Look At The Bright Side

Religion Of Submission 55 Comments

“Inbred” is about to be added to the growing list of banned insults;

While Woolas has raised the question of birth defects, the most serious concern is that cousin marriage blocks assimilation. (I show how in “Assimilation Studies” and “Assimilation Studies, Part II.”) That is why cousin marriage poses a genuine threat to Britain’s survival as a nation. The most spectacular example is today’s report that surveillance planes in Afghanistan have picked up the voices of Taliban fighters speaking in, for example, Bradford accents. Bradford is a virtual “reverse colony” within Britain, a city that has for all practical purposes transformed into a section of Pakistan. And as I explain in “Assimilation Studies,” this enclave was essentially built through cousin marriage. Now the Taliban draws recruits from the children of these unassimilated Pakistani immigrants.
For all the outrage stirred up by Woolas’s comments on “inbreeding,” it may actually be easier to talk about cousin marriage’s harm to young children than to directly acknowledge that cousin marriage is the mainspring of failed Muslim assimilation.

Takes a bite out of “hillbilly”, too.

“After the close, we bought 50,000 bushels of wheat at 20 bucks”

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Wheat hits $20 in North Dakota and Minnesota The wheat market moved into historic ground Friday in North Dakota and Minnesota, as short-term demand from mills pushed prices up to $20 a bushel at one elevator in an after-hours scramble. Most elevators in northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota posted prices of $16.70 to $17.30 Friday. posted a bid of $18.25 Friday. But the market was much hotter than that. “After the close, we bought 50,000 bushels of wheat at 20 bucks,” Lokken said. “That’s a million dollars worth of wheat.” The AGP Elevator in Valley City, N.D. buyer on the “floor,” in the Minneapolis Grain Exchange told him late Friday, “Just see what it would take to buy X amount of bushels of wheat,” Lokken said. “So, we went to a few guys and asked, what would you sell wheat at? They said 20 bucks. So we said, if we paid you 20 bucks, would you sell? Some of them did. Amazingly, some of them said they wanted 30.” But much of the wheat this year was sold between $5.50 and $7, Lokken and other elevator managers say. Historic highest price of $20 a bushel for spring wheat is a record, by far, in nominal terms. But if the historic highs reached in 1973, after the Soviet Union’s first big forays into the world market, are adjusted for inflation, the $5 per-bushel price would be roughly $22 a bushel in today’s dollars. He doesn’t think the market has hit the top yet. “We will see what happens,” Lokken said. “I bet you that on Monday, we won’t be the only elevator out there bidding $18, $20.” (GRANDFORKSHERALD)

Via Larry Weber who adds, “Better make sure the phone number in your permit book is up to date so that you can refer to this article when your western Canadian marketer rings you up to ask what price you would sell your remaining wheat for. (Just kidding)”
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Those Bulldozers Are To Pull The Plows, Señor

Great Moments In Socialism 42 Comments

Zimbabwe lite;

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an effort to deal with food shortages nationwide, threatened today to expropriate farms and raised the price rice producers are permitted to charge.
Fallow farmland “can’t be allowed,” Chavez said on his weekly television and radio broadcast, calling for the National Guard to take over farms with nonproductive lands. He also announced a price boost of 44 percent for rice growers.
It was at least the fourth time this year that Chavez’s government has threatened to use expropriation to deal with shortages of milk, rice, cooking oil and other price-controlled basic foods. The decision on rice prices was another in a series of increases this year, following boosts in the prices of beans, cheese and ultra-pasteurized milk.

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 63 Comments

Notoriously, the infant mortality rate…

… is twice as high in the lowest social class as in the highest. But the infant mortality rate of illegitimate births is twice that of legitimate ones, and the illegitimacy rate rises steeply as you descend the social scale: so the decline of marriage almost to the vanishing point in the lowest social class might well be responsible for most of its excess infant mortality. It is a way of life, not poverty per se, that kills.

(Click image.)
Always use a safety fuse.
Update Advice that, sadly, came too late. ..
Add yours in the comments.

Silence Wikipedia!

Religion Of Submission 65 Comments

WE KEEL YOU!

Islam is a religion of peace and brotherhood. But this doesnot mean that we will forgive every thing and be peacefull. If anyone try to make joke of our beloved Prophet (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) he will not be forgiven and will get the punishement by Allah (Azzawajal) in the life and after death InshAllah. So dont try to hurt feelings of Muslims . . . . .

