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, [...]

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 [...]

 
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. [...]

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 [...]

 
ANTI-DEMOCRATIC LEFTISM
Ever since the 1950 book “The authoritarian personality”, Leftist psychologists have been saying that it is conservatives who are anti-democratic — ignoring great democrats like Joe Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. So the events decribed below by Taranto are another little dose of reality for them — not that reality has ever mattered much [...]

 
NC: Ex-trooper kills assailant: “A retired trooper with the state Highway Patrol says he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed the boyfriend of a family friend on New Year’s Day, according to a sheriff’s detective. Robert “Sonny” Moore, 63, killed 24-year-old Travis Worriax with a single shot to his torso, according to [...]

 
Food fanatics impossible to satirize
I have had satirical comments about the evils of cheese and butter at the bottomn of each day’s postings here for some time now. But reality has caught up with me. Even cheese (and lots of other mainstream stuff) is now under attack in the Unhinged Kingdom. Have they gone too [...]

BLOGS+GOOGLE = INFLUENCE
The small readership of most blogs would strongly suggest that no blogs other than the top three or four could possibly have much influence on anything. That however overlooks something: Google and other search engines. Because they are heavily interlinked (well over 1,000 other blogs link to this one) blogs tend to have [...]

New Orleans: Bar owner ready for robbers: “Bar owner Frank Barrera acted quickly and quietly when he spotted two men pulling out pistols as they entered his newly opened Mid-City business Saturday about 2 a.m. Pulling an armed security guard behind a wall next to the bar, Barrera waited a few moments as one of [...]

 
FAT POLITICS
“It began with Ethnic Studies, which, even if you don’t approve of them, at least contain some fragments of actual history and sociology. Then our universities opened themselves to Women’s Studies, closely followed by Queer Studies, then Disability Studies. If you think that has exhausted the possibilities for giving claims of victimhood their own [...]

AMERICANS AS THE NEW JEWS
Implications of a British survey
I have written at some length here about why the Jews have been hated for so long by so many but there is no doubt that, particularly among Leftists, that hatred goes back to the fact that Jews are both distinctive and successful — in a word: [...]

 
Gov. Doyle, Mayor Barrett should reimburse Milwaukee crime victims: “Anti-gun Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett should financially reimburse armed robbery victims who have been left unable to defend themselves, thanks to the policies of these two politicians, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. CCRKBA [...]

PROGRESS IN TREATING DIABETES AND ITS EFFECTS
Notes from a diabetic
The first breakthrough, one I didn’t predict, is a drug, called Metanx (pronounced, stupidly enough, “MET-an-ex” when it obviously should be “met-TANKS”). My doctor tells me it’s acquiring a reputation for reversing diabetic neuropathy, something I’d thought impossible. Let me assure you it ain’t. I have [...]

Mary, ‘Palestinian refugee’
When it comes to the politicization of the Christmas story, I thought I had seen it all. But the London Independent’s shameless mischaracterization of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as “a Palestinian refugee” takes the proverbial cake. The story by Johann Hari published Dec. 23 begins: “In two days, a third of humanity [...]

 
TN: Clerk pulls handgun on robber: “A would-be-robber got more than he bargained for from behind the counter of a local convenience store. At about 2:47 Wednesday morning, Kingsport Police responded to Central Chevron and Food Mart, 220 Carolina Pottery Drive. The clerk stated a white male [WHITE! The only time color can be mentioned!] [...]

 
“DETOX” NONSENSE
 
It has been a gluttonous few weeks. The parties, the chocolates, the mince pies – all capped with that 6,000-calorie Christmas Day feast. A January detox sounds sensible. A chance to purge those toxins, burn away the flab and give our furred arteries a well earned break.
Millions of us will be making just such [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To all who come by here.
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Saddam And The Left
Excerpts from Sigmund, Carl & Alfred
Predictably, much of the left is in a frenzy over the trial and execution of Saddam, because for the first time in a very long while, they, like he, have been exposed for who and what they are- enablers and [...]

 
TX: Teen shoots, kills 2 would-be robbers: “An overnight home invasion robbery attempt in northeast Harris County ended in a hail of gunfire that left two suspects dead. Investigators said a 17-year-old was home with his cousin when four armed men kicked in the door and started shooting. The teen pulled out a shotgun of [...]

One flu over the cuckoo’s nest
Flu fearmongers must be quite depressed these days. Seasonal flu is late. Bird flu – despite all the headlines – hasn’t gained much traction among humans. And we haven’t had pandemic flu in 36 years. The good news is so good (for the rest of us, that is) that [...]

 
HOORAY! THE BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD IS DEAD
See here

A great New Year present for Iraq. But no doubt the Left will now immediately make a saint of some sort out of him. They don’t care about mass murder. They never have. If they could canonize the vicious “Tookie” Williams (above), and excuse mass murderers [...]

 
3 home intruders shot dead in Albuquerque: “Three men who broke into homes in the Albuquerque, N.M., area in the last month were shot dead by homeowners, and police say they hope would-be robbers take the hint. The latest incident involved Raymond Gabaldon, 40, a repeat offender, who, police say, stole a car and then [...]

 
IL: Residents defend themselves against robbers: “Police said two men were attempting to rob a home in the 5200 block of Ohio Avenue when they exchanged gunfire with other men inside the house. Police said one of the two was Richard R. Cosey III, 28, of the 7000 block of West A Street in [...]

Bug counters to infest kitchens
 
British food frenzy
What do you look for in a restaurant to celebrate the new year? Good food, wine and atmosphere? No, the authorities are sure that what diners really want to know is how many bacteria are in the kitchen, and how much saturated fat is on the menu. Yummy.
The Times [...]

DENYING THE OBVIOUS ABOUT ISLAM
Shoebat begins by explaining his frustrations with Westerners who consistently misunderstand the nature of the Islamists: “Ever since I left radical Islam, I have consistently run into Westerners who are oblivious to the mind-set of radical Islamists, and being on both sides of the fence, I have felt like I am [...]