And the green cape brings forth the spring
Jeff Jacoby at Boston.com describes a new industry; or perhaps a very old one. The notion of altering the future by manipulating symbols in the present goes back to prehistory. It has returned with a vengeance in the form of politically correct instruction. But first, let's look back at prehistory.
Sympathetic magic, also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence. Imitation involves using effigies to affect the environment of people. Correspondence is based on the idea that one can influence something based on its relationship to another thing. ... In 1933, Leo Frobenius, discussing cave paintings in North Africa, pointed out that many of the paintings did not seem to be mere depictions of animals and people. To him, it seemed as if it was an acting out of the hunt before the hunt began, as well as a consecration of the animal to be killed. In this way, the pictures served to secure a successful hunt.
Pictures are still used today to "secure a successful hunt". Jeff Jacoby describes how textbook publishers create a synthetic image of the world for their audiences when the real one won't correspond.
You're a publisher of children's textbooks, and you have a problem. Your diversity guidelines -- quotas in all but name -- require you to include pictures of disabled children in your elementary and high school texts, but it isn't easy to find handicapped children who are willing and able to pose for a photographer. Kids confined to wheelchairs often suffer from afflictions that affect their appearance, such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. How can you meet your quota of disability images if you don't have disabled models who are suitably photogenic? Well, you can always do what Houghton Mifflin does. The well-known textbook publisher keeps a wheelchair on hand as a prop and hires able-bodied children from a modeling agency to pose in it. It keeps colorful pairs of crutches on hand, too -- in case a child model turns out to be the wrong size for the wheelchair.
Or you can simply buy pictures from organizations which specialize in fulfilling the unfortunate textbook author's need for quota pictures. Jacoby mentions Photoedit, a company which "specializes in supplying publishers and advertisers with positive images of ethnic and minority people in all walks of life." It claims that "over 75% of our image library features African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Gay and Lesbian, handicapped, and senior citizens in their daily life." Of course pictures of actual minorities might not be suitable for the textbook because the real thing sometimes doesn't match the image the textbook author must project. A little editing will set that right. Jacoby notes that one supplier of pictures
advises publishers that images of Chicanos can be passed off as American Indians from the Southwest, because they "look very similar." Similarly, Golden notes, a textbook photographer tells clients that since the "facial features" of some Asians resemble Indians from Mexico, "there are some times where you can flip-flop."
And we are back in the world where Warner Oland can play Charlie Chan. After all, if a Swede can play a Chinese detective in a Hollywood movie, it's only fair to let a Filipino play a Mexican in a textbook. But sometimes the Mexican can't play the Mexican if, for example, he has blue eyes. Jacoby observes that "authentic Hispanics who happen to have blond hair or blue eyes don't count toward the Hispanic quota 'because their background would not be apparent to readers'". But it is really Jacoby's next anecdote that takes us back to the prehistoric world of cave art and sympathetic magic. If you can't find your minority, Photoshop one in.
In 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison featured a group of students cheering at a football game on the cover of its admissions brochure. One of those students was Diallo Shabazz, a black senior who hadn't been at the game. University officials, desperately wanting the new publication to reflect a diverse student body, had lifted Diallo's image from somewhere else and digitally inserted it into the football shot. "Our intentions were good," Madison's director of university publications said when the deception was exposed, "but our methods were bad".
But the road to hell is sometimes paved with good intentions. Reality isn't always what we are certain it should be, even when our carefully selected images try to create it. If the picture below really isn't true, so the argument goes, it ought to have been.
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Wretchard wrote that there's 'a company which "specializes in supplying publishers and advertisers with positive images of ethnic and minority people in all walks of life." It claims that "over 75% of our image library features African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Gay and Lesbian, handicapped, and senior citizens in their daily life."
A few questions and observations come to mind.
1) How in God's name did we ever come to this state of affairs, a state where a grab-bag of mutable and immutable and elective and universal human characteristics all got lumped together and made to stand (or sit or hobble or wheel) in opposition to "non-minorities", esp. to the dreaded and fearsome white male?
2) There is also a market for images that show minorities in pathetic and helpless circumstances. I use lots of images on my blog, The Business of America is Business. Much of my traffic comes from people searching for images. One search string that has given me quite a few hits lately is "poverty in america". Maybe because it's the first anniversary of Katrina? Here's a link to the post where it appears.
Katrina, Poverty, and the US Job Market
I can guarantee this image is not in PhotoEdit's image library.
3) Any idea how much they pay people to appear in photos or how much they'd buy some of mine for? I've got plenty of "minority action shots" from me doing real life things like teaching students and grading papers. I could easily take more or stage a few on request. Some of them are here.
Bit Sand Pieces
Should I maybe hire an agent?
bobalharb said:
We have many petrogylphs on the caynon walls of our rivers around here. They seem to have been made much later than the earlier ones in France and Spain, and don't seem to yield the same kind of insight in to the beginnings of marked human thought, but rather animals. events, happenings, the course of the stars and moon,etc
Five thousand years from now they will dig up our CDs and say that we were a vain culture that was obsessed with our appearance, because we made millions of little plastic mirrors (with inexplicable holes in the middle)
starling dave hunter said:
How in God's name did we ever come to this state of affairs, a state where a grab-bag of mutable and immutable and elective and universal human characteristics all got lumped together and made to stand (or sit or hobble or wheel) in opposition to "non-minorities", esp. to the dreaded and fearsome white male?
I think it has to do with a tendency by the minority to say they have "lives" but certain minorities only have "lifestyle choices". The pictures show those minorities having lives where they eat, sleep, work, and pay taxes, just like anyone else.
In the words of the great Jewish sage, Paul Simon, "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
Great stuff!
Of course, this brings to mind the case of the statute that was to comemerate the firefighters raising the flag at the ruins of the WTC. They were going to have to depict them as being the correct mixture of races.
This sort of thing is not the same as going down to the Ethan Allen store to buy an authentic Early American computer hutch or TV cabinet.
How did they run those TVs and computers off of whale oil, anyway?
-and speaking of synthetic images: 22 bombs just went off in Thailand at banks. The MSN reports says that 1500 people in Thailand have been killed since early in 2004. This we are told is the result of "muslim insurgency" - they want a country of their own. Well it sure smacks of vicious terrorism to me, you know, stone age type animals seeking to impose their political will on others by killing them. The term "muslim insurgency" almost has a glamerous ring to it, wouldn't you say? Much less offensive than terrorism - they're just some freedom loving boys wanting to escape the tryanny of Buddhism, right? The MSN report failed to connect it to Iraq and Bush however.
Hey, those are my icons!
Pinocchio and friends converted to Islam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/31/wpino31.
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wretchard said:
Of course pictures of actual minorities might not be suitable for the textbook because the real thing sometimes doesn't match the image the textbook author must project. A little editing will set that right
I can't control what textbook makers do, but if I personally am "colorblind" then images of people cannot influence me one way or the other, whether they are all white or an artificial balance of types. There isn't any such thing as race, and there never was. There's only the human race. Everyone is various gorgeous shades of brown, and the degree of variation is smaller than most people realize. Some cultures think there are only three colors in a rainbow, not the seven colors the technological West swears by. It's all subjective nonsense.
