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After looking up sources; research has shown that states with Medical Marijuana see a 25% drop in prescription medications. These types of Pharma meds being replaced with Marijuana are… antidepressants, seizure medication (CBD Cannabis Oil), sleeping pills, anxiety medication and anti-nausea drugs. It was hard to find data on Colorado; but I'd estimate prescriptions are down 40% in that state. Furthermore; after reviewing the studies, researchers argue that the study suggests the people in States with Medical (and Legal) Marijuana are using Cannabis for Medical reasons.
Proof of Jeff Sessions being involved in the R.J. Reynolds cases from the late 1990's; in favor of the Tobacco Industry:
Article describing the events that Jeff Sessions has been involved in with the Tobacco Inudstry:
Greetings World! We Are Anonymous! Our Exposure today is of President Donald J. Trump's choice of Jeff Sessions to head the Department of Justice. It seems you are failing the safety of the Citizens of the United States with a proven terrorist Attack on our Government. The battle by Jeff Sessions against Legal Marijuana, is Hypocrisy tothe Opiate epidemic running rapid, created by the Government and the Pharmaceutical industry, intentionally over the years. Jeff Sessions took more than was legally allowed from Camel cigarettes during his 1996 Senate election. Sessions was later involved in what was named, the Master Settlement Agreement. This was a settlement with R J Reynolds, and the big tobacco companies during the late 90's; and Sessions favored big tobacco. There is well documented proof of this in the University of California's archives. Furthermore; Jeff Sessions is expected to handle a large workload, because there are missing key staff members.
The persecution of WIKI LEAKS founder Julian Assange, and anyone else a threat to Governmental exposure of weakness and criminal acts by the Department of Justice seems to be another act of terrorism, as if you are following previous administration tactics. Though some of your promises have been acted upon, your protection of the State of Florida continues in fear of your reputation and being accepted by Political parties rather then the Citizens of the United States.
The Choices of United States Federal Prosecutors appointed, are only a name change with the same agenda. The Glades County Sheriff's Department of the 20th Judicial Circuit Courts of Florida controlled by State Attorney Stephen B Russell were to have been found to laundered over 71 million dollars in Drug money in 2015 for the Cartels; with no action taken by these Officers of the Law, and no arrest of any kind being made.
On February 19th of 2014, a couple traveling from Florida to New Hampshire were arrested on Federal charges of Drug Trafficking, thousands of dollars in cash, and BOMB making materials! Dean Smoronk, has a proven history of being a Drug Dealer, working with dirty Drug Enforcement Agents, and his F. B. I. sources arrest seemed to have disappeared. The US Attorneys Office and District of South Carolina would have great knowledge to this situation as well as the Sumter County Sheriffs Office who made this arrest with A. T. F. agents.
Smoronk, and his former deceased girlfriend, Christine Sullivan, have been roaming freely back and forth from New Hampshire to his Cape Coral Florida home, in Lee County Florida, for over 3 years. Sullivan and Jenna Pelligrini were found stabbed to death and beaten, on January 29th, 2017, on Smoronks property; while he was allegedly in Florida checking on his rental home. They laid there for 2 days prior to him coming home and finding them. These Murders were related to the Drug Cartels, as Smoronk allegedly was out on bond on Federal Charges; and had been traveling out of the country as well.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Governor Rick Scott whom plead the 5th for Medicaid Fraud 75 times prior to his being elected as Governor, are alleged to be close friends of yours.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the President of the United States Appointment of Beth Drake as Head Prosecutor of the United States Attorney's Office in South Carolina, would have inside information on this proven terrorist attack.
Your allegations of FAKE MEDIA attacks on yourself are one of truth, the only way to get to the truth and end corruption to, "Drain the Swamp", are through sources such as WIKI LEAKS. Many reporters over the years that have classified information or knowledge of dirty C. I. A. have been found to come up dead, under false reports of suicides.
The information WIKI LEAKS has provided to the world is one of truth, and the real criminals preside under your watch. One should not be persecuted or retaliated against for bringing information of proven misconduct by High Powered Government Officials that are in place to protect the Citizens of the World.
We are the Anonymous Legion! We do not forgive! We do not forget! Expect us!
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Super Bowl 2019 - Betting Preview
Super Bowl LIII brings to an end what has been a thrilling NFL season and the playoffs have given us some of the best and most dramatic football we have seen in a long time. Just two teams remain, the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams, and one of those teams will be taking home the Vince Lombardi Trophy on Sunday night.
The game brings together two fantastic offensive units, but it is the contrast between the two quarterbacks that has got the media talking. Tom Brady leads the New England Patriots and is already in the books as one of the greatest of all time. Even at the age of 41, Brady is still going strong and a win on Sunday would give him his 6th Super Bowl ring.
In contrast, at just 24 years old Jared Goff comes into the biggest game of his young career so far. He is one of many young quarterbacks in the league that genuinely believe they have what it takes to take over from Brady when he retires as the best in the league, can Goff show why he deserves that title on the biggest stage of them all? Patrick Mahomes is another young quarterback who had his shot at Brady two weeks ago and failed, Goff will want to do better.
The actual game is going to hinge a lot on Goff and his ability to handle the pressure and play his normal game. Playing Tom Brady is daunting during the regular season, but in the Super Bowl the pressure goes up to a whole new level. Add on top of that the fact that this is the very first time Goff himself has been in a Super Bowl, and there is a big weight on this young man's shoulders. Can Goff cope with it, if he does the Rams have a fantastic chance, although you certainly wouldn't blame him for freezing in the moment.
Super Bowl Betting Tips
As above, the game is likely to hinge on the play of Jared Goff and his mindset in the game. I'm backing him to have a successful night, handle the huge pressure on him and lead the LA Rams to victory. It is no surprise to see New England as the favourites with the experience they have, but this young Rams team is hungry for success and they have more quality on paper.
Those looking for a first touchdown scorer should put their trust in the fitness of Todd Gurley and back the LA running game to shine. Gurley played only a handful of snaps in the Conference Championship game in New Orleans, but he has had two weeks to recover and on his day he is the best running back in the league.
Those looking for something slightly different to bet on should look at the market for the first scoring play. If there is a moment when Goff will be vulnerable it is early in the game, so don't be surprised to see him have a relatively quiet first quarter. As a complete opposite to that, expect Tom Brady to take things in his stride and start strongly in this game. He can lead the Pats down the field for points early and a New England field goal as the first scoring play looks to be good value here.
• LA Rams to lift the Super Bowl @ 23/20 (Black Type)
• Todd Gurley to score the first touchdown @ 11/2 (Betfred)
• First scoring play: New England field goal @ 10/3 (Betfred)
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In the 1,100-patient phase III study, dubbed HERO, the benefit and safety of Relugolix 120 mg orally once daily was evaluated against *Leuprolide in participants with androgen-sensitive advanced prostate cancer who require at least 1 year (48 weeks) of continuous androgen deprivation therapy. The primary efficacy outcome of the study is the ability of Relugolix to achieve and maintain serum testosterone suppression to castrate level to more than or equal to 50ng/dL for 48 weeks. (*Leuprolide is an injectable, man-made human gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) that is used for treating prostate cancer).
Relugolix is also under a phase III clinical program consisting of two international, replicate pivotal clinical studies, dubbed SPIRIT 1 and SPIRIT 2, in women with endometriosis-associated pain, and in a phase III program, consisting of two studies LIBERTY 1 and LIBERTY 2, in women with heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine fibroids.
Myovant in-licensed Relugolix from Takeda in 2016 for territories outside of Japan and Asia.
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February 1st, 2019
One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With The FBI…
February 1, 2019
Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry and locate relatives, is working with the FBI and allowing agents to search its vast genealogy database in an effort to solve violent crime cases, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Federal and local law enforcement have used public genealogy databases for more than two years to solve cold cases, including the landmark capture of the suspected Golden State Killer, but the cooperation with Family Tree DNA and the FBI marks the first time a private firm has agreed to voluntarily allow law enforcement access to its database.
