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Intelligence and Evolution (Part IV)

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So far, we have explored the adaptations of man in the Northern regions of Europe during the Ice Age. As climate change became more severe, the tribes gravitated to refuge locations to insure their survival. Here, mankind learned how to live in larger communities. As the glaciers began to melt, farming techniques and livestock were brought to Europe by immigrants from the Middle East who later became adept at financial dealings. One of the major refuge areas on the Russian steppes in present day Ukraine became the center for a high level of cultural development known as the kurgan culture for their unique style of burial.

The kurgan culture grew out of the interaction of two related tribal groups originating in the Altay mountains region of Asia. One group migrated west as far as Spain and Portugal for which they are known for their elaborate cave paintings. They intermarried with women of the local tribes. This we know from their DNA passed down to our own generation. The other group migrated east eventually reaching northern India where they became the Aryans including the Brahman nobility. The two cultures came into contact in east Europe before 3000 B.C. and mixed with other peoples including Semites from present day Iran, Finno-Ugric speaking people from north and east, and others from the Caucasus mountain region. From this kurgan culture came various innovations including the domestication of the horse, and it gradually spread throughout Europe and eastward as far as Persia, India and even China.

The Norse called the Ukraine region from which the kurgan culture arose Asgard. Warrior bands from this region soon spread, which included the Hellenes into Greece and the Trojans into Asia Minor. As their men inherited genes from thousands of generations coping with the cold Northern climate, they became better adapted at ruling those of the warm Mediterranean climate. The Mediterranean folk lived by trade and had a great deal of leisure time in which to develop philosophy, music, art and commerce. Out of this merger arose the great Western civilization of Greece and Rome.


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Intelligence and Evolution (Part III)

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What differentiates men from each other are mutations, incremental variations in DNA structure occurring generationally over time.

The current topic explores why men of Earth's northern regions became more adept at solving problems than those further south or women generally. The key to understanding this dilemma is survival.

Northern men were in a continuous battle to provide food, clothing and shelter for their families within kinship groups. Climate change was making this struggle more difficult as each year transpired in what we call the Ice Age. As a result, certain characteristics acquired through mutations were more likely to result in group survival and more children reaching childbearing age. Men of each generation became a little bit stronger, braver, and endowed with more common sense than their immediate ancestors on average.

The role of women was different. The woman had to provide comfort for the men and to bear and nurture offspring to ensure that there would be survival of the tribe from one generation to the next. As climate conditions grew more severe from one year to the next, each generation of women became on average more gentle and comforting toward the tribal men, and more adept at raising children while the men were out hunting and fishing. The woman also became better adept at making and repairing clothing, and doing household chores, and gathering eggs, nuts and berries.

Next episode, we will see how these generational survival adaptations led to building a culture unlike any that had existed in other parts of the world.
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Intelligence and Evolution (Part II)

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Having established in our last segment that white women and minorities of both genders routinely arrest their own social development by taking jobs requiring a high degree of intelligence from which better qualified white men are excluded from applying, mostly because of racial and gender quotas and affirmative action, we will now explore the genetic factors which make white men more intelligent and therefore better qualified to do certain types of work.

God created mankind male and female.  Our Declaration of Independence is on the mark in stating that all men are created equal in the inclusive sense of persons of both genders.

Creation came about through a process of evolution over billions of years.  Science cannot determine exactly when the first man or first woman came into existence having the capacity of self-reflection allowing for the conception of a Creator Being greater than self.

As evolution progressed, some human beings moved out of the hot climate of Africa into the relatively cool climate of Europe, most likely as hunters following animal herds and flocks from which they could extract meat for consumption and hides for making clothes, as well as for other uses such as tool making.  When climate change began to occur, most likely as a result of a large meteor striking somewhere in what is today called the Western Hemisphere which was then virtually uninhabited by man, and causing the earth to tilt somewhat on its axis, European man was faced with a severe cold spell lasting thousands of years.  Over this time span, the northern population was cut off from the African population which continued to grow in numbers, and over time became different in many respects from the southern population through a process of adaptation to much more severe and challenging environmental factors in order to survive.

In both the northern and southern populations, the females of the species characteristically had smaller brains and were substantially less intelligent than the males of the species, a survival mechanism that in all probability existed in mammals prior to the advent of homo sapiens.