Anointiata Delenda Est said...
Because of the incredible successes of the fearsome white male. Plato, Euclid, Pythagoras, Virgil, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Newton, Euler, Riemann, The Founding Fathers, Maxwell, Einstein, Dirac, Pasteur, Bill Gates, ... ad infinitum.
Caesar, Caligula, Napoleon, Jefferson Davis, Eichmann, Goebbels, Stalin, Al Capone, Al Bundy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lenin, Hitler, Mengele, Joseph McCarthy, Torquemada, Fred Phelps, Benedict Arnold....
Here's a link to some of the more famous examples of doctored photos including the ones Wretchard metioned.
Excuse me, but what the Hell is JD doing on your list Teresita?
Jacoby's concluding para:
"By reducing 'diversity' to something as shallow and meaningless as appearance, they reinforce the most dehumanizing stereotypes of all -- those that treat people first and foremost as members of racial, ethnic, or social groups. Far from acknowledging the genuine complexity and variety of human life, the diversity dogmatists deny it. Is it any wonder that their methods so often lead to unhappy and unhealthy results?"
Amen, well said.
Activist judges, racial preferences, the stakes in this election: this story’s got it all.
Terrence Pell, head of the Center for Individual Rights , has a piece out today called,
“ By Any Means Necessary ,”
about an outrageous attempt by a Democrat-appointed federal judge to maneuver the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative off the ballot.
The “Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary” is the group trying to stop Michigan’s voters from exercising their right, guaranteed by Michigan’s constitution, to decide issues by ballot.
When a group’s name implies that it will resort to violence, if necessary, to maintain racial preferences, it does not inspire confidence in their tactics.
- Stanley Kurtz
I am a bigot.
I am a hater.
I discriminate.
I am bigoted against those that want my lovely children dead.
I hate those that wish to remove my head from my shoulders
I discriminate against those that would see my head used as a soccer ball.
i am also intolerant of intolerant people
I do not respect other peoples beliefs, but their right to hold other beliefs.
I DO respect all ethical people inspite of thier stupid childish beliefs, including my own
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History Was Greek Culture Stolen from Africa?
---
There were books in circulation that claimed that Socrates and Cleopatra were of African descent, and that Greek philosophy had actually been stolen from Egypt. Not only were these books being read and widely distributed; some of these ideas were being taught in schools and even in universities.
Ordinarily, if someone has a theory which involves a radical departure from what the experts have professed, he is expected to defend his position by providing evidence in its support.
But no one seemed to think it was appropriate to ask for evidence from the instructors who claimed that the Greeks stole their philosophy from Egypt.
08:21:01 AM - I am turning you into the intolerance squad.
(two meanings)
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TERRORMASTER
(AND CARTER, Bush and Condi)
The Iran Follies, continued ... [Andy McCarthy]
June 1, 2006: Attempting to mollify skeptics who questioned the wisdom of both negotiating directly with the terrorist Iranian regime and offering it generous incentives, the New York Times reported that aides Secretary of State Rice insisted that to “the deal also commits China and Russia to a long list of specific steps to punish Iran if it refuses to halt its enrichment program.”
August 31, 2006: The Wall Street Journal
reports that the Bush administration officials are contemplating, at best, the proposal of low-level sanctions (such as travel restrictions on Iranian officials and curbs on dual-use technology trade), and possibly doing so outside the UN Security Council framework, because there is no commitment by China and Russia to sanctions, much less specific steps to punish Iran for refusing to halt its enrichment program.
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Meanwhile, we pay for a terror-master to Campaign with Carter, Speak at Harvard and the National Cathedral.
Army of One, Presidency of Mush.
United Nations Travel Restrictions, My Ass.
The federal agency that I worked for posted jobs over the years with increasingly specific target audiences. If you were disabled in any way, no problem, if you were a minority, no problem, if you belonged to a "protected class," no problem. If you were a WASP and male, forget it. If you were a disabled, female, minority member who also happened to belong to a protected class, Bingo! Race, sex, sexual orientation, protected class status, to judge from the results, very often trumped competence. From what I observed, political orientation, which was supposedly not to be considered, also played a large part in hiring decisions. Towards the end of my delightful, way too long tenure I even saw a posting in which they stated that an applicant from the Alaska, Aleutian islands area would be given preference-I suppose so that they could finally check off some rarely checked box on their diversity checklist.
http://www.zipperfish.com/free/yaafm12.php
everyone take a break and watch this..
Is 'tolerance' oppressive?
OCCUPATION'S EXCELLENT LINK
Ends with: Muslims, You are F...... Morons.
Unfortunately, So Far,
So are We.
so we are, doug--
Mark Terwilliger (did i spell it ok?)--
that was an excellent essay--thanks.
snowonpine said:
The federal agency that I worked for posted jobs over the years with increasingly specific target audiences.
Mine too. In the 1990s there were two RIFs here ("peace dividend") and about the only people left when it was finished were veterans with 10-point disabled preference and 5-point Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal preference. I didn't hear too much whining and complaining about those set-asides.
epictetus
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TERESITA,
BETTER TO HAVE 13 YEAR OLD NEA AMAZOIDS?
Correspondence is based on the idea that one can influence something based on its relationship to another thing. ... In this way, the pictures served to secure a successful hunt.
The medium has changed somewhat.
As an aside, a few weeks ago I said that Bush would soon be hearing his own words repeated back to him on the issue of Iran, with the intent of steeling his spine to take on the Mullahs.
Doug said it was "testable."
Here are the National Review Editors, a group that exerts some influence on perceptions in the White House.
Muslims are rewriting our mutual history so that a lot of things Western end with a "happy" Muslim ending.
See current news stories about Turkish texts being altered so that Pinocchio, Cinderella and other Western children's stories end with a conversion to Islam.
There are also on-going Arab "urban legends" about various well-known Western figures converting to Islam (i.e., Prince Charles, Michael Jackson).
To me, this is just plain lying and should be an indication of how very desperate the "culture" involved is for any kind of support.
"Successful Hunt"
"Peter Dale, head of More4, which is due to air the film on October 9, said the drama was a "thought-provoking critique" of contemporary US society.
He said:
"It's an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story.
"It's a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic.
"I'm sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is."
- Aristides' Link
Don't forget the issue of "crime', Mark. It too has been politicized, all criminals are political prisoners. Even child molesters--victims of society. It's the philosophy of death, in that it goes nowhere that life can exist. A western jihad, just about the same age as the (most recent) eastern jihad.
Any Criticism of a Dem's "Patriotism"
(even without mentioning it)
Is an ASSAULT, and a HATE CRIME.
...but we have soundbites of the Screaming Madwomen HRC.
Catherine:
How about,
"Finnegan's Wake?"
