Women and Alcohol Don’t Mix

The differences between men and women can be stark when it comes to the way alcohol affects them. For example, if two people, of opposite genders but equal weight drink the same amount and type of alcohol, the woman will get drunker, and stay that way longer.

The reasons come down to basic physiology. Alcohol passes through the digestive tract and is dispersed in the body's water. Because women always have less water in their bodies, the alcohol is less dilute for them. Women's bodies also produce less alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)—the molecule responsible for breaking alcohol down so that the body can eliminate it. Less water and less ADH means more alcohol stays in the body, for longer periods of time.

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This is a cover-up for sexism! It’s a lie because it completely ignores equality. The researchers are obviously chauvinist trying to foist their biased discrimination onto the rest of us under the guise of “science.” We are all equal no matter what the experts say!!

Shayne

Dr. Watson, I presume

Everyone has thrown their hat in on this, so whatever.

One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.

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He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because “there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”. He writes that “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.

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The newly formed Equality and Human Rights Commission is studying Dr Watson’s remarks “in full”.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said today: “It is sad to see a scientist of such achievement making such baseless, unscientific and extremely offensive comments.

“I am sure the scientific community will roundly reject what appear to be Dr Watson’s personal prejudices. These comments serve as a reminder of the attitudes which can still exist at the highest professional levels.”

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[Steven Rose, a professor of biological sciences at the Open University] added: “If he knew the literature in the subject he would know he was out of his depth scientifically, quite apart from socially and politically.”

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“If he knew the literature”? Ah. How about if he wrote the literature, asshole?

I’d like to say that the wealth of comments attached to this article are the most asinine and torpid I’ve ever seen… but I am familiar with the internet. And I am familiar with the proletariat.

Dr. Watson says something that is universal to genetic science. He is not only an expert but a pioneer in his field. Some douchebag spokesman from the Equality and Human Rights Commission is not his peer in any way and his comments are ignorant and moot. Steven Rose is a member of the British Humanist Association, his opinions stem from socio-political bias. If you accept evolution you MUST ACCEPT GROUP DIFFERENCES. It doesn’t work without them. Dr. Watson is right. It would be astounding if there were not arithmetic mean variation. Intelligence is just one characteristic of many; it differs within and between groups, like everything else. Get over it. Accept reality and move the fuck on. It’s a sign of sheer stupidity that this man was accosted so.

Shayne

Modern Art as an Indicator of Disorder

Suffice it to say that most of all, the rejection of Storytelling, has been one of the most destructive elements of Modern art, as it has always been through stories that we find and express our shared humanity, and it is through stories about life that the greatest art has been created, whether in paintings, sculpture, literature, theater, dance or poetry. Without stories none of the greatest masterpieces throughout history would ever have been able to exist.

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Mr. Ross makes a valid point: Modern art, with its focus on individualism, favors personal psycho-political expression over myth. Culture is the combination of ethno-cultural ethos (practical group method) and mythos (archetypal values system of a people), and art is its highest expression.

In the modern West, we are concerned with personal liberties, individual freedoms, material abundance and democracy. This is a large part of our collectively imposed group Weltanschauung. But it’s ironic, actually: this modern liberal zeitgeist espouses with one hand the autonomy of the individual whilst with the other snuffs true decent. Any public opposition of the establishment, if it dose not already conflate with acceptable norms (peaceful assemblage, nasty letters to the editor, etc.), simply is not tolerated, and all under the guise of defending “freedom” and the individual.

This ambiguity causes confusion among the people. They’ve been told so many different definitions of everything that the idea of consensus in the pursuit of higher goals is impossible. Obviously, when this incongruity of thought is applied to liberal democratic government, the result is predictable: disorder, directionlessness, degeneracy, chaos. As diversity increases, consensus decreases, and things must be decided at the level to which the greatest degree of similarity can be found. The lowest common denominator becomes the goal, and it’s getting lower.

This is the ethos of modern art, and the subsequent mythos is actually an anti-mythos, the secularized rejection of myth itself, as when people have nothing in common they have no group values system. Modern art is about abuse, depression, sexuality, corruption, anger, confusion, dissolution – and it’s an accurate expression of our time.

It is my opinion that this is not a good direction. I would prefer a binding ethno-culture; a sense of similitude expressed by deeds and ideas through culture towards ever higher overcoming and transcendence. The struggle towards the Übermensch is indeed a worthy and empowering effort for the individual, but standing alone, little is accomplished. Were this will to power coupled to the memetic ethno-cultural effort… O what glory that would be! And O the stories that would be told!

