Tonight we learn the essential, bare-bones facts about the country of Norway.
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It’s becoming more and more the default position on free speech and public expression in Canada that if some group, small or large, mounts enough pressure or descends to ugly versions of protest, or simply shouts down the legitimate speaker, the authorities – government, bureaucracy, university, police – shut down the event, cancel the film or speech, and hand victory to the bullies and thugs or those who gin up some atmosphere of fear and menace. Rex Murphy on Iranium and the decline of free speech in Canada.
This is interesting – maybe even profound – but not really surprising:
“New research has shown that oxytocin, the neurochemical which promotes feelings of love and trust, also induces racism, or to be more precise, sharper discrimination against those ethnically or culturally different from oneself and one’s group:
“Men given a dose of oxytocin, a hormone known to promote feelings of love and trust, have revealed the chemical’s dark side: It made them more enthocentric.
“When asked to resolve a moral dilemma, such as choosing to save five lives from a runaway train by sacrificing one life, oxytocin-sniffing Dutch men more often saved fellow countrymen over Arabs and Germans than those who didn’t get a hormonal whiff.
“’Earlier research of oxytocin paints a very rosy view of it. We thought it was odd a neurological system that survived evolution would make people indiscriminately loving toward others,’ said social psychologist Carsten De Dreu of the University of Amsterdam, co-author of a Jan. 10 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ‘Under oxytocin we saw an increase of in-group favoritism, which has the downside of discrimination against people who are not part of your group.”
“Oxytocin is a hormone made in the brain and [euphemism alert] some reproductive organs….As a neurotransmitter, it’s also intricately involved in social behaviors such as mother-child bonding, feelings of trust and love, and group recognition.”
(Via The Null Device, whose interesting take on the implications of the findings is here.)
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Re video – sounds about right . . . 😀
Enjoyed it!
Here’s a funny segment from Dennis Miller’s HBO Special, “The Big Speech”.
A pretty strong argument for fathers to get sole custody of children if parents split up.
EBD – thanks for the delightful image of Norway; heck, and here I thought it was indeed the capital of Sweden. WOuldn’t it be fun to have one on Canada!
As for your oxytocin – sorry, I don’t buy that study. Yes, it’s a neuromodulator, which means that it affects the neurological processes in the brain. And yes, that means that it enables emotional bonding and bonding is absolutely vital in our species. That’s because our knowledge isn’t innate but learned; we must therefore live within societies and ‘get along’ with each other.
BUT – the study referring to a set of men who ‘sniffed’ vs ‘not sniffed’ and their subsequent ethnocentric bonding is weak. First, you’d have to, in your study, deal with other possible causal variables for the result of bonding or not bonding. The participants in the study weren’t newborns; they already had behavioural patterns.
Most certainly humans, as do all animals, bond to their own kind. But the perception of ‘our kind’ is learned not genetically determined. That’s the problem with the study. I don’t see that they considered the learned values. Oxycontin doesn’t define WHO you are bonding with; it just sets you up so that you DO bond. The choice of who to bond with, is learned.
Here is a link to a 261 page PDF of a Grand Jury report from Philadelphia Pa. that if the MSM ever decides to report will really inflame the abortion debate. http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/PDFs/GrandJuryWomensMedical.pdf
“Section I: Overview
This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.”
That is the first paragraph of the report but what puts this over the top is that two state agencies that regulate abortion clinics and doctors licenses knew there was problems for decades and did nothing to stop the murder of both women and infants and they did it not by accident but by design:
“We discovered that Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers. Even nail salons in Pennsylvania are monitored more closely for client safety.
The State Legislature has charged the Department of Health (DOH) with responsibility for writing and enforcing regulations to protect health and safety in abortion clinics as well as in hospitals and other health care facilities. Yet a significant difference exists between how DOH monitors abortion clinics and how it monitors facilities where other medical procedures are performed.
Indeed, the department has shown an utter disregard both for the safety of women who seek treatment at abortion clinics and for the health of fetuses after they have become viable. State health officials have also shown a disregard for the laws the department is supposed to enforce. Most appalling of all, the Department of Health’s
neglect of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania laws is clearly not inadvertent: It
is by design.”
Even Fox News only gave it a 30 sec blurb on what could be the greatest scandal of government malfeasance over politics in US history. The report pulls no punches:
“Staloski blamed the decision to abandon supposedly annual inspections of abortion clinics on DOH lawyers, who, she said, changed their legal opinions and advice to suit the policy preferences of different governors. Under Governor Robert Casey, she said, the department inspected abortion facilities annually. Yet, when Governor Tom Ridge came in, the attorneys interpreted the same regulations that had permitted annual inspections for years to no longer authorize those inspections. Then, only complaint-driven inspections supposedly were authorized. Staloski said that DOH’s policy during Governor Ridge’s administration was motivated by a desire not to be “putting a barrier up to women” seeking abortions.
Brody confirmed some of what Staloski told the Grand Jury. He described a meeting of high-level government officials in 1999 at which a decision was made not to accept a recommendation to reinstitute regular inspections of abortion clinics. The reasoning, as Brody recalled, was: “there was a concern that if they did routine inspections, that they may find a lot of these facilities didn’t meet [the standards for getting patients out by stretcher or wheelchair in an emergency], and then there would be less abortion facilities, less access to women to have an abortion.”