If You Think Virginia's Infanticide Bill Is Crazy, Wait Till You Get A Look At What Vermont Is Pushing…
February 1, 2019
Vermont is quietly seeking to pass a law that gives women the right to have elective abortions up until birth and strips away all rights of unborn babies.
Vermont is considering H-0057 which would give women the right to abort a baby at any time and for any reason up until birth. "Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or to have an abortion," the bill reads.
UK – Mother guilty of genital mutilation of daughter…
February 1, 2019
Spells and curses intended to deter police and social workers from investigating were found at the Ugandan woman's home, the trial heard.
Senate Rebukes Trump Over Troop Withdrawals From Syria and Afghanistan…
February 1, 2019
The Senate, in a bipartisan rebuke to President Trump's foreign policy, voted overwhelmingly to advance legislation drafted by the majority leader to express strong opposition to the president's withdrawal of United States military forces from Syria and Afghanistan.
The 68-to-23 vote to cut off debate ensures that the amendment, written by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and backed by virtually every Senate Republican, will be added to a broader bipartisan Middle East policy bill expected to easily pass the Senate next week.
Report Finds Nearly Half Of Louisville's Work Could Be Automated…
February 1, 2019
Large companies such as Ford, GE Appliances and UPS employ thousands of workers in the Louisville area; in some cases, these people work side-by-side increasingly sophisticated machines. Over time, those machines will be able to do more tasks, which leads some to worry that they could eventually replace workers.
That concern may be warranted in Louisville, which is among the major metropolitan areas most at risk of a significant portion of its work becoming automated in the future. That's according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution, a centrist public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. In the report's ranking of states, Kentucky has the second-highest automation potential in the nation — trailing neighboring Indiana.
Latest Qanon Post – SYRIA…
February 1, 2019
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: d73aee No.4989823
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See the name of the image.
Department of Defense has it hosted.
Found the archive from DoD.
A pair of U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles fly over northern Iraq early in the morning of September 23, 2014, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. These aircraft were part of a large coalition strike package that was the first wave to strike Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria. The United States has been conducting airstrikes against ISIL militants besieging villages and towns in northern Iraq since August 8.
But the September 23 strikes by U.S. and partner nation aircraft — including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — were the first in Syrian territory. Pentagon officials said the Syrian government was notified through the United Nations that the United States intended to take action against ISIL — which is also fighting the regime of President Bashir Assad — and Syrian air defenses remained in a passive mode during the air raids.
Dream Telepathy and Out of Body Experience (OBE) by Robert Sepehr
February 1, 2019
Indiana high school swim coach sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting student athlete…
February 1, 2019
John Goelz, 30, exploited his position of trust and authority with one of his student athletes, a minor, for his own sexual gratification.
From at least September 2017 through June 30, 2018, Goelz first built the victim's trust as her coach and confidant, and then began enticing the victim to engage in sexual acts with him.
During that time, Goelz contacted the victim via text messages and other messaging applications that concealed the conversations to arrange sexual encounters at locations, such as Goelz's residence, community parks and motels.
Abortion Survivor Asks Virginia Democrats: 'What About My Choice?'
February 1, 2019
Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden implored pro-choice Democrats to consider her choice during an interview Thursday with The Daily Caller.
Ohden survived a saline infusion abortion in 1977 when she was at approximately 7 months gestation, despite fears that her health would be damaged by the attempt to end her life. She has thrived since then.
Vice President Pence Delivers Remarks at Venezuela Solidarity Event…
February 1, 2019
Houston: "well dressed soft-spoken" man brutally assaults woman during attempted rape…
February 1, 2019
Rachel Busch says she was trying to stop a man from raping her at the time.
Donovan Micah Jones, 24, is in jail charged with aggravated assault. Houston Police say its special victims unit is investigating this as a sexual assault.
Busch said she was with several friends in early January when she met Jones in a coffee shop. She described him as well-dressed, well-spoken and told her he was named as one of "Houston's 30 Under 30.
BOMBSHELL: Democrat Governor Ralph Northam In Blackface & KKK Photo…
Governor Who Endorsed Infanticide Received $2 Million From Planned Parenthood...
Planned Parenthood calls for Northam to resign...
February 1, 2019
Big League Politics has obtained photos from Northam's time at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, from which he graduated in 1984. Northam and a friend were photographed together — one in blackface, one in Klan robes. Northam's quote: "There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I'll have another beer."
BREAKING: Racist Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam says he is not resigning.
My fellow Virginians, earlier today I released a statement apologizing for behavior in my past that falls far short of the standard you set for me when you elected me to be your governor. I believe you deserve to hear directly from me. pic.twitter.com/1rSw1oxfrX
— Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) February 2, 2019
Democratic Party over the last 7 days:
- -Full-term abortion
- -90% tax rate
- -Infanticide
- -KKK/blackface
- -Complete gov takeover of healthcare
- -Banning all semi-auto guns
- -Supported murderous Venezuelan Maduro regime
David Wilcock's public apology letter to Gaia…
February 1, 2019
Number of foreign ISIS fighters held in Syria surpasses 800 for the first time…
February 1, 2019
There are more than "800 foreign terrorist fighters" in SDF custody from "over 40 countries," Department of Defense spokesman Cmdr. Sean Robertson told CNN. Officials have expressed concerns about the fate of the detainees following President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria. While the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been able to operate detention facilities, there are concerns as to what would become of the detainees being held there should Turkey attack the Kurds following a US withdrawal.
3D printing with light…
Read the paper...
February 1, 2019
They nicknamed it 'the replicator' — in homage to the machines in the Star Trek saga that can materialize virtually any inanimate object.
Researchers have unveiled a 3D printer that creates an entire object at once, rather than building it layer by layer as typical additive-manufacturing devices do — bringing science-fiction a step closer to reality.
Elizabeth Warren Apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA Test
February 1, 2019
Warren on Thursday phoned Bill John Baker, who serves as the Cherokee Nation's principal chief, to apologize for her decision to take the test in what was a "brief and private" discussion, according to Julie Hubbard, a press representative for the tribe. "I understand that she apologized for causing confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and the harm that has resulted," said Hubbard. "The chief and secretary of state appreciate that she has reaffirmed that she is not a Cherokee Nation citizen or a citizen of any tribal nation."
Texas company plans to sell country's first permitted, 3D-printed house…
February 1, 2019
There's a lot that 3D printers have made: bones, rockets, buildings. In fact, in Austin, you'll find a 350-square-foot structure billed by its builders, start-up company ICON, as the country's first permitted 3D-printed house.
Ultimately, Haines wants to print a whole house, including the roofs and floors, and sell it, something he says has never been done in the country. He's already obtained the permit to build the first model home in Lago Vista, about 30 miles outside of Austin. Construction would take two months, and safety inspections would be performed similarly to those done with a traditionally built house.
Remember the Economist magazine cover "The World in 2017"?
President Donald J. Trump to Withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty…
read the statement from the whitehouse...
February 1, 2019
The United States is suspending its compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia on Saturday and will withdraw from the landmark 1987 arms control accord in six months if Moscow does not end its alleged violation of the pact, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.
Pompeo said the administration will provide formal notice to Russia that the US is withdrawing from the INF in six months and, if Moscow doesn't come into compliance, the treaty "will terminate".
South Carolina mom charged with cruelty to children after pouring water on sleeping baby's face as 'payback,'…
February 1, 2019
A South Carolina woman was arrested after she poured a bottle of water over her baby girl's face while the infant was asleep and posted a video of it on social media, authorities say.
Caitlin Alyse Hardy, 33, of Sumter County posted a video of the incident Saturday on Facebook and said in the post that she poured water on her 9-month-old daughter as "payback" for waking her up during the night.
Trump Derangement Syndrome! California restaurant owner bans 'Make America Great Again' hats…
February 1, 2019
A California restaurant owner says he won't serve customers wearing "Make America Great Again" hats.