Art would be transformed from a careless, lazy mish-mashing of disposable symbols and petty emotions into a high form of expressive metaphysical symbolism which not only draws from but builds upon the very essence of a people. If this ideal seems impossible within the current modern intellectual and cultural climate, that’s because it is. O my brothers, break, break the old tablets!



Shayne

Default Atheism

Some Hispanic coworkers have been making comments lately. Apparently I look like Jesus to them. This isn’t anything new for me. I’ve been suffering the Jesus shtick since high school. It’s annoying that it’s always JESUS, though. I don’t know why it couldn’t be someone awesome like Dürer instead [pictured left]. People don’t really know who that is these days I suppose. But I digress.

I made the assumption that these young men, these co-workers of mine, were Roman Catholics, and it turns out I was right. They asked if I was a Catholic, too. No, I said. What are you then? Jewish? Hah, I wish. Buddhist? Muslim? Atheist? Well, I’m more of an agnostic, I told them. But then I thought about that a bit and realized it wasn’t really so, because this skeptical agnostic tendency leads me to not believe in any deity. Which makes me an atheist after all.

Shit. Atheism by default. It’s a crappy place to be. Because, you know, it’s not that I don’t want a religion. It’s just that there’s nothing out there appropriate for me. Maybe if it wasn’t butchered up and Frankensteined into Christianity O-so-long-ago, paganism would be an option. But that’s not what my ancestors brought to Plymouth Rock. No, they brought a book of tribal Hebrew mysticism and a touch of pervy Faustian secularism. And whatever might have been pure about that has been corroded away by generations of sterile individualist materialism. What joy.

Essentially, I have no legitimate ethno-culture to speak of. Perhaps the answer is as Christopher Langan suggests: a new priesthood that understands God via logic and mathematics; an elite of high intelligence and spiritual curiosity, focused on using ancient (mythic) and modern (scientific) wisdom to decipher the language of the divine and translate the cosmic metaphysical truths into anthrop-digestible language.

But to what degree can I rely on others to do this for me? Perhaps it’s time, as Nietzsche says, to break those old tablets and make new ones myself. Until then I am doomed to atheism by default. As always, it’s time to get to work.

Shayne

The Thanks Giving Impetus

As you sat down with your families over a luscious and bountiful feast of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and gravy, perhaps you pondered what you have to give thanks for. Distant friends and relations taking time off their busy schedules to come together in commensally shared spirits, convivially sharing warm fellowship. Perhaps you’re thankful for that. I wonder if you’ve ever wondered what the origins of this traditional giving of thanks were; if you’ve ever thought what the first givers of thanks were giving thanks too. Sure we all did the school plays with the happy pilgrims and Indians peacefully feasting together. But the actual story is much like that of Jesus’: one part history, one part myth, one part propaganda.

So, what are we really giving thanks for?

In 1637, the Pequot tribe of Connecticut gathered for the annual Green Corn Dance ceremony. Mercenaries of the English and Dutch attacked and surrounded the village; burning down everything and shooting whomever try to escape. The next day, Newell (a Penobscot Indian and former chair of the anthropology department of the University of Connecticut) notes, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony declared: "A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children." It was signed into law that, "This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots." Most Americans believe Thanksgiving was this wonderful dinner and harvest celebration. The truth is the "Thanksgiving dinner" was invented both to instill a false pride in Americans and to cover up the massacre.

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A tribal holocaust has been painted over with candied yams and football; visits with grandma and Hallmark cards. Surprised? But really, when you think about it, is there any aspect of our culture/history/heritage that hasn’t been covered with consumerism, deluded with entertainment, dipped in a candy coating of sugary ignorance? Not really. Not anything I can think of, anyway. But hey, at least we have our freedom: our vote matters (if we choose from one of two parties), we can buy whatever we want (as long as it’s not a taboo substance or from Cuba) and we can speak our minds (when it doesn’t offend anyone).

Leftover turkey sandwich, anyone?

Shayne

Metropolitan Crime

Based on the FBI’s September 24 crime statistics report, the 14th annual City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

I’d like to go “controversial” with these findings and paint a comparative racial demographical picture for you. The data I’m using comes from the US Census 2000, so you can double-check for yourself if you’d like. The reason I do this is because the crime data has an obvious racial correlation, and if social taboo glosses over this fact, or ignores it completely (which seems all too prevalent in the popular media), there is great risk of denying the reality of the situation, which blocks us from solving actual problems.

