Jerry S Rainforth

Israel sees 400% increase in immigration from Russia in 2022

About 61,000 immigrants total arrived in Israel in 2022 by mid-November, more than twice as many as the same time in 2021
All Israel News Staff | November 20, 2022

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Nikki Grace

The plan, the plan hatched in DC, the bedlam just outside the gates of hell...

Excerpt from James Howard Kuntsler

"Now Mr. Garland has activated one particular federal attorney, Jack Smith, with a long record as a partisan attack dog, as special counsel to finally get the job done against Mr. Trump, the proverbial indictment-worthy ham sandwich awaiting a DC District grand jury. Any cockamamie charge will do as long as it’s a felony. Mr. Garland’s strategy is two-fold: 1) to negate Mr. Trump’s remaining political career; and 2) set up a situation that will permit all DOJ attorneys and FBI officers to demur from questioning before Republican majority congressional committees about everything-under-the-sun on the grounds that the questions are germane to "ongoing investigations” that can’t be compromised. That’s the game."

It is demonically genius.....

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Steven Chase

Wow, they are still at it.
"lost her legs because of Covid complications".
I looked up her case. She was born with a congenital heart condition, was also diagnosed with myocarditis, rhabdomyolysis, mild pneumonia, cyanosis and acidosis" (Yahoo News reports.)

She was taken into hospital and given a TandemHeart – a mechanical circulatory assistance device – and hours after that was placed on continuous dialysis because of her failing kidneys."

How extremely odd that absolutely NONE of these salient facts are mentioned in this alarmist news story.
And when "tandem heart" is inserted., guess where the insertion point is? Yep - in your leg!!

So, device implanted via her legs. Maybe sepsis, even MRSA?
They aren't telling us the full story. There is a point where economy with the truth becomes downright lying:

ht lying:

https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DE5XXRJrBVas&fbclid=IwAR2RIcew_QWlr7nQnSvgakvgCijdCHUZRgNsL359VOznunSy5qIG5PCJFKs

‘I am so grateful that I’m still here’: Claire Bridges prepares for heart surgery, looks forward to
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Al Moskowitz

This is from the Chase Bank website.

"Structural barriers in the U.S. have created profound racial inequalities, made worse by the pandemic. JPMorgan Chase is committed to helping close the racial wealth gap and driving economic inclusion by providing more opportunities for homeownership, increasing access to affordable housing, growing small business and bolstering financial health for Black, Hispanic and Latino communities across the nation."

Mark my words... this attitude and belief system will make this problem MUCH worse and waste precious resources in the process. It will also put discriminatory practices in place that limit deserving persons' access to the resources being discussed.

There are NO STRUCTURAL BARRIERS in the United States that are based on race that keep people of color from succeeding - in fact, it is JUST the opposite. There are already a plethora of opportunities that are based on unnaturally lowered standards that are in place in an attempt to change this condition. NONE OF THESE HAVE EVER BEEN SUCCESSFUL nor will they ever be successful.

If we want to close the racial wealth gap, we have to fundamentally change the culture of those groups who are currently adversely positioned. When entire communities of people are taught from birth to blame other groups for their problems, resent authority, assign NO value to pursuing education and/or hard work, and so on, further lowering the bar and taking opportunities away from those people who currently deserve them will not achieve the desired result and will make these problems MUCH worse for everyone.

This madness HAS to stop...


Tim adds:

So, in other words they want to pump the housing bubble back up. This is the very reason we had the big crash in '08. Banks were lending money to people who could not pay it back at the behest of the government over "equity" and "systemic racism". Now Chase will do it again. Brilliant!

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Timothy Birdnow

Perhaps the greatest vice in our modern world is ingratitude. Nobody is grateful for anything these days, thinking the world owes them. It infects our thinking at all levels, and is at the root of so many of our problems, be they political, social, economic, or what have you.