EBD – I was silent for the Pönnukökur, but I can be silent no longer! First the Vikings (reparations?), and then Quisling, and now this.
I am considering bringing back Snub-A-Scandi Day in earnest if this persists (it’s whichever day it was that they announced Barry was getting the Nobel Prize. He bombed the moon, if you remember).
It seems the Oxytocin story simply confirms what some of us have known for decades.
Caring more for people like you and caring less for people who are different is normal and natural.
That is how we are programmed, it is biological, it is genetical.
That is how every species of bird, fish, flower and bacteria manages to survive and thrive.
Be friendly to your kind, be suspicious of what is different.
Bacteria, flowers and molusk don’t learn this, it is programmed in them.
It is nature not nurture.
The ” it is learned behavior ” argument is ludicrous.
Oxytocin acts somewhat like a truth serum here that is all.
If I was wrong the planet would one big diverse multicultural party instead of 1.5 billion Chinese here, and 1.5 Billion Indians here and…you get the idea.
If I were wrong we would not need HUMAN RIGHT COURTS to enforce multiculturalism and shove it down our troaths.
Stop fighting it.
It is normal and natural.
That is why almost 100% of blacks voted for Obama, because the Oxytocin study ios revealing what everyone is trying to denie.
Yup Oxytocin is a sort of truth serum.
And humans like all other creatures are NOT into diversity .
Live with it.
boballab — Powerful stuff — and sickening. Thanks for the posting.
“The perception of ‘our kind’ is learned, not genetically determined.” ET, (10:39)
It’s both. Any blanket statement that the perception of ‘our kind’ is not genetically determined is obviously false. Yes, a motorcycle gang member, for example, who seethes with hatred at the sight of a guy wearing the rival gang’s patch, is engaging in behaviour that is mostly learned, but I even then I would argue that there is some genetic component, inasmuch as we are indisputably the product millions of years of natural selection that favoured bond/alliance-forming social creatures.
Leaving that last contentious example aside for the moment, though, consider the powerful, hormonally-charged bond a mother has for her newborn child: that bond, in the moments after parturition, and even in the hours and months before, has an undoubtedly genetic, primal component; to suggest that the mother’s (and father’s) deep-rooted, ready-to-die-for feelings of “one of our kind” or “one of us” is “learned and not genetically determined” is to over-intellectualize in a way that abuses common sense and reality.
Social animals’ reflexive perception of “their kind” – gnus, elephants, gibbons, sub-sub-species of sparrows – is innate, i.e. obviously has a huge genetic component.
Anyway, this being a Reader Tips thread and all, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Might be a buffoon here … didn’t read the article. Oxytocin or not, I think I would chose the youngest first, then maybe the oldest, then probably those whose weaknesses I understand best (the French being an exception, of course).
Does this drug work for Greyhound bus passengers?
Black Mamba – we’re also social – check @1022
If I drove all night and day, d’you think I could make it to Calgary? I do have a cousin there (she’s married to a man of Swedish extraction so I, you know, normally avoid her…).
That is a great Norway clip that was fun to watch.
Mississauga Matt, Rex is the greatest, as he tells it like it is. Hopefully a lot of people got some good old fashioned mobile prairie fertilizer on the heads.
Rex for pres!
Black Mamba, the Norwegians and Swedes told us that the horns on Viking helmets are a Hollywood fabrication.
Black Mamba = Do you have any pictures of your cousin? I have a Ford Tempo.
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Erik, hope you guys have a great time. Many of us wish were could be there.
Just thought of it, maybe Black Mamba could pick some of us on her way to Cow Town.
Black Mamba, Ken (Kulak), and others, I’m looking forward to it – wish we could all get together, I’ve made some good friends here over the years.
Tunisia
By David Warren
In a startling development, the “Arab Street” has exerted itself, spontaneously — all previous exertions, usually demonstrations against Israel or against Danish cartoonists and the like, having been methodically orchestrated for the benefit of world media. But the explosion in Tunisia — of all places, with its reputation for stability, and only two presidents since independence from France more than half a century ago — runs off the chart of precedent. http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
Guess where in Toronto this is the list if most popular children’s names:
1) FATIMA
2) ZAINAB
3) AYESHA
4) MARYAM
Boys:
1) MUHAMMAD
2) SYED
3) MOHAMMAD
4) ABDULLAH
5) HAMZA http://toronto.openfile.ca/babyfile
Scientist: Farming Causes Obesity, Mental Illness, Overpopulation and Global Warming – Says Eugenics “Inevitable”
So let’s summarize: Dr Wells is arguing that agriculture caused climate change and overpopulation. Okay. He argues that agriculture wasn’t a step forward for mankind but a step backwards from hunter-gather living. Okay. But what does he think gave rise to agriculture? Climate change and overpopulation. Brilliant! What a great argument.
AGW Progress Report:
“This is due to winter.”
-40 C = -40 F? It’s not a joke & it’s not fair.