In our next episode, the struggle for survival of the northern men will be further discussed to show why white men are on average more intelligent than non-whites, as well as being more intelligent than women.
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Intelligence and Evolution (First in a Series)

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The subject of intelligence has long been considered taboo in setting the social agenda. This is because the people in power generally are deficient in common sense, another word being intelligence. Ironically, this smarts shortage is particularly in vogue among the so-called intelligentia. The mere suggestion that intelligence is a genetically inherited trait is considered off limits in liberal academic circles.

Humility is the ability to realistically ascertain one's own role in life, and then to accept it doing whatever work is required without complaint or grumbling. Human nature being what it is, there is often a need for Divine assistance. Those with less intelligence should be willing to take a lower place in the social order. The fact that this is not the case, but rather that women and ethnic minorities demand equal work and equal pay with white men who are more intelligent than themselves, is evidence of a lack of humility, hence of its opposite, pride. These women and minorities who are less intelligent set themselves up as being an obstacle to the common good, and in so doing, thwart their own human development which is interconnected with and indivisible from the society. So they act self-destructively.

The evolutionary aspects will be discussed at length in the weeks ahead.
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Back to Basics

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Government exists because man is prone to sin. Good government is always respectful of man's created nature. Bad government is man playing God which results in horrible consequences. It then becomes man's prerogative and responsibility to restore order and to bring the evildoers to justice.

The only way to offset and overthrow the power of bad government is strengthening the family structure. Each family is rooted in traditions from prior generations. In America, most of our families have roots in Old World Europe.

The challenge facing individuals is to restore order by building on the traditional family foundation always in opposition to the false conception of big government from above. This entails honestly delving into the family tradition, whether Jew or Gentile. In the process of so doing, the myths that allow tyrants to wield power unjustly soon begin to disappear. Power is once again restored to the people.

We can only bring to the table what each of us has to bring. Man cannot therefore be reduced to a mere economic unit of society. In a sense, we need a new form of tribalism which acknowledges who each of us is, in relation to the families from which each of us comes. This of course implies that some if not most of the people now in power will be held in much less esteem, deposed if not exposed for being frauds and charlatans, while others will invariably rise to power from the source of all power God who created man within the family social unit.
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Joe Sobran's Moral Legacy

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Despite his anti-semitism, Joe Sobran was one hell of a good writer. Oddly, I had read about his joining some sort of Utopian anarchist cult several months ago, but did not get the news of his death until just yesterday.

My recollection comes mostly from his syndicated columns which always took a principled moral stand against the breakdown of societal mores masquerading as libertarianism, particularly his stand against abortion and how that is always tied in with big government abuse.

Sobran was never much of a realist. He believed, for example, that the Southern states had the right to secede from the Union and perpetuate the evil institution known as slavery. He believed, against common sense, that Bacon or de Vere, I'm not sure which, authored the works of William Shakespeare.

This inability to accept life on life's terms led eventually to his getting fired from National Review and his Tolstoyesque final farewell.

Sobran's falling out with Bill Buckley was once again traceable to his inability or stubborn unwillingness to confront and deal with reality. Buckley, the inveterate realist, understood the capitalism system as a means of protecting the "Haves" from the "Have Nots". In tangible terms, this meant protecting the Buckley family oil concessions in Latin America at all costs. Buckley viewed National Review as a means to achieving this end. Writers could be exploited and then discarded as one might jettison a worn out tool. This is the capitalist ethos, and as long as other writers were willing to play the game according to the Buckley rules, they had no right to complain once they were fired.

Joe may have been a much better writer than Buckley, but he, through no fault of his own, was one of the "Have Nots" while Buckley was one of the "Haves". Joe never got that under the rigged regime of capitalist libertarianism, the "Have Nots" have no inherent right to have anything based upon merit or any other rational standard. Anything they do have is at the whim of the "Haves", which is the same result as what would exist under socialism (or state capitalism) which Joe so fiercely struggled against. As alluded to in a prior blog entry herein, if you want "fair", you know where to go.

Joe was a Catholic traditionalist and supporter of the Latin Mass. Final words: Requiem in Pacem.
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States Need More Tough Love

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The best thing that could happen to California would be if the state had to declare bankruptcy. Of course many state bondholders would lose money because of a bad investment. But so would government workers and pensioners who are overpaid and reap exorbitant benefits and enjoy unseemly perks all at public expense.