Kenji Lopez-Alt, the owner of Wursthall Restaurant, located in California's bay area, tweeted Thursday, "It hasn't happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren't getting served," KGO reports.
Lopez-Alt reportedly added it would be the "same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate."


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RE: How to Paint Yourself Into A Corner on Race Realism -- A Reflection
Having been familiar with the kind of articles TRS produces, I was honestly a bit nervous. They're typically, even as Sean admitted, quite inflammatory and hostile, especially towards liberals (which, I suppose, is what they might see me as, though I'd disagree). I was surprised to find that the only things that caused my brow to furrow while reading his article were the title (which Michael Enoch admitted was not Sean's doing) and the subtexts under the pictures (which were funnier than they were offensive). It was a pleasant surprise, although it really shouldn't have been. My exchange with Sean was quite friendly, and so I shouldn't have suspected his rebuttal to be much different.
The comments were even more surprising, at least initially. My experiences on TRS have told me that the commenters can and will be very vicious in their responses, and can quickly reject any type of reasoned discussion in exchange for aggression and toxicity. This was by far not the case tonight. The commenters were friendly, gracious, and quite nice to speak to. As one commenter expressed, it was a real breath of fresh air. As I said there as well, there's no reason that people of different views can't have a friendly discussion. While this was initially the case, now the comments seem to have devolved into the typical exchange I'd expect there. It's a shame, but what can you do?
To reflect on the discussion itself, it was quite enjoyable. Sean brought up some interesting points, and there were moments where I had to concede to his arguments, and ultimately I took away some new perspectives; namely how race realists typically define "race." To Sean, race does retain a degree of arbitration, and it is only one of a multiplicity of ways in which someone can examine human genetic variation. I came to realize this isn't entirely inconsistent with my own views; the conclusions we draw, however, regarding the significance of racial categories, or whether or not those categories are objective or biological in nature, is what we ended up having to agree to disagree on.
A lot of the points in the article seemed to be things I've addressed already, either in response to commenters or in sections of my other posts on the topic. Sean and I do fundamentally disagree on one factor which I think is important to bring up. Say, for example, that the social ramifications of racial categories is what has caused group differentials in IQ. To Sean, this is still a validation of race as a human taxonomy. To me, this is evidence of social construction, specifically not of biological validation. I don't see us reconciling this difference in interpretation, but I think it's interesting to note the stark contrast between the conclusions we drew from the same point. It just further shows the complication behind this subject.
Sean also brought up a point about the AAA, AAPA and HGP's definitions of race, and how they are problematic given race realists' definition of race. I absolutely agree, and I emailed the AAA on their article expressing my concerns. I've yet to receive a reply, and so I hope others will ask too, demanding a higher priority on the question. At the same time, Sean and I disagree on our trust in these organizations. I trust the consensus view of anthropologists while Sean is cynical of them. While I believe that these organizations have a much greater advantage in terms of access to scientific literature regarding the subject, Sean believes our access is comparable to theirs. Again, I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on these points.
I don't think that Sean fully understands what I mean when I talk about the social or cultural construction of race, and so I'll clarify my views here. When one speaks about the social construction of race, we are drawing attention to its origins, its modern usage, and its social ramifications. One could argue that all things are socially constructed, but this is usually very uninformative. For example, we can talk about the social construction of a hammer; however, hammers were explicitly invented by humans, and so we naturally define what it is and what qualifies as a hammer. We could also talk about the social construction of grass, but this has a pretty universal consensus. Having said all of that, I do not believe that "race" as a general taxonomy is overwhelmingly a social construct. When I say that race is a social construct, I mean that our decision as to what groups of humans qualify as different races is socially constructed; that is, the classification itself is not overwhelmingly a social construct, but what people we choose to put into that classification (for humans, anyway) is. Another way to put it: race is "a culturally constructed label that crudely and imprecisely describes real variation" (Relethford 2009). I love that quote.
If I think of anything else to say about our exchange, I'll just keep adding it onto this post. All in all, I enjoyed the past two months of discussion over this topic, though there were major time gaps between our replies. I think that Sean puts a lot of thought into the responses he makes, and as I stated on his article, I greatly respect his intellect and passion for the subject. He seems to be, to me, an intellectually honest person, and I hope that he dedicates his time and effort to a related field of study later on in his career. While I personally believe racial categorization is problematic and mostly uninformative, there is no reason to stop someone who disagrees from contributing to the academic discussion over this issue. Our disagreement is based on our experiences, and so a shared experience in the future might bring us and like-minded individuals closer to an agreement.
Thank you all very much for reading.
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"The commenters were friendly, gracious, and quite nice to speak to. As one commenter expressed, it was a real breath of fresh air."ReplyDelete
Really? I'm reading the comments right now and I can say with ease and confidence that you must've been smoking the devil's lettuce when you wrote that shit. Take this comment for instance:
"Bitch, if you're too busy sucking diseased dicks for crack money, just say so."
^ Gracious, friendly or nice? Hardly. Then again, you could always write in "EXCEPT YOU MAX." Not like it matters. Dudes who flex their dick muscles over the internet to get under your skin when you were way nicer than I would've (or could've) been only have something to prove, either about them or you. I suspect he doesn't like how atypical you are to the "liberals" they regularly encounter. At least some of them were nice to you though. I saw you got a few defenses.
At least you're sticking to your principles. I'm glad for that, good on you.Replies
The vast majority of them are very kind and intellectually honest. I know that some are less than pleasant, but that shouldn't be considered the norm, at least in this scenario. The only people who are particularly virulent are Max and Simon. We know what Max's problem is now, and we're already familiar with Simon, and so... there's not much left to say.Delete
But yes, I considered the words of my father before deciding only to write this reflection. It's best this way, and I feel a lot better for it. I'm still having conversations with some of the commenters, though. While I'm still fairly welcomed, I'm going to take the opportunity to learn some new perspectives.
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2014 at 3:59 PM
Lex it would honestly behoove you not to comment there any more. I'm looking at the comments there and seeing you getting increasingly agitated and a few of them getting ever more desperate to find something to fault you for. It's not really worth it, especially with Simon and Max as you already pointed out.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah I get that now. Unfortunately there are a few people there who I would like to reply to, but things are just getting out of hand now. I'll edit my post accordingly.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2014 at 5:41 PM
Oh my God the amount of perfidy that Simon is showing there is fucking appalling. He's quoting you as saying things you've outright rejected before. I can't even fathom how he can be just SO dishonest.. How did you ever get him to hate you so much?Delete
Simon has commented on 3 posts: the one on Lewontin's Fallacy, the one on cultural Marxism, and the one on ROK. In all 3 of these scenarios, literally every claim that Simon brought up was rebutted. He tried to display so much "evidence" but in the end either failed to make any compelling case for his arguments, or simply didn't follow the Comment Guidelines, even after being warned numerous times and given an extraordinary amount of leeway. He now hates us for the following reasons:Delete
1: We moderate, or "censor," comments.
2: We haven't read most of the links he's posted to us.
3: We don't agree with him.
Ultimately, it didn't matter how well we argued or what evidence we brought to the table. Simon won't accept it, because quote:
"[He's] not reading anything Franz Boas has infected with his poison."
Source: http://destoryculturalmarxism.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-cultural-marxism.html?showComment=1416524643118#c1878307837867779536
He then criticizes us for not reading his sources. We read sources when the relevance is explained to us.
Simon needs to learn how to argue in an academic manner and properly construct an argument in a way that obligates us to address the links he wants us to read. It is not our obligation to read through pages and pages of books he tells us to, just because he says it's relevant. He needs to explain why.
But he can't. As that thread shows, he doesn't read the things he cites. He doesn't know what's in them. Further proof:
"Some of the books I recommend to you I have read, or am in the process of reading, and others I am waiting to get for my birthday or for Christmas. There's very little I want other than intellectual stimulation, and I take great care to be sure that my material doesn't come from politically correct sources. Mainstream education, long since overrun, is of course off the cards [...]"