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“Extreme cold warnings, Minnesota record lows below -40F”
“Brutal cold has invaded the upper-Midwest. A record low at International Falls is not an easy thing to break. No problem today (01/21/11), as temps have fallen into the minus 40s F (or C, if you prefer). The cold air pushes eastward and reinforces during the next several days over New England. This is due to winter.” http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/extreme-cold-warnings-minnesota-record-lows-below-40f/
PET Cemetery Report.
Liberal Iggy’s O*Hope and Fear has “locks”?
“Has Barack Obama* dyed”?
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“George Lucas says world will end in 2012”
“Grits respond to Conservative attack ads with ads of their own… More to follow”
“Has Barack Obama* dyed his hair black to hide his greying locks?”
(nnw)
‘Loved the video of Norway, EBD,! My kids are part Norwegian and I have friends with Norwegian connections, so I’ve forwarded it to them.
‘Born with skis on their feet … LOL, fish and potatoes (that’s right) …
But, nothing about their drinking habits? … hmmm … Baby, it’s cold outside. They’ve got to do something other than one night stands to keep warm. Akvavit (water of life) packs a whallop …
Skål!
And Skål! Calgary contingent of SDA on your pub crawl tonight! ‘Wish I could be there.
Black Mamba, if you’re heading West anytime and hit Toronto, you’ve always got a place to stay. (I have a picture in my mind of the regular posters here, and I’ll bet that none of you look anything like how I’ve imagined you!)
Mackenzie King was a left-liberal-socialist Liberal.
MSM does not mention that Mackenzie King was a Liberal Prime Minister.
“including the government of then Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King,”.
Headline: >>> “Monument to Canada’s [Liberal] ignoble past”.
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“Monument to Canada’s ignoble past
Memorial symbolizes refusal of safe haven to Jews aboard MS St. Louis in 1939” http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Monument+Canada+ignoble+past/4142708/story.html
EBD – heh – nice try to cut off my ‘last post’. I disagree with you on oxytocin. You misunderstand me. My point was that the act of bonding is innate and absolutely necessary – and found in ALL animals. So, the ACT of bonding of mother to child is innate, is genetic, is found in all animals.
But WHO you bond with is not innate but experienced. That’s why adoptive mothers exist; that’s how marriages exist; that’s why we bond with pets; and places. That’s the basis of altruism. And that’s why, over the millenia, populations have intermarried and spread over the planet.
ES @ 5:54, after reading the link you posted it is not difficult to understand how Hitler was able to recruit a number of doctors and scientists to carry out macabre experiments and mass murder.
neo @ 8:04, I expect that any day now, the school boards here will make this mandatory.
The G&M has a Poll Up about PM Stephen Harper & it is currently getting bombarded by the disenters
How would you rate Stephen Harper as Prime Minister?
Not worthy of office .
11%
274 votes
One of Canada’s greats
.17%
432 votes
A steady hand
.16%
395 votes
Competent, but cold
.10%
251 votes
Bungling the job
.45%
1121 votes
Not worthy of office
“Solar fades as shale gas flares”
“Shale gas supplies may last 250 years and make renewables uneconomic
China reportedly has some two-thirds of the US$39-billion global market for solar panels, but it doesn’t use them very much. Why? Because they’re uneconomic.
The Chinese subsidize their manufacturers to take advantage of the ultra-expensive alternative energy forced on western consumers via feed-in tariffs. Smart for them, dumb for us, but since everybody is subsidizing renewables, it’s hard to condemn the Chinese. Indeed, the terms “solar panels” and “free trade” don’t belong in the same conceptual time zone, even if they are reportedly an issue at this week’s meetings in Washington between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
There are far bigger issues here than policy hypocrisy. What happens to renewable energy when alarmist climate science collapses? And even if the ideological rearguard action drags on for years, what about the fact that shale gas is about to make renewables look even more ridiculous in terms of both economics and emissions?
The feed-in tariffs that the Chinese are so assiduously avoiding at home are analogous to the medieval scam of coin-clipping, only in reverse. Governments hope that if a small amount of ludicrously expensive renewable electricity is loaded onto consumers’ bills, they might not notice. The grand policy rationale behind this piece of economic self-mutilation is that alternatives will eventually yield a market bonanza, and any nation that has successfully promoted solar and wind “champions” will mop up all the business, as in the monopoly fantasies of Karl Marx.
This policy is nonsensical at many levels. Even if climate science is not entirely bogus, the costs of renewables are likely to do far more damage than bad weather. One of the biggest promoters of solar power, Spain, has already seen its subsidy system collapse. Studies have demonstrated that each “renewable” Spanish job was bought at the cost of two regular jobs.
Then there is the fact that Nobel Peace Prize-winning climate science has set the nations of the world at each other’s throats. The height of corporate chutzpah displayed itself in Ontario last October when a group of solar companies — led by Japan’s Mitsubishi — complained about the local content rules required to receive Ontario’s super-premium, consumer-crushing solar rates. The solar robber barons had the audacity to declare that these “restrictive” rules were bad for the Ontario economy, when the entire Green Energy Act is a bummer. Japan has taken the act (or at least the bits that don’t serve its own interests) to the WTO, with European Union and U.S. support.
