harvest, no matter how hard he hoed and hauled, is deemed a public good and subject to the vagaries of society. This is enforced by Uncle Sam, whose insistence in intervening collapses the construct of a free market into coerced trilateral exchanges, with coercion in one direction only.
To support coercion with respect to the seller without demanding the same from the buyer is to advocate for a system that thieves the property and labor of one to benefit another. However, to support completely coerced exchanges is to advocate for total state slavery.
Since the balancing of coercion violates the ethics of self and property, as does coercion in one direction, the only valid solution is for the nebby uncle to mind its own business and allow [people] to associate and trade, or not associate and not trade, as desired.
WESLEY J. SMITH: Psychiatrist Opens Door to “Rational Suicide”.
It is one thing to say that the patient just couldn’t be helped, and another to say that in some cases, preventing suicide interferes with rational decision making.
Psychiatrists are sometimes the last bastion of protection for despairing self-destructive people. To succeed, the life-saving mission must be unequivocal. But rational suicide proponents believe that when the doctor agrees that the desire to die is “rational,” it should be “permitted.” Imagine being told by your doctor that self-killing makes sense.
NOTHING BETTER TO DO: Federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Focused on ‘Population Behavior Change’.
DGAC Chair Barbara Millen . . . said the “potential is vast” for their recommendations, which deal with everything from “sustainability” in the food supply to “carbon footprints,” food deserts, alcohol consumption, and obesity “interventions.” . . .
There are five subcommittees within DGAC, one of which deals with “food sustainability” for the first time. During this discussion at the meeting on Friday, Miriam Nelson, a member of the DGAC committee, emphasized the need for the committee to focus on the environment.
“Footprint, you have to actually look at the whole footprint from the farm to fork, so to speak,” Nelson said.
SATIRE: 5 Things Women Need To Do In Their 20′s (Or Else The Suffragists Died For Nothing). The author elsewhere says it’s satirical. That should be obvious, right?
Evidently not. Even the editors seem to have thought that it was real, only adding later the note at the bottom that begins “Laughed at this article?” as well as the “humor” and “satire” tags. Even the “related” links dispersed throughout have been changed to make the satirical nature of the article more obvious.
One commenter writes, “It took me until the middle of the third part to realize this was a satire.”
Here are some passages that appear well before this point in the article:
The patriarchy is still an omnipresent overlord, endorsing cultural structures that keep women from realizing their full potential and contribute to a harrowing loss of self-esteem . . .
Sexual liberation has done so much for women everywhere, and while our government still refuses to provide us with what we are more than entitled to (free abortions and free birth control) we still have lots of opportunities to have casual hookup fun and flirty, bubbly flings without being burned at the stake by judgmental cisgendered old men with white beards.
Your twenties are all about you. It’s a time for discovering yourself, your strengths, and your weaknesses, but most of all it is to do what feels right in the moment, have fun. . . .
Go to concerts and get backstage afterwards with the cute long haired members of that band you like. Take those cute little yellow and pink pills they give you and hoover that table clean of white powder, then have some fun with their instruments, (both kinds). Sure, drugs can be dangerous, but only if you get addicted and that’s unlikely to happen–we’re strong independent women, it shouldn’t be so hard to not be dependent on drugs. And if we became addicted, so what? That’s just another adventure, and to anyone who disagrees, that’s just junkie-shaming. Just live in the moment and give everything a try or two, apart from maybe Meth and Heroin, you don’t want to shatter those dreams of becoming a model. Party on girls. You deserve it. . . .
3. Major in women’s studies
This one is a no-brainer. If you don’t agree you’re probably an ignorant, sexist, transphobic, slut-shaming mysogynist cis white male and possibly a rapist.
Another commenter writes, “Even for satire this article is pretty ridiculous. Btw is the movement for free abortions actually a thing?”
Yes, it actually is a thing: Jessica Valenti: Free Abortions on Demand Without Apology.
One commenter doesn’t catch on, writing, “I don’t think this is satire. It mixes up too much problematic advice with actually valid advice to be completely joking. I think it is a good try. And I think it is a good try by someone in their 20s. Please, please, though – getting/letting guys (to) buy you drinks is not empowering. Feminism can be about being carefree but not so reckless that you don’t treat people (including men) like human beings. Do it dutch, I say.”
So, the bit of advice that needs to be spoken against is not paying for drinks? Really? One hopes such comments are as satirical as the article itself.
HOLLYWOOD VERSUS PROGRESS: Hollywood’s Piracy Fears Turn Potentially Useful Product Into A $4,000 Brick.
Instead of a seamless, instant experience, you’re back in the position of hunting for the purchased discs you already “conveniently” stored on the hard drive. . . .
Now, Hollywood has been forced to accept this device, nearly a decade since it first began its attack. The number of licensed movies available for download barely clears 2,000 titles. There may be more to come, but it seems unlikely to be fully embraced by the same studios who spent 10 years fighting it. And who’s to say that any licenses obtained won’t be rescinded in the future, punching holes in your digital collection and putting you back in the position of hunting down Blu-ray discs you stashed away after burning them to Kaleidescape’s drive? It’s not as though that sort of “you don’t really own your digital purchases” bulls**t has never occurred before.
