January 8, 2007

 
A RECENT SENSIBLE ARTICLE ABOUT DIET
Worrying about your diet is bad for you! Stay happily fat. Ignore media messages about obesity. Those are unusual lessons but they are lessons to be learned from the following findings. Journal abstract follows:
Is Dieting Advice From Magazines Helpful or Harmful? Five-Year Associations With Weight-Control Behaviors and Psychological Outcomes in [...]

Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones
(Excerpt from an article by Steve Sailer )
“In the presence of [ethnic] diversity, we hunker down. We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we [...]

 
TN: Armored car courier shoots holdup man: “An armored car courier shot and seriously wounded a would-be robber this morning at a Whitehaven gas station. The courier was leaving the Mapco at 979 Brooks at about 8:30 when a robber, possibly armed with a pistol, began spraying him with tear gas or some chemical agent, [...]

January 7, 2007

TYRANNICAL FOOD REGULATORS BACK DOWN FOR ONCE
By John Stossel
Mary Baker and Ruth Neikirk love to cook. What’s more, they love to cook for poor people. They do it frequently, preparing meals at home and bringing them to their church in Virginia. “I love it,” Mary says. “I can take a little bit of something, like [...]

US Attacked: National Guard Routed
How utterly disgusting. If this was a diversion, as one scenario suggests, we can only hope that something even more dangerous wasn’t smuggled in. And if you need a better example of an alleged super power so hobbled by political correctness and weak political leadership that it can hardly protect itself, [...]

AZ: One fatally shot in home invasion: “One home robbery suspect was killed and another critically wounded when six men burst into a Southwest Side home Tuesday night, sheriff’s deputies say. As the suspects yelled for people in the home to get on the floor, a man in a back bedroom locked his door and [...]

January 6, 2007

 
EDUCATION PREDICTS GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LIFE
Of course it does. The elite are educated more and — as Charles Murray showed years ago — are elite because they are brighter — and high IQ is one aspect of good biological functioning. But you won’t see THAT mentioned below. There may nonetheless also be a real [...]

 
ISLAMIC “BEDROOMS”
“Just recently, the Taliban issued a new set of 30 rules to its fighters. But there is a curious rule that the Western media has typically ignored. Rule No. 19 instructs that Taliban fighters must not take young boys without facial hair into their private quarters….
Aside from the question of what is permitted if [...]

The Second Amendment, North Korea and Iran: “Serious supporters of the Second Amendment and the right to self-defense of one’s person, family and personal property, fully understand the amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting, skeet and trap, or Cowboy Action Shooting. It has to do with protecting ourselves from a tyrannical out-of-control government. [...]

January 5, 2007

Make mine a happy meal, thanks
I pointed out the positive role of McDonalds in hospitals on Dec. 20th., 2006 here so I was pleased to see the realistic Australian article below. Referring to campaigns to get McDonalds out of hospitals, I said: “The fact that for many people the McDonalds is the most comforting and [...]