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.
The great fall of the
offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan,
erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:
and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev-linsfirst loved livvy.
Here's another one for your deadly dichotomies, Mark:
"knowledge=strength=evil"
and the reciprocal,
"magic=weakness(vs technology)=good".
...thus we wear pyramids on our heads to prevent baldness, among other like stuff.
mark terwilliger; 7:43AM
re: PC
Those promulgating PC offer themselves to the poor, virtuous downtrodden as a bulwark against the strong, vicious evil-doers.
Thanks!
peterboston said:
teresita is not all wrong. There are moral considerations, even in total war.
It's just that dropping a few on Honshu didn't violate any of them, nor did busting the dams, or pulverizing Dresden.
If that is true, then your only possible moral objection to 9/11 can be on the grounds of the Boo-Hooray Theory of Just Warfare.
Boo for them, hooray for us.
It was our civilians who were targeted in the World Trade Center.
It certainly wasn't a surprise attack, OBL had declared war in the US in the 1990's and had struck several of our assets overseas.
8/24/2006 11:45:22 AM
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Teresita said,
"Using a sledgehammer to smash a spider one inch from a woman's toe amounts to deliberately targetting her toe.
Using a U-235 device to take out a Mitzubishi factory in Hiroshima amounts to deliberately targeting the civilians who live nearby.
Firebombing entire cities made of paper is in the same vein. The only reason the allied generals and leaders haven't hung for Dresden is they won the war.
The ironic thing is those same allies stand up in horror when Hezbollah does the same thing on a far smaller scale (44 Israeli civilians dead).
It's wrong no matter who does it or why.
Aim for the soldiers, not grandma.
8/24/2006 10:43:19 AM
"
Well, if you'll recall, doug, 911 DID make USA virtuous for a few weeks--until the first JDAM slammed into a Taliban bunker. Israel just faced the same thing--virtuous for a few days, until she struck back. Israel & USA can only win by losing.
Wherever i spend eternity, i'd like my neighbors on either side to be Al Bundy and Rodney Dangerfield.
tipmoose said:
Al Bundy??? What did Married With Children ever do to you??! :)
Al Bundy, Al Zarqawi, Al Gore, all those Als.
(Actually I should have said Ted Bundy.)
buddy larsen,
re: Israel & USA can only win by losing.
Sorry, buddy, but both CAN win by winning. Neither can, however, take forever to do it.
___Maximum violence at a point
___Offer apologies after the victory parade
Teresita--My agency decided it wanted its own personnel policies so, among many other things, it decreed that it would not honor veterans preference at all. Result; it was extremely rare to find a veteran, even in research sections devoted to research into national defense issues, or anywhere else in my 5,000+ person agency. Thus, management very successfully edited out any grubby, uncivilized people and views likely to conflict with their prevailing elevated mindset.
i can hear the laughter now, ha-ha-ha-HAAAH!
Talking about PC and misappropriated iconography:
"If this has been mentioned, I beg pardon, but the betrayal of the President by Powell/Armitage et al makes Mr. Powell a real poster boy for the fanatical wing(s) of the Democrat Party, doesn't it. Hmmm...2008...Hmmm...2008?"
snowonpine
Teresita--My agency decided it wanted its own personnel policies so, among many other things, it decreed that it would not honor veterans preference at all.
That's remarkable. Such a glaring procedural non-compliance should have been brought to the attention of your congressman, who theoretically has oversight responsibilities.
They call me the Belmont Club troll, but who's dredging up posts from days gone by to stir up shit?
buddy larsen said:
Israel just faced the same thing--virtuous for a few days, until she struck back. Israel & USA can only win by losing.
No, we win by refocusing our attack on Al Qaeda's agents and finances, and by letting ourselves get sidetracked by any more experiments in democracy from Lebanon to Uzbekistan. Our steadfastness is about to pay off in Cuba when Numb Nuts checks out, it will pay off in the GWOT too, even if it also takes 50 years.
nahncee said:
There are also on-going Arab "urban legends" about various well-known Western figures converting to Islam (i.e., Prince Charles, Michael Jackson).
Prince "I wanna be your tampon" Charles? A wife-smacking Muslim? I don't think so. And what would Jacko get if he was martyred, 72 Cub Scouts?
teresita; 11:42 PM
re: "No, we win by refocusing our attack on Al Qaeda's agents and finances"
As long as the US is "sidetracked" aQ's major financial centers remain intact.
By all accounts, the biggest pot of aQ gold is in Saudi Arabia. Hmm
Oddly enough, aQ may be generating considerable revenue right here in the good old US of A, without the FBI caring to take much notice (it wouldn't be PC). C4, on an earlier thread, linked to Mr. Lehman's piece in the WP: We're Not Winning This War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002730.html
Mr. Lehman's analysis is devastating - oh, and non-partisan.
From David Starling Hunter's blog Bit Sand Pieces (from the caption of a picture of the minaret near the Dubai airport):
"I've been told that within the major cities, all the way from Abu Dhabi to Ajman, and perhaps beyond, there is no minaret from which it is not possible to see another minaret."
I believe this is a statement from a resident of Dubai, and certainly does not describe the whole arab/Islamic world, not by a long road. On the other hand, it does point to a state of mind that we need to consider in our reckoning... just part of the institutional yearning that is fundamental to Islam, to expand and dominate.
Keep in mind that Christian Churches are not allowed in substantial parts of Dar-al-Islam.
Teresita wrote:
There's only the human race...
I'm inclined to agree with Teresita.
I highly recommend Nicholas Wade's Before the Dawn, a mesmerizing account of what has been learned (much of it very recently) about human evolution.
To me the most fascinating factoid to have come out is that all of us, of whatever "race," are descended from a band of about one hundred and fifty Adams and Eves that crossed the southern end of the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa and spead east across southern Arabia and toward India.
Jamie Irons
Other Wade numbers (IIRC), these 150 individuals crossed the Red Sea about 150,000 years ago, and led to the beginnings of civilization, marked by inter-clan cooperation, about 15,000 years ago. Easy set of numbers to recall, all sets of 15.
150, they must've all been breeding their first cousins. Sounds like Arkansas.
Buddy,
Even child molesters--victims of society. It's the philosophy of death, in that it goes nowhere that life can exist...
The amusing and perceptive Dr. Robert Godwin had a marvellous essay recently "demonstrating" (quotes used not in derision but because I think it's too strong a word, and I don't think he'd make the claim that he had demonstrated anything in the usual sense) that the Islamic fascists can usefully be compared to the "undead."
Excerpt:
Most soul murders are undoubtedly committed by those who are already so spiritually damaged as to be functionally dead. These undead souls such as a Nasrallah, an Arafat, or an Amahdinejad, speak to us from “the other side,” from the shadow world that is created when the soul has been so damaged that it essentially exits the body, leaving only a human animal in its place. But other demonic energies rush in to fill the void, so that the individual becomes a sort of “antihuman.” At their core, they are filled with unbearable envy toward the living, and the only way they can assuage this envy is to kill and kill plentifully. Life is a reminder of their own walking death, hence, “death to Israel,” that primordial symbol of life: l’chaim.