Similarly, the U.S. is now threatening China on solar panel trade, having already complained to the WTO about Chinese wind turbines. In response, China has pointed out that a US$60-billion chunk of the U.S. “stimulus package,” (yet another shot-in-the-foot policy) consisted of renewable subsidies, with “Buy American” clauses attached.
Ironically, U.S. solar companies are moving to China to take advantage of their manufacturing subsidies. Last week, Evergreen Solar — the third-largest U.S. panel manufacturer — announced that it was shutting its Massachusetts plant and laying off 800 workers while beefing up its operations in the Middle Kingdom. The Massachusetts plant had received some US$58-million in state subsidies. The company has never made a profit.” http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/01/20/peter-foster-solar-fades-as-shale-gas-flares/
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“Shale gas boom on
Posted on January 21, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Logo of International Energy Agency
Image via Wikipedia
IEA: Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years
Thursday, 20 January 2011 09:51 United Press International
Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the IEA said.
The abundance of shale gas and other forms of so-called unconventional gas discovered in the United States prompted a global rush to explore for the new resource.
The International Energy Agency said Australia is taking the lead in the push toward unconventional gas, though China, India and Indonesia are close behind. European companies are taking preliminary steps to unlock unconventional gas as are other regions.
“Production of ‘unconventional’ gas in the U.S. has rocketed in the past few years, going beyond even the most optimistic forecasts,” said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a gas analyst at the IEA. “It is no wonder that its success has sparked such international interest.”
Shale gas production in the United States is booming and the IEA estimates that unconventional gas makes up around 12 percent of the global supply.
Global supplies of natural gas could last for another 130 years at current consumption rates. That time frame could double with unconventional gas, the IEA said.” http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/shale-gas-boom-on/#more-32108
“The Coldest Day in a Lifetime!
Video – Jan 21, 2011; 9:47 AM ET
Residents across the Midwest shivered as temperatures plummeted below zero overnight. It was the coldest night in International Falls, Minn. in 100 years! Mary Yoon has more.” http://www.accuweather.com/
At the nexus of American and Canadian current affairs, for your enjoyment, the PolitiZoid production of Money for Nothing.
“the ACT of bonding of mother to child is innate, is genetic, is found in all animals.”
a bit of a stretch. remember the animal kingdom is down to sponges , corals , etc etc etc. I would say a good 95% of animal species dont have anything to do with their spawn.
if you were to modify that to mammals or mammals and birds ,maybe.
AGW PR:
Death Watch & AGW fraud.
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“Woman dead as multi-vehicle crash closes Hwy. 11
Toronto Star – Madeline Reston – 1 hour ago
A fatal 40-vehicle pileup during snow squalls and harsh winds near Orillia left a woman dead on Friday.”
(goo-news)
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“Carbon Trading Halted After Hack Of Exchange
The European Commission (EC) suspended trading in carbon credits on Wednseday after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and siphoned off around $38 million, according to published reports.
EU countries including Estonia, Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland and France began closing their carbon trading registries yesterday after learning that carbon allowances had been siphoned from the account of the Czech based register. A notice posted on the Web site of the Czech based registry said that it was “not accessible for technical reasons” on Thursday.
The EC followed suit: issuing a statement on Wednesday evening saying that the EC was suspending transactions for all EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) members until January 26 in light of “recurring security breaches in national registries over the last two months.”
“The incidents over the last weeks have underlined the urgent need for all registries to ensure that these measures are speedily implemented,” the EC said.
The account compromise is just the latest security embarrassment for the ETS. In July, the Web pages of the European Climate Exchange (ECX) was defaced by anti carbon trading activists. In February, 2010, malicious hackers used targeted phishing attacks to gain credentials to the German Emissions Trading Authority and make off with millions of dollars worth of carbon trading credits, Der Spiegel reported.” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2661189/posts
Friend of the USA @10:56
As a devout Catholic, does this mean that I’m allowed to bring explosives into Parliament?
It’s becoming more and more the default position on free speech and public expression in Canada that if some group, small or large, mounts enough pressure or descends to ugly versions of protest, or simply shouts down the legitimate speaker, the authorities – government, bureaucracy, university, police – shut down the event, cancel the film or speech, and hand victory to the bullies and thugs or those who gin up some atmosphere of fear and menace.
Rex Murphy on Iranium and the decline of free speech in Canada.
This is interesting – maybe even profound – but not really surprising:
“New research has shown that oxytocin, the neurochemical which promotes feelings of love and trust, also induces racism, or to be more precise, sharper discrimination against those ethnically or culturally different from oneself and one’s group:
“Men given a dose of oxytocin, a hormone known to promote feelings of love and trust, have revealed the chemical’s dark side: It made them more enthocentric.
“When asked to resolve a moral dilemma, such as choosing to save five lives from a runaway train by sacrificing one life, oxytocin-sniffing Dutch men more often saved fellow countrymen over Arabs and Germans than those who didn’t get a hormonal whiff.