Source: http://paintyourpanda.blogspot.com/2014/11/masculinityfeminity-and-return-of-kings.html?showComment=1416838085853#c1172323986162211118
So not only does he admit to not reading some (probably most) of his sources, he admits that he cherry picks what literature he does choose to read. Anything that's "politically correct" (i.e. anything that doesn't come to the conclusion he wants them to come to) is "off the cards."
Now that we've shown him to be a fraud and a liar, and of course a hypocrite, he has started a war of sorts. According to him, he's contacted HBD chick, JayMan and Kevin MacDonald to address us. He has also taken to going to any place where either I have commented or someone has commented about me and share his thoughts, as well as (as you pointed out) blatantly lie about my views.
So, in summation:
- He has commented here numerous times but has not followed the rules.
- He has admitted to citing sources he hasn't read, and refuses to read sources that don't agree with him.
- We therefore blocked him from further discussion, which made him mad.
- He now hates us and is trying to do whatever he can to get an entire community to go against us.
But does he actually hate us? Yes he does, and he admits doing so. Unpublished Comment, 12/7/14 @ 5:52 PM; quote:
"Anyone who's a relativist, deconstructionist freak who wants to rip away all the objective goodness and truth and beauty that makes life worth living will earn my undying hatred. You people shall be the ruin of the our world. Damn you all."
This has been a brief summary of why Simon hates us. I hope you enjoyed it.
Simon says (lol):ReplyDelete
"Asperger's people are not dishonest. They can misunderstand, but they do not lie about important things."
Let's get one thing straight here, dickweed. Whether or not you have Aspergers, we don't care - really, we don't give a shit. You flaunt having it as though it's some kind of benefit on your part, which is so fucking strange, given what stigma surrounds people with Aspergers, and what impairments it does cause. Of course, I'm stating this as though the DSM-IV were still in play, but it's not. Now you're literally just saying you're autistic over and over again, which is so unlike someone who actually has autism.
Regardless, Aspies can lie. Some are pathological liars. Some just lie regularly. Some don't like to lie. But it's not to do with Aspergers whether or not you're a liar. Having Aspergers does not immunize you to dishonesty, no matter how desperately you want to cling to that trait.
I'm still reading the comments over there, but if you really want me to, I can quote every single instance where you misrepresented her views, intentionally or unintentionally. Not only that, but I can explain exactly how you misrepresented her views by quoting moments where she explained something contrary to how you characterized them. For some, I could say it's intentional because she already explained that she doesn't hold the views you claim she does. The only four possibilities, then, are: (a) you forgot; (b) you didn't read her responses to you; (c) you STILL failed to understand; or, (d) you lied. Something tells me that option (a) is unlikely, and options (b) or (d) are more likely than option (c).
Really, all you need to do is say "show me the GD carfax" and I'll tell you every moment you failed to accurately represent Lex's views. This is a straight up challenge to you. If you're honestly willing to stand by the statement that because you're an Aspie, you can't lie, therefore you haven't lied, then go ahead. Play your card. I'll shove it up your ass until your eyes turn brown.
Have fun!Replies
I have Aspergers. I can lie, and have lied before. Many times, I'm sure. Debunked.Delete
You're right, though, it really is insulting that he is being viciously dishonest, then turns around and says, "I can't be dishonest! I have Aspergers!" He also seems to only be capable of recognizing key words, i.e. if one of us says "you don't understand," he doesn't read any further to see why he doesn't understand. He just reads that clause and goes "see, there, you're doing it again!"
Thanks for the support and effort, Nick, but this is honestly getting too tiring to address. I thought maybe he was just a troll, but this is far beyond that. It's sickening what he's going through for the sole reason that he got refuted on a blog.
Only it wasn't me that got refuted. The people at TRS, although head and shoulders above me in their ability to comprehend the science of all this, still arrived at the same conclusion I did. They engaged you on the terms you wanted, with all the lingo and all the jargon, but who's side did they come out on? The same side I took.Delete
What does Sean say at the end? "An honest analysis of the relevant arguments will cause to one to adopt race realism."
I told you the HBD community was smarter than you thought. In your own words, you didn't expect it. I think that, like fundamental religion, followers of the left believe in these ideologically constructed notions of "equality" because the reality is too unfair, too evil for their fragile sensibilities. But we are all living in hell. There are those who can accept it, and there are those who cannot. And that, I assure you, is the golden truth. Accept our situation as a species, however repulsive that may be.
No, Simon. You're desperately trying to conflate your position with Sean's because you know you're a dumbass and a liar, and so you have to put yourself on the same team as people who might actually be capable of defending their positions. You, on the other hand, have been refuted a thousand times. Please see Lex's historical documentation of how much of a fuckwit you are, and why you're doing the things you're doing. They may have arrived at the same general conclusion as you (believing in race realism), but that doesn't mean you're right. Arriving at a true conclusion from faulty premises does not make you right. These are fundamentals of logic, which seem to elude you.Delete
"An honest analysis of the relevant arguments will cause to one to adopt race realism."
Lex may have responded to Sean's rebuttal in much more grace and eloquence than I ever could, but the above quote is poisoning the well. Despite the fact that it came at the end of his arguments, it suggests that even if one were to rebut his arguments, they would be revealing that their analysis of the data and arguments was not honest in nature. One who does not come to the same conclusion as he is dishonest. This is far from the truth.
Want proof? Let me use your own retarded logic. You say Aspies can't lie? That means Lex can't lie. That means her analysis of the relevant arguments can only be honest, yet she came to a different conclusion than Sean. Still honest, yet different conclusion. Either abandon your retarded premise or abandon your retarded conclusion. I don't give a shit which one, so just do yourself a favor and pick one and, for once, admit you were wrong.
"In your own words, you didn't expect it." You're a fucking master of cherry picking, aren't you?
"I think that, like fundamental religion, followers of the left believe in these ideologically constructed notions of "equality" because the reality is too unfair, too evil for their fragile sensibilities." Except she already said, outright, that if the evidence were to suggest that group differences in IQ were largely the result of genetic, she'd accept it.
But I really, really love your egotistical "I'm a warrior of truth" ramblings. Seriously, I get a laugh at how highly you think of yourself. Never mind all the times you've just been blatantly shown to be wrong, and never mind that you're ready and willing to embrace a logical fallacy if it means convincing yourself that you're on the winning and/or correct side of the debate. You're just a fucking Jeffersonian protege, aren't you?
I thought I'd let this comment through so I could hopefully set you in your place. You're a big fan of talking about truth, red pills and all that bullshit, so here's another challenge to you. Seriously, and honestly (for once) examine all that has been said and just flat out admit that you were wrong in all the instances you absolutely failed to defend your position. If you can do that, I'll give you a cookie, and maybe a book for Christmas.
Oh, and as for the "leftist" thing:
Remind me not to give you any reason to slander me.Delete
Simon has, once again, been barred from discussion for violating terms 6 and 9 of the Comment Guidelines; however, I'll address but a few things he said:ReplyDelete
"But even though I, personally, may not have the ability to debate in so narrow an academic fashion, look at all the people I contacted who can, and are more than willing to do so. That is of course the point at which you shut down and say nah, not interested. Very convenient."
As I've already told you, I've never shown much interest:
I've been opposed to debating for most of the time this blog has been up, long before I ever heard of you. You're not going to use more trickery to convince people otherwise. It's just not happening.
"I was actually the one who contacted TRS originally, some months ago, and asked them to engage you."
I get it, you're very upset, and so you're scanning for every high-profile blogger and writer on the internet who agree with you to get them to challenge me. It's really pathetic.
"Sean's conclusion is right, and your "everyone is equal despite 50,000 years of separate evolution" line is shown to be what it obviously is: a desperate wish for a fairer world."
I've not once said that everyone is equal. I've asserted the exact opposite. In fact, I stated so by quoting Relethford 2009 in this very article you're commenting on.