Jamie Irons
You deleted them Teresita:
Does that mean you renounce their message?
habu,
And if they didn't then aren't we all just carbon floating in the cosmos to take it to it's full conclusion?
We are stardust,
We are golden--
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the gar-ar-den...
;-)
(I started out life as a molecular biologist...as my Bubba would have said, I know from DNA!)
Jamie Irons
I don't like to draw any paranoid conclusions from this irritating "Word Verification" exercise we're put through with each new post, but mine always seem to have a hidden message:
The latest is "heb g qv"...
;-)
Jamie Irons
Jamie, the zombies foot-soldiers are all for suicide--but the vampires that send them out, seem to be less enthused about taking their own undeadness to the next level: dematerialization.
habu, I'll put out some possum food--that'll keep 'em happy. They grin best when dining on the "turd" so i'll have to get busy.
habu_3; 12:24 PM
re: A wall that has still not come down.
Ms. Gorlick's wall is yet another PC article of faith in the Clinton legacy. However, if any remnant of it remains at this late date, fault for default must be placed elsewhere.
Lehman could not begin to fully list all the problems faced by the country in an article of this length. I am willing to accept his non-listing of Gorlick in that light.
Your raising the issue of Ms. Gorlick does raise the question of how she found her way onto a committee that the administration knew would have to critically examine the policy she created. Essentially, how did a key witness come to be empowered as judge?
Lehman seems to take the long way to saying the administration is all too frequently asinine. In doing so, I did not detect ill will.
There is only one race...
I think that Wade's work is more about documenting the genetic differences between races than denying they exist.
See Steve Sailer (unfortunately most of his links are old and obtainable only from the NYT archives for a fee).
See also the article I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor.
With no evidence to support my belief one way or the other, doesn't it just seem too much of a reach to accept that 150 individuals are the progenitors of the human race? Or that a group of only 150 individuals could even survive death/birth rates? The European settlers at Jamestown coudn't.
Lehmann himself was a memeber of the 911 committee, you do recall, Allen. By all appearances the cmtee was staffed the same way a congressional committee is staffed, so many from column A (your pick), so many from column B (my pick).
Habu_3 said... 8/31/2006 11:14:27 AM
“Buddy, Make mine Jonathan Winters and Beethoven.”
Beethoven is Beethoven and no further comment is necessary. But I thought that Jonathan Winters was just a run of the mill comedian till I heard him explain that people would like garbage if it was pronounced properly; the he proceeded to pronounce it a if it was French word: sounded something like GARBAAAJJ.
Habu, if you have some spare room I would like to be considered..
BTW why do I think that Jonathan Winters’ explanation applies to the Left’s preferences? ;)
buddy larsen; 1:03 PM
re: Ms. Gorlick
If the administration was too weak to keep such a one off the committee, that goes far to explaining other things as well.
With respect, the sworn testimony of Gorlick was essential to comprehending the intelligence lapses leading to 911. That she was given judicial immunity, in effect, may say more than we care to know.
well, as far as that goes, Allen, tjhe long term of George tenet is equally inexplicable. I saw the whole complex as an administration unwilling to go the mat for small potatoes--in view of all that was in play, then. including a hail mary on SocSec.
"mistakes were made" I'm pretty sure, in hindsight.
peterboston; 1:02 PM
re: 150?
Studies indicate that Jews stem from 4 females, i.e. every maternally derived Jew will carry the mitacondrial DNA of one of these females. However, that does not mean the four donors were co-existent; rather, these four lines have survived. It is probable that each donor was separated one from the other by long periods of time.
Like you, I would like to have that 150 better defined.
Müller, Myths W. Max Müller, Egyptian, The Mythology of All Races, XII, Boston (1918).
Since Mrs. Glasheen's use of Vol. V in this series, Semitic in AWN, no.15 (August 1963). 3,
it has generally been acknowledged that Joyce made use of
The Mythology of All Races.
allen
The only thing that makes sense is that the DNA from 150 individuals survived the lucky sperm contest. I suppose the total sample size could have been anything.
PB, Allen, "150" is the "Dunbar Number".
"The Dems smear who they want to smear and diatribe the West"
that's *perfect*. there oughtta be a name for those things.
From Fox News, Not enough female SCOTUS clerks
Maybe we can photo-shop some boobs on a couple of 'em?
Couric's people could help wit dat--
The most ancient ancestor of the pyramid, for example, was a mound of sand, a tumulus (DRT, p. 62).
The phrase "Tal the tem of the tumulum" (56.34) contains the tale of TM, the old god who, in FW is a type of HCE; here he falls into a tomb, a tumulus.
the word"tumulum" contains a clear reference to the primal mud-heap upon which TM as the creator-god, after masturbating into his mouth, spat out the first beings.
Thus, the "tumulum" is both the mound of creation, and the tumulus tomb of burial.
The two meanings are inclusive and simultaneous: the waked dead in the mound carrying the potential of new, first life.1
From the tumulus evolved the oblong brick mastaba-tomb. We have seen that Tim Finnegan, as an unorthodox,
"Lord of the ladder" fell into such a tomb at 6.09:
"Dimb!
He stottered from the latter.
Damb! he was dud.
Dumb!
Mastabatoom, mastabadtomm."
This fall is not final, for, as we shall see later, it contains Bataou, a title of Osiris as the "soul of the bread", which carries the image of the "germinating" god (see "Grain Osiris", below).
The characteristic hiss of villainous Set serves to link a mastaba-tomb to the myth of Osiris at 493.23; "massstab" contains a serpent's "sss", a mastaba and also a conspirators' "mass-stab" which places the Egyptian god-king in that line of betrayed leaders which includes Caesar. As we have seen, however, Osiris is never down for long.
This reference to a mastaba and murdered leader is followed by the cry
"Irise, Osirises!
Be thy mouth given unto thee!"
Al Her-tz is #1
buddy larsen; 1:44 PM
re: that's *perfect*. there oughtta be a name for those things.
Bumper stickers
Not content to luxuriate in the lap of luxury, habu has opened up a whole new avenue for investment. Is America a great country, or what?
My sincere apology to Ms. Gorelick for having serially misspelled her name. That could also explain why the subpoena went undelivered.
doug; 1:56PM
Doug, in the words of Larry the Cable Guy, I think, "That shit's wrong!"
Shorthanded fighting the insurgents as we make Iraq into a copy of New Hampshire? Throw some SEALs in there. We're done cutting fat, we're cutting into muscle now.
Words to live by:
Stereotyping is leading to terror, says first Muslim Miss England
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
pages/live/articles/news/news.
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Bobal:
The ancient Egyptians believed, as we have seen, in the efficacy of the written word, and in the great magic of a name or text.
And like Shakespeare, the Egyptian scribe seems not to have been able to avoid a pun.
