Venezuelan Exodus From Chavez, to US

As predicted here, the rise of socialism / totalitarianism in Venezuela (even when occasionally endorsed by mob vote) has caused productive people there to flee to freedom, which of course usually means the US. The article notes that these immigrants have brought billions of dollars out of the Venezuelan economy and deposited it into banks in their new home nation, the US. But of course with the magic of socialism, Venezuelans won't miss or need that fleeing capital: the govt just needs to declare healthcare, education, housing, and food as "free" and "universal"... and of course raise the "minimum wage" and impose price caps against "gouging". That'll work (if by "work" we mean create more immigration to the US).

Source of Black Youth's Bad Rep

Even black adults are leery of young black people. The statistics very clearly demonstrate that young black people are demonstrating a much higher rate of bad decisions (violence, drop outs, hours of reading, teen births) than the national average. This story from a black newspaper writer riding the city bus in Detroit exemplifies those statistics, and the resulting reputation.

ACT "Racial Bias" Fails to Stop Chinese Immigrant

Last year 22 students scored perfect on the ACT, including this Chinese immigrant in Michigan. I wonder about the racial composition of these 22. The US is about 70% honkey, and die-hard lefties claim that standardized tests like the ACT are "racially biased" in favor of honkies. Thus their assertion predicts that more than 15 of these 22 students should be honkies.

I, in contrast, make an alternative assertion: these tests are biased in favor of students who devote time to serious academic matters, including reading, writing, and confronting math problems. I further assert that non-white immigrant kids from Asia on average spend more time than the average white kid in the US. Thus I predict that a racial breakdown will identify fewer than 15 white kids, and a number of Asian kids much higher than their fraction of the test-taking population.

Why So Few Grocery Stores in Detroit?

That's an easy question; a more interesting question is: Does it really take a formal "task force" to figure out the answer? Hardly. The behavior of Detroit residents scares-off grocery stores. Detroit city officials have for decades decided to create a regulatory and tax structure much less favorable than those in the surrounding suburbs. And of course too many Detroit residents have decided to behave in a much more criminal fashion than their contemporaries in the surrounding suburbs.

The article quotes a black Detroit council member as citing "racism" to explain why white-owned grocers shun Detroit. That's another reason for businesses to avoid Detroit: ignorant public scapegoating. Meanwhile, nothing prevents black millionaires from creating fabulous grocery stores in Detroit... nothing besides poor city management and residents generating some of the nation's worst crime statistics.

Lack of Grocery Stores in Detroit for Obvious Reasons

That's an easy question; a hard question is: Does it really take a formal "task force" to figure out the answer? Hardly. The behavior of Detroit residents scares-off grocery stores. Detroit city officials have for decades decided to create a regulatory and tax structure much less favorable than those in the surrounding suburbs. And of course too many Detroit residents have decided to behave in a much more criminal fashion than their contemporaries in the surrounding suburbs.

The article quotes a black Detroit council member as citing "racism" to explain why white-owned grocers shun Detroit. That's another reason for businesses to avoid Detroit: ignorant public scapegoating. Meanwhile, nothing prevents black millionaires from creating fabulous grocery stores in Detroit... nothing besides poor city management and residents generating some of the nation's worst crime statistics.

Iranians Plea for Civilization

A good many college students in Iran are protesting to civilize this very backward nation. Fight on, brothers and sisters!

Hate Beating on NYC Subway

A group of 10 white retards on an NYC subway severely beat a white Jew for answering, "Happy Hanuka", when they shouted "Merry Christmas." A non-white Muslim immigrant helped the victim, and for his trouble also received a severe beating. One got a broken nose and the other two extremely blackened eyes. The ten savages got arrested at the next stop. Two have prior arrests for hate crimes against blacks. This article presents myspace photos of all the savages: they are young, attractive, and disposed to black thug culture; one with Jesus tatoo. Ironically, two of the savages claim to be Jews, including one whose home displays a Star of David and Hanuka decorations.

The Jew and the Muslim have becom friends, and the Muslim subsequently attended a Hanuka party at the Jew's house. Thank god that's a much more normal state of affairs for humans residing in contemporary US. I'm also happy to report from many late-night NYC subway rides and sidewalk strolls that NYC is amazingly safe, including for honkeys walking solo in black neighborhoods.