"My oh my, Alexis has Asperger's! That is quite a revelation, and therefore even more puzzling as to how she's ended up so far left of center. Mentioning something so crucial this late in our debate does however render that declaration suspicious."
This is actually not a new revelation whatsoever. Please see the last paragraph of:
"I remember reading that autistics are naturally drawn more to the right since conservative views are by their very nature pessimistic, and life is an extremely negative spectacle, so therefore Aspergians are natural born pessimists, which I have always been."
There is no link between having ASD and having a certain political view. Intuitively, it would seem the exact opposite -- most policy initiatives which support those who are on the spectrum are supported by liberals. I can tell you don't exactly talk to other individuals who are on the spectrum too often. Look up "aspergers political views" on Google and see what you get. You'll find plenty of discussions with people in the psychology and/or ASD community who do not agree with what you say.
"Can't be a real Aspergian then if she willingly lies."
You've never substantiated your claim that people with Aspergers cannot lie. By virtue of your existence, assuming you're actually on the spectrum, you've debunked your own claim.
"Yeah, I can't use the term "leftist" for all these complex contradictory reasons and interpretations of definitions, yadda yadda yadda."
No, you can't use that term because, specifically for Nick, it's just not accurate or true.
"There's a non-equivalence in my ignoring links versus you ignoring links. I ignore your links because it's always to do with the AAA and I'm just not getting into that rat's nest."
Genetic fallacy.
And then there goes your whole list of links which you do not explain, probably have not read, and probably aren't all that relevant, as usual. That's what got you banned again Simon. Congratulations.
But might I just say, before we have to say goodbye, that the absolute thrashing you've just taken on this post is a fitting farewell for a habitual liar such as yourself. Thanks for all the fun times, and kindly fuck off now forever.Replies
The genetic fallacy is applicable when someone solely uses the source from which information came from as their reason for not accepting it. Here, we only accept peer-reviewed sources not because we just like peer-review, but there are displayable reasons as to why non-peer-reviewed sources are flawed in comparison. The difference being that although the AAA may display some bias (if that's the case), the content they produce is not necessarily subjected to that bias. Besides that, the vast majority of sources we cite are not from the AAA. Simon committed a genetic fallacy.Delete
Also, I told Simon you had Aspergers already on this page. Guess he didn't read it. Again.
Thanks to Simon's ramblings and complaints, I added another rebuttal to the Comment Guidelines. It's at the bottom.
Now that all loose ends have been tied, I'm going to say this: if I catch a single comment approved for Simon after this point, I'm going and deleting it regardless of how many replies there were, or who was replying. That includes you, Lex.
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2014 at 3:52 PM
Sean Last spoke about you on The Daily Shoah! for about 15 minutes:ReplyDelete
I was actually listening to it with Nick when you posted this comment. Kind of ironic since I wouldn't even think to look at any other stuff on TRS, suspecting it's not of interest to me. I don't remember how I came across this video, but hey, I'm glad I did.Delete
I thought it was funny that they laughed about the fact that I was wary of Sean publishing his response for TRS. I really shouldn't have been worried, at least for the first few hours. As I said in the post above, it went a lot friendlier than I had expected, and the "tough guys" (i.e. the dicks) only came out to play later on, which was long past the point I could have just left.
One thing that one of the guys there said was that his impression of me was that I was very weird, in his opinion. My comments seemed weird, personal, and like I was trying to frame this as though it were an exchange exclusively between Sean and I instead of a public discourse. To respond, hell yes I'm weird. I'm proud of it. If I can get someone to say "she just seems like a really odd girl," then I've done my job. As for it being an exchange between Sean and I, of course I acknowledge that there's going to be a public element to any exchange I have online; the way they characterized it, though, seems like an accurate representation of how I saw this. I saw it as an opportunity to potentially correct some information in my original post or clarify my points, and I will be doing this in the upcoming days/weeks. By putting up my content online, I intended it to be a resource for other people to use; naturally, I expected follow-up, but public debate was not what I intended this blog to be.
I feel like I should clarify something. Sean and the others spoke suspiciously about my wariness of Sean publishing a response to me. The reason wasn't exclusively for the fact that it was being published on TRS (since I expressed hesitance even before I knew where it would be published). There were many others. First, I don't like debates. Second, I don't like it when unwanted attention is drawn to me, and so that idea immediately made me nervous. Third, I didn't want race to become a focus of my blog on. Fourth, and last, I didn't want to have to deal with the traffic flow that would follow in suit. Luckily, none of these were issues after the fact, with the exception of Simon declaring war against me (lol). I regret my behaviour prior to Sean publishing the article, because it was very childish to be so opposed to the idea of him publishing a rebuttal.
He spoke briefly about Sam Owl. Sam Owl was a close friend of mine (not my boyfriend, lol) who did videos on YouTube for social justice stuff. He's since abandoned that, but a lot of his time was taken up by dealing with race realists. Ultimately, it got to him, but he didn't exactly have a "mental breakdown." Sam, unbeknownst to us prior to the event, had high anxiety issues that he liked to repress, and was suspected to have GAD. It was decided that, for his health, he should refrain from any more public exchanges, at least where he shows his face. I think the way Sean portrayed Sam in this segment was pretty bad, but again, this is TRS we're talking about.Delete
They discussed a lot of the arguments that people like to make against the race concept, one of them being that race was invented as justification for racism. I don't entirely think this is the case; as stated, I think there were certain cultural biased which influenced the partitioning of global variation in the human species that led to these groupings. I don't think it was invented as a justification for racism; however, I think it was thereafter used as such.
I disagree with their argument that the denial of race is just used to immediately shut down any debate over what the causes of group differentials are. I could easily argue, for example, that race doesn't exist; however, on average, blacks have lower IQs than whites -- this is because there are underlying groups of people who have different average intelligence, and traditional racial categories just serve as a proxy for these true differentials. I could argue that, even not believing in the existence of race.
As for their implications that Jews are responsible for denial of race, well... I'll let you think on that one yourself.
Oh my god I died at the hand-wringing over actually saying "its da JOOZ." I don't know if that was just a joke or if they did that out of respect for Sean or what, but that was so fucking hilarious. It honestly stole away any credibility they had.Delete
I don't know how you do it Lex. I don't know how you can keep a straight face in all of this and still act like there is something to be learned from this whole experience.
Don't like it that the Jews are a central cog do ya? Now you've had higher calibre people than me tell it too ya, and now you want to write them off! Suck that shit the fuck up, lefties!Delete
Hahahahahaha oh my fucking God I'm sorry, this was too hilarious not to publish. Especially that last sentence: When rage just forces you into sheer coprolalia... sweet mother of Christ, hahahah!Delete
Fear not, 'tis Lord Tourettes, Bard of the Shit Piss Fart Woods.Delete
They said that you claimed your material has been used in educational settings. What was that about?Delete
To my knowledge, two professors (from different universities/colleges) teaching courses on forensic anthropology used my relevant article on the matter in order to help frame the conflict for their students, and to show how in order to identify the race of an individual, they have to understand the construction of the racial categories they're using. More recently my article on RNT was shared by a psychotherapy centre located in the UK. There are a few other examples, but what I was referring to in my email to Sean was specifically regarding my post on forensic anthropology.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM
They have almost erased the gap in these tests in the UK now. There is even better data of the gaps closing in different IQ tests too. Only problem is the data is hard to get... a lot(not all) of its from this study.
Here are links to some forums discussing some UK data, not sure if the age 11 one is from the millenium cohort. http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/4962460/1/
If I could/know how to upload pictures I could show you the age 11 verbal IQ scores from the millenium study, in which they have substantially to completely erased gaps between Africans and Europeans in UK.
Sometime soon there should be a proper publication using the right data then you can send them crying home to mommy.
I am sorry I cant produce good links, the data has not been properly organised by anyone, because few have payed attention to it, but I just wanted to tell you some good meaty evidence is out there against HBD racists.