This approach to language certainly must have appealed to an artist such as Joyce, totally dedicated to his art.
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Joyce seems to have followed the example of the ancient Egyptians in formulating a sort of animal or "zoo" code ("Zoo koud" 244.17) in which ideas may be expressed through their relationship to the basic physical movements of animals.
This involves an etymological punning that may, in the case of the Egyptians, have arisen through the pictorial nature of hieroglyphic writing.
There is, for example, the figure of a hare (un or unn) in a name of Osiris, Unnefer.
Later scribes reasoned that there must be an etymological (rather than phonetic) reason for the hare:
he must be there because Osiris, like a hare, "sprang up" after his death.
In a similar fashion, grasshoppers or pheasants could also be seen as expressing an action of religious significance
02:08:04 PM
Or the definitive:
"What is?"
When next you ponder the question of why they multiply faster than we can kill them, consider this:
NATO preps for Afghan offensive
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/
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The operative paragraphs follow:
"NATO commanders are warning Afghans to clear out of an area near Kandahar that has become a Taliban stronghold and a thorn in the side of Canadian troops."
[...]
"Williams said NATO troops are waiting for the best time to attack Taliban forces and cause the least possible disruption to farmers remaining in the area."
[...]
Ain't nobody been born yet that can outrun a Chain Reaction.
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What's Happenin?
allen
That's what happens when you are not allowed to play dodge ball as a kid.
Oh, it's rich and deep hereabouts, habu--the livestocks eats when we peeples don't.
Look, the 's' in the serpent's sound, is kin to germanic 'essen', or food, or the giver-of-life. The 's' symbol turned on its side is the 'infinity' symbol (everlife). Control the power of the 's' symbol by drawing two straight lines through it (one to go in, the other to come out) and you have the '$' symbol (only one line thru the 's' in the devilish tech world). The two straight parallels look like railroad tracks, Rail Road=RR+ Ronald Reagan, the modern prophet of doom-by-bureaucracy. The title of wretchard's post is i believe a line from Isaiah (I, say-er), the bearer of the message that atonement is G-dly--and Required.
hey, this stuff can drive ya nertz.
01:31:41 PM
Ok Habu, I give up:
How DID the Trish save Civilization?
"$" of course = "future food".
there's more--there's stuff i only know when i start typing it. heh heh. (help)
dave,
Search up for "Successful Hunt"
02:52:41 PM
"thus ending flying level in the opposite direction "
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That is unless the pilot misreads the altimeter prior to the manuver.
Man o live, did that Amir Taheri post hit the spot!
peterboston; 02:43:55 PM
re: That's what happens when you are not allowed to play dodge ball as a kid.
Is it possible, you think, to have a societal Dunbar Number of, oh say, 10? I bet Colonel Williams' troops think so.
habu--right--another life-saver 's'. But ya get outta the invert with a half-roll. Pay attention to yore detailia, suh!
well, upon further non-thought, they be de "outside" and de "inside" loop. If you invert first, then it IS a half loop. if you pull up and over first, then you get the ground back under your feet with a half-roll. I could be rong of coarse.
Did I read somewhere that Dr. Dunbar's Dunbar is 3,000,000? Something about that whole cortex thing, I think (Note: Check that out). Someone should ask his proctologist, to be sure.
Navy pilots say the three best treats in the world, a great orgasm, a great bowel movement, and a great landing, are enjoyed simultaneously in a successful night carrier landing.
PC as it relates to the Split-S:
Charlie: Aircraft one performs a split S? That's the last thing you should do. The MiG's right on your tail. Freeze there. The MiG has you in his gunsight. What were you thinking?
Maverick: You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.
Charlie: That's a big gamble with a $30 million plane. Unfortunately, it worked. The MiG never got a clean shot. Maverick makes an aggressive vertical move and defeats him with a missile. The encounter was a victory, but we show it as an example of what not to do.
Even when you're right, you're wrong.
Jan Egeland screwed up the story. He got $100,000 for the "completely immoral" quote. According to the UN the only moral thing that Israel could have done was die quietly.
He never played dodge ball either.
Hey Habu, let's hope he got that maneuver right.
whit said;
Here's a little tidbit to make Teresita throw her shoulders back and her chin up
Gosh, I wish I had the balls to post that kind of off-topic crap on Wretchard's blog.
16,000 total sorties, I believe I read, Whit. Dunno the weapons breakdown, probably classified. But it's unlikely that a specialty weapon would've been used on ten out of every sixteen missions.
Way, way OT (or maybe not):
I think somebody up the thread pointed me to this site, to a different joke (of which there is a Jewish version, by the way, that is funnier):
The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sight-seeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a "Save the Whales" hat and a "To Hell with Bush" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest... The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic Environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was that guy?"
"It was the Pope," another replied. "He's in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom."
"Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he sure doesn't know shit about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and snatch another one?
;-)
I think this is a good one for P-Tater...
Jamie Irons
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"...a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center, which has personnel in Lebanon searching for unexploded ordnance, said it had found unexploded bomblets, including hundreds of American types, in 249 locations south of the Litani River.
The report said American munitions found included 559 M-42’s, an anti-personnel bomblet used in 105-millimeter artillery shells; 663 M-77’s, a submunition found in M-26 rockets; and 5 BLU-63’s, a bomblet found in the CBU-26 cluster bomb. Also found were 608 M-85’s, an Israeli-made submunition.
The unexploded submunitions being found in Lebanon are probably only a fraction of the total number dropped. Cluster munitions can contain dozens or even hundreds of submunitions designed to explode as they scatter around a wide area. They are very effective against rocket-launcher units or ground troops. ..."
The UN team has had the 249 sites qouted often. The bomblets were not all delivered by aircraft, so the sortie number is not applicable.
Did not find many references to 100,000 units found, though.
All the reports started with the same UN Team.
via a "Progressive News Center" that rips off NYTimes articles in full.
Google search for more of the same, but most without a description of the number of pieces found or their weapons of origin.
Wouldn't cluster munitions be the ideal defensive weapon against mobile rocket launchers and crews? Even if the incoming katy was tracked to its origination point a few seconds after clearing the horizon that would still have left time for the crew to move away. The cluster munition has a far greater chance of putting that crew in the killing radius than an HE round. Dead crews do not fire again. This is good.
No PB, you must destroy the equipment, not the meat.
Teresita told me so.
This is quite good.
Habu,
What do you think?
Jamie Irons
Quite true, PB, but because of their effectiveness these cluster muntions have quite stringent RoE's. The Israel have violated those Rules in the past, 1982, and may have again.
You know how the US is about RoE's
Gotta learn to live with 'em though, or so I've been told, here.
De outside loop is de worst:
Down Stick All the way down and around.
You can always pull out,
then you have no more worries.
Ever.
Is Terorrita in Charge of Writing up Them ROE's?
She never did say what type of Federal she had been. Just that she had been a Federal, who, like habu, went with the flow rather than make to many waves.