When the conservative majority finally takes power in 2012 as many of us are hoping it will, cutting spending will have to start at the top down. This means substantial cuts in defense spending as a deterrent to war now that our government has chosen to weaken our fighting forces and turn them into sissies.

Get rid of the Federal Reserve, IRS, and Homeland Security. This can be done if Congress and the new president have the will to go back to our nation's founding principles. A good start is being made by the incoming Congress in spending time to actually read the Constitution out loud in its opening session. We must not overlook the national slogan "In God We Trust".

Congress can lay the groundwork this term to transfer power back into the hands of the people pursuant to putting subsidiarity into practice. Overspending states like California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey, after they default on their bad debts, will have to undergo a reconstruction process as folks begin to rebuild at the local level. This will be a painful process, but the only way to right the wrongs of decades of government abuses of power.

On the brighter side, there will be no more terrorist threats from alien shores once we take back political power from federal and state governments gone wild, because Americans have no quarrel with any foreign nation or people and we can choose to live at peace with the rest of the world.

On balance, America will come out ahead if we do the right thing today.

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More Predictions

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Two things could happen in the 2012 Republican Primary. Either Palin could win by taking most of the female Republican vote while the male vote splits between several male Republican candidates, or Gingrich and Palin will split the Tea Party vote giving the victory to the traditionalist conservative Mitt Romney. The question for conservatives should be, who stands a better chance at beating Obama? Palin or Romney?
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Predictions for 2010

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As time goes on, the EU is becoming more and more like the US without deodorant. At least they're being honest about it. Where there were once vibrant Christian communities, there are now empty churches and cathedrals. Common sense has given way to an exaggerated tolerance for racial, ethnic and religious minorities, most conspicuously Muslims from Turkey, North Africa, and the Middle East. Greed and materialism have replaced the core Christian values that made Europe strong in centuries past. Now there is nothing left but a secular shell with religious values kept out of the public forum. The great Western principles of law and justice are all but ignored, while Sharia law is becoming institutionalized.

More capitalism is not the solution for Europe or for the rest of the world. Rather, a change of heart is needed. Absent a miracle, conversion on this scale will likely happen only after a catastrophic event takes place.

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The Christmas Spirit

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Christmas time is a time of giving. The solution to life's problems is the promise received at Christmas. Life was never meant to be the Utopian dream world envisioned by communism and capitalism alike. Rather, Christ gives us the strength to deal with whatever comes our way each day.

Joe Lieberman could not be further from the truth. In America, it is not about what you do. It's about who you are. We are all children of God as Christ taught over two millennia ago.

Britain is again leading the way in authentic health care reform, moving away from socialized medicine to a decentralized medical delivery system. As the global economy becomes more all inclusive, America will face the challenge of scrapping outmoded capitalism as the Brits are now scrapping socialism. Both capitalism and socialism are on a collision course. American exceptionalism must take the form of resistance to world government and state control which will be state capitalism in this century. The alternative is disaster.
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Y-DNA Update

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My prior post dealt with possible north British origins for the Haran clan of Ireland. Since then I have found a Y-DNA match of the Heron surname in Ireland that matches the DNA of Haran of Sligo which indicates common paternal ancestry. Both tested I2a, a rare Dinaric type most common in Scotland. Heron is of Norman derivation in Great Britain and often an appellation among the Romany people there. It is my conclusion that Haran of Sligo was of this lineage which does not match my Haran ancestry which would be that of Ó hEagráin as the deceased poet of that name from West County Clare. That leaves me with my R1b type as as being typical for the family group, which is logical insofar as Haren is placed on a family map in NE County Clare.  Do wonders never cease?

Finding out about family history through genetic research is essential in reestablishing and strengthening familial ties forming the basis of society, thereby reducing dependency on various levels of government, and is the key to restoring democracy in America.
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Eurofascism on the Rise

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They said that this is America, it can't happen here.

How could a nation go from having a budget surplus and "peace dividend", being the world's last remaining superpower, to becoming a third rate, bankrupt, chronically in debt burden on the backs of more prosperous nations?

Take a look at Europe first. The nations that were on the road to economic prosperity are now the most heavily in debt requiring massive bailout subsidies. This is because the EU failed to heed the advice of Pope John Paul II that they acknowledge their common Christian heritage, the only glue holding the European nations together, and instead bought into the lies of materialism. The result is classic European Fascism, more and more government control and total loss of liberty for the people.