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Another Case of AIDS Caused by "Anti-HIV" Drugs

Here's a woman who got mis-diagnosed as "HIV-positive". Naturally, physicians who believe that "HIV tests" indicate HIV infections, and that HIV infections cause AIDS, prescribed her "anti-HIV" drugs. And just as naturally, those drugs started causing at least one official "AIDS" condition, in this case: drastic weight loss. I assume that these AIDS doctors attributed the weight loss to the presumed "HIV infection", and labeled this symptom "AIDS". Now we discover that the original HIV diagnosis was wrong.

So if these "anti-HIV" drugs caused this case of "AIDS" in an "HIV-neg" woman, can't those same drugs cause "AIDS" even in the "HIV-positive" patients?

Noose Fraud

At least one of the many shocking Noose hangings has been exposed as a fraud, perpetuated by a black person attempting to create the illusion of a white-on-black "hate crime". In this case, the perpetrator was a Baltimore firefighter who had flunked a certification test after an effort to crackdown on test cheating. The note he displayed with the noose attempted to characterize the anti-cheating effort as an anti-black racism effort. Previously in the same fire department a media maelstrom erupted when a moose head got decorated with an afro, gold chain, and gold teeth. Local NAACP & municipal leaders naturally declared this an example of persistent anti-black racism in the fire department. That stunt also got traced back to non-honkeys, in this case, some black firefighters having some fun.

Let's Shutter the CIA...

...for incompetence, treason, and mutiny. So says Christopher Hitchens. Makes sense to me. The conduct of Esquire covergirl Valerie Plame, its incorrect predictions about the Soviet fall and Hussein's designs on Kuwait, and now its preposterous exoneration of Iran's nuclear status all contribute to this assessment.

Detroit's Grocery Vacuum

As much as devoted Detroit boosters plea to the contrary (see attached article from "Model D", my favorite Detroit booster site), Detroit lacks even a single grocery store that would satisfy anybody with even a modicum of food sophistication. Much hoopla attended the openings of clean new grocery stores recently, Mexicantown's "Honey Bee", and Mike's Fresh Market near Palmer Woods. These places are new and clean, but they are very inferior grocery stores... unless you want a big bag of Doritos and a liter of Coke. Food sophisticates in Detroit cry out.

Medicaid Fraud Bodes Poorly for Natl Health Care

These are the people that lefties want in charge of the entire US medical industry? Sixty billion bucks annually tax payers now pay in Medicaid fraud. Dirty rotten profit mongers never tolerate such inefficiency.

Courage to Ignore Global Warming Hysteria

BALI, Indonesia - An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to "have the courage to do nothing" in response to UN demands.

Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a blunt message for UN climate conference participants on Monday. "Climate change is a non-problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing," Monckton told participants. "The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,)" Monckton added. (LINK)

Monckton also noted that the UN has not been overly welcoming to the group of skeptical scientists. "UN organizers refused my credentials and appeared desperate that I should not come to this conference. They have also made several attempts to interfere with our public meetings," Monckton explained.

"It is a circus here," agreed Australian scientist Dr. David Evans. Evans is making scientific presentations to delegates and journalists at the conference revealing the latest peer-reviewed studies that refute the UN's climate claims. "This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist and I actually only go to the science conferences," Evans said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort. (Note: An analysis by Bloomberg News on December 6 found: "Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year." - LINK)

Evans, a mathematician who did carbon accounting for the Australian government, recently converted to a skeptical scientist about man-made global warming after reviewing the new scientific studies. (LINK) "We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don't cause global warming. We have the missing [human] signature [in the atmosphere], we have the IPCC models being wrong and we have the lack of a temperature going up the last 5 years," Evans said in an interview with the Inhofe EPW Press Blog. Evans authored a November 28 2007 paper "Carbon Emissions Don't Cause Global Warming." (LINK)

Evans touted a new peer-reviewed study by a team of scientists appearing in the December 2007 issue of the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society which found "Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence." (LINK) "Most of the people here have jobs that are very well paid and they depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. They are not going to be very receptive to the idea that well actually the science has gone off in a different direction," Evans explained.