That is how it seems to be, with civilian Federals, they moan about the incompetence, then want an expanded mission for those they left behind.
habu was even mentioning that some "ruthless men" may have been operating to cover Mr Clinton's misdeeds. Deaths that were statisticly beyond the norm.
Death squads in America, some seem to think we need more of 'em.
Who decides on those qualities needed to be "Enemies of the State".
If not those that control the State
I forgot about you being a Tater.
Man, I just checked out de Prices
in Ta-hoe:
I couldn't even afford a Condom, much less a House.
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A "Ski Condom," or some such?
Do they have those Ski Retorts up there in Ida-hoe bobal?
Catherine,
The 'Tell' about Condi's State Dept was right at the beginning:
She left in Mr. Burns as Number 2.
Habu: 'Rat don't think we Retraint them Iraqis Right.
I'd build a bigger, better rocket, stay here, and send THEM!
Habu, Doug,
As to "How the Irish Saved Civilization," it is excellent. (But might be upsetting if you don't like the Irish.)
Congratulations Belmonteers!
Some eight hours ago, I took the liberty of referring to Mr. Powell as a "poster boy". To your credit, no one (including ash!!!) called me on it.
Now, was the reluctance the result of Belmont site PC or because simple English can be used here without giving offense? Hmm???
Mr. Popal missed his court appearance today.
He was busy at the Mind-Doctor's Place.
Maybe Dr. Jamie can consult w/dat Doctor and write another one of those "accidental" Prescriptions.
Or, maybe just write in Pig Latin,
and leave the rest to chance.
Dominatrix Vobiscuit.
He is a great Patriot and American Hero, Allen, watch your mouth!
Like Murtha.
I just copy and paste the first word in my post.
I can't this time since I don't work.
The challenge is starting every post with a 6-letter word.
Like letter.
"v""v""v""v"
or
vwvw?
Had a long drive today and it led to me me thinking...
How long do you think it will be before the 9/11/01 terrorists morph into the "correct" mix of blue-eyed blondes, balding WASPS, crew-cut embittered ex-military killers, and bikini-clad recipiants of surgical certain enhancements?
Meanwhile, the airline crews will become black or Arab and probably female as well, and the hapless victim passengers will transform into illegal Hispanic immigrants on their way to California to work the fields.
After all, that is how Hollywood would have written it...
And if that sounds far-fetched, one film already replaced the Arab terrorists of the book version with white males. And another film has the Arab passengers as the good guys, who defeat an evil, White airline crew. We are on the way....
Gerry does it one soul at a time.
RWE,
They just sneak a uniform onboard, the guy puts it on in the head, then
"Can't Get Back in the Cockpit"
It would be interesting to hear from a credentialed anthropologist or biologist for a discusson of what "race" is supposed to mean. The term "species" is meant to distinguish lines that CAN NOT INTERBREED TO PRODUCE FERTILE OFFSPRING.
For instance, you can breed a donkey and a horse, and that produces what we call a "mule", which may be male or female (I think) but is characteristically sterile. I understand that the term "mule" can then be used to refer to any sterile hybrid of two different species. You see this in plants, where a twig from an orange tree can be grafted onto a Lemon tree branch. I think you can actually graft much less closely related species. Sometimes you can cross-pollenate and get new lines that will propagate.
On the other hand, a lot of plants can be propagated by sticking a twig in good soil that is well-watered and drains.
I'm not aware of any instances in which human hybrids have been propagated so.
So, as I've read in places, the concept of "race" is an artificiality. ALL RACES — i.e, all humans (well, except for LLL's which are generated by the action of sunlight on stagnant water) can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Kinda like doggies that way. You can breed a Chihuahua with a Great Dane, or a Shar-pei with an Anatolian sheep dog, or a Cairn Terrier with a King Charles Spaniel.
Animal breeders have recognized for centuries several fundamentals of genetics: (1) prolonged interbreeding based on selection for arbitrarily selected characters tends to concentrate and exaggerate problematic and sometimes lethal genes; (2) mixing specialized breeds usually produces hybrids that are more robust than their parents — i.e., the lethal alleles get diluted, sometimes to the point of nullity after just a few generations.
For my part, I don’t have any problem with inter-racial dating or marriage. Even inter-species dating has its defenders... (Hey! I’m a scotsman. I get aroused at a whiff of lanolin...)
I draw the line at carbon dating.
doug; 05:13:00 PM
re: Like Murtha.
Although the traitor Benedict Arnold has no statue, his patriotic leg does.
Teresita said,
"I can't control what textbook makers do, but if I personally am 'colorblind' then images of people cannot influence me one way or the other, whether they are all white or an artificial balance of types. There isn't any such thing as race, and there never was. There's only the human race. Everyone is various gorgeous shades of brown, and the degree of variation is smaller than most people realize."
According to Teresita, I guess, there are no breeds. No german shepherds, no boston terriers, no beagles, no irish setters, no labrador retrievers, no boxers. Only dogs. Furry, 4-legged, shades of glorious brown.
Welcome clubbers, to Teresita's brave new world.
Rufus, Habu, 1734th, Papa, Boston, Aristy, Dug, Dr, Wretch, Bobal, Buddy, Fiddler, Hunter, Tater, ADE, y'all buyin' Terri's animalwash?
The mad fiddler wrote:
So, as I've read in places, the concept of "race" is an artificiality. ALL RACES — i.e, all humans (well, except for LLL's which are generated by the action of sunlight on stagnant water) can interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
And with the advent of air travel and globalization, in about two or three hundred years there won't be races as we know them today. Everyone will be brown-skinned, black-haired, dark-eyed hotties. Bollywood, not Hollywood, will portray the ideal of beauty.
Habu_3: "The Dems smear who they want to smear and diatribe the West"
b. larsen: that's *perfect*. there oughtta be a name for those things.
"neo-aphorism"
"neologism"
Since Habu is staying up late, furiously pecking with his fingers at his keyboard, immersed in a "digital" medium (I need a large myself) you might call it:
digitigrade wittipathology
Welcome to Terri's Brave New World, where, "Entities can't jump."
Thinking to be so cool, intellectual, sophisticated and suave...baloney.
db2m said:
According to Teresita, I guess, there are no breeds. No german shepherds, no boston terriers, no beagles, no irish setters, no labrador retrievers, no boxers. Only dogs. Furry, 4-legged, shades of glorious brown.
Very nice bit of grandstanding. How about some expert opinion on the matter from the American Anthropological Association?
"Race" thus evolved as a worldview, a body of prejudgments that distorts our ideas about human differences and group behavior. Racial beliefs constitute myths about the diversity in the human species and about the abilities and behavior of people homogenized into "racial" categories. The myths fused behavior and physical features together in the public mind, impeding our comprehension of both biological variations and cultural behavior, implying that both are genetically determined.