Just look at, say, the push to forgive college debt; that comes because a bunch of spoiled young people think they are entitled to free college and are ungrateful for the opportunity given them. But not to pick on young people; there are multiple other examples involving people of all ages.

We are ungrateful for the huge bounty of food we enjoy (something few generations have had). We are ungrateful for the benefits of electricity, or easy transportation, or instant communication. We see that as just the way the world is, but in reality these are miracles of modernity, gifts from God.

We are ungrateful for our spouses and families. Many younger people don't want to marry or raise children any longer. They see these great gifts as chores.

We are ungrateful for our system of government which used to allow us the freedom to chart our own destiny. Few countries have ever had that. It's why so many people seek to come to America.

We are ungrateful for our warm homes, our clothes, our clean water. We see all that as our due.

And most of all we are horribly ungrateful to our God. How many attend church services at all? How few realize the number of people who died to give us that right, and who died seeking it. Yet were are horribly ungrateful for the ability to thank the one who gave us this wonderful life we enjoy and believe we so richly deserve.

Ingratitude is at the heart of the rise of socialism, which is ingratitude enshrined as economic doctrine. It is the core of the angry Leftist movements like Black Lives Matter. It is the cornerstone of most anti-Americanism today.

We are a selfish, grasping, greedy, ungrateful lot. Most of us can be characterized by Dickens:

"A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”

While we snicker at this description of Ebaneazer Scrooge, is it really all that different from many of our friends and neighbors in modern America?

Our modern Scrooges covet not gold but free internet and free college and free healthcare. They ask not for shillings but for unlimited wifi. It may be the vehicle of wealth is different but in the end the American public (and indeed the rest of the world) is not much different.

Liberalism/socialism is predicated on envy and covetousness. And to be envious and covetous one must be ungrateful for what one has.

So capitalists are greedy? Perhaps. But how does that excuse your being ungrateful to God and to your country? Does it make anything better for you or anyone? So politicians are corrupt. How does that change your blessings? How is it you can say you don't have anything to be thankful for? They will get theirs in due course; God is just. But you and I will get ours in due course too. We should want ours to be a reward and not a punishment for being ungrateful brats.

Which is what Western Civilization has become. God blessed us tremendously and we have rejected both Him and those blessings. Now we are actively trying to tear them down in some quixotic quest for "equity" which is code for stealing from others what we think is owed us.

Inflation is ingratitude. We are not grateful for our fair share, or for what we have earned. We want more so we print more money. That steals wealth from our children and grandchildren, but we get ours! A grateful people wouldn't do that.

When Jesus cured 12 people of leprosy (then a horrible scourge which led to utter ruin) only one returned to thank Him. Jesus remarked on this astounding ingratitude. But we are even worse now, choosing to reject not just the blessings of God but His very existence because it crimps our style. You can't steal from your neighbors tax dollars while being grateful. You can't abort babies. You can't indulge in deviant sexual behavior. Gratitude requires obedience to standards and norms.

So on this Thanksgiving Day let us ponder the monstrous ingratitude of our times, and furthermore think on the countless blessings we have had bestowed on us by our God. Our problems all stem from our failure to do precisely that. And our hope for the future lies not in political battles or in getting wealthy so much as in our willingness to thank the Almighty for the gifts He has bestowed on us and being willing to accept the gifts he offers without complaint.

At the end of A Christmas Carol Scrooge has to make a choice between being grateful for what he had and using those gifts or continuing to be ungrateful and hording them. His choice is stark; he will die and go to Hell if he doesn't repent. We must do likewise or suffer a similar fate.

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Timothy Birdnow

The story of the Pilgrim's landing and plight at Plymouth has been told many times. I just thought I'd add a few details.

First, the Pilgrims were not the only people on the Mayflower. Of the 107 people on-board only 32 of them were Pilgrims (Puritans).  These people had first migrated to the Netherlands and found life not to their liking there. So they returned to England and basically snuck out as it was not exactly illegal to leave but not exactly cricket either.  (They had immigrated to Holland in the dead of night to avoid any engantlements with the authorities, who were not keen on anybody not following the sate religion.)