“’Earlier research of oxytocin paints a very rosy view of it. We thought it was odd a neurological system that survived evolution would make people indiscriminately loving toward others,’ said social psychologist Carsten De Dreu of the University of Amsterdam, co-author of a Jan. 10 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ‘Under oxytocin we saw an increase of in-group favoritism, which has the downside of discrimination against people who are not part of your group.”
“Oxytocin is a hormone made in the brain and [euphemism alert] some reproductive organs….As a neurotransmitter, it’s also intricately involved in social behaviors such as mother-child bonding, feelings of trust and love, and group recognition.”
(Via The Null Device, whose interesting take on the implications of the findings is here.)
Last post I promise – Calgary SDA Meet Up – Friday Jan 21st (tomorrow) 5-ish PM
Dickens Pub
1000 9th Ave SW
questions – sdacalgary@gmail.com
Re video – sounds about right . . . 😀
Enjoyed it!
Here’s a funny segment from Dennis Miller’s HBO Special, “The Big Speech”.
A pretty strong argument for fathers to get sole custody of children if parents split up.
Zerohedge article on Fourth Turning Crisis, to sum up; Doom!
EBD – thanks for the delightful image of Norway; heck, and here I thought it was indeed the capital of Sweden. WOuldn’t it be fun to have one on Canada!
As for your oxytocin – sorry, I don’t buy that study. Yes, it’s a neuromodulator, which means that it affects the neurological processes in the brain. And yes, that means that it enables emotional bonding and bonding is absolutely vital in our species. That’s because our knowledge isn’t innate but learned; we must therefore live within societies and ‘get along’ with each other.
BUT – the study referring to a set of men who ‘sniffed’ vs ‘not sniffed’ and their subsequent ethnocentric bonding is weak. First, you’d have to, in your study, deal with other possible causal variables for the result of bonding or not bonding. The participants in the study weren’t newborns; they already had behavioural patterns.
Most certainly humans, as do all animals, bond to their own kind. But the perception of ‘our kind’ is learned not genetically determined. That’s the problem with the study. I don’t see that they considered the learned values. Oxycontin doesn’t define WHO you are bonding with; it just sets you up so that you DO bond. The choice of who to bond with, is learned.
Here is a link to a 261 page PDF of a Grand Jury report from Philadelphia Pa. that if the MSM ever decides to report will really inflame the abortion debate.
http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/PDFs/GrandJuryWomensMedical.pdf
“Section I: Overview
This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.”
That is the first paragraph of the report but what puts this over the top is that two state agencies that regulate abortion clinics and doctors licenses knew there was problems for decades and did nothing to stop the murder of both women and infants and they did it not by accident but by design:
“We discovered that Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers. Even nail salons in Pennsylvania are monitored more closely for client safety.
The State Legislature has charged the Department of Health (DOH) with responsibility for writing and enforcing regulations to protect health and safety in abortion clinics as well as in hospitals and other health care facilities. Yet a significant difference exists between how DOH monitors abortion clinics and how it monitors facilities where other medical procedures are performed.
Indeed, the department has shown an utter disregard both for the safety of women who seek treatment at abortion clinics and for the health of fetuses after they have become viable. State health officials have also shown a disregard for the laws the department is supposed to enforce. Most appalling of all, the Department of Health’s
neglect of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania laws is clearly not inadvertent: It
is by design.”
Even Fox News only gave it a 30 sec blurb on what could be the greatest scandal of government malfeasance over politics in US history. The report pulls no punches:
“Staloski blamed the decision to abandon supposedly annual inspections of abortion clinics on DOH lawyers, who, she said, changed their legal opinions and advice to suit the policy preferences of different governors. Under Governor Robert Casey, she said, the department inspected abortion facilities annually. Yet, when Governor Tom Ridge came in, the attorneys interpreted the same regulations that had permitted annual inspections for years to no longer authorize those inspections. Then, only complaint-driven inspections supposedly were authorized. Staloski said that DOH’s policy during Governor Ridge’s administration was motivated by a desire not to be “putting a barrier up to women” seeking abortions.
Brody confirmed some of what Staloski told the Grand Jury. He described a meeting of high-level government officials in 1999 at which a decision was made not to accept a recommendation to reinstitute regular inspections of abortion clinics. The reasoning, as Brody recalled, was: “there was a concern that if they did routine inspections, that they may find a lot of these facilities didn’t meet [the standards for getting patients out by stretcher or wheelchair in an emergency], and then there would be less abortion facilities, less access to women to have an abortion.”
CTV Montreal,
“…The Liberal party has defended the right of devout Sikhs to wear religious ceremonial daggers in legislatures,…”
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Why are liberals always NOT taking the side of Western Civilization?
If you need to read the rest ( why would you? ) or check my source or whatever, here is the link,
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110120/mtl_ignatieff_110120/20110120/?hub=MontrealHome
EBD – I was silent for the Pönnukökur, but I can be silent no longer! First the Vikings (reparations?), and then Quisling, and now this.
I am considering bringing back Snub-A-Scandi Day in earnest if this persists (it’s whichever day it was that they announced Barry was getting the Nobel Prize. He bombed the moon, if you remember).