Re that "hybrid vigor" phenom that you mention, fiddler: two different purbreds produce what they call an "F1" or "F1 Cross". F1s are generally more robust, prolific, healthier, smarter, and energetic than either parent's breeds usual characteristics. USA is full of F1s and their descendants.
Mules, a male, called a 'horse mule', or a 'jack', will breed like crazy, but is sterile, so is invariably gelded for handling ease (poor bastids). A female, called a 'mare mule' or a 'jenny', can be bred back to a horse and will produce a foal. This can cross up lines pretty quickly so people look at the tail to see how much horse or donkey is in a mule (sans breeding records). Donkeys have a long hairless tail with a fluff at the end. Mules are horse-tailed.
I know--boring the knots off a pine board, ain't I?
A big jack and a good mare can breed a heck of a mule. Those that like 'em swear by 'em.
Harder to deal with than a horse, smarter or dumber, depending on the perspective.
So popular were mules in Spain, at one time, they were outlawed. The Government decided that the horse herds were a strategic asset, mules did not expand the breeding herd.
They were childless dead ends, good only for the current capacity.
Considered Genetic waste that could not help create a greater tomorrow.
Breeds, though, are not the same as Races. With terasita's argument that all people will be "brown" in a few hundred years, the gene for greys is dominant in horses. They all should be greys, but they are not.
Just goes to show.
desert rat wrote:
The unexploded submunitions being found in Lebanon are probably only a fraction of the total number dropped.
Gosh, it sure is easier to start a war than to clean it up, ain't it Mr. Nasrallah? Well look at it this way, each unexploded round is an opportunity for someone in Hezbollah's little "state within a state" to become a "martyr" which is the highest calling for the Muslim.
Teresita are you saying that caucasion is a word without meaning? That when one refers to Oriental features this does not conjure in ones mind a general idea of what the person might look like?
Paul Hackett paid Dan Senor the Compliment of calling him
"UnterFueher" on TV
plus several others.
Hewitt informs us that Senor's Mom was a Holocaust Survivor.
I think the Democrats deserve to win just cause their so damned Tactful.
habu_3 wrote:
Someone else might have to ask this cause she usually skips my hunt'n pecker.
Pretty soon, at the rate the personal attacks are coming, and at the rate the apologies are not coming, it's just gonna be me and wretchard.
re: Teresita @06:07:47 PM:
What the Hell were the Israelis doing with Submarines in Lebanon?
That IS disproportianate!
So, I'm at the dentist's office looking through a magazine in the waiting room. There, I find the story of two Argentineans coming to the US to work as cowboys. And what are these gauchos herding? SHEEP!
Brokeback Mountain is billed as the heart warming tale of two cowpokes. And what are these two vaqueros herding? SHEEP!
While it is excusable to be fooled by fauxtography and photoshopping, what is to be said of a public unwilling to distinguish between B. bovine and O. aries?
I mean, like, its magic!
Indeed, “A man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest.” (Apologies to Paul Simon)
habu
Taxidermy
Rat's right--if it wernt for the dead-end fecundity, mules would've been used everywhere for day-to-day riding back in the day. Combat horse breeding created high strung moody beasts that were dumb enough to ride right into hell, or gallop 'til their own hearts quit. Mules so-called stubborness is really just that whenever they aren't reasonably comfortable, they balk. Smart to quit when tired. If you ever beat a good mule, you'll have to beat him every time. So, don't beat your mule, and listen to him, and he'll out-do a durn hay-burner every day, for general work.
06:06:53 PM Rat,
How will she be able to tell that everybody be brown or not, since she pays no attention to skin color?
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"I can't control what textbook makers do, but if I personally am "colorblind" then images of people cannot influence me one way or the other"
06:39:03 AM
The Scots saved the Universe, so we don't mind the Trish try'n to take credit for Civilization.
Is a "Taxidery" where the drivers Milk their cars?
gal i knew was huntin rabbits some years ago when she accidentally shot herself. the bullet's in her yet.
Many History Professors didn't like me either:
They'd tell me every time grades came out.
Twat was that Bud?
Oh, I'll buy gladly--just don't put me in the barrel!
Fecudity gets the Prize:
I can write a Sterile Dity,
will I get somethin?
Olala:
I didn't know you were French.
I'm the Great Horned Toad.
If they had any smarts, they woulda put the Kibosh on ya with:
You can't:
Afghanistan's already there.
I won't be able to spell tommorrow, so I'm automatically disqualified.
hayak said:
Teresita are you saying that caucasion is a word without meaning? That when one refers to Oriental features this does not conjure in ones mind a general idea of what the person might look like?
There are very small differences between people (melanin content, eye shape, hair color) which breed true in families. However, in the 20th Century there was a concept called the "One Drop Rule". It said as long as there was one black ancestor, a person was considered black for Jim Crow purposes, etc. "Invisible blackness," what a crazy idea. The One Drop Rule is evidence that race is totally artificial.
Tommorrow's Muslims
Doug said... 8/31/2006 05:04:54 PM
“I'd build a bigger, better rocket, stay here, and send THEM!”
Actually, you do not need a better rocket! Save the money and build two rockets so you can send more of Them; as long as the rockets lift a just a few hundred feet of the ground, that is all that you need for THEM.
The one drop rule when I was born was that my older siblings each just got one chance to drop me on my head.
They're Clever, though, so they made sure I bounced.
teresita; 05:58:09 PM
re: American Anthropological Association
Teresita, I am shocked that a skeptic would buy into such politically correct bilge.
The reason physical anthropologists are admitted to court as expert forensic witnesses is because of their expertise in distinguishing between the skeletal remains of a black man and an Inuit, among other things.
Just as Steven Pinker et al have courageously demolished the PC nonsense of the tabula rasa, so one may anticipate a return to sanity and science among professional anthropologists, eventually.
As to whether H. sapiens will be of uniform conformation in two to three hundred years, who knows? But, your insistence upon this point, in the instance, suggests a certain level of discomfort with reality, and may explain why PR firms are so successful in selling the baloney cited by Jacoby.
Yeah, "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
That's OK, Bobal,
I'll just stay right here in Outer Space.
Bobal and I stay awake day and nite and disregard the rest.
desert rat wrote:
With terasita's argument that all people will be "brown" in a few hundred years, the gene for greys is dominant in horses. They all should be greys, but they are not.
In horses, gray is either/or. But all people are already brown (except albinos!). The variation of browns (from light-tan to black) is due to the need to protect from UV radiation competing with the need to generate vitamin D from sunlight. That's all there is to it, and the urge to divide human beings into "races" by skin color is stupid and irrational. I thought the Belmont Club was the rarified cream of the crop of intellectual discourse, but I am finding this is not the case.
If Habu will admit that will you tell him about the preserver?
You better watch it--he already threw over terisita for a combine. he may get around to a pineapple next.
Teresita said... 8/31/2006 06:13:22 PM
“Pretty soon, at the rate the personal attacks are coming, and at the rate the apologies are not coming, it's just gonna be me and wretchard.”
How can you be sure Wretchard will stay?