[Inhofe EPW Press Blog Note: Several other recent peer-reviewed studies have cast considerable doubt about man-made global warming fears. For most recent sampling see: New Peer-Reviewed Study finds 'Solar changes significantly alter climate' (11-3-07) (LINK) & "New Peer-Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 - 2002" (LINK) & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period '0.3C Warmer than 20th Century' (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer-reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see "New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears" LINK ]

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Plame - Wilson Sham Continues

I still don't understand how anybody can earnestly and honestly believe that Valarie Plame got "outed". If she and husband Joe Wilson was earnestly and honestly devoted to protecting her employment status, would he really have penned an NYT op-ed loudly proclaiming his own assignment obtained literally through her offices? What transparent rubbish. Here's a fresh update on the seemingly endless benefits attending the Wilcon-Plames as a result of the "outing" that so riled them.

Denmark's High Tax Rates Scare Away Tax Rev

Denmark's income tax rate is so high that productive people flee or spend time devising and implementing tax dodges. Meanwhile govt coffers shrivel. Paradoxically, many of the fleeing workers are peddling (in other countries) their superb education provided by Denmark's "free" universities. In order to continue providing this universal "free" academic training, Denmark's lefty politicos keep elevating the tax rates, which... You get the idea.

Another Black-on-White "Hate Crime"

Nowadays, most racial "hate crimes" committed in the US comprise black retards attacking white victims, as in this new case where some black teens in Baltimore gang-beat a white woman. Expect it to get no attention in the corporate media. Even in this local news article, racial assignments don't get made until the very end of the article.

Of course, when white retards beat a black victim, the media sets up shop, headlines announce the racial assignments of the players, and massive angry protests erupt, proclaiming this to be a racist nation. In reality, few people f any "race" ever experience this today in the US, though when it does happen, it's usually some black idiots attacking a white person.

And now yet a second case of retarded black teens attacking white folks on Baltimore's bus. Notice the tiny size of this local report, and the absence of any consideration from the national press, or those who earn their livings crying racism. Imagine the press attention if white retards were attacking black folks on the bus.

Here's an update on the second attack. We learn now that the driver refused to help at all, not even calling police, telling the pleading victims that he couldn't because it would result in him "getting in trouble."

College Sports a Sham

This NYT article documents how people attending universities on "sports scholarships" hardly qualify as students. Why do universities even have "sports scholarships"?, some brain-active profs want to know.

Paul v. Mike: Vouchers, Socialism, Capitalism,

Over the weekend Mike visited me from Chicago, where he works on his MBA from U-Chi, the bastion of free-market, "supply side" economics. At a party we had in Detroit, Mike railed against vouchers, the "problem" of people accumulating wealth and passing it to their kids, and the "unfairness" (which he wants to correct via govt actions) of people with more money having more access to resources such as better schools.

I argued that: the biggest problem that poor people have today in the US is themselves: they fail to make the best choices, and to seize the best opportunities, available to them. The best role for govt, I said, was to get out of the way, and to permit these people to benefit from such choices as:

- Living a crime-free life, in which they refrain from: assaulting, burgling, raping, shop-lifting, and vandalizing.
- Respecting the homes and neighborhoods that they have, no matter how modest, keeping them as clean and as well-maintained as they can, throwing their trash in designated garbage cans, and even dispatching the litter of others.
- Finding spouses and refraining from pregnancy until they have done so.
- Dressing and conducting themselves in accordance with the standards of self-sufficient, productive people. This means pleasant dispositions and polite behavior in public.
- Reading books, obeying teachers, completing school assignments, graduating from high school.
- Seeking, accepting, and holding the best job that they can find, with no "standards" against any type of work, such as "being too good" to work at McDonalds.

I further argued that as long as the productive, self-sufficient portion of society is going to fund some resources for "poor" people, the best sources for taking those dollars and providing resources to these "poor" people are private enterprises making a profit. I pointed out that where this happens -- such as in the case of the food and housing paid for by taxes -- these "poor" beneficiaries get much higher quality goods and services than where tax spending is restricted to government sources, such as for schooling. Thus I claim that govt education dollars should take the form of free-market vouchers, just as govt dollars do for other programs, such as food stamps, WIC cards, and Section 8 vouchers.

Here are some articles that I want Mike to read, in addition to my comments:

Poor getting richer, rich getting less rich (Tom Sowell)

Old Americans are rich, not poor (Tom Sowell)

Stop Making a Difference (Tom Sowell)

Health care: Govt vs Private (Walter Williams)

Economics & Property Rights (Walter Williams)

Creating Effective Incentives (Walter Williams)

Also, the link embedded in the title of this post, shows that from 1996 through 2005, that "the poor" are "getting less poor" and "the rich" are getting "less rich", exploding the claims that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. To the contrary, the poorest people in 1996 had their income increase nearly 100% by 2005; the richest people in 1996 were the only income strata of Americans to have their income dip during this time. Claims to the contrary involve comparing poor people today with poor people of ten years back, without accounting for people moving from one group to the other during this time.