Its going to be funny because they are throwing everything they have at an assumption based pretty much mostly off of a stagnation in a gap in the US.
Good luck anyway.Replies
Thanks for providing the information! While I don't think I could sponsor your pictures on the blog (or here in the comments), if you want to email them to me or Tweet them at me, I'll feature them on my Twitter. That being said, I'm not too interested in confronting the HBD crowd at the moment; however I hope they get word of the data once it's organized into a research report.Delete
In their defense, however, they base their data off of countries other than the United States. Most of western Europe is included in that, as well as Canada and South Africa (and sometimes Scandinavian countries like Sweden or Norway). The gap isn't a US exclusive phenomenon, although the nature of it can and does vary globally. I just think it's important to bring this up because the phenomenon is visible, and it's interesting to research regardless of what side one is on. I simply don't like arguing about it, at least online -- these things should stay in the hands of qualified researchers, not hobbyists and enthusiasts who may not understand every facet of the issue.
Thank you for commenting!
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2014 at 3:26 PM
Thats why I said mostly. The funny thing about this info is that they already knew about it long time ago, it was one of them(the only one that actually takes the evidence as is) that found this data.Delete
There is even some more from the Holland cito scores, not as severe as in UK, but still fairly large closures in the gaps.
Its not a complete killer blow, but I just wanted to let you know their argument is a lot weaker now than before.
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2014 at 12:38 PM
In case you hadn't noticed, the discussion continues...ReplyDelete
I haven't really been paying much attention since I have numerous other projects I'm working on. I'll just comment on a few things.Delete
Organizations like the AAA do have superior access to information than we do. They have superior access to unpublished studies (which are not irrelevant in the scientific discourse) as well as grey literature. They also have access to the results of many panels, discussions and meetings that the masses are unfortunately not allowed to participate in. While we do have the same access to the peer-reviewed literature (with the exception of journals/articles you have to pay for), they are clearly at an advantage. Also, much of the research that is commissioned by the AAA can only be accessed by AAA members. I'll ignore the comments on global warming, which are just ridiculous.
It's also not an appeal to authority to defer to the scientific consensus. This is a common misconception of what the fallacy means. The fallacy means someone who is just an authoritative figure, or to cite one researcher as representing the truth in that entire subject. I discuss this on my article on the global warming consensus (ironically). They're also not in authority strictly because of their superior access to literature. It's because they're quite clearly more qualified than any of us are, and they have access to the opinions of not just people who agree with them (like TRS) but to all researchers who attend their conferences and panels.
If my publishing a reflection here was "in secret," then this whole discussion was a secret. I was reflecting on my experiences, which I told Sean I was interested in doing in the first email I sent to him. I think he may have left that out when talking to the guys at TRS. Point being, I was interested in hearing what Sean had to say. I had no interest in debating the subject. I never have. If I have to repeat that point one more time...
If they didn't get what I meant by the difference between the social construction of a category versus how, in this particular case, we have chosen to apply that category, then oh well. I really don't care enough to try to put it in another way, especially when all they're doing now is milking the discussion for as much attention as they can get. The category isn't overwhelmingly a social construct. In this case though, "human races" are a social construct. "Race" is a valid concept. "Human races" aren't. It's really not that hard to understand.
(Totally irrelevant, but for the record, I loved The Lord of the Rings. I may take a shot at writing about it in the future, maybe after I see the new movie. We'll see.)
As long as they admit they're not interested in a genuine, intellectually honest discussion, then I'm okay. That's actually what I was interested in: getting Sean's input to correct information in my article. The moment he starts citing broken links and articles from the Journal of Medical Hypotheses? Fucking lol.
So yeah, thanks for telling me, I guess, but this isn't worth my time anymore. As I said, they're just milking it at this point because I decided not to reply. Not like I expected any less -- in these situations, it's always who gets the last word. If letting them have that is what tickles their reactionary sensitivities and makes them feel good about themselves, then again, I'm okay.
I did warn you, Lex. No matter how dignified and cordial you were, it wouldn't have prevented them from acting this way. There's nothing to gain from a discussion with them. The moment you heard spawktalk was affiliated with them, you should've given no respect.Delete
If I want to take a moment to just be honest, I think this is where your liberal wishes got the best of you. Thinking that there's an agent to speak to behind every hopeless husk of a pawn in the game of politics, pseudoscience and internet trolling - that's beyond naive. They have no autonomy, no matter how unconventional their views are, they're still locked into the associations they have. It's their own form of "political correctness," as you and I have both stated before. They're as hopelessly driven as the dumbasses on the opposite side of the spectrum are.
Based on the comments, it looks like they're gonna milk it more. You know it's only going to bring more stupidity to listen to any of it. We've got things to do, and catering to their need for attention or feeding their lust for unabashed, mediocre critique is not on that list. Remember how little this actually meant in the end.
Ahhhh, the "appeal to consensus is appeal to authority fallacy" thing.... Emil Karlsson did a good article on that on "Debunking Denialism": http://debunkingdenialism.com/2011/08/20/appeal-to-scientific-consensus-is-not-an-appeal-to-popularity-or-authority/Delete
Even "yourlogicalfallacyis" notes that it shouldn't be used to disregard scientific consensus: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority
But I think they've already heard all of this. What'll be funny is listening to them try to defend their positions against something that is unquestionably the truth. Thanks for sticking it out for a little while longer, Alexis. You have support from a lot of people :-)
Alexis & Nick,ReplyDelete
I know both of you aren't involved in this anymore, and I know you want to move past this, but trust me for a moment when I say you absolutely have to click this:
Please do it. Please.Replies
"I admit it, I don't know anything about how the world works. I don't like money or economics, I never have and I never will. It's boring as hell and it's the reason so many people don't have lives. It's either the shitty genes you're born with or it's the shitty environment you're born into, and you're just stuck with it. There's zero choice involved. It's an utterly rigged, utterly pointless game."Delete
Then why does he hate so many people so much? If it's not their choice, how does he hold them accountable?
We finally see Simon's true colours. He's a soul desperate for attention and gratification due to his cognitive dissonance. It's sad.
Wait... so he's seriously considering becoming their star autist so that they can make fun of him and all autistic people? Oh my god are you serious? That's hilariously pathetic! Like, his life is actually really, really pathetic!Delete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2014 at 10:01 PM
Is it really fair of you to make fun of him? I'm annoyed by him too, but if his life is so sad why are you guys making fun of it? Maybe that's the reason he's so annoying and so persistent. Maybe he just needs a break, or a community to join.Delete
Gee I'm so sorry that I'm going to take the piss out on somebody who has been a pain in our ass for the past several months. I'm sorry I'm gonna fuck with him and laugh at him for his misfortunes due to the fact that he put himself in this situation after emailing like a dozen people to come and attack us, simply because we refuted his comments on the blog. 'My god, I lost an argument on the internet! I must wage war!' It's so fucking unfair to him that I'm being a dick to him after he said he wanted to overwhelm us to the point of us abandoning the blog, and brought upon us so much unneeded stupidity.Delete
Really? I'm sympathetic for most people's misfortunes, but come on. He literally said he hates us, and that we deserve to go to hell. He also said, as you can see in his feed, that it would be very beneficial for the world to kill off all the Jews. Do I have any sympathies for this guy whatsoever? No. I don't care how pathetic or sad his life is. I don't care if he's autistic. I don't care if he's poor. He's a dick, and he deserves what he does unto others. I'm not such a pussy-souled little bitch that I'm going to shed tears over his misfortunes. No, I'm gonna laugh at him, and damn loud.
