Author: VD

The Republican sell-out starts early

There is a reason the media is trumpeting the year of the Republican woman as shown in the following example: Five Primary Races Dominated by Republican Women Could Set Course for Midterm Elections.

If there is one lesson that should be learned from the voting habits of past female Republicans, it is that they are usually Lite Democrats. I can still remember when Christie Todd Whitman was supposed to be the great conservative hope… and what a joke that turned out to be. The Carly Fiorinas and Sue Lowdens of the world are NEVER going to vote to overturn a single federal entitlement. It’s just not going to happen.

With the exception of Sharon Angle, I see no reason to think of these Republican candidates as anything but electoral pressure valves. Naturally, she’s the one candidate that the Republican establishment opposes.

Mailvox: Underzog!

A self-styled hero of Zionism writes WND in response to my solution for the Middle East conflict:

Why does a newspaper that boasts a rational policy on the Middle East still keep those anti-Semites, Pat Buchanan and his mini me, Vox Day?

Get rid of them – or if you’re not going to get rid of these Nazis, then at least, have a special designation for them. WorldNetDaily has in its commentary a section called “out of left field.” I suggest a compromise for Pat Buchanan and Vox Day. Maybe you can have a section called “from the brown corner” as WND has “out of left field.”

Placing the editorials of Pat Buchanan and Vox Day in something called “from the brown corner” still keeps the anti-Semites on WND but makes it clear that they are brown in political leanings; i.e., the color of the Nazi storm troopers (brown battalions). It’s a good idea, no?

He also wrote directly to me:

You’re jest sooooooooo funny in your anti-Semitic taunts. We obviously have a young Pat Buchanan waiting to pick up the Jew hating torch when that draft dodging Nazi passes away. But, I have an idea, too. The Catholic church has a lot of pederasty and the Libertarians, of which you proudly call yourself, are the party of child molestation; therefore, if the Jews should leave Israel because of the evil of others, the children in the Catholic Church and of Libertarain party members should wear reverse chastity belts to cover their backside so that those Christians and Libertarians cannot sodomize them. If Jews are to vacate Israel because of the whining evil of others, it certainly makes more sense, at least, for a particular denomination of Christians and Libertarians to spare their male children the evils of pederasty comitted by them by giving those children reverse chastitty belts to protect them from the child molestation of the Libertarians and the Catholic priests. Such an action certainly makes more moral sense than destroying Israel because some Muslim/Arab savages murder and whine about Israel.

If not all Christian denominations support child molestation as the Catholic denomination does, you Libertarians certainly do support the child molesters: http://www.fortfreedom.org/b29.htm . I give the URL here, but that is superflous as you already know this about your fellow Libertarians.

Remember to get some bright Libertarians to design a reverse chastity belt to protect male kids from the perils of sodomy from Libertarains as they are the party of child molestation.

Ha ha ha…. Tee hee hee, nyuck nyuck nyuck; etc. Do you think you’re funny? Well, I can be funny, too, as in this letter. Are you amused my Jew baiting friend?

Frankly, yes.

Congress passes Title IX: Science Edition

Needless to say, all of the Pharyngularons will believe the application of Title X to academic science is a great idea right up to the moment that their program is slashed due to disproportional representation or they are denied a job or a slot in a PhD program on the basis of their incorrect race or sex. And then, all the wailing and the gnashing of teeth will be a sweet, sweet sound indeed.

Section 201(a) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 5521(a)) is amended—
“(2) the National Science Foundation shall use its existing programs, in collaboration with other agencies, as appropriate, to improve the teaching and learning of networking and information technology at all levels of education and to increase participation in networking and information technology fields, including by women and underrepresented minorities;’’.

The amusing thing is that despite hundreds of male athletic programs being cut in favor of hapless juggling and basket-weaving teams that can’t get enough women to participate even when offered full scholarships, scientists and science fetishists alike can’t foresee the obvious result of this Congressional action. If the pattern holds, and given that women are even less interested in science than they are in sports, it will probably even stronger, then up to three times as many male positions will be cut as female positions are added. Consider what has happened in the recent past.

“It is clear that women’s sports are growing at the expense of male sports. From 1992 to 1997 approximately 5,800 female athletes have been added to sports teams. During that same period over 20,000 male athletes were cut (Hoornstra 2002).”

Lest you wonder why I harbor such complete contempt for the intelligence and logical capacity of scientists, note that many of them continue worrying about the hypothetically negative effects on science supposedly caused by creationists and state curriculums as they simultaneously cheer on Congress ordering the science bureaucracy to actively begin managing the sex distribution of academic science. I strongly suggest those who think favorably of the idea of government by scientific technocracy, or worse yet, genuinely believe that science can define morality, to consider the implications of taking their opinions seriously, let alone govern.

No doubt they will end up blaming the decline of American science on America’s excess religiosity. As we have seen again and again and again, history and temporal order is mystery to them.

Games are good for you

It is medical science:

Dr Micklewright was equally surprised by the number of characteristics gamers did share with top athletes. He said: ”Their reaction time, motor skill, competitiveness and emotions were pretty close. Elite athletes have unusually high levels of positive feelings and low levels of negative feelings such as depression and fatigue.”

Okay, granted, you still have to get to the gym. But combining the gym and games is the way to turn yourself into an elite physical and mental specimen. And best of all, you never have to enter The Big Room.