The Mayflower was a rather poor vessel, and was a replacement for the original ship the Pilgrims were going to take. The Speedwell was first commissioned to take the Pilgrims, but problems with the ship led to them switching to the Mayflower, which was going to carry non-Pilgrims, originally.

The ship set sail from Rotherhithe in southeast London for the New World, and the trip was gruelling. So gruelling they ran out of beer before making landfall.

That was the clincher. The Mayflower needed beer (nobody would drink water alone in those days for fear of water-born illness) and the ship was off course, winding up well north of Jamestown. They decided to land to find acorns and hopefully make acorn beer. Bottoms up!

The first site they found wasn't too great, and they ran into some natives, so they moved north to Plymouth. It was perfect; uninhabited but with cleared land. That was because a tribe of Indians were wiped otu by a plague. They settled on the spot and signed the Mayflower Compact, agreeing to throw in together, Pilgrim and non-Pilgrim.

They were lucky, providentially lucky. They almost immediately met a man who said to them "Men of England welcome!" in accented but acceptable English!  Turns out Samoset was also looking for beer, and asked "where's the beer" almost immediately.

He would be replaced as translator by Tisquantum, better known as Squanto, who spoke better English than Samoset. Can you imagine; in the wilderness not one but TWO people know how to speak English.

The Patuxet tribe was eager for good relations with the English settlers; they had guns, which Messozoit, Chief of the Pautuxet, hoped to employ against his tribal enemies.

But winter was coming and there was little food. Starvation and sickness claimed the lives of 45 of the 102 colonists that first winter. And the Pilgrims worked to build several houses of dubious quality, much like their English homes. They did not have fire places, but just a fire pit and smoke hole. The fires had to be extinguished at night so as to avoid burning the place down. It was  cold, hungry, and miserable.

And the Pilgrims entered into an economic pact where all shared alike. It was socialism. Nobody worked; everyone found it more appealing to go fishing or whatnot. The colony was starving.

So the Indians taught the starving Pilgrims (who had first tried to grow barley and other European food) how to grow corn and squash and beans.

And the rules were changed so everyone had their own patches of ground and were responsible for their own food.

The end result? A bountiful harvest. The Pilgrims decided to host a feast to thank God for His beneficience and they invited the Indians (no, they weren't thanking the Indians, but rather God.)

The end result was the colony was able to survive.

Bear in mind, none of these people were cut out for this. Few were farmers much less frontiersman, and few were builders. It was a real bear. And they didn't learn from the Indians fast enough. Later they would build the bent-sapling frame structures called wigwams, and cover them with birch bark or grass, but that first year it was standard, timber framed structures as were made in England (timber framing requires cutting heavy beams and is a huge amount of labor, atlhough they last nearly forever.)

At any rate, they stopped for beer and stayed for the food.

And so with Plymouth in the north and Jamestown in the south the English were in a good position to colonise North America. A new colony would be established at Boston, and then Rhode Island, and Maryland, and the Carolinas. The Dutch would try to settle New York but eventually would give it to the English.

But had Plymouth failed things might have been very different.

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The Mayflower Compact:

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.

IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.

Mr. John Carver,
Mr. William Bradford,

Mr Edward Winslow,

Mr. William Brewster.