Meet Simon:ReplyDelete
I'm pretty sure he has Downs, not Aspergers.Replies
Came across your blog, after looking up something on reddit. In the discussion, it had become consensus that complete acceptance of Edwards was the established position with most geneticists. I found this suspect. I am not a racial realist. I understand that making racial categories is an incomplete way to account for all genetic variation. Does your argument consider all genetic variation within humans equal? Is there a possibility that the genetic diversity within the traits used for racial categories are more significant from an evolutionary stand point considering they are directly related to adaption?ReplyDeleteReplies
You're correct in that most geneticists agree with Edwards's position, not Lewontin's, because indeed Lewontin's conclusion was arrived at fallaciously (i.e. his premise did not warrant his conclusion). Nevertheless there are even flaws with using correlational structure to determine racial categories, as discussed in depth in the following post, as well as in the comments:
Do I consider all genetic variation within humans equal? No. If you look at a sample of thousands of genetic markers and look at their variation between populations, you see that there are only a few which have been largely a result of adaptation -- those are what we traditionally consider to be the markers that delineate the races, at least roughly. That being said, there are a few problems with using this method to differentiate between populations, and I point these out by asking the following questions:
1: Do classifications based on these few markers offer a good representation of human genetic variation at large?
2: Do these classifications accurately represent the evolutionary history for these markers, or do they just happen to overlap?
3: Do these classifications persist regardless of what type of genetic variation you're looking at?
The answers are "No" to all, for the most part. While the distribution around the mean is wide, racial classification only tells us about a small subset of human genetic variation, even if those are ones that are a result of adaptation. There are others that are a result of adaptation as well that do not easily fit into these categories. Likewise, these same traits that are used to delineate the races may actually be better explained by a different type of classification. Lastly, depending on what you're looking at (SNPs, CNVs, etc.), these clusters that were once thought to be objectively defined can become muddled. I would give my other article a read, since the most information was provided there, not here.
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Sorry about the post fluke yesterday. I have not changed Monday quotes to Sunday (I prefer not to operate my blog on the Lord's Day) that one was meant for today. I schedule out my quote posts months in advance and I mistakenly thought March the 1st was a Monday–which meant that after I realized the mistake yesterday evening, I got to rescheldule quote posts all the way out to July to each be a day later since I calculated the date for each post based off of the previous Monday-post.
Moral of the story: technology is helpful but use it in conjuction with a calender.


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International Watch Co., Schaffhausen "Ingenieur Automatic", Movement No. 2779047, Case No. 2641860, Ref. 3521, Cal. 887/2, 34 mm, circa 1998
An antimagnetic automatic wristwatch with centre seconds and date, sold on March 6th, 1998 to Mannheimer Versicherungs AG, Mannheim - with original box, operating instructions, booklet, blank guarantee card, IWC extract of the archives, original hang tag and steel bracelet - full set
Case: steel, screw back, anti-magnetic protection cap. Dial: black.
IWC's Ingenieur was made for the first time in the middle of the 1950's. With its self-winding mechanical movement, it was a sensation at the time, and has always been considered as the most resistant watch. This concept of wristwatch was meant to be constantly adapted to technical progress in the field. In 1976 will be launched the model "Ingenieur SL" antimagnetic to 80'000 Ampere/Meter and in 1989 the "Ingenieur R" antimagnetic to 500'000 Ampere/Meter.
Case: very good
Dial: very good
Movm.: very good, capable of running, cleaning recommended
Dial: very good
Movm.: very good, capable of running, cleaning recommended


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December 23, 2016
Canada to Ratify CRPD's Optional Protocol
That the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) be appropriately resourced and named as the lead monitoring body in Canada for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); and that the CHRC carry out this function in partnership with other provincial/territorial human rights commissions; and that the CHRC develop an appropriate engagement strategy with organizations representing persons with disabilities as partners in the monitoring process; and that the CHRC appoint a Disability Commissioner to oversee the CRPD monitoring work.
- Canada ratified the CRPD on March 11, 2010.
- In the Government of Canada's Explanatory Memorandum on the CRPD they do not specifically name the Canadian Human Rights Commission as the CRPD monitoring body. They did state that the monitoring body would meet the Paris Principles. They did name the Office for Disability Issues in HRSDC as the governmental focal point for development of an implementation strategy.
- CHRC meets the requirements of the Paris Principles.
- New Zealand has developed an approach similar to this recommendation. It has designated its national human rights commission as the independent mechanism to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the rights contained in the CRPD. It further enhanced this role by appointing a special commissioner with responsibility for disability rights to meet the obligations required by the CRPD. New Zealand also gave a monitoring role to a Convention Coalition made up of organizations representing persons with disabilities.
- Canada named Mines Action Canada (an NGO) some years ago as the body to monitor the Landmines Treaty Ban. Initially this NGO was resourced to do the monitoring work but resources have been greatly diminished and the work is no longer sustainable.
CCD is of the opinion that establishing a separate, independent monitoring mechanism, at this time in Canada, poses several challenges including that it:
- Would likely not succeed given the current political climate;
- Could contribute to segregation and isolation of the human rights of persons with disabilities from other equality rights claims and interests, i.e., the disability community is not a homogenous group, individuals may face discrimination on multiple grounds – disability, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.;
- May lead human rights commissions to reduce emphasis on disability-based discrimination.
Some are concerned that Human Rights Commissions have not met the expectations of equality seekers and thus providing them with a greater role may only exacerbate the problem. Others argue to separate monitoring of CRPD from the Commission would further diminish the capacity of Commissions to fulfill the broad vision equality seekers expect of them.
Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, far left, observes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, second from left, meets members of the Canadian delegation including Steven Estey, center, with the Council of Canadians with Disabilities; Traci Walters, second from right, with Independent Living Canada; and the Canadian Association for Community Living President Bendina Miller, far right, at the United Nations in New York, Thursday March 11, 2010. Canada ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a historic first international treaty that comprehensively recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)


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The most exciting play of Super Bowl LIII came at halftime, on a pass from Joe Montana to Jerry Rice that was intercepted by Deion Sanders. This is not opinion but objective fact, determined with little debate after a game that featured nearly as many punts (14) as points (16) and ended with the New England Patriots doing what most everyone thought they would: winning their sixth Super Bowl.
The Montana pass was actually in an NFL commercial designed to launch a yearlong celebration of the league's 100th season, a spot that included 19 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame turning a black-tie dinner into a scrum for a golden football. Sanders' interception of Montana's pass generated the kind of goose bumps we hope to get from the Super Bowl itself. Alas, that was our only iconic moment of the night.
How boring was the Patriots' 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams? Let's just say that CBS announcers Jim Nantz and Tony Romo were a bit too giddy in the third quarter when Rams punter Johnny Hekker set a Super Bowl record with a 65-yard punt.
"Oh, you've been waiting for a good stat like that!" Romo said with his trademark glee, while Nantz shrieked, "That's the highlight of the game!"
The over/under for Super Bowl LIII was 56, the third highest in Super Bowl history. Happy trails to those of you who took the over. If watching football players score points is your thing -- and based on the NFL's improved television ratings this season, it probably is -- you didn't find much to like about Super Bowl LIII. It was, in fact, the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history, edging the previous mark of 21 points.
The Patriots became the first team in Super Bowl history to win with 13 (or fewer) points, and the Rams tied for the fewest points scored in a Super Bowl. More congratulations are in order for the Rams, the second team to go an entire Super Bowl without scoring a touchdown. (The other time that happened was 47 years ago in Super Bowl VI, when scoring touchdowns was an optional part of the game.)
We didn't see a play in the red zone, on either side, until 7 minutes, 3 seconds remained in the game. What's more, 27 of the Rams' 60 plays went for zero or negative yards. Go ahead and save that one for your grandchildren -- or, better yet, never mention this game again.
Super Bowls happen only once a year, and this one will take its place in annals alongside the previous 52. If we're being honest here, those of us who existed in the 1970s, '80s and '90s would have sacrificed a console TV or two for a Super Bowl decided by 10 points. Yes, there was a time when most Super Bowls ended in blowouts that couldn't keep your attention no matter how many combined points were scored.