Any move away from the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church is by definition retrogressive. In the last several decades, both of the Bush presidents shrugged off John Paul II's plea and advice to stay out of wars in Iraq. America is now paying the price for this cavalier, nonchalant attitude toward war. We are now trillions of dollars in debt, billions of dollars have been plundered and looted by unscrupulous capitalists, and our cherished freedoms and liberties are daily reduced to rubbish.

When will they pay for their crimes?

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Subsidiarity not Top Down Bottom Up Inside Out

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Glenn Beck has done wonders in exposing the revolutionary strategy of the Obama liberals best characterized by Obama's discredited fool Van Jones as "top down bottom up inside out". This is really nothing more than the liberal methods first used in the French Revolution. Make no mistake. The Obamaites want to create the conditions to gain total control. Patriotic Americans must not fall prey to this Satanic deception.

Not only communism and socialism emerged from the ashes of the French Revolution. Capitalism is another one of the failed economic theories conceived by deranged minds. The antidote to this form of class warfare is to invoke the principle of subsidiarity.

Today, the world's wealthy and their sycophants in the mass media have adopted China's "state capitalism" as the model for the new world order to emulate, but as Beck rightly points out, this is nothing more than the national socialism that Italy and Germany espoused leading up to WWII, i.e. fascism. A case can be made for "good fascism" employing a Strong Man to bring a nation out of economic misery, but this whole totalitarian notion is abhorrent and contrary to the American character of liberty and freedom.

Subsidiarity starts with human nature as it is, not trying to remold it into an ideal form as both capitalism tries to do in creating the "economic man" and communism in creating the "new man". The formation of the social order begins with the family. Government at the next level can only justify its existence to the extent that it can fulfill human needs and solve human problems which family groups cannot do themselves under the existing set of circumstances. And so up the line, each level of government can only justify its existence by meeting needs and solving problems on the human plane that lower levels of government are unable to accomplish. This is the basis for the doctrine of limited government so aptly included by the Founders in drafting our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

With the advent of DNA technology, people in society are better able to reconnect with their family groups of origin in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity. For example, I have discovered that although my paternal line DNA is characteristically Irish, the family group of my surname apparently originated with a small group in Alba or northern Britain, based upon another set of DNA test results for a variation of the same Irish surname and assuming that these results are representative of the group as my Y-DNA type appears to have entered the family tree more recently. This has allowed me to make connections within other members of the family group of which I otherwise would not have known. I have also created a website for this family group or clan of Ireland which includes members worldwide. Thus, the threat of globalization can never diminish the strength of family ties.

Consistent with the principle of subsidiarity, local government can assist the formation of Y-DNA based family groups, and use test results tools to place children in schools and other educational programs designed to achieve maximum results, always in keeping with the parental right to make the final decision regarding education for children.

Let's keep it local from now on.
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Prop 8 Foes Confuse Apples with Oranges

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Now that oral argument has commenced in the California Proposition 8 Appeal in the Ninth Circuit, it has become obvious that the opponents of Proposition 8 unfortunately misunderstand what this case is all about.

Chief counsel for the backers of Proposition 8 Charles Cooper presented outstanding arguments for upholding traditional marriage. The opposition, however, continually strayed away from the central issue. Is marriage between a man and a woman essentially the same or different from a consensual, contractual union formed between two persons of the same gender?

If the same sex union were essentially the same as traditional marriage, then obviously there is no no justification for the state to be involved at all in upholding the institution of marriage. This, however, is something which the opponents have the burden of proving, both because traditional marriage is the norm from time immemorial, and because the people of California chose to overrule the state court's decision wrongly equating the two types of unions. The opponents have not met their burden of proof, nor can they, because two different things like apples and oranges cannot be the same thing.

In summary, there is a compelling state interest for the state recognizing the institution of marriage as something qualitatively different from unions between persons of the same sex, as by analogy sexual intercourse is qualitatively different from masturbation, and there is a rational basis for the state making this distinction, namely that children are begotten through heterosexual unions and not through homosexual unions, and that all relevant studies demonstrably prove that children not only need both a father and mother growing up, but also that traditional families, having both a father and mother, produce salutary effects much more beneficial for the children and society, whereas single parent families, or families with two fathers or with two mothers only, produce adverse effects both on the children growing up within such communities and upon society in general, e.g. increasing crime rates.
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