Below will be listed the top five most dangerous and safest American cities and their corresponding three largest racial demographics. Note: “other races” includes all other responses not included in the "White", "Black or African American", "American Indian and Alaska Native", "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" race categories. This category was intended to capture responses such as Mulatto, Creole, and Mestizo. Nine out of ten respondents in this category are Hispanic.

Ranked Most Dangerous

1. Detroit, Michigan:
Black, 82.70%
White, 12.26%
Hispanic or Latino, 4.96%

2. St. Louis, Missouri:
Black, 51.20%
White, 43.85%
Hispanic or Latino, 2.02%

3. Flint, Michigan:
Black, 53.27%
White, 41.39%
3.14% from two or more races.

4. Oakland, California:
Black, 35.66
White, 23.52
Hispanic or Latino, 21.89.

5. Camden, New Jersey:
Black, 53.35%
Hispanic or Latino, 38.82%
22.83% from other races.

Ranked Safest

1. Mission Viejo, California:
White, 83.15%
Hispanic or Latino, 12.10%
Asian, 7.73%.

2. Clarkstown, New York:
White, 79.97%
Asian, 7.90%
Black, 7.87%.

3. Brick Township, New Jersey:
White, 95.81%
Hispanic or Latino, 3.85%
Asian, 1.19%.

4. Amherst, New York:
White, 89.28%
Asian, 5.22%
Black, 3.90%.

5. Sugar Land, Texas:
White, 56.00%
Asian, 33.80%
Hispanic or Latino, 7.98%.

The division is clear if you’re willing to see it. I have not altered any data in any way: this is the statistical reality.

The question is: are we more serious about crime or taboo? Do we care more about protecting or offending people? Is social image more important that safety? Whenever you hear subjects of this sort discussed on the media, ask yourself these questions then judge what’s being said.

It’s obvious that representatives care more about image than reality:

"Every year this organization sends out a press release with big, bold lettering that labels a certain city as Most Dangerous, USA," Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings (Detroit) said in the release.

"It really makes you wonder if the organization is truly concerned with evaluating crime or increasing their profit," said Bully-Cummings, who noted the complete report is available only by purchase.

It really makes you wonder if the police chief of the most dangerous city in America is truly concerned with crime or blaming others for his failures !

The mayor of 30th-ranked Rochester, New York -- an ex-police chief himself -- said the study's authors should consider the harm that the report causes.

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Notice how only the people from dangerous places are criticizing the report with emotionally moralized arguments? I wonder what the mayor of Sugar Land, Texas has to say.

The only valuable criticism in the above article came from the FBI, which said: "These rough rankings provide no insight into the numerous variables that mold crime in a particular town, city, county, state, or region." And they’re right, findings such as this should be taken seriously and all variables considered, so solutions to problems can be found and implemented successfully.

Shayne

What’s Genocide?

Top Bush administration officials are shifting into damage-control mode after a House committee narrowly approved a resolution that labels the killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as "genocide."

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State Department spokesman Sean McCormack issued a statement expressing "regret" for the committee's action, warning the resolution "may do grave harm to U.S.-Turkish relations and to U.S. interests in Europe and the Middle East."

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Turkish officials had warned approval of the resolution could jeopardize U.S. relations with their country, a NATO member that has been a key U.S. ally in the Middle East and a conduit for sending supplies into Iraq.

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Gates said good relations with Turkey are vital because 70 percent of the air cargo intended for U.S. forces in Iraq and 30 percent of the fuel consumed by those forces flies through Turkey.

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Translation: It doesn’t matter what the historical event in question actually was – Turkey is a useful eco-political tool! Yet another example of how the modern body politic outright denies reality in favor of utilitarian image. Was it genocide? Who fucking cares!? Language itself is up for grabs because there’s money to be made, power to be leveraged and wars to supply. And all the morons buy right into it. Reality can wait ‘til we’re done. (note: we’ll never be done until we face reality.)

Shayne

Read a Book, Nigga

Good advice for young American blacks – really, any modern youths – and a refreshingly poignant satire of the hip-hop industry. It’s good to see that some people still care… though I don’t know why everyone has to pick on Beethoven’s fifth.

Shayne

“Hispanic” or “Dark Skinned” Rapist?

Chandler police will not alter their description of the Chandler Rapist despite complaints from a Valley radio station about the department’s use of the word “Hispanic” to describe the attacker.