And this:

Walter Williams has another reason to embrace vouchers: they will enable the individuals who compose the market to decide such controversial topics as school prayer and sex ed. For people bound by finances to the govt education option K-12, they must all get the same decision in these matters. With vouchers, po' black parents can send their kids to whatever school has the policies that they like, such as prayer with sex ed.

Democrats: Party of the Rich

The richer you are, the more like you are to vote democrat. I wonder if this is because voting democrat is a luxury, and that the less wealthy you are the more likely you are to realize that low taxes, vouchers, and other advertised republican principals will increase your chances of receiving rewards for smart choices. I also wonder how these stats apply to black folks, who are 90% devoted to the tax-and-spend party.

NYC Murder: Low Numbers, Mostly Black

Murder in NYC will fall below 500 this year, a remarkably low number for such a huge city (8 million). As with the rest of the country, most of the killers are black men (61%), though black men compose only a minority of the residents (NYC is about 25%, and thus about 12.5% black male).

Naturally the race stats fall at the end of the article, because they contradict claims of a racist USA where black folks face a dastardly white enemy. Only about 7% of the killers (and murder victims) in NYC come from the horribly racist and vile honkey population, cops attribute only a tiny 35 murders to strangers, and blacks compose 66% of the murder victims.

These stats prove that:

- NYC is a very, very safe city for everyone;
- In NYC, you have nearly no murder risk from strangers;
- Black men are about 5 times more likely to commit murder than white folks
- Black men are committing very, very few murders. NYC contains about 2 million black folks, and these people committed only about 300 murders. Compare that to Detroit, with about 750,000 black folks committing about 1,000 annual murders.

All We Are Saying, is Give Guns a Chance

These students at Tx State U at San Marcos want to see if students and profs packing heat will deter or squash violence on campus. I support giving this a try, but campus violence is so rare that resulting stats could not confirm a benefit, only at best demonstrate a lack of calamity. I suppose that even that would prove something useful...

Debunking "Soul Food"

An 1800s cookbook by a black woman proves that black folks all along have been cooking and eating foods of complexity and variety, not merely "Southern poverty cooking."

From today's NYT:
The black liberation movement of the 1960’s had celebrated “soul food”: dishes with a debt to Africa, like black-eyed peas, greens, gumbo and fried chicken. Neither the activists nor the scholars who later devoted themselves to black studies intended those dishes to be seen as the food on the stove of every black cook in America. But that is exactly what happened, historians say.

Who's Fighting Today's KKK?

Amen, Bill Cosby: People who admire those who gave their lives fighting the KKK in begone days today cower rather than confront those who now terrorize black folks. Today's terrorists, of course, and the neighbor's kids, killing, stealing, robbing, vandalizing, intimidating, and disrupting classrooms and school hallways and lunch rooms.

McCarthy Vindicated?

Looks liks eSen. Eugen McCarthy was correct, and his opponents over the years incorrect, about Soviet spies and secret communists working in the US federal government.

Global Warming A Scam: Weather Chanel Founder

If this meteorologist had endorsed Al Gore's view, his view would add to the "overwhelming" scientific vote in favor of human-caused climate catastrophes. Instead, it will get ignored.

Driving While Black, A Critical Look

Thomas Sowell finds no problem driving around the US, which makes him no different than any of the other millions of productive black people around the nation.

Detroit Voters Angry About Photo ID Requirement?

Why would any voters respond with anger when denied the ability to register a vote against their name on a ballot ledger? Does it anger them that they can't withdraw cash from a checking account bearing their name without an ID? Should they not be glad at this protection against somebody stealing their vote?

Racism In Mortgage Rates? Hardly

This NYT article attributes racism to explaining higher interest rates for an all-black neighborhood in Detroit than for an all-white neighborhood in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth, despite similar average income levels. But interest rates also are affected profoundly by:

1. Crime rates, which drive up monthly expenses for home and auto insurance. Plymouth is approximately crime-free, and Detroit is the opposite.
2. Property taxes, which also drive up monthly expenses. Detroit has double the metro average.
3. Consumer credit scores.
4. Resale expectations. If the writer of this article were loaning money for mortgages, where would he rather have to deal with resale? The answer is not even close.