If the Patriots have given us anything the past two decades, it's four quarters of Super Bowl drama. Sunday night was the first of their nine appearances since 2001 that was decided by more than one score. The average margin of victory in all other Super Bowls has been 15 points. In that light, let's consider five other Super Bowls that could compete with LIII for the clunkiest clunker of all time.
Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3
Super Bowl VI (Jan. 16, 1972)
Before Sunday night, the 1971 Dolphins were the only team that had failed to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl. They managed a field goal in the second quarter and finished with 185 total yards. But they did rebound to go undefeated the following season. So there.
Miami Dolphins 14, Washington Redskins 7
Super Bowl VII (Jan. 14, 1973)
The Dolphins took a 14-0 lead in the second quarter, and the only thing that prevented a shutout was probably the worst play in Super Bowl history. Maybe you've seen it on your favorite NFL bloopers show. When the Redskins blocked a 42-yard field goal attempt in the fourth quarter, Dolphins place-kicker Garo Yepremian figured it was a good idea to pick up the ball and try to throw it. The ball fell out of his hand, naturally, and then he tried to push it forward in the air. The Redskins' Mike Bass snagged it and went 49 yards for a touchdown.
Dallas Cowboys 52, Buffalo Bills 17
Super Bowl XXVII (Jan. 31, 1993)
The Bills committed nine -- yes, NINE -- turnovers. That included four interceptions and five lost fumbles. They recovered three other fumbles, fortunately, or things might have really gotten out of hand. The Bills played most of the game with backup quarterback Frank Reich (yes, that Frank Reich) after starter Jim Kelly was injured.
San Francisco 49ers 49, San Diego Chargers 26
Super Bowl XXIX (Jan. 29, 1995)
The 49ers scored two touchdowns on their first seven plays, including passes of 44 yards to Jerry Rice and 51 yards to Ricky Watters. They led 14-0 with 10:05 left in the first quarter, and in essence, the game was already over. It was 28-10 at halftime and 42-10 in the third quarter when most television viewers dozed off, according to scientific data available at the time.
San Francisco 49ers 55, Denver Broncos 10
Super Bowl XXIV (Jan. 28, 1990)
The 49ers scored four first-half touchdowns, led 27-3 at halftime and basically ran out the clock in the second half. The Broncos finished with 12 first downs and 167 offensive yards. There was no garbage time in this game, but it was a prime napping opportunity.
Honorable mention: Super Bowl XLVIII (Seattle Seahawks 43, Denver Broncos 8); Super Bowl XXXVII (Tampa Bay Buccaneers 48, Oakland Raiders 21)


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In an attempt to combat bedbugs, members of the City Council have proposed various pieces of legislation, including the regulation
of the sale and disposal of mattresses. One proposal would require that every mattress be sold with a container marked "Used Mattress — For Disposal Only," which would be used when the mattress is being discarded. Another would prohibit the sale of reconditioned mattresses entirely. In addition, there are more broad-based proposals, including efforts to establish a task force and a training program for exterminating bedbugs in the city.
On Tuesday afternoon, the City Council committees on consumers affairs, sanitation and health held a joint hearing on various proposals that have been largely championed by Gale A. Brewer, a councilwoman from the Upper West Side. Among those that testified were representatives from the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Sanitation Department and housing agencies, as well as exterminators and entomologists ( including Louis Sorkin from the American Museum of Natural History).
Bedbugs had largely been eliminated with DDT, but in the late 1980s, entomologists started being alerted to live infestations. Now, infestations may be approaching the levels of 50 years ago, before DDT was used. Bedbug complaints to 311 doubled between 2006 and 2008 to more than 22,000, according to city records. In 2007 and 2008 alone, the calls jumped 34 percent. The city has attempted a modest education campaign, but other cities have been considerably more aggressive, notably Cincinnati and Toronto.
Cincinnati and the surrounding Hamilton County formed a joint task force on bedbugs, which issued a report [pdf] that included various legislative proposals. Among them: requirements that a landlord must disclose whether an apartment had been previously infested, mandatory treatment protocols for the sale of used furniture, and the creation of a central database that exterminators must contribute to so that infestations can be tracked citywide.
Toronto's Public Health Department has created a comprehensive bedbug Web site with fact sheets available in 13 languages and half a dozen places to take bedbug samples for identification.
In contrast, New York City has more modest public education. Essentially it boils down to single fact sheets in English and Spanish for residents, hotels and exterminators. "I feel that it's way insufficient, and that's putting it mildly, in a city of eight million people," Ms. Brewer said. "It's only in two languages."
Ms. Brewer is optimistic about the formation of a task force, though there is considerable debate over the specifics, such as the mattress legislation.
"I was glad that all the questions are all out there," she said in an interview during the hearings. It is a multifaceted problem involving the city's health department, public housing agencies, the Police Department (since prisons are infested), the Sanitation Department (since it involves disposal of furniture), and Department of Consumer Affairs. "You have to do it as a collaborative effort," she said.


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Ann B. Makena
Westbow Press (132 pp.)
$11.95 paperback, $8.99 e-book
ISBN: 978-1-973605-09-6; November 7, 2017
Makena (Become Whole, Unbreakable, and Unstoppable, 2016, etc.) offers a Christian-themed parenting guidebook that
concisely covers a wide array of topics.
The author opens with a statement of encouragement that many readers of parenting books will find familiar, asserting
that there's no such thing as a perfect parent, and that improvement is always possible: "Acknowledge when things
aren't right, learn from it, work toward a better tomorrow, and show your love," she writes. "Forgive others by loving
and forgiving yourself." She sounds this note of pragmatic compassion throughout the book, shifting her attention from
one aspect of parenthood to another, addressing such topics as patterns of honesty, dealing with grief, time management,
and encouraging a child's sense of uniqueness. The consistent background theme is the author's ardent Christianity; this
is very much a book about raising Christian children. "Train them the reverence of God in all their ways," she instructs
parents. "When no one else can be close enough, God is always there." The fundamentalist tone of some sections may
worry some readers, but most of it is couched in general terms of hope and trust, and the underlying love effectively
comes through. Communication is the cornerstone of virtually every piece of advice here: "Communication is nonverbal,
verbal, and two-way," she reminds readers. "It must all be understood correctly to foster strong, lasting relationships."
She also advocates for fostering children's reading habits and keeping a watchful eye on their nutrition; the book also
broaches questions regarding divorce, single parenting, adoption, and trauma—all in warm, empathetic tones that will
appeal to both parents and children. That said, Makena never lets her compassionate tone prevent her from offering
tough advice; when it comes to questions of blame and boundary-setting, for instance, she's clear but firm.
A comprehensive, highly approachable child-rearing manual.
Kirkus Indie, Kirkus Media LLC, 6411 Burleson Rd., Austin, TX 78744
Ann Makena is a wife and a mother. She is a Clinical/Hospice chaplain with more than ten years experience. She is an independent instructor through community education and mainly instructs on intercultural communications and relations, parenting and Swahili, among other adult personal growth subjects. She co-hosts a local TV show within twin cities metro area. Ann is an ordained pastor and active in her church. She is an inspirational speaker. She is the founder of City's Heart Cry Ministries (501(c)3) in USA and Heart Cry organization NGO in Kenya, providing home, health and education for orphaned and abandoned children. She is the author of "Become Whole, Unbreakable and Unstoppable" and "Knowing and Yielding to The Voice That Counts" She is a co-author of "Miracles Still Happen, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE-EXPLAIN ME" with her son Nate Munene (who was not expected to survive at birth has endured major medical complications and is thriving). Ann has found success in parenting in spite of dealing with severe medical conditions and believes trusting God and being intentional brings about success. Ann has M.A in Ministry leadership, M.A in Theological studies, B.A in Psychology-Counseling and B.A. in Divinity. She has C.P.E. (Clinical Pastoral Education). . "I have a heart for oppressed women and single mothers of the world. I enjoying spending time with family, reading, writing, quiet time, and gospel/inspirational music among other interests. I stand on, Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths," NKJV."


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