CHILDREN COMPLICATE THINGS: Mothers leave work because they don’t want to behave like working men, study suggests. “Many of the interviewed women found it hard to combine work and motherhood because of the dominant culture of presenteeism — the notion that they should be at their desks until late, even if there was nothing to do. The researchers found that before they had children themselves, women not only accepted but encouraged the masculine culture of the workplace.”
Weird. It’s almost as if women aren’t exactly the same as men.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to set up your own private instant messaging server. Though you wonder how private it can really be.
DHS: Yes, deportation figures are inflated.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department’s deportation numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they can’t be compared one-to-one with deportations under President Bush or other prior administrations.
Which effectively means,
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department’s deportation numbers are now mostly made up.
JILLIAN KAY MELCHIOR: Fixing What Wasn’t Broken. “In Hawaii, Obamacare has disrupted a health-coverage system that had seen 98 percent of the population insured before the recession. Now lawmakers are scrambling to fix the state’s health-insurance exchange, which is fast on its way to insolvency. But the financial fix is likely to result in even higher health-coverage costs for Hawaiians.” It was never about fixing anything, unless by “fix” one refers not to what you do to cars and TVs but instead what you do to competitive sports, or to dogs and cats.
THE NEW TOLERANCE: Stanford Traditional Marriage Event Deemed ‘Hate Speech,’ Denied Funding. Here’s a bright idea for the students planning the conference: Stop providing Stanford with tuition payments and student fees in the first place. That way, you won’t have to argue to get some of your money back to pay for your events.
RESPONSIBILITY WITHOUT AUTHORITY: New Jersey Judge: Women Can Block Dads From Delivery Room.
Rutgers professor and family law expert Sally Goldfarb says a Passaic County judge made the right call last November in his decision, which was published this week, when he sided with pregnant woman that her ex-fiancee had no legal right to be in the delivery room.
“What this man was seeking to do was really interfere with the woman’s ability to exercise her own choices about giving birth in privacy and that to me falls outside of the rights that a father is legitimately entitled to.”
In the decision, believed to be the first of its kind, the father was also told he didn’t have a right to know when the baby was born.
But he can still be on the hook for child support for 18 years (or longer, if he has to pay for college). The government saddles him with a long-term financial obligation derived from his being a father but without recognizing his rights as a father — that is, it allots him responsibility for a child, but with no authority over that very same child. It’s like the welfare state, except he’s barred from access to his own flesh and blood.
Earlier: Fathers sue Utah over law allowing mothers to secretly give up babies for adoption.
CULTURAL ENRICHMENT: That Live Oak High School Flag Decision: What Will Happen When Hispanics Rule (With Help From The Treason Court). This is actually less about Hispanics themselves “ruling” and more about those in power increasingly appealing to them with identity politics, an activity that one could reasonably expect to increase in quantity and scope should amnesty go through.
The February 27 decision by the notorious U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that California school officials could ban students from wearing the U.S. flag on Cinco de Mayo because of an alleged fear it would “provoke” racial violence was a disgusting capitulation to Hispanic supremacism and Mexican Reconquistas . . .
From 1988 until 2009, whites outnumbered Hispanics at Live Oak High. But Hispanics slowly grew in number, while whites decreased—until they became a minority in 2010.
Not coincidentally, 2010 was also the year that Mexican students threatened American students for wearing their flag on Cinco de Mayo—and the American students were sent home or told to change their clothes, while the Mexicans were allowed to celebrate their national flag.
2010 was simply the flashpoint in the mounting conflict brought about by racial population change. . . .
To this symbol, we can add the substance of ongoing anti-white discrimination, in the form of rampant Affirmative Action . . .
No less than 63% of younger (18-24) Hispanics in a Georgetown University poll supported Affirmative Action to “redress past discrimination.” . . . An Angus Reid poll showed that 65% of Hispanics support Affirmative Action for their own group in education, while 68% support it in employment.
(See references for these polls at the link.)
On a related note, Vox Day wrote recently (in a post covered here earlier),
Once Europeans are no longer the majority in a given country, they’ll very soon learn how little interest all the various competing minorities who accused them of racism have in “colorblindness”, “racial equality”, “affirmative action”, “proportional representation” and all the other useful little rhetorical fictions that have been successfully used to prevent Europeans from pursuing any group interests.
Of course, we’re already seeing this develop in the United States, as European-Americans not only flee minority-run homelands such as Detroit and Los Angeles, but the Democratic Party as well. This is why amnesty is so important to Democrats, as they are hoping to import sufficient numbers of Hispanics to counter the transition to race-based power politics.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Building muscle correlates with lower incidence of premature death in older adults.
“The greater your muscle mass, the lower your risk of death,” said Dr. Arun Karlamangla, an associate professor in the geriatrics division at the Geffen School and the study’s co-author. “Thus, rather than worrying about weight or body mass index, we should be trying to maximize and maintain muscle mass.”
This study does have some limitations. For instance, one cannot definitively establish a cause-and-effect relationship between muscle mass and survival using a cohort study such as NHANES III.
DOESN’T DO US MUCH GOOD NOW, DOES IT? Obama Admits: If You Like Your Doctor, You, Uh, Might Not Be Able to Keep Him.