One does not have to look for racism to explain the differences in mortgage rates here.

Michael Medved's Open Letter to Rep. Ron Paul

Since Paul Hue is such an avid supporter of Congressman Paul, I can't help but wonder what his (and Ron Paul's) response would be to this:

Dear Congressman Paul:

Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 “Truthers” and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.

Do you welcome- or repudiate – the support of such factions?

More specifically, your columns have been featured for several years in the American Free Press –a publication of the nation’s leading Holocaust Denier and anti-Semitic agitator, Willis Carto. His book club even recommends works that glorify the Nazi SS, and glowingly describe the “comforts and amenities” provided for inmates of Auschwitz.

Have your columns appeared in the American Free Press with your knowledge and approval? As a Presidential candidate, will you now disassociate yourself, clearly and publicly, from the poisonous propaganda promoted in such publications?

As a guest on my syndicated radio show, you answered my questions directly and fearlessly. Will you now answer these pressing questions, and eliminate all associations between your campaign and some of the most loathsome fringe groups in American society?

Along with my listeners (and many of your own supporters), I eagerly await your response.

Respectfully, Michael Medved

If all of these assertions Medved makes here are true, which as far as I've been able to discern they are, it's beyond me how anyone could support this loon as a legitimate presidential candidate. But hey, that's just me.

US Poor Gain Wealth... If They Behave

From the essay:

For the most part, long-term poverty today is self-inflicted. To see this, let's examine some numbers from the Census Bureau's 2004 Current Population Survey. There's one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only 13.7 percent of their under-5-year-olds are poor. There's another segment of the black population that suffers a 39.5 percent poverty rate, and 58.1 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor.

Among whites, one population segment suffers a 6 percent poverty rate, and only 9.9 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor. Another segment of the white population suffers a 26.4 percent poverty rate, and 52 percent of its under-5-year-olds are poor.

What do you think distinguishes the high and low poverty populations? The only statistical distinction between both the black and white populations is marriage.

Halloween Candy Ban Wrongheaded

Leaders of a Syracuse, NY school district think they're helping kids by banning candy and cakes. Instead they are exposing their ignorance of perfectly healthful candy and cakes, made from fine natural ingredients, loaded with nutrients and tasting even better than the much more popular junk versions which have given treats a bad name. Why not mandate ingredients, rather than the final products? Instead of banning cupcake, why not merely mandate the following ingredients:

Unrefined sugar substances (evaporated cane juice, grade B maple syrup, agave syrup).
Unhydrogenated oils
Organic butter
Whole grain flours
Organic brown eggs

And ban the following:
Refined white sugar
Margarine and other hydrogenated oils
White flour

Three Years Prison for Dog Toss

Those blaming racism for Michael Vick 2-year prison term must explain this this 3-year term for a guy (I assume he's white) who tossed a dog out a three-story window.

CA Wildfires v. Katrina: Aircraft Boondogle

People who blame poor govt response to Katrina on racism must explain poor govt response to the wildfires threatening the lives and property of rich honkies in California. Surely these people would blame racism for idle firefighting aircraft in the midst of these fires, if the threatened people were black.

Protesting Nooses, Ignoring Murders

Stanley Crouch supports the rage against white folks hanging nooses in Jena, LA and the resulting criminal prosecutions only of black folks in the resulting conflicts. He wonders if this organized response to the Jena injustice will translate into (finally) an equally unified and loud response to the even greater problem of black monsters in black communities ruining life for everybody. We wonders as well about the lack of such a volunteer effort to teach the black kids who are goofing off during the school day.

Here he revisits the theme, comparing the rage by blacks at Columbia over a noose hung at a black prof's door, to the silence resulting from black thugs executing three black teens a few days later in nearby Newark.

In this column, Crouch reveals how Phily's Nation of Islam chapter fronted for a hard core black mafia family of cold-blooded killers, and how Heuy Newton -- so proudly cheered on the t-shirts of rigteous "community activists" -- took transformed Black Panthers into a street gang.

Bravo for Crouch's campaign to get people interested in addressing the "national issue of excessive urban murder."