“I think this is racial profiling,” said Mayra Nieves, vice president of programming for KMYL (1190 AM).

Nieves said Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race—and many Hispanics are white or black. She said ethnicity should not be used when describing an attacker. Instead she said she would describe the Chandler Rapist as having “dark skin.”

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Hey, stupid! If “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a race, how could the use of the term be racial profiling? And this “dark skin” bullshit is just another liberal attempt to eliminate the symbol of race and deny the reality of its importance.

WHY DO MORONS LIKE THIS GET TO SAY ANYTHING PUBLICLY?

The guy threatens 12 – 14 year old girls with a weapon then sexually assaults them. Quick! Someone protect his right to be referred to as “dark skin” instead of “Hispanic!” AAAAAH!

Shayne

Reality =/= Modern Perception

Genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA. Ancestry tests tell customers what percentage of their genes are from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The heart-disease drug BiDil is marketed exclusively to African-Americans, who seem genetically predisposed to respond to it. Jews are offered prenatal tests for genetic disorders rarely found in other ethnic groups.

Such developments are providing some of the first tangible benefits of the genetic revolution. Yet some social critics fear they may also be giving long-discredited racial prejudices a new potency. The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal.

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Oh noes! Reality doesn’t mesh with our cushy notions of equality? Better ban this sort of information and fire professors and scientists who espouse similar views before it’s too late!

Shayne

Sam Harris: a Criticism of Atheism

Don’t let the over-medicated woman at the top of this video dissuade you; Sam is the relevant one.

I always delight in hearing what Mr. Harris has to say. He’s a thoughtful, highly intelligent man, and for that I’m glad he’s sharing his thoughts and I’m glad he’s writing books. However the most interesting aspect of the above speech is the criticism of atheisms’ immediate denunciation of experiential spiritual truths. He says that because atheists dismiss such wisdoms from an outsiders perspective, it makes them less credible. And he’s right.

Mr. Harris goes on to lay out a succinct explanation for why one might desire an extra-sensorial or metaphysical acclimation of pleasure, which basically goes that reliance on the sensorial, emotional and intellectual tools, which are inherently subjective and thus only illuminate perspective and not objective reality itself, necessarily limits us to a constant feedback mechanism which questions the validity of those very tools. Such a mechanism—the fear of the unknown—is the basis of suffering.

It is interesting to hear an atheist suggest that something beyond the temporal might exist, or at least that an immediate rejection of such an existence is premature, and that atheism suffers illegitimacy as a result.

The audience applauds but I doubt they really understood what he was saying. Part of the flaw of the atheist movement is its overzealous, dogmatic majority population which seems more interested in blithely insulting any and all religious or spiritual truths because they lack the appropriate amount of secular evidence or humanistic morality. What Mr. Harris is asking, essentially, is for atheists to stop being so superficially self-referential, to stop clinging to a social identity for the sake of status, and actually try to experience a supposed truth for oneself—as the most metaphysical truths are existential in nature. And if they haven’t done that they are relying as much on blind faith and dogmatic Draconianism as the terrible religious groups they oppose.

In other words: “Atheists! Wake the fuck up and stop being hypocrites!”

Shayne

Pekka-Eric Auvinen Manifesto

If you’ve heard anything about this Pekka-Eric Auvinen it’s likely been over-sensationalized mass media morality . The reality, of course, is different, but good luck trying to find it on your own: this boy’s feelings and ideas are already being suppressed (his youtube account, where he posted several personal videos related to this incident, has been systematically deleeted). Family and coworkers might mention their “shock” about this incident, which claimed the lives of 9 young Fins (including Auvinen), but for anyone aware of how society’s been degenerating, things like this are never surprising – in fact, it’s more surprising they happen this rarely.

In any case, for those of you who disregard media hype and want to know why – in his own words – Auvinen did what he did, here is his manifesto:

http://rapidshare.com/files/68 015773/Pekka-Eric_Auvinen___Jo kela_High_School_Massacre.zip
Name: Pekka-Eric Auvinen
Age: 18
Male from Finland.

I am a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial socialdarwinist, realistic idealist and godlike atheist.

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM! JUSTITIA SUUM CUIQUE DISTRIBUIT! SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.

You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand... You will proprably say me that I am"insane", "crazy", "psychopath", "criminal" or crap like that. No, the truth is that I am just an animl, a human, an individual, a dissident.

