Sunday, December 29, 2024
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Should You Care If Someone of Notoriety Shares Your Family Name?
Do you have a more or less unusual family name: Clutterbuck, for example, or MacQoid, Twelvetrees, or Fernsby? If so, perhaps you pay particular attention to news stories concerning persons with the same name, this on the assumption that you and your namesake must have shared ancestry. Such identification can be a cause for discomfort should your namesake come to public attention for discreditable or criminal conduct.
In reality, however, such name identities may mean little in terms of heredity. Genetic similarity within families can dissipate rapidly over the generations. We have about 30 trillion cells, In each of which there are two sets of 23 chromosomes, one set from each parent. Each chromosome carries genes for a distinct collection of traits. Gametes (egg cells and sperm cells) are formed by a special process of cell division known as meiosis. In this process, cells about to divide engage in what is called crossing over. Crossing over entails an exchange of pieces of each maternally derived chromosome with its homologous paternally derived chromosome. Thus produced are cells each with two sets of chromosomes, but not the original wholly maternal or wholly paternal chromosomes. Rather, they are chromosomes that are, in part, of maternal, and in part, of paternal origin. It is these pairs of mixed maternal/paternal chromosomes that then separate in a process of cell division that results in the production of gametes.
As noted, gametes, unlike all the other human cells, have only one set of chromosomes. What this means is that the genes carried by a gamete are a mix, some from the maternal grandparent, some from the paternal grandparent. In turn, this means that the number of genes passed from one generation to the next that are derived from any particular ancestor is halved at each generation. So after ten generations, or say three hundred years, the genes an individual receives from a particular ancestor will total no more than about one in a thousand, or 0.1% of the total gene complement. So even if your remote ancestor was Ghengis Kahn, as is the case for something like 40 million of the World's present population, there's not much reason for folks to worry. The chances are that you inherit few, if any, of Ghengis's genes. As for any such genes that you do inherit, they're more likely to determine the color of your hair than your propensity for global conquest.
But the above is only true in an outbreeding population, which is to say a population in which anyone may mate with anyone. In reality, the choice of partner is always more limitet. I will write about the implications of this fact in another post.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Going to Mars: Why People Will, When They Can
With a mean surface temperature of minus 65C, you'll need more than a woolly took and gloves to stay warm outdoors on the Red Planet. What's more, the air pressure is so low that, outside, you'll need a pressurized suit to prevent your blood boiling despite the cold. Oh and don't forget about the cosmic radiation and the energetic solar particles that will fry your DNA if you spend too long outside without something better than sunscreen for protection.
So why is it a near certainty that we will see people by the dozens, hundreds and almost certainly thousands taking a six-month journey in a cramped and barely furnished steel tube to reach Mars. Some will surely go at government expense, as scientists, diplomats, and spies. Others, rich and bored, will go as tourists for the thrill and the kudos. But most will go for the reason both men and women joined the Klondike gold rush: They will go hoping to get rich quick.
As President Trump's uncle opened a hotel in Northern BC to provide accomodation to both the men in search of gold and the women who entertained them, so a Trump of the next generation could well provide the same service on Mars, opening there the first Trump Interplanetary Hotel, Starbase Mars. But beside the accomodation and related services, there will be all kinds of other business opportunities from machine rental and construction, to the provision of guided tours, medical treatment, facilities for banking and communication, and the local production of food in greenhouses -- anyone for radishes at a hundred dollars a piece? Mars Starbase will make the goldrush Yukon look cheap.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Trudeauvian Inanity: Canada Sending Military Personel as "Gender Advisors" to Ukraine
There you are: the entire story in a headline.
True, the source is Russian, but if the story is fabricated its genius satire.
The Original St. Nick Was No Jolly Fat Fool
Santa Claus has become this fat, humorous troll from the North Pole who puts gifts into children's stockings, riding his sleigh on reindeer in the air like a witch, while occult figures such as gnomes and elves aid him in the pursuit of serving the interests of the retail market. It is all Walt Disney. The story of the true Santa is totally lost.