Top Climate Scientst Boos Gore's Nobel

"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was," Dr Gray said of human-caused global warming. "The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures. It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."

We'll see.

Nat'l Healthcare in UK: Pull Your Own Teeth!

Thanks to socialized ("national") dental care in Britain, dentists are fleeing the country, potential dentists are finding something else to study in school, and citizens needing treatment wait so long for "free" services that they just pull their own damn teeth. Maybe if these people had to pay for their own dental care, they would take care of their teeth in the first place.

Racism in Fashion Industry

Only racism can explain the absence of non-whites from today's fashion scene, since so many non-whites aspire to these all-white jobs. But the people who do the hiring here (white people), whom do they vote for in the elections? The same people advocating affirmative action. Very strange.

Racist Insurance Companies?

Insurance companies are responding to the Hurricane Katrina mess by canceling policies all over the country, including the policies of affluent white folks 12 miles from the coast, like this couple in Long Island. If this happens to any black folks, count on it getting declared, "Racist!"

The Real Clarence Thomas

Whenever people inform me, as many do regularly, that Clarence Thomas is either stupid or unknowledgeable, I know that these people have never sat still and listened to his speaches on C-SPAN. Whenever such people inform me that CT has "sold-out", I know that they must be unaware of the millionaire bank rolls of CT's adversaries like Jesse Jackson and his sons, Ron Dellums, Al Sharpton, the Clintons, Kwame Kilpatrick and his mom, John Conyers, etc., compared to the net worth of Thomas at the time that he got nominated.

Gore Nobel Perplexes Czech Prez

It perplexes me, too, except when I realize what the Nobel Peace Prize now constitutes: leftist applause. It surely has nothing to do with the promotion of "peace", though I am unsure how it is that anybody can "promote peace" anyway. But surely hypocritically demanding the end of modern commerce doesn't count.

I agree with this guy:=========================

"The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct," the statement said. "It rather seems that Gore's doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace."

Klaus said in a recent speech that environmentalists' efforts to halt global warming "fatally endanger our freedom and prosperity." The Czech president publicly expresses doubt on what scientists, including those participating in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, deem very likely - that global warming is caused by humans.

He also said that rising temperatures may not matter enough for governments to throw funds at halting the process. In a newspaper interview earlier this year, Klaus said that only Al Gore, and not a sane person, would say that mankind is ruining the planet.

High Schools w/ 1,000 Students... Eating on Floor

Why have 1,000 students in one school? Is there any what that this helps their education? All that travel time, the great distance away from home, with so many neighborhoods feeding the same school. Speaking of feeding, here's a school that in order to accomidate so many students, at lunch time some have to eat on the floor.

Only two reasons justify having high schools larger than elementary schools:

1. After learning basic reading, writing, and math in elementary school, now what to do with teenagers? Teaching them advanced writing, reading, and math would require educated and hard-working teachers. Lazy and uneducated teachers prefer teaching easy elective classes, like business and career awareness. You need lots of students to fill lots of stupid classes.

2. The more students, the better the sports teams! And the better you want those students to perform, the less time you need them working on advanced intellectual courses. Instead, fill their schedules with "electives".

Peace, US Support in Iraq's Sunni Anbar Province

The residents there first fled, then fought -- successfully -- the retarded Al Qaidas who made this hell on earth for two years, 2004 - 5. My friend Vassar working there for KBR / Haliburton credits the US Marines, who, he says, differ from US GIs in the following way: Marines preemptively kill anybody that they feel threatens them, whereas US Army troops won't even return fire without receiving radio permission from a central command.

From the London Telegraph article: =================

Mr Kareem and other Husaybah residents claim that the peace that followed the expulsion of al-Qa'eda has triggered an economic revival and restoration of favourite pastimes. Ghanim Mirdie Waleed, coach of the local football team, who celebrated a recent victory with cigarettes, paid tribute to the American role in Husaybah.

"The conflict here was all caused by al-Qa'eda," he said. "We work and play as we like under the coalition security. There are jobs for people, shops are opened and we are very happy."

With al-Qa'eda pushed out, Anbaris are even rallying to a new shared cause with America - a fight to secure the country against Iranian infiltration.

Why Not Move Isreal to Alaska?