The bittersweet moment

We saw a young viszla running through the woods yesterday. It was so familiar, like a fleeting glance through a temporal window back to a time when it was Mithra who was dashing gleefully, back and forth amongst the trees. It was simultaneously heartwarming and sad. Most of all, it was a reminder of how much I miss my dog.

“The stimulus failed”

In which I am not exactly surprised to be proven correct again:

Originally, I intended to just clip out the statement from Keynesian economist Jeffrey Sachs that “the stimulus failed,” which Joe Scarborough had to dig to get, but the entire segment is worth viewing. First, Sachs confirms — on MS-NBC, no less — that the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress had no strategy for long-term growth. The stimulus was a collection of short-term minor stimuli, combined with liberal hobby horses that Democrats had ridden for twenty years. Scarborough tries to defend Keynesianism from the Keynesians, but the failure can’t be separated from the philosophy.

The amusing thing about the failure of the stimulus isn’t that its failure was predictable, but rather that the shameless excuse-making of the Neo-Keynesians regarding its failure was also not only predictable, but predicted too.

And note all the talk about double-dip recessions, coming right on schedule in Q2 2010. Remember, as per RGD, the Great Depression 2.0 talk isn’t supposed to kick off in earnest for another two quarters.

WND column

Solving the Middle East

Helen Thomas has come in for an amount of criticism for her suggestion that the Jewish population of Israel should return to Germany and Poland. Setting the increasingly ineffective histrionics about anti-Semitism aside, (an accusation that has lost its potency since the professionally offended hate hustlers began slinging it at everything from Merry Christmas greetings to criticism of Wall Street felons), that criticism is well justified.

Encouraging Jewish emigration to Europe is an absurd idea for several reasons. The Europeans don’t want them, as was made eminently clear some 50 years ago. Nor do the New Ummayads, who make up a miniature and increasingly independent Umma within the creaky seculardom of the European Union. And most importantly, Israeli Jews don’t harbor any desire to return to a continent where they were banished from various kingdoms more than 30 different times over the centuries.

The next civil war

Looks to be more East vs West than North vs South:

There were half a million fewer whites in California in 2008 than in 2000, a period when the state’s overall population grew by 4 million to 38.1 million, according to a study released Thursday by the state Department of Finance. By 2008, whites made up 40 percent of Californians, down from 47 percent at the turn of the century. In 2000, Hispanics comprised 32 percent of the population; that number grew to 37 percent in 2008.

It’s not going to take until 2042 for Hispanics to become a majority in California. The problem with linear projections of the sort in the article is that they do not take dynamic behavioral responses into account; whites will flee California even faster as the Hispanic population naturally begins to turn its numbers into political dominance. And, as we’ve seen, the Aztlan independence movement has already taken its first baby steps.

However, there are alternatives to this expected future, some of which might surprise you. See tomorrow’s column for details.

Mailvox: a consensus of go karts

JB muses on the limits of science:

It’s funny how the same bad epidemiological science (weak and inconsistent macro correlations instead of hard causations) that underpins the disaster of modern dietetics is also responsible for the entirety of the case against smoking. Confusion also arises on both issues when experiments conflate the effects of processed, unfresh, adulterated ingredients with fresh, unadulterated ones, and forget to factor the rise of industrial processing into their timelines.

These massive scientific errors have caused untold premature deaths. The entirety of western civilizational diseases, including cavities, heart disease, cancer and diabetes, could be eliminated in an instant by returning to a paleolithic high or all meat diet. This is indisputable: the onset of all these diseases has been observed in paleolithic societies switching to western food.

But then, the fifth highest cause of death in America is medical error. And global warming scientists recently attempted to construct a framework for world government on a knowingly fraudulent premise. So we should all be wary of science.

What else has science disastrously gotten wrong? Ah yes, psychology, politics, history, sociology, the family, gender relations, economics… better to ask what science gets right: Physics. Math. Engineering. Repeatable, testable, non-human endeavors.

Human-heavy fields are still too filled with biases and complications and dynamism for one to trust the scientific consensus to be correct, much less the popular consensus. It is necessary to read widely and with a mind not only open but eager to absorb ideas intelligently presented but patently insane. Otherwise one will never escape the idiosyncratic mental strictures of one’s time and place.

With the singularity approaching before the next century, human brains will soon be regarded as little more than go karts in a world of F-15s. Now why would one blindly trust a consensus of go karts?

I have always found it amusing that science fetishists seldom realize how hopelessly wrong their understanding of material reality is. For example, they genuinely believe that technology is the fruit of science, when both history and logic conclusively demonstrate that science is the result of technological advancement. They have the basic relationship between the two precisely backward.

Given their inability to understand such a simple and obvious fact, to say nothing of all of the many manifest failure of the scientific method in areas where its application is either complicated or simply inappropriate, their confidence in it as the only method of human understanding or “progress” is not only remarkable, but risible. Hence the quasi-religious aspect of scienceology, which should never be confused with the actual scientific method.

Less school, better scores

It is amazing how people can stubbornly resist reaching the obvious conclusion:

Don’t bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off.

Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall….

The results? Test scores went up.

So did attendance — for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said. And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said.

Imagine if they went to zero! Consider this. Children learn to crawl, walk, and speak multiple languages without ever sitting in a classroom or having a formal teacher. Why, then, is it assumed that they absolutely require one in order to learn history, math, or science? Especially when one takes into account the demonstrated ignorance of those who have had the supposed benefit of 12 or more years of mass education.