Wednesday, November 2, 2016

On the Odds that Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch Only Talked About Grandchildren and Other Benign Things During Their Private Tarmac Meeting in Phoenix

0.1%, possibly less. I mean, come on!

On the Fact that Donald Trump Is Seemingly Unaware that this Country Almost Fought the Civil War 30 Years Earlier than We Did and that it Was About Tariffs (Henry Clay and Others Bringing Us Back from the Abyss)

An almost unprecedented level of ignorance coming from a main party Presidential candidate......and did you see how the asshole was threatening General Motors with a 30% tariff on cars made in Mexico (he apparently doesn't have a problem with Japanese cars being made over here)? Nah, that's not fascistic or anything. 

On Mrs. Clinton's "We Are Stronger Together" Campaign Slogan

Yeah, if she or somebody in her campaign had done a quick Google-search they would have discovered that Benito Mussolini had uttered the exact same thing when it came to his form of collectivism. Oops. OOPS.  

On the Fact that New York City Has 31 Distinct Gender Identities that a Person (Gender-Neutral Enough?) Can Select from, None of Which You Have to Substantiate - http://heatst.com/culture-wars/here-are-the-31-gender-identities-new-york-city-recognizes/

Oh, that's nothing in that Facebook now has 71 (up from 58 Just Two Years Ago - https://ageofshitlords.com/facebook-now-has-71-gender-options/). I guess that New York and de Blasio just aren't progressive enough.

On that Poor F.B.I. Agent Who's Been Tasked with the Job of Going Through All of Those Anthony Weiner Penis-Ladened Emails

I'm normally not a big fan of giving government workers taxpayer-funded bonuses but, yeah, for this poor bastard I will make an exception (that and all the free showers that he or she needs). Absofrigginglutely.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

On the Claim Made by Documentarian and Conspiracy Ramrod, Joel Gilbert, that President Obama's Real Father ISN'T the Kenyan Chap but Rather the Despicable Communist, Frank Marshall Davis

So, they're (the loonies on the right) trading in one off-the-rails and bonkers conspiracy theory for another one essentially.......Way to go, guys.

On the Fact that East-Asians Score Three Full Standard Deviations Higher on Standardized IQ Tests than Australian Aborigines (106 Versus 62)

There are of course a myriad of possible explanations for this; nutritional differences, educational differences, familial differences, discriminatory factors, etc.. But for folks to try and say that biology doesn't play ANY role at all is a bit of a stretch, I think. The fact of the matter is that China, Korea, and Japan were far more difficult areas for our ancestors to survive in (the fact that they were a lot colder and harder to acquire food) and, so, yeah, natural selection worked much more in the direction of intelligence than height and other attributes (the same with Ashkenazi Jews who also score extremely high). I mean, I understand that this is a delicate topic for many people to breech but it's also a) an open field of study and b) far more scientific than saying that evolution came to grinding halt 100,000 years ago and that human biodiversity doesn't exist.