I have had enough. I don't want to be part of this fucked up society. Like some other wise people have said in the past, human race is not worth fighting for or saving... only worth killing. But... When my enemies will run and hide in fear when mentioning my name... When the gangsters of the corrupted governments have been shot in the streets... When the rule of idioracy and the democratic system has been replaced with justice... When intelligent people are finally free and rule the society instead of the idiocratic rule of majority... In that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.

Long live the revolution... revolution against the system, which enslaves not only the majority of weak-minded masses but also the small minority of strong-minded and intelligent individuals! If we want to live in a different world, we must act. We must rise against the enslaving, corrupted and totalitarian regimes and overthrow the tyrants, gangsters and the rule of idiocracy. I can't alone change much but hopefully my actions will inspire all the intelligent people of the world and start some sort of revolution against the current systems. The system discriminating naturality and justice, is my enemy. The people living in the world of delusion and supporting this system are my enemies.

I am ready to die for a cause I know is right, just and true... even if I would lose or the battle would be only remembered as evil... I will rather fight and die than live a long and unhappy life.

And remember that this is my war, my ideas and my plans. Don't blame anyone else for my actions than myself. Don't blame my parents or my friends. I told nobody about my plans and I always kept them inside my mind only. Don't blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this. This is my war: one man war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world! No mercy for the scum of the earth! HUMANITY IS OVERRATED! It's time to put NATURAL SELECTION & SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST back on tracks!

Justice renders to everyone his due.

Shayne

Debt, Debt, Debt

The dollar is plunging because America has been living beyond her means, borrowing $2 billion a day from foreign nations to maintain her standard of living and to sustain the American Imperium.

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A nation in debt, spending like mad, denying reality, piling up problems for the future. What an idiotic phenomenon. Will we ever learn?

Shayne

REAL Financial Education

The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America is a 3 ½ hour long documentary exposing with astuteness and plainly detailed evidence the historical takeover of our economy by an elite banking oligarchy. For anyone curious about why our currency inflates into obscurity, how international financial interests have instigated every war in American history and what to do to liberate oneself from the tyranny of the Draconian “consumer culture,” this will be one of the most rewarding three and a half hours of your life. Without further ado:



Your money, and thus your life in this consumerist democracy, is not yours. A private company, with the help of the Federal Government, unconstitutionally prints endless amounts of fiat money which it loans to you at interest, creating the Heratige of Debt we are so familiar with in America today. When confronted about this the institution’s general response is to ignore and hope the problem (ie concerned citizen) just goes away – or simple denial in the face of obvious evidence. They get away with this because you’re ignorant, and you don’t care, and that’s the way they like it.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson

The currency is already controlled; we are the homeless children.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. - Woodrow Wilson (asshole)

Do yourself (and anyone else who knows you) a favor and watch the video. Spread it around. Share it with others. Contribute to the winnowing of the fish-eyed stare.

Shayne

Anxiety Di$order$

About 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. A Harvard Medical School study estimated the annual cost to the U.S. economy in 1999 at roughly $42 billion.

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Anxiety is an exploitable market. The more anxious people there are, the more prescriptions get written, the more money for pharmaceutical conglomerates and their lobbyists. Not democracy but sub-rosa oligarchy. “Freedom is slavery!” Lap up the doublespeak, morons, because dysfunction still reigns. Is this really the right direction for us? Did you know we get to choose for ourselves?

Shayne

Natural food is – what? – BETTER for you?!

Organic food is healthier than conventional produce and may be better at preventing cancer and heart disease, according to the biggest study of its kind.

In a finding that challenges official advice, researchers have shown that fruit and vegetables contain up to 40 per cent more nutrients if they are grown without chemical fertilisers and pesticides.

Organic produce also had higher levels of iron and zinc, vital nutrients lacking in many people's diets.

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When we let it do its thing, nature provides us with everything we need – abundantly. But now there are too many people: we’ve stretched nature past its sustainable production levels and need industrialized complexes, genetic engineering, pesticides and migrant workers to keep up with demand. The most bizarre product of this is the “Organic Food” industry. Today, the natural state of foodstuffs is a commodity. By rights, what’s called “organic” shouldn’t be labeled at all, and everything else should be called “Chemically Induced and Genetically Modified Food.” But this newfangled organic trend is an integral part of the recently engendered Green lifestyle, which, paradoxically considering its suppositions, is just another branch of consumerism.

Shayne

Let California Burn

There is accumulating evidence that rather than suppressing fire, we should allow it to return to the role it used to play in Californian ecosystems.

