A Few Things....

.... don't forget to turn your clocks forward.


(Lousy farmers....)


This time last year, earthquakes struck Tohoku and Fukushima (later on Miyagi) with subsequent tsunamis that killed, injured and displaced thousands. One year on, things have been rebuilt.



Why multiculturalism as cultural and moral relevance is wrong:

In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous marriage.

That is a key finding of a new University of British Columbia-led study that explores the global rise of monogamous marriage as a dominant cultural institution. The study suggests that institutionalized monogamous marriage is rapidly replacing polygamy because it has lower levels of inherent social problems.

"Our goal was to understand why monogamous marriage has become standard in most developed nations in recent centuries, when most recorded cultures have practiced polygyny," says UBC Prof. Joseph Henrich, a cultural anthropologist, referring to the form of polygamy that permits multiple wives, which continues to be practiced in some parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America.

"The emergence of monogamous marriage is also puzzling for some as the very people who most benefit from polygyny -- wealthy, powerful men -- were best positioned to reject it," says Henrich, lead author of the study that was recently published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. "Our findings suggest that that institutionalized monogamous marriage provides greater net benefits for society at large by reducing social problems that are inherent in polygynous societies."

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Obama's contraception/sterilisation mandate will shut down Catholic charities, like The Little Sisters of the Poor's care for the impoverished elderly:

The Little Sisters of the Poor say the HHS contraception and sterilization mandate threatens their continued ministry to the impoverished elderly. They are “strongly objecting” to the federal rule and say it should be repealed as soon as possible.

“Because the Little Sisters of the Poor cannot in conscience directly provide or collaborate in the provision of services that conflict with Church teaching, we find ourselves in the irreconcilable situation of being forced to either stop serving and employing people of all faiths in our ministry – so that we will fall under the narrow exemption – or to stop providing health care coverage to our employees,” the order said on March 1.

“Either path threatens to end our service to the elderly in America. The Little Sisters are fervently praying that this issue will be resolved before we are forced to take concrete action in response to this unjust mandate.”

Their order serves 13,000 needy elderly of all faiths in 31 countries around the world. In the U.S., it has 30 homes for the elderly, accommodating 2,500 low-income seniors.

The Department of Health and Human Services mandate requires employers to provide coverage for “preventive health.” It defines this coverage to include sterilization and contraception, including some abortion-causing drugs. The Obama administration’s proposed compromise would mandate that insurance companies, not employers, provide this coverage.

The mandate’s religious exemption applies only to employers who primarily serve and employ their coreligionists and have the inculcation of religious values as their primary purpose.

The Little Sisters of the Poor said that even the indirect subsidizing of such benefits is “unconscionable to us.” Their longstanding health insurance has always explicitly excluded sterilization, contraception and abortion from covered services and this policy has “never been a matter of controversy in our homes.”

The sisters warned that the successful implementation of the federal rule could set a precedent for “further intrusion of government into health care.”

Speaking of unfairness, soak in the compassion for a remorseful man from the left:

""and in knowing that this decision did not come from me; I would have taken the chance on triplets, even with all the work and effort it would have required."
How nice of him to shoulder that enormous burden. What about the strongly increased danger to life and health of his wife (not to mention the triplets)? If she'd suffered, I'm sure he'd found solace in the knowledge that he was doing god's will. Bastard."

"I agree...he does at least sound like a bit of a "dick". If he was so "hands off" with the selective abortion, I have little doubt he would have also been "hands off" as an active parent of triplets!
As IVF participants, they had to know the risk of mulitples, and this would/should have been discussed before entering into it.
"She made the choice"...sounds like he gets a pass either way."

"Hardly two good Catholics you are talking about here. He moans to his god, but used IVF to get to this point. What were they thinking?

He seems to take great joy in dumping all the guilt on his wife. I agree...bastard."

This is the left. Take a good look. The next time anyone of them tells you how enlightened, reasonable, compassionate or noble they are (and they'll try because they love the sound of their own voices), remember this. They would laugh at a train wreck.



More examples of our "social betters":

To get just a glimpse of the dementia that has crippled the cognitive functioning of what was once the western world’s brave and lively tradition of intellectual dissent, feminist solidarity and progressive internationalism, all you need to do is look in on any one of the dozens of vanity projects being staged across Canada at the moment under the Israeli Apartheid Week marquee.

In Halifax, “radical educator” Evan Coole facilitates a Deconstructing Pink Imperialism workshop to look at television commercials in ways that provide instruction in the avoidance of imagining straight male Muslims as “a collective enemy of queers,” with an emphasis on Israel, which shows up in the brochure as Occupied Palestine. In Toronto, Trish Salah, a professor with something called the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal, draws the connections between Palestinians, health care for transgendered people and anti-capitalist activism in a reading of poems from her work in progress, titled Lyric Sexology.

At the University of British Columbia, up from Seattle’s Antioch University, Global and Gender Studies professor Nada Elia, formerly of the Anti-Militarism and Anti-Occupation Task Force of the Women of Color Against Violence Steering Collective, but now with the Steering Collective of The Critical Ethnic Studies Association, delivers the Israeli Apartheid Week keynote lecture and elaborates upon what she calls “the currently non-existent academic freedom in the U.S., Israel, and Palestine.”

At the University of Guelph, Professor Michael Keefer, the former chair of the literature grant adjudication committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, who says al-Qaida’s mass atrocity of Sept. 11, 2001 was “organized (and subsequently covered up) by civilian and military officials at the highest levels of the Bush regime,” delivers a lecture on the humane, rational and peaceful necessity of Judenstaatrein. In polite academic circles nowadays, it is known as boycotting, divesting from and imposing sanctions upon Israel.

This is the left. You cannot make these things up. It's not just lunacy. Heartlessness (see above), anti-semitism and racism are their calling cards. They are the bullies they want everyone to be afraid.



Why don't we stand up to bullies?



Look- one can either manage an oppressive police state or allow a free market wherein people use their talents and resources to create a thriving and picturesque community. They can't do both.



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And now, an historical cat for Caturday.