Iran's despotic front man has some pretty good ideas. One is for Israel to move to some landmass where the inhabitants won't react with murderous zeal if Jews massively migrate there and declare a democracy that affords special privileges to Jews. Sure, the non-Jews in Israel and surrounding areas could all live prosperously and freely if they accepted this, but they aren't. So why not just move Israel elsewhere? The retarded people in and around Israel today fighting for its destruction will remain retarded, and surely will just find some other excuse for destructive behavior. Meanwhile the productive Israelis -- including many thousands of non-retarded muslims -- will remain productive and sensible in their new location, and won't have maniacs destroying property and murdering.

Lotteries Fund Themselves, Not Schools

State officials advocate state-sponsored lotteries to "fund school", but of the millions incoming from ticket sales, most goes out as jackpots, marketing, and salaries, with participating states only getting about 1% of their education budget from this source. What business has government in the business of gambling host and promoter? None, I say. I wonder how the govt income compares between state-owned lotteries and private-run casinos.

Bush Screws Soldiers Again

One of the reasons the Republicans will lose my vote to the Libertarians next election, and why I'll vote Ron Paul in the primary: Bush has never supported the troops that he sends to battle. Here these guys return from 22 months in Iraq, but earn the paltry benefits of troops who serve no more that 729 days. The 730th day of battle service qualifies vets for a little more, but these guys' order was written for just 729, and their extra days resulted from multiple "extensions", which do not count for these benefits.

More Plame / Wilson Phoniness

Robert Novak now reveals that prior to publishing his column exposing Joe Wilson has having a wife, Valarie Plame, employed by the agency -- the CIA -- that sent him to Niger, Novak explained this fact to Wilson, who did *NOT* cry bloody murder. Instead, the huge phony Wilson haggled over Valarie's surname (Wilson or Plame) and lobbied for a bloated description of himself.

Low Taxes, Malpractice Caps, Free Markets Solve MD Shortage in Texas

The NYT reports: "Four years after Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment limiting awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, doctors are responding as supporters predicted, arriving from all parts of the country to swell the ranks of specialists at Texas hospitals and bring professional health care to some long-underserved rural areas. The influx, raising the state’s abysmally low ranking in physicians per capita, has flooded the medical board’s offices in Austin with applications for licenses, close to 2,500 at last count."

The article also cites lack of a Texas income tax as contributing, but of course that was true as well before malpractice caps. I wonder why physicians don't flock to Cuba or Canada?

Chris Mathews vs. Jon Stewart

I like Mathews better than most of the news talk hosts, but I like that he got blasted by Jon Stewart for writing a book about how lessons from politics can help you in life.

Black Kids Can't Make it Without Affirmative Action?

This NYT article hits it pretty hard: "Ten or 20 years ago, Frances Harris almost certainly would have been admitted. Her excellent grades might not have even been necessary, because Berkeley and U.C.L.A. — the jewels in the U.C. system — accepted almost all of the African-Americans who met the basic application requirements. To an admissions officer, Harris would have seemed like gold: diversity and achievement, wrapped up in a single kid."

But is it fair or helpful that if Frances was Asian she would have had no chance 20 years ago, much less today? The article describes all sorts of problems that Frances has dealt with in amassing her "A-" GPA from a school that's not very good. But what about Asians in the same boat? Sounds like her academic background has prepared her not for an elite university, but rather a non-elite one, where she can continue her hard work and smart choice, and still build for herself a very successful life.

The do-gooders in this article want to do every thing in the world to boost the numbers of black kids in elite schools except what matters most: convincing more black people to make smart choices, including parents providing a stable household for their kids, and kids not going to school and ruining the environment for themselves and others. And of course the do-gooders here have nothing to say about black kids getting to college and selecting worthwhile majors. Surely if these factors turned around, people would stop taking a negative view of "black-sounding names", a factor presented here as a reason to lower the academic standard for applicants who "check the black box."

Handgun Rescues Carjack Victim in Detroit

A suburbanite returning to his car from a very safe and heavily populated entertainment district of downtown Detroit gets carjacked by four monsters. His response: shoot the bastards. One of them dies, the other three get apprehended by cops... oh, yeah: he parked across the street from police HQ. I guarantee that 90% of the decent residents of Detroit are cheering, including many people related to these monsters.

Update: An off-duty Detroit cop gets car-jacked at his own house, upon parking on his way home, in his driveway. He responded by shooting the bastard. Don't know if these summary killings will deter others suffering from similar retardation, but at least these dead guys won't do this again.