Isaac Allerton,

Myles Standish,

John Alden,

John Turner,

Francis Eaton,

James Chilton,

John Craxton,
John Billington,
Joses Fletcher,
John Goodman,
Mr. Samuel Fuller,
Mr. Christopher Martin,
Mr. William Mullins,
Mr. William White,
Mr. Richard Warren,
John Howland,
Mr. Steven Hopkins,
Digery Priest,
Thomas Williams,
Gilbert Winslow,
Edmund Margesson,
Peter Brown,
Richard Britteridge
George Soule,
Edward Tilly,
John Tilly,
Francis Cooke,
Thomas Rogers,
Thomas Tinker,
John Ridgdale
Edward Fuller,
Richard Clark,
Richard Gardiner,
Mr. John Allerton,
Thomas English,
Edward Doten,
Edwar

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Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation:

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,
Secretary of State

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George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be -- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks -- for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation -- for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed -- for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted -- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions -- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually -- to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed -- to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord -- To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us -- and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

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Ike was a prophet:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eisenhower-farewell/

"...Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in labaratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society..."

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A liberal's paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.
And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist:
It's called Prison."
Sheriff Joe Arpaio

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1 Right he is!

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at November 23, 2022 04:39 PM (ISUTu)

2 Gotta love Sheriff Joe!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 24, 2022 01:33 AM (twTX3)

3 )) It would be nice if the government could make it so that the prisoners also somehow did good, and not just used. | Junk removal, Bathroom remodeling, Cat sitters.

Posted by: Becky at November 24, 2022 03:15 AM (IRMof)

4 Especially cat sitters, Becky...

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at November 24, 2022 10:49 PM (yz49x)

5 Becky, that was why they used to make them do roadwork and such; it accomplished something useful while they served their time. We don't do that anymore, and so prison has become finishing school for criminals.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at November 25, 2022 11:40 AM (WoADO)

6 And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist:

Posted by: Breitling Replica at May 23, 2023 09:21 AM (SUYyh)

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Nikki Grace

The attack on the world population is relentless and directed. Who decides that the world population is too much? By what metric do they say there are enough humans? It is my theory that a population of at least 7 billion is required to build and expand a modern day civilization that raises all humans. Geniuses are only 3% of the population. They are required to build and maintain this modern civilization. In the population, generally females are slightly higher than the average to males, however in the geniuses men are at least 10 geniuses to 1 female genius. The monsters who wish to reduce population to 500 million are fools, they will not be able to maintain a civilization on such low numbers. Reduce population and you reduce the number of geniuses to a level where they cannot form, built and maintain the civilization. That is my theory and I am sticking to it

Tim adds:

Nikki those were some brilliant points there. A world of 1 billion will have just 3 million geniuses. Go to half a billion and you have half that. The lower the population the less innovation. There is a reason why human scientific achievement and technology was so much more primitive not all that long ago; it was because there were not enough bright people with enough leisure time to advance our knowledge and technology. Once the world's population increased enough we had a bunch of such individuals. These people who want to depopulate will return us to a Dark Age. We;ll not have enough people to fix the technology we have, so it will wind up being largely lost. We won't have any daring people to go where we need to go to get us out of the trap (e.g. into space) and we have used up the easy to get resources, so none will be coming. With this low population none will be obtained as few will have the drive and the means to make it happen. (We could go to space and get everything we need but we won't have the ability, or the brains, to do so.) The end result will be a civilizational collapse. These people are STUPID!

What we have now is a grop of people who have the power to impose this depopulation scheme on Mankind. That was never true in the past. BTW People with hope for a better future have children. Those who despair or are too selfish do not. That's probably why the media keeps the endless drumbeat of disaster and fear going; they want us all defeated and in despair. Less kids that way.

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James Doogue mused about whether dogs or cats are left-handed or right handed. Interesting question.

I have another; are left-handed people more conservative or liberal?

One study suggests that there are more left-handed people in Blue states than in Red. Another study argues the opposite.

There seems to be little agreement on this issue.

I once read that left-handedness is a result of brain damage - or brain malformity - in utero. The brain has to rewire for some reason and so it flips sides. I don't know; my left-handed wife doesn't seem to take kindly to my assertion she's brain-damaged, but what the heck! I have to be careful or I'LL wind up brain damaged, right handed or no.

At any rate, it's clear there is no real solid research on this subject that has come to a consensus.

