Weekly goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus 

 

 In the Wake of the Buffalo Hunters
Charles Russell, 1911

*Using psychometric meta-analysis we computed... a decline of −1.16 IQ points per decade or −13.35 IQ points since Victorian times. These findings strongly indicate the Victorians were substantially cleverer than modern Western populations.
Michael Woodly, Intelligence, via sciencedirect.com

*Wow, but not surprised.

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DHS and the police - What we're doing here, and let's not kid about it, we're building a domestic army and we're shrinking the military because the government is afraid of it's own citizens.
Col. Martino USMC Ret, comment at Concord NH hearing, YouTube, via Kevin at smallestminority.blogspot.com 

The race card - It has become the 21st century equivalent of accusing someone of witchcraft in seventeenth century Salem. Anyone who uses the race card should be considered a pariah automatically. Stop playing the race card. Switch to Old Maid — or rummy.
Roger Simon at pjmedia.com

  I am amazed at most survival book writers ignorance when it comes to fooling a metal detector. They all seem to be repeating each other and it seems it has not changed in years. It is very evident they are all wrong, says Dude McLean in this short article, Metal Detector Myth, at Dirt Time.

  Candles are an easy-to-use source of emergency lighting and a little bit of heat. I'm shocked to see some of the prices that are charged for long burning candles sold for survival or emergency preparedness. You can make your own survival candles at home using high-quality, long burning soy wax. It's an easy project - the materials are easy to buy and you won't need any specialized tools, says Alexander Wolf in this how-to article, DIY Survival Candles, at Teotwawki Blog.

  Toddler murdered in CPS captivity - Hill's two-year-old daughter Alexandria, was removed from her parent's home last November for "neglectful supervision" following her parents' admission that they smoked pot after she was put to bed... Hill needed just four more months before he could get his daughter back when she was beaten to death by foster parents, says Matt Olson in this article, Father of foster child who died speaks, at KVUE.

I have to wonder what purpose is served by forcing cultures to mix. Nobody seems to want it. In Washington, DC, a city I know well, neither cultures nor races mix. When blacks move into a neighborhood, whites move out, and when whites move into DC, threatening to become a voting majority, blacks become unhappy. When whites leave the city, they go to white enclaves. Why not let them? Why not let people live with whom they choose, as they choose, and raise their children as they choose, says Fred Reed in this article, Respecting All Cultures, By Allowing Them to Remain Separate, at Fred On Everything.

  There was a time in our nation's history when Americans would have revolted against the prospect of city police forces the size of small armies, or rampaging SWAT teams tearing through doors and terrorizing families. It is this intersection of law enforcement and military capability which so worried the founding fathers and which should worry us today, says John Whitehead in this article, Are Police in America Now a Military, Occupying Force?, at The Rutherford Institute.

Contempt - How does one know they are living in an unmitigated disaster of a banana republic where not even an attempt at hiding the crime and corruption takes place? Well, we are not absolutely certain, but we have a distinct feeling that when the president appoints as his impartial "reviewer" of the ultra top secret NSA's policies and capabilities the one man who was caught and exposed and subsequently apologized for lying to Congress, that may be a pretty damn good sign.
Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com 

 Bill Clinton has pitched himself, almost without question, as a homespun populist: the Boy from Hope. The reality is that this is a man who – in May 1993 – prevented other planes from landing at LAX for 90 minues while he got a haircut from a Beverley Hills hairdresser aboard Air Force One.
Tim Stanley at blogs.telegraph.co.uk