It seems the Oxytocin story simply confirms what some of us have known for decades.
Caring more for people like you and caring less for people who are different is normal and natural.
That is how we are programmed, it is biological, it is genetical.
That is how every species of bird, fish, flower and bacteria manages to survive and thrive.
Be friendly to your kind, be suspicious of what is different.
Bacteria, flowers and molusk don’t learn this, it is programmed in them.
It is nature not nurture.
The ” it is learned behavior ” argument is ludicrous.
Oxytocin acts somewhat like a truth serum here that is all.
If I was wrong the planet would one big diverse multicultural party instead of 1.5 billion Chinese here, and 1.5 Billion Indians here and…you get the idea.
If I were wrong we would not need HUMAN RIGHT COURTS to enforce multiculturalism and shove it down our troaths.
Stop fighting it.
It is normal and natural.
That is why almost 100% of blacks voted for Obama, because the Oxytocin study ios revealing what everyone is trying to denie.
Yup Oxytocin is a sort of truth serum.
And humans like all other creatures are NOT into diversity .
Live with it.
boballab — Powerful stuff — and sickening. Thanks for the posting.
“The perception of ‘our kind’ is learned, not genetically determined.” ET, (10:39)
It’s both. Any blanket statement that the perception of ‘our kind’ is not genetically determined is obviously false. Yes, a motorcycle gang member, for example, who seethes with hatred at the sight of a guy wearing the rival gang’s patch, is engaging in behaviour that is mostly learned, but I even then I would argue that there is some genetic component, inasmuch as we are indisputably the product millions of years of natural selection that favoured bond/alliance-forming social creatures.
Leaving that last contentious example aside for the moment, though, consider the powerful, hormonally-charged bond a mother has for her newborn child: that bond, in the moments after parturition, and even in the hours and months before, has an undoubtedly genetic, primal component; to suggest that the mother’s (and father’s) deep-rooted, ready-to-die-for feelings of “one of our kind” or “one of us” is “learned and not genetically determined” is to over-intellectualize in a way that abuses common sense and reality.
Social animals’ reflexive perception of “their kind” – gnus, elephants, gibbons, sub-sub-species of sparrows – is innate, i.e. obviously has a huge genetic component.
Anyway, this being a Reader Tips thread and all, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Me thinks Kate and Donald Trump would get along just fine.
““For us to be holding state dinners for people who are just totally manipulating their currency … is hard to believe,” says Trump, who called “Fox & Friends” to express his dismay. “You don’t give dinners to the enemy and that’s what they’re doing.” Link to video:
http://nation.foxnews.com/fox-and-friends/2011/01/20/trump-goes-bonkers-over-china-you-don-t-give-dinners-enemy
Might be a buffoon here … didn’t read the article. Oxytocin or not, I think I would chose the youngest first, then maybe the oldest, then probably those whose weaknesses I understand best (the French being an exception, of course).
Does this drug work for Greyhound bus passengers?
Black Mamba – we’re also social – check @1022
If I drove all night and day, d’you think I could make it to Calgary? I do have a cousin there (she’s married to a man of Swedish extraction so I, you know, normally avoid her…).
That is a great Norway clip that was fun to watch.
Mississauga Matt, Rex is the greatest, as he tells it like it is. Hopefully a lot of people got some good old fashioned mobile prairie fertilizer on the heads.
Rex for pres!
Black Mamba, the Norwegians and Swedes told us that the horns on Viking helmets are a Hollywood fabrication.
Black Mamba = Do you have any pictures of your cousin? I have a Ford Tempo.
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Erik, hope you guys have a great time. Many of us wish were could be there.
Just thought of it, maybe Black Mamba could pick some of us on her way to Cow Town.
Global warming has been defeated.
Humanity should be proud!
Time to move on to the next crisis-du-jour..
Black Mamba, Ken (Kulak), and others, I’m looking forward to it – wish we could all get together, I’ve made some good friends here over the years.
Tunisia
By David Warren
In a startling development, the “Arab Street” has exerted itself, spontaneously — all previous exertions, usually demonstrations against Israel or against Danish cartoonists and the like, having been methodically orchestrated for the benefit of world media. But the explosion in Tunisia — of all places, with its reputation for stability, and only two presidents since independence from France more than half a century ago — runs off the chart of precedent.
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
Interesting debate taking place at the NP.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/20/man-faces-jail-after-protecting-home-from-masked-attackers/?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:558c04cd-4e2a-4d1c-b864-d418b58f94df
Yet another case of the police charging someone defending his home from thugs.
Another good point from the same thread:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/20/man-faces-jail-after-protecting-home-from-masked-attackers/?plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:0440d4bb-2222-458d-a447-a9d3f14ad8c6
Guess where in Toronto this is the list if most popular children’s names:
1) FATIMA
2) ZAINAB
3) AYESHA
4) MARYAM
Boys:
1) MUHAMMAD
2) SYED
3) MOHAMMAD
4) ABDULLAH
5) HAMZA
http://toronto.openfile.ca/babyfile
Scientist: Farming Causes Obesity, Mental Illness, Overpopulation and Global Warming – Says Eugenics “Inevitable”
So let’s summarize: Dr Wells is arguing that agriculture caused climate change and overpopulation. Okay. He argues that agriculture wasn’t a step forward for mankind but a step backwards from hunter-gather living. Okay. But what does he think gave rise to agriculture? Climate change and overpopulation. Brilliant! What a great argument.