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Wildfires naturally clear an area of excess brush that, when acuminated, ignite magnanimously destructive fires. In California they try to put them all out, because fire bad! Back in reality they’re allowing the dry brush to build up, making things worse. "But hey," said a parasite "we can’t let potentially valuable real-estate property to just burn up when someone could be living there! That’s un-American."

Shayne

Under-Over-Confident

People who are optimistic are more likely than others to display prudent financial behaviors, according to new research from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

But too much optimism can be a problem: people who are extremely optimistic tend to have short planning horizons and act in ways that are generally not considered wise.

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How often do we hear such delusive bullshit?:
“It’s all good!”
“Have a great day!”
“TGIF!!!”

This sort of reality denial is a symptom of overall dysfunction, and its everywhere. I'm sick of it. Only really out of touch people are truly as optimistic as the commercial media would like us all to be. Lie to yourself and be overly positive if you like—hey, it might make you a few extra bucks; I’d rather acknowledge the ugly parts of reality as well as the beautiful and get on with a balanced life, thank you.

Shayne

Parent Humor

Our parents like to forward jokes or silly pictures to everyone they know. 99% of them are trash but my Canadian step-dad sent one that made me lol like wow. I’d like to share it with you.

Nominee for Best CANADIAN Joke of the year...

A Somali arrives in Toronto as a new immigrant to Canada .

He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, 'Thank you Mr. Canadian for letting me into this country, giving me housing, money for food, free medical care, and free education!'

The passerby says, 'You are mistaken, I am Jamaican.'

The man goes on and encounters another passerby.

'Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in Canada!'

The person says, 'I not Canadian, I Vietnamese.'

The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful Canada!'

That person puts up his hand and says, 'I am from Middle East, I am not Canadian!'

He finally sees a nice lady and asks, 'Are you a Canadian?'

She says, 'No, I am from Africa!'

Puzzled, he asks her, 'Where are all the Canadians?'

The African lady checks her watch and says, 'Probably at work.'

Jokes like this play on stereotypes but are often accurate. It’s true that in North America people are getting sick of unrestricted waves of immigrants. The sort of diversity-oriented complexes you see in support of mass immigration are in reality mechanisms for supremacy and gilt relief: the privileged modern westerner takes pity on the poor, dejected “third world” people, which makes him feel better about himself and extinguishes some of the socially damning white guilt induced by the media.

But in general, in trusted company people reject this. They don’t like to pity and they don’t believe in institutionalized guilty. But the best resistance they can muster, for fear of loosing their jobs or being ousted by the brainwashed PC communities, is a cryptic joke now and then with a quick glance over their shoulder. Meanwhile, things stay the same or get worse; immigrants with foreign loyalties and disparate values continue to enter unchecked, unaccounted for while the rest of us pay for their support systems, adapt to their cultures, languages and particularities, and our own traditional systems are run into the ground.

That’s weak. Such a people, who openly welcome their own dispossession with a sub rosa grin and a clenched fist full of money, deserve to be wiped out. If people aren’t willing to fight to maintain a place where they can be themselves, practice their own unique methods, speak their own language uninterruptedly, enrich their own cultures—then they won’t have it. Canada will no longer be the home of Canadians but Somali, Jamaicans, Vietnamese, Persians, Africans, etc.

But I guess there’s no time to worry about that: all the Canadians are at work.

Shayne

Nature is a Fascist!

The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.

The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each person in the world now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the Earth can supply.

Thirty per cent of amphibians, 23 per cent of mammals and 12 per cent of birds are under threat of extinction, while one in ten of the world’s major rivers runs dry every year before it reaches the sea.

The bleak verdict on the environment was issued as an “urgent call for action” by the United Nations Environment Programme, which said that the “point of no return” was fast approaching.

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How dare the environment force such ultimatums! Hasn’t it heard of free market capitalism? Each human should have the right to consume as much resources as they want, no matter the consequences. That’s what freedom is. We require more because there’s so much awesome disposable stuff these days. Nature just depresses people, anyway—it should be banned.

And animal extinctions? We have the endangered species list for that: when a critter’s numbers dwindle to the dozens—and they’re cute—we’ll save them from their harsh natural habitats (maybe, if Buffy isn’t on) and put them in safe ziplocked plastic zoos for forced breeding programs. In any case, if they were smart at all they’d abandon natural selection for Social Darwinism like we did.

Shayne