The Left has long claimed Conservatives are driven by fear, and point to studies of self-identified conservatives (on college campuses, which makes such self-identification dubious) having large amydala than their liberal brethren, whom they claim have larger anterior cingulate cortex's.  The amygdala is a much older part of the brain and is the driver of emotions, particularly fear, while the ACC is newer and involves complexity and rational thought.

Pardon me if I guffaw!

I wrote about one such study years ago at American Thinker and debunked the methodology.

This type of research gets rehashed over and over by other scientists, who want to prove it as true, especially in the field of psychology, which has always been politicized. Researchers know they will benefit greatly from "proving" this sort of claim. Debunking it will get them nowhere.

And of course a Google search is unlikely to find the papers debunking this because Google is first and foremost a political critter.

It's stupid beyond words though. People move from one side of the  political spectrum to the other all the time. David Horowitz, for example, was an actual Communist until he flipped. Now he's considered a radical right winger. David Brock, the former American Spectator writer, is now solidly a leftist. It happens.

And of course there is no place on this scale for a Libertarian, or someone who is solidly apolitical. Or an anarchist.

And there is no gradation of HOW Conservative or Liberal a person may be. There is a difference between Jimmy Carter and Joseph Stalin. (Actually, I've known liberals to call Carter a Conservative, btw.) 

As a result, the definition of "left" and "right" is suspect here. There is no objective criteria for determining that.

And a "right winger" at UC Berkeley is likely not very right wing, as a left-winger at CPAC is probably not all that liberal. But, given their place in the world, they may actually see themselves as such.

No, I rather suspect this is but a political attack using science. It's what we called "blinding them with science".

And if it is true, or everyone believes it so? Will the Right be cut slack for being victims? I rather doubt it.

But instead the Conservative will probably be treated as the Soviets used to treat dissidents; put in mental hospitals as "insane" and drugged. That's what Stalin did to people who didn't believe in the glorious Revolution.

At any rate the Amygdala is located on both sides of the brain, buried in folds of gray matter. It is said the larger portion is on the right hemisphere. That would control the left side of a person, of course. So logically Conservatives should be more likely to be left handed.

BTW, the anterior cingulate cortex is a collar-shaped organ in both hemispheres that wraps around the Corpus Collusum, the connective tissue that allows the hemispheres to communicate. Is the enlarged ACC strangling the Corpus Collusum?  Choking it off? Or is it over-facilitating communications to the point where the poor individual cannot differentiate things because everything is jumbled together in their brains? 

And if all of this is true, why do we not see it in animals?  Are there "conservative" and "liberal" dogs or cats?

Another point, this article puts it a little differently:

"There’s less work on this, but it has been found liberals tend to be better at changing their behaviour, when the situation demands it. And the brain region responsible for that is correspondingly larger."

In other words, liberals are less willing to stay within accepted norms of behavior or of decency, and will do whatever they think will work for them. This dovetails with my own theory that liberals do not want restrictions on their behavior but want instead some authority to be there to catch them when they fall while Conservatives believe in self-government and restraining themselves.  In the end the societies that have organized themselves along Progressive lines have wound up in chaos and destruction. "Conservative" societies usually are orderly and prosperous. They accept no restraint. In other words Liberals make gods of themselves, and Conservatives look to a God outside of themselves.

Most of these studies and articles try to claim Liberals are more rational than Conservatives. In fact, that last article compared liberals to Spock and Conservatives to McCoy. That's a crock; the Left is far more passionate, as even a casual glance should illustrate. They are much less restrained in their usage of language, for example. Liberal chat rooms are full of profanity and wishes for terrible things like raping political opponents. You don't find that among  Conservatives. Progressives will cheat in elections. Progressives will riot. Progressives will march and scream. That all bespeaks a more passionate approach than the far more reserved Conservatives.

It is part of why the whole world has moved continuously to the Left over the last century; the passion is on the side of the Left.