Link to last entry:
http://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/scientist-farming-causes-obesity-mental-illness-overpopulation-and-global-warming-says-eugenics-inevitable/
AGW Progress Report:
“This is due to winter.”
-40 C = -40 F? It’s not a joke & it’s not fair.
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“Extreme cold warnings, Minnesota record lows below -40F”
“Brutal cold has invaded the upper-Midwest. A record low at International Falls is not an easy thing to break. No problem today (01/21/11), as temps have fallen into the minus 40s F (or C, if you prefer). The cold air pushes eastward and reinforces during the next several days over New England. This is due to winter.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/extreme-cold-warnings-minnesota-record-lows-below-40f/
PET Cemetery Report.
Liberal Iggy’s O*Hope and Fear has “locks”?
“Has Barack Obama* dyed”?
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“George Lucas says world will end in 2012”
“Grits respond to Conservative attack ads with ads of their own… More to follow”
“Has Barack Obama* dyed his hair black to hide his greying locks?”
(nnw)
‘Loved the video of Norway, EBD,! My kids are part Norwegian and I have friends with Norwegian connections, so I’ve forwarded it to them.
‘Born with skis on their feet … LOL, fish and potatoes (that’s right) …
But, nothing about their drinking habits? … hmmm … Baby, it’s cold outside. They’ve got to do something other than one night stands to keep warm. Akvavit (water of life) packs a whallop …
Skål!
And Skål! Calgary contingent of SDA on your pub crawl tonight! ‘Wish I could be there.
Black Mamba, if you’re heading West anytime and hit Toronto, you’ve always got a place to stay. (I have a picture in my mind of the regular posters here, and I’ll bet that none of you look anything like how I’ve imagined you!)
Mackenzie King was a left-liberal-socialist Liberal.
MSM does not mention that Mackenzie King was a Liberal Prime Minister.
“including the government of then Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King,”.
Headline: >>> “Monument to Canada’s [Liberal] ignoble past”.
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“Monument to Canada’s ignoble past
Memorial symbolizes refusal of safe haven to Jews aboard MS St. Louis in 1939”
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Monument+Canada+ignoble+past/4142708/story.html
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kate, just curious… you have “opposite gender day”
in saskatchewan?
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So does this make oxytocin “Hillbilly Hormone”?
EBD – heh – nice try to cut off my ‘last post’. I disagree with you on oxytocin. You misunderstand me. My point was that the act of bonding is innate and absolutely necessary – and found in ALL animals. So, the ACT of bonding of mother to child is innate, is genetic, is found in all animals.
But WHO you bond with is not innate but experienced. That’s why adoptive mothers exist; that’s how marriages exist; that’s why we bond with pets; and places. That’s the basis of altruism. And that’s why, over the millenia, populations have intermarried and spread over the planet.
ES @ 5:54, after reading the link you posted it is not difficult to understand how Hitler was able to recruit a number of doctors and scientists to carry out macabre experiments and mass murder.
neo @ 8:04, I expect that any day now, the school boards here will make this mandatory.
The G&M has a Poll Up about PM Stephen Harper & it is currently getting bombarded by the disenters
How would you rate Stephen Harper as Prime Minister?
Not worthy of office .
11%
274 votes
One of Canada’s greats
.17%
432 votes
A steady hand
.16%
395 votes
Competent, but cold
.10%
251 votes
Bungling the job
.45%
1121 votes
Not worthy of office
“Solar fades as shale gas flares”
“Shale gas supplies may last 250 years and make renewables uneconomic
China reportedly has some two-thirds of the US$39-billion global market for solar panels, but it doesn’t use them very much. Why? Because they’re uneconomic.
The Chinese subsidize their manufacturers to take advantage of the ultra-expensive alternative energy forced on western consumers via feed-in tariffs. Smart for them, dumb for us, but since everybody is subsidizing renewables, it’s hard to condemn the Chinese. Indeed, the terms “solar panels” and “free trade” don’t belong in the same conceptual time zone, even if they are reportedly an issue at this week’s meetings in Washington between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
There are far bigger issues here than policy hypocrisy. What happens to renewable energy when alarmist climate science collapses? And even if the ideological rearguard action drags on for years, what about the fact that shale gas is about to make renewables look even more ridiculous in terms of both economics and emissions?
The feed-in tariffs that the Chinese are so assiduously avoiding at home are analogous to the medieval scam of coin-clipping, only in reverse. Governments hope that if a small amount of ludicrously expensive renewable electricity is loaded onto consumers’ bills, they might not notice. The grand policy rationale behind this piece of economic self-mutilation is that alternatives will eventually yield a market bonanza, and any nation that has successfully promoted solar and wind “champions” will mop up all the business, as in the monopoly fantasies of Karl Marx.
