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Quick round up
- An article from Newsweek which has some interesting stats on American feelings on abortion.
- Saudi teacher sentenced to 750(!) lashes for blasphemy. Among other things he was charged with “defending Jews”. No one seems to have adopted him as the new Scopes.
- “Ban Asian marriages of cousins, says MP“
The report, commissioned by Ann Cryer, revealed that the Pakistani community accounted for 30 per cent of all births with recessive disorders, despite representing 3.4 per cent of the birth rate nationwide.
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“I think this should be applied to the Asian community. They must look outside the family for husbands and wives for their young people.”
It is estimated that more than 55 per cent of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins, resulting in an increasing rate of genetic defects and high rates of infant mortality. The likelihood of unrelated couples having the same variant genes that cause recessive disorders are estimated to be 100-1. Between first cousins, the odds increase to as much as one in eight.
55%!?
- This is way cool.
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Kind of a cool site
It’s not consistently good, but I do like the open look of MLT Creative. They’re right down the road too.
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From Cathy the Blogless
I give you “Redneck Dogs”
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New Client Site
Actually it’s a new version of a site I did a few years ago, Mark Hill Photography.
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Another community radio station
I’ve long listened to WRFG‘s bluegrass programming, and complained about it’s political programming, seemingly designed to irritate me. They live up to every stereotype of the hard left and it can be painful to listen to.
Then, while googling Michael Sheuer I came across the Weekend Interview Show with Mike Horton. It’s part of a shortwave network I’ve never hear of before.
Anyway, it’s an interesting thing. The host is a libertarian of the Lew Rockwell/Anti-War.com school (paleo-libertarian to take it to too fine of a point) and from what I listened to on their site Horton has mostly authors and pundits of a similar mindset.
After listening to the interviews I was left with the feeling that there are still regional differences in world outlook (American regions, I’m not sure why I came away with that).
On the whole it’s interesting how people with similar premises can come to differing conclusions and how different premises can come to similar conclusions.
Ah, my upload is done. More thoughts on this later.
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This is cool
Safe for work despite the name, it’s for a television manufacturer I’ve never heard of. Link via CodePoet.
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Wow
The $100 dollar laptop appears to exist for real.
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Random thoughts
- Castro might have Parkinsons
- Dennis Prager actually has something interesting to say. Personally I think there’s much to Eric Hoffer‘s notion that a well-written and internally coherent religious text holds back civilization.
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Wednesday rapid fire
- Driving with Mr T.
- Poorly written and misleading article in Newsweek about poverty. To quote:
The picture is clearest when you look at the number and fate of the world’s middle- class countries (rather than middle-class individuals, although the story there is not so terrific, either).
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The absolute income levels of the poorest may be creeping up. But with the notable exceptions of India and China and a few others
Why is there no critical thinking anymore?
- Michael Jackson uses ladies room in Dubai
- Woman to marry man who shot her
- More on modded hybrid cars
- Solar power and Sterling Engines make the best chance for meaningful solar power I’ve seen so far.
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Is anyone there?
I haven’t had any comments in a while, is anyone there?