The Curious Affinity Of The Left For Islamism

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Explained;

… Modern Christianity, however, is a far different creature from modern Islam. Every religion is, to a greater or lesser extent, a balance between reason and faith in its teachings and day to day practices. The great fault of modern Islam is not its having missed the sexual or industrial revolutions, but having missed the epistemological revolution of the thirteenth century. The Islamic world seems medieval in its attitudes and outlook because it is medieval, or more accurately early medieval, in its thinking.
[…]
What separates the citizen of a liberal democracy and his medieval ancestor, and the Cario slum dweller, is how they go about solving the bigger problems of life. How do I decide something is true in ethics, politics or science? The dictum of the Thomists was “Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu.” (Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses). Evidence and rational thought are the ideal of modern life, even of post modern life. It is an ideal we fall short of but the alternative is the life of the modern medievalists. The Islamists and so many of the actual “moderate” Muslims – moderate in the sense they occupy the intellectual middle ground between liberal democracy and theocracy – act upon faith. What that means in practice is not living according to the teachings of an ancient holy book, but the interpretations of the holy book.
If one’s interpretations are based on reason, on an attempt to rationally analyze the text and compare and contrast with the evidence of one’s senses, one admits that religious teachings are a matter of debate and even disagreement. If one’s interpretations are based solely on faith, not merely faith in accepting a certain set of assumptions as true, but faith in applying those principles as well, how does one debate with others? I say this is the truth. Why? Because it is. What are your reasons? There are not reasons, only faith. The only way to resolve the conflict is to follow or fight. For a modern Christian faith extends as far as accepting certain assumptions as true without evidence, their application and mitigation with empirical evidence is done – or at least striven to be done – by reason.

It’s sympatico.
It’s not by accident that so much of what is offered as debate by the modern left on the critical issues facing our times sounds less like reasoned argument than it does “Silence infidel!“
(I have more to say about this here)

CWB: It All Averages Out, Eh?

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Courtesy of Rolf Penner:

Many board supporters don’t like spot price comparisons with the pool price, they feel that it is not a fair comparison, while that point is debatable, even when one looks at average prices the board still comes up short year after year. The average of the 8 year average (and if its one thing Canadians love is averages, lets not get to extreme here) is $36.36 per tonne or 79 cents per bushel.

Some Of My Best Friends Are Lawyers

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But this is still the comment of the week;

I’m probably going to burn for this but when I saw all those LAWYERS protesting in their suits. And then the cops started beating those protesting LAWYERS and I realized thats not right but then again they were LAWYERS but oh the humanity but they were LAWYERS so in the end I was rooting for the cops and screaming get that one and that one. Then the wife was yelling GET OFF THE COUCH AND PUT THE CLICKER DOWN.

Agents Of Defeat

Little Known Facts 46 Comments

Those who don’t know history are doomed to believe in the news;

Media misreporting of Tet passed into our collective memory. That picture gave antiwar activism an unwarranted credibility that persists today in Congress, and in the media reaction to the war in Iraq. The Tet experience provides a narrative model for those who wish to see all U.S. military successes — such as the Petraeus surge — minimized and glossed over.
In truth, the war in Vietnam was lost on the propaganda front, in great measure due to the press’s pervasive misreporting of the clear U.S. victory at Tet as a defeat. Forty years is long past time to set the historical record straight.

Inside Politics: Baghdad

Political Animal 11 Comments

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At The Long War Journal – An examination of the political structures and internal conflicts within the Iraqi government;

Colonel Martin M. Stanton, Chief of Reconciliation and Engagement for Multinational Corps–Iraq, is quick to praise the remarkable progress in ground-up reconciliation he’s seen in his job coordinating Iraqis who want to engage with the Coalition and Iraqi government. But he is also candidly skeptical about the willingness of the “Shia [federal] government” to reconcile with Sunnis, in light of sectarian hostility.
“What haunts me is the prospect of wasting all these opportunities,” said Stanton. “It’s encouraging at the bottom, at the tactical level, and then you deal with the people in the Iraqi government who are so paranoid and so reticent, and it’s a real emotional rollercoaster.”
But while most officials acknowledge a heavy atmosphere of mistrust stoked by sectarian carnage that peaked in 2006, many cite other elements that impede action on key political benchmarks. This Long War Journal series on Iraqi politics – involving more than a dozen interviews with American and Iraqi officials – will attempt to examine the factors, including but beyond sectarianism, that have affected political progress by the Iraqi federal government.

Part Two is also up.

“Boo Hoo….. the whole world hates your cult of death……”

Religion Of Submission 159 Comments

Who’s fault is that?

If there was not a single terrorist attack, suicide bombing or rocket attack against Israel for, say 5 years, you can come back and ask forgiveness then….until then, STFU and crawl back under the rock you crawled out from under.
People hate muslims because of the terror and savagery they have been inflicted on innocent people in the name of Islam…. no more, no less. Clean up your own act before you complain to others about racism and bigotry. Oh, and you can include ‘tolerance’ too. When I can openly walk down a street in Saudi Arabia carrying a bible in my hand on my way to a corner church and be greeted with smiles instead of rifles and hand-cuffs, let me know


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He’s dead, by the way.*
Via Kathy Shaidle, (Actually, I pretty much stole her post wholesale.)
Update For readers who find this image disturbing, I advise you avoid the movie “Team America – World Police”. Their positionally compromised inanimate figures aren’t anatomically correct, either.
But as it clearly offends some of our readers, I’ll provide some of that “balance” so many of you complain is lacking here, by adding one that offends me.

So, what do you say? Can I get my nomination for Best Feminist Blog now?

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