Anyway, here is James Doogue's post on dog-handedness: more...

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No doubt the Democrats are laundering campaign money throug Ukraine, sending taxpayer dollars there and having it sent back through dummy corporations and the like to wind up in their warchests. Why did the Donkeys have so much more cash than the GOP in this last election? They've been doing this for years now.But Ukraine offers an unique opportunity for this with no watchdogs checking on where the cash is going.

Joanne Moon-Yarwood

Zelensky / Ukraine is making another trip to the US with all the big media leaders ,asking for more money .After trying to say Russia was the one that shot the missile into Poland to try and get world war 3 started and failed .NATO and the US just won’t commit tothe big war war ,YET .I think it’s time after allowing Zelensky to destroy his nation and all the money that was send to him .It will be interesting who makes the most money from this war .It sure won’t be all the dead Men ,women and children or the survivors that have lost their homes and had to migrate to other nations to survive .Zelensky will be wined and dined by US treasury Yellen,New York Times,LarryFink CEO ,Blackrock and Sam Blackman - Fried if he shows up .Talk about money people ! While his citizens ,are dead or dying with winter on top of them .

Where would you choose to be ? Doesn’t anybody want peace ,or is all that money being Circulated amony the movers and shakers ,more important ?

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And here we are shipping vast sums of cash to the Ukrainians for a war that is already lost in essence when we could be trying to get aid to Iranian revolutionaries. Iran was and is the major funder of terrorism in the Middle East. We could stop the chaos and devestation there if we could remove Iran as the terror master. Money much better spent than in the Ukraine, which only makes the world a more dangerous place.

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Blogging will be light today. The editor of the Aviary finds himself in a butt kicking contest and he just lost both legs.

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Selwyn Duke

So here's what was going on at Maricopa County drop boxes. I guess all these people just have families the size of the Duggar clan, right (and they're all of voting age)?

Notice that many of them are, quite conveniently, wearing face diapers so they can hide their identities.

This is partially how they stole AZ from Lake and Masters.

It Sure Looks Like There Was A Lot Of F*ckery At The Maricopa County Dropboxes
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Fear not! We can always have another pandemic or, if Biden gets his way, a nice little nuclear exchange.


World Population Hits 8 Billion, U.N. Says - WSJ

Actually, we live on less than 10% of the Earth's surface, and the heavy concentration - as defined by artificial space covering natural parts of the Earth,  only comes to .6% according to  Global Land Cover SHARE database, produced in 2014. So there is plenty of room left for humanity.

In fact humanity has a relatively small population compared to other creatures here. There are between 10 and a hundred QUADRILLION ants on Earth. We constitute just 0.1% of all life on Earth. Plenty of room for us.

And most of the Western countries are quite stable in terms of population. Actually, they are declining. It's the Third World that is overpopulated.

But the Progressives believe in the old Club of Rome study and in Paul Ehrlicht, who predicted starvation and poverty by the end of the 20th century because of overpopulation. They want to cull the herd, to reduce us to a few hundred million.

There is even a crazy group called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement that wants humanity to commit hari-kari and thus leave the planet to return to the state of nature.

And in a declining world the power of the state grows even greater as the few cannot produce what is needed and must turn to government to dole out what is left.

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Steven Chase

"Elon Musk is so erratic and alarming, maybe Twitter needs to go or be nationalized" -Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO Anti-Defamation League, who lied about Russia bombing Poland and demanded WW III begin just days ago.

TRANSLATION: "Oh, we lost another institution. Time for Gov't to take it over"
PS - I am not a Trump supporter. I support Free Speech unequivocally.

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Kamala pledges to defend the Philippines against - whom?

http://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/2022/11/to-who-is-this-comforting.html

It looks increasingly likely a world war is immanent.

• In an official visit to Manila, US Vice President Kamala Harris pledged that Washington would come to the Philippines' defense if a conflict were to break out in the South China Sea.

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