This policy is nonsensical at many levels. Even if climate science is not entirely bogus, the costs of renewables are likely to do far more damage than bad weather. One of the biggest promoters of solar power, Spain, has already seen its subsidy system collapse. Studies have demonstrated that each “renewable” Spanish job was bought at the cost of two regular jobs.
Then there is the fact that Nobel Peace Prize-winning climate science has set the nations of the world at each other’s throats. The height of corporate chutzpah displayed itself in Ontario last October when a group of solar companies — led by Japan’s Mitsubishi — complained about the local content rules required to receive Ontario’s super-premium, consumer-crushing solar rates. The solar robber barons had the audacity to declare that these “restrictive” rules were bad for the Ontario economy, when the entire Green Energy Act is a bummer. Japan has taken the act (or at least the bits that don’t serve its own interests) to the WTO, with European Union and U.S. support.
Similarly, the U.S. is now threatening China on solar panel trade, having already complained to the WTO about Chinese wind turbines. In response, China has pointed out that a US$60-billion chunk of the U.S. “stimulus package,” (yet another shot-in-the-foot policy) consisted of renewable subsidies, with “Buy American” clauses attached.
Ironically, U.S. solar companies are moving to China to take advantage of their manufacturing subsidies. Last week, Evergreen Solar — the third-largest U.S. panel manufacturer — announced that it was shutting its Massachusetts plant and laying off 800 workers while beefing up its operations in the Middle Kingdom. The Massachusetts plant had received some US$58-million in state subsidies. The company has never made a profit.”
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/01/20/peter-foster-solar-fades-as-shale-gas-flares/
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“Shale gas boom on
Posted on January 21, 2011 by Anthony Watts
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IEA: Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years
Thursday, 20 January 2011 09:51 United Press International
Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the IEA said.
The abundance of shale gas and other forms of so-called unconventional gas discovered in the United States prompted a global rush to explore for the new resource.
The International Energy Agency said Australia is taking the lead in the push toward unconventional gas, though China, India and Indonesia are close behind. European companies are taking preliminary steps to unlock unconventional gas as are other regions.
“Production of ‘unconventional’ gas in the U.S. has rocketed in the past few years, going beyond even the most optimistic forecasts,” said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a gas analyst at the IEA. “It is no wonder that its success has sparked such international interest.”
Shale gas production in the United States is booming and the IEA estimates that unconventional gas makes up around 12 percent of the global supply.
Global supplies of natural gas could last for another 130 years at current consumption rates. That time frame could double with unconventional gas, the IEA said.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/shale-gas-boom-on/#more-32108
“The Coldest Day in a Lifetime!
Video – Jan 21, 2011; 9:47 AM ET
Residents across the Midwest shivered as temperatures plummeted below zero overnight. It was the coldest night in International Falls, Minn. in 100 years! Mary Yoon has more.”
http://www.accuweather.com/
At the nexus of American and Canadian current affairs, for your enjoyment, the PolitiZoid production of Money for Nothing.
“the ACT of bonding of mother to child is innate, is genetic, is found in all animals.”
a bit of a stretch. remember the animal kingdom is down to sponges , corals , etc etc etc. I would say a good 95% of animal species dont have anything to do with their spawn.
if you were to modify that to mammals or mammals and birds ,maybe.
okay, third try
I can’t imagine what would be caught in the filter regarding comments on ch9 and bankrupt states.
here’s the link w/o comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&src=busln
AGW PR:
Death Watch & AGW fraud.
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“Woman dead as multi-vehicle crash closes Hwy. 11
Toronto Star – Madeline Reston – 1 hour ago
A fatal 40-vehicle pileup during snow squalls and harsh winds near Orillia left a woman dead on Friday.”
(goo-news)
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“Carbon Trading Halted After Hack Of Exchange
The European Commission (EC) suspended trading in carbon credits on Wednseday after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and siphoned off around $38 million, according to published reports.
EU countries including Estonia, Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland and France began closing their carbon trading registries yesterday after learning that carbon allowances had been siphoned from the account of the Czech based register. A notice posted on the Web site of the Czech based registry said that it was “not accessible for technical reasons” on Thursday.
The EC followed suit: issuing a statement on Wednesday evening saying that the EC was suspending transactions for all EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) members until January 26 in light of “recurring security breaches in national registries over the last two months.”
“The incidents over the last weeks have underlined the urgent need for all registries to ensure that these measures are speedily implemented,” the EC said.
The account compromise is just the latest security embarrassment for the ETS. In July, the Web pages of the European Climate Exchange (ECX) was defaced by anti carbon trading activists. In February, 2010, malicious hackers used targeted phishing attacks to gain credentials to the German Emissions Trading Authority and make off with millions of dollars worth of carbon trading credits, Der Spiegel reported.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2661189/posts
Friend of the USA @10:56
As a devout Catholic, does this mean that I’m allowed to bring explosives into Parliament?
EU halts carbon trading after ‘concerted’ hack attacks. €30m up in smoke.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/21/carbon_trading_hack_attack/
Kieth Olbermann leaves MSNBC – Wall Street Journal
So where did that Globe and Mail poll go, the How would you rate Stephen Harper as Prime Minister one?
‘Cant’ find it.