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Barack Obama on The Bell Curve
Once McBarack O'Clain is in office the middle class can finally be eliminated and all of America's problems will at last be solved.
Forward into the past
Ecological opportunities allow different responses, which influence development. This highlights the clash between hunter gatherer populations and sedentary agricultural communities. In a traditional hunter gatherer society (picture New York City) the working adults carry a small quantity of food to their home each day for that day's consumption as they lack (or choose not to use) technology to transport larger amounts of food. Due to economical restraints the hunter gatherer family spaces childbirths, often employing infanticide to guarantee sufficient resources are available for (and to insure the success of) a smaller number of children. Agrarian (red state) communities can produce and store large quantities of food, making economies of scale available for family sized units. More children can be supported by this system, and its sedentary nature makes raising a large family practical while also guaranteeing the future work force.
I think this is the first time in history that a hunter gatherer community has forced its cultural will on an agricultural community with any real success.
I think this is the first time in history that a hunter gatherer community has forced its cultural will on an agricultural community with any real success.
Your generation was more into sexualizing young girls
Increase in living standards? Those 20 year olds in 1950 were born in 1930 and survived the great depression. Average life span in the United States was 69 in 1950, as opposed to 78 in 2006, according to Gapminder. In time of famine a higher body fat percentage is popular because it's not as easy for poor people to obtain. It's hard to remember that America was once a place of famine, because, well, I had Grandma put away. Today, with America's food surplus dropping prices around the world the only skinny poor people in the US are crack addicts. A well toned figure means you can afford a gym membership. One of the drawing attractions of my workplace is its on site gymnasium and workout rooms. (I leave my cubicle and waddle past it several times a week.)
Soda vs. Pop: explanations
We also called milkshakes "frappes."
Yeah, and if you ask for a "milkshake" in New England the waitress puts a spoonful of malt in a glass of milk and shakes it up. This comes as quite a nasty shock to normal humans.
When my daughter was five she got a "little ballerina" dance set which included a video tape. I woke up at six am Christmas morning to the sound of her playing that damn thing. Me being somewhat new to living in Canada I was surprised at hearing it in French. I wandered into the Katrina style mess of shredded wrapping paper and asked her if the entire tape was in French, to which she replied, "no, it plays through once in human and then in French."
Yeah, and if you ask for a "milkshake" in New England the waitress puts a spoonful of malt in a glass of milk and shakes it up. This comes as quite a nasty shock to normal humans.
When my daughter was five she got a "little ballerina" dance set which included a video tape. I woke up at six am Christmas morning to the sound of her playing that damn thing. Me being somewhat new to living in Canada I was surprised at hearing it in French. I wandered into the Katrina style mess of shredded wrapping paper and asked her if the entire tape was in French, to which she replied, "no, it plays through once in human and then in French."
Strange Bedfellows
You need to convince them to try an alternate method.
The BBC reports...
But this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate, such as a bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian.
Apparently neither the John Waters movie "Pink Flamingos" or Southpark are paid much attention in Great Britain.
But this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate, such as a bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian.
Apparently neither the John Waters movie "Pink Flamingos" or Southpark are paid much attention in Great Britain.
Why red Indians aren’t white?
there are more diseases at 45 degrees north in north america than there were 2,000 years ago
On the Pacific coast at 45 degrees north there are more diseases now than there were 200 years ago.
How quickly does selection for pigmentation take? From the archaeological papers that I've read agriculture (maize, squash and beans as a combination, nutritionally far superior to cereal diets) didn't hit 45 degrees north (Atlantic coast) until about a thousand years before Columbus, with strains slowly inching north and slowly selecting for colder climates from their native southern Mexico and Central America in the previous two thousand years. They were just reaching their maximum (modern expectations of) quality as food at the time of contact. The agricultural economy along the New England coast was just starting to take off as Columbus reached the Caribbean, with the indigenous population numbers peaking at the time of contact with Europeans before plummeting.
On the Pacific coast at 45 to 55 degrees north there's recently discovered evidence of massive aquaculture cultivation from precontact, which was much more recent. European disease predated contact, as it was spread from the initial Cortez expedition to Mexico then northward through the plains, and hitting the sedentary peoples of the Pacific coast in the late 18th C. Captain George Vancouver reported in his logs for 1792 of towns and villages along the mainland coast of what would be British Columbia and Vancouver Island that were nearly depopulated, the few survivors horribly scarred and the beaches littered with human rib cages and skulls. This would have been smallpox.
I'm assuming I'm reading the same event as told by Mulks, a Squamish historian whose mother was a child at the time of contact with the British, and whose great nephew, Dr. Louis Miranda, left over 10,000 pages of handwritten notes and stories in the Squamish language. There's a point I'm assuming is the after effect of the Tambora eruption in 1815, (the year without a summer in English language records, Mary Shelley wrote _Frankenstein_ this year,) and then a second plague, probably measles hitting almost immediately after that.
The British government (really the Hudson Bay Company at the time) refused to sign treaties with native groups in the 19th C, because their best demographic data told them all natives in British Columbia would be dead by 1950. The actual low point was 1923, after which native populations have increased.
Hardly scientific, but extensive personal experience leads me to believe that lighter skinned members of these groups received their pigmentation change through interbreeding with peoples of European descent.
On the Pacific coast at 45 degrees north there are more diseases now than there were 200 years ago.
How quickly does selection for pigmentation take? From the archaeological papers that I've read agriculture (maize, squash and beans as a combination, nutritionally far superior to cereal diets) didn't hit 45 degrees north (Atlantic coast) until about a thousand years before Columbus, with strains slowly inching north and slowly selecting for colder climates from their native southern Mexico and Central America in the previous two thousand years. They were just reaching their maximum (modern expectations of) quality as food at the time of contact. The agricultural economy along the New England coast was just starting to take off as Columbus reached the Caribbean, with the indigenous population numbers peaking at the time of contact with Europeans before plummeting.
On the Pacific coast at 45 to 55 degrees north there's recently discovered evidence of massive aquaculture cultivation from precontact, which was much more recent. European disease predated contact, as it was spread from the initial Cortez expedition to Mexico then northward through the plains, and hitting the sedentary peoples of the Pacific coast in the late 18th C. Captain George Vancouver reported in his logs for 1792 of towns and villages along the mainland coast of what would be British Columbia and Vancouver Island that were nearly depopulated, the few survivors horribly scarred and the beaches littered with human rib cages and skulls. This would have been smallpox.
I'm assuming I'm reading the same event as told by Mulks, a Squamish historian whose mother was a child at the time of contact with the British, and whose great nephew, Dr. Louis Miranda, left over 10,000 pages of handwritten notes and stories in the Squamish language. There's a point I'm assuming is the after effect of the Tambora eruption in 1815, (the year without a summer in English language records, Mary Shelley wrote _Frankenstein_ this year,) and then a second plague, probably measles hitting almost immediately after that.
The British government (really the Hudson Bay Company at the time) refused to sign treaties with native groups in the 19th C, because their best demographic data told them all natives in British Columbia would be dead by 1950. The actual low point was 1923, after which native populations have increased.
Hardly scientific, but extensive personal experience leads me to believe that lighter skinned members of these groups received their pigmentation change through interbreeding with peoples of European descent.
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