Rufus,
Instead of Palm Oil,
we could just put a bunch of black folk out in the desert, and run the country on Vitamin D!
Anime on the Farm Team.
That should work.
07:03:50 PM Now he lies and acts like he knows what it is.
Why don't you just give up that special Race Club thing, Habu, so we all can find out?
Habu's hunch is she's already outfitted for the river.
jamie, you'll find him out in the south pasture, reading "Leaves of Grass" to his combine. Remember your little black bag, now.
Habu,
But wouldn't the joke be on her?
I sure as Heck wouldn't do THAT!
???
As Jerry says:
"What's Up With That?"
just kidding, bobal--
;-D
danmyers said:
re: How the Irish Saved Civilization - Cahill...Many History Professors don't like the book, so probably a good read.
They don't like it because it's off the script. Ireland isn't Old Europe. History is supposed to be about how Old Europe saved Western Civilization once and will save it again with their 35 hour work week and 42 work days a year off.
Cream rises to the top, it may be that we are all brown, some just more brown than others.
It is well beyond any expertise I have, genetic science or engineering.
Talk about the ramifications of policy in Latin America or the way folk will react, politically, to external stimuli, we'll hang in there with the best of 'em.
But if you want science and biology, talk to the Doctor ...
bobalharb
I'd rather spend my time floating down the river with Huch, and Jim, and Teresita, if she would go, as I am betting she would particularily if it was sure Huck was there.
Well bobalharb one time I took a tour of St. Louis by boat, and let me tell you, the Big Muddy is just that. So when I read about Huck Finn's dead pa in that house that was tipped almost over and being carried four mile an hour past Jackson's Island, it seemed particularly vivid to me.
what is the thesis of how the Irish saved civ? something to do with the illustrated manuscripts?
The Mystery Accessory
rwe said:
How long do you think it will be before the 9/11/01 terrorists morph into the "correct" mix of blue-eyed blondes, balding WASPS, crew-cut embittered ex-military killers, and bikini-clad recipiants of surgical certain enhancements?
Any time now. At least until the massed coordinated "Tet" style offensive in the United States (Seattle and San Fran multiplied by a hundred) by assorted Mohammeds and Hassans and Tariqs. Then people will think it very quaint that we were even debating the concept of profiling.
teresita,
I hope you have not taken personally any of my criticisms of your racial opinions. While I believe in racial distinctions (sub-speciation, if you please), these neither connote human worth nor imply superiority. But to refuse to acknowledge them is, to my mind, the equivalent of calling shepherds, cowboys.
Wahhabis Methodists
I really don't care for the Wahhabi's Methods.
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Allen, maybe no-one challenged your assertion about Mr. Powell's perfidy because they don't feel you've erred.
Teresita,
Pretty soon, at the rate the personal attacks are coming, and at the rate the apologies are not coming, it's just gonna be me and wretchard...
You're being at least in part ironic, I know.
Personally, I think ad hominem attacks are out of place here, and if I owned the blog, let alone the world, they would be "most emphatically discouraged," not to say outlawed.
(Kumbaya, I know, I know...)
There are many who don't engage in them.
Jamie Irons
rufus,
You may find this Israeli general's thoughts and opinions more in line with the life martial. Who knows, he may provide the leadership Israel needs to transition through a difficult period of rebuilding.
My Conversation with General Moshe Yaalon "The West is Sleeping"
http://atlasshrugs2000.
typepad.com/
bobalharb
Would have to be one big rocket, to carry all those cockroaches--they are everywhere.
They're everywhere because that moving tapestry of cockroaches behind your fridge is downright crowded. But don't try landing your rocket in Florida.
aristides, doug:
Whenever I criticize a politician, I keep in mind that an assassin could murder him (or her) tomorrow. This remembrance of posterity and the effects of political martyrdom ought to be an important mellowing agent for one's rhetoric. It would be unseemly, to say the least, to be demonizing President Bush a few weeks before he is murdered.
I think the worldwide Left (including the American Left) has not thought through the ramifications of how our political environment would be affected if some deluded anti-Bush leftist actually did what poets, authors, and movie directors have been whispering for years.
Presidents have been murdered before. This is nothing new. Each assassination has been accompanied by a backlash, and the assassination of a president does not benefit the opposing political party.
Channel Four's production smells bad, and it wouldn't smell any better if its wishful thinking were to ever come to fruition.
Well, I'll give up my grubby ways if y'all let me on the boat, bobal--but, what, do you two need someone on the oars so you can lollygag up in the fo'csle?
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teresita; 07:32:08 PM
re: Oh, you were so close. Well, fuck it
As a student of the East, you should well know that to continue a relationship requires saving of face.
Although I enjoy your company, I can live without it if you choose. Take care not to let Dunbar hit you on the ass.
bobalharb said:
Hinx, minx,--
The old witch stinks--
The fat is beginning to fry--
There's nobody home, but baby Joan-And Teresita,
Buddy, and I...
In Bobal's little
Bag of trix
Here's the one
That clix with chix
Belmont Shave!
jamie irons
Personally, I think ad hominem attacks are out of place here, and if I owned the blog, let alone the world, they would be "most emphatically discouraged," not to say outlawed.
It's not that I'm a wilting flower in the face of them, but I'm greatly embarrassed that they are even to be found in a place like this. It's like taking your winning show dog to meet the Queen and he breaks his expensive discipline training and pisses on the Stone of Scone.
LOL--belmont shave--
Ah, up into the broad sunlit pastures we go, where we stop don't nobody know.
Oh, and one more thing, teresita, you should be damned proud that people here take the time to notice you. This site is the big league of blogging. You come to this site swinging wildly and these guys will have your lunch. That you get the attention you do, good and bad, ought to tell you something about the quality of your posts. Like I said, this is a tough crew.
Play ball!!!
uh o, habu in, bobal out. fireworks over the river.
“prognosticator” — one who predicts
“copro” — prefix meaning “fecal matter”
coprognostic — shit predictor
Would that be like Hemingway’s “bullshit detector?”
My worst scars are reminders from the occasions when I presumed to be a peacemaker between battling titans with sharp teeth.
Hah! Like *I’m* the moderator, the person with a weather eye on the true path to enlightenment.
Horse puckey.
(p.s. the current word verification is "iwqql" which is continuing a trend along arabic lines... Makes a body wonder.)
have to put the old john deere back in the garage, bobal.
All things being iwqql I'm getting suspicious.
habu_3,
re: teresita
Thanks!!!!!!! etc. etc. etc.
looks like Moon River done lef you high and dry, bobal.
allen said:
Oh, and one more thing, teresita, you should be damned proud that people here take the time to notice you. This site is the big league of blogging.
Indeed, that was the attraction, as I indicated before I lurked here for maybe a year before jumping in. After jumping in, I got nothing but grief from you, habu_3, luc, 2164th, doug, peterboston, rufus, possumtater, db2m, and whit. This blog is more like the little league of juvenalia. I'm going back to being a lurker.
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