Church history explains well who the original Santa Claus was, namely an early Christian bishop in modern-day Turkey, Saint Nicholas (A.D. 270-343). He was a wealthy man and one of the greatest church fathers in Christian history, an example in humility, generosity, love for the suffering, fearlessly facing evil. He used his money to help the destitute, the poor, the orphaned, and courageously spoke up against political leaders when he found injustice and wrongdoing. Saint Nicholas' work was marked by a desire not to achieve praise for his good deeds. He kept giving in secret, so that only God would see it. The aim was to mimic Christ in doing good to others and helping solve their problems. "The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic His giving".
Friday, December 20, 2024
The Actual News
Biden: The President Who Never Was
Gang Violence Rampant in Once Prosperous and Peaceful Sweden
It wasn't smart of the Swedes to invite in millions of migrants. Better to have kept Sweden for the Swedes. The identity of this killer has not been revealed, but pretty certainly he's no blue-eyed blonde. (Neither for that matter was the victim of this shooting. His real name, Ninos Khouri, is of Arab origin).
If they'd wanted more people, the Swedes should have told their girls to get on with it. But like the other European peoples, all the white peoples in fact, plus the Japanese and the Chinese, the Swedes are evidently intent on committing national suicide.
TruGO: Liberal Canadian Lawmakers Revolt
Siddiq, Britain's enterprising Bangla-Deshi Laborite Minister, is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, the former Bangladeshi prime minister who was ousted in August.
Siddiq previously worked as spokesperson for the UK branch of her aunt's party, the Awami League. Siddiq, her aunt, formerly the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and her UK-based mother Sheikh Rehana Siddiq, are all currently under investigation by Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Siddiq's aunt fled to India from Bangladesh in August after her security forces killed hundreds of civilians during violent anti-corruption demonstrations. But, not to worry, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer continues to have confidence in his under-fire Treasury minister after she was named in a Bangladeshi embezzlement probe.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
In Saskatchewan Trudeau Warned, in BC Liberals Wumped
Reuters: .... A woman at a town hall in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada's west, ..., accused Trudeau of "working for your globalist partners" to betray Canada.
She then asked:
"What do we do with traitors in Canada, Mr. Trudeau?"
"We used to hang them."
Meantime, in today's Langley BC by-election, the Conservatives wumped the liberals, easily taking what had been a Liberal-held seat, and reducing the Liberal representative to a mere 16% of the vote.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Saturday, December 14, 2024
O Canada, Who Stands on Guard for Me?
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
Believe It or Not
2. Bill Gates boasts of using Indian kids for vaccine experiments
3. Starmer: British people are owed an explanation for the immigration flood - They're not interested in the reason for treason. They want an end to it.
4. Starmer pledges to reduce immigration with points-based reform
Sunday, December 8, 2024
The Treason of Canada's Elite
The most essential role of the leadership of a nation is to ensure the survival of the nation. Canada's ruling elite are complicit in national genocide.
Canada is a dying nation with a fertility rate barely half the death rate.
What is the Trudeau Government's response?
Every year, bring in half a million people from elsewhere to make up the population shortfall.
Now, in general, there is nothing wrong with the folks from elsewhere.
Most likely, in fact, they are younger, healthier, brighter and better educated than the mass of people of the countries from which they come.
What's more, they are likely younger, healthier, brighter and better educated than the mass of Canadians.
To the Canadian elite, those are all plusses that make migrants preferable to native-born Canadians, who need a dozen or more years of costly public education before they are ready to enter the work force. By contrast, many migrants arrive work-force ready. Furthermore, many of the migrants that are not work-force ready are fee-paying students who stay on in Canada after paying Canadian schools and universities for their work-force qualification.
And the consequence of this policy?
1. An increased demand for immigrant housing, which means elevated house prices.
2. An increased demand for jobs, which means depressed wages.
The net result?
(a) Delayed household formation by native-born Canadians.
(b) Fewer Canadian babies.
Canada's population policy is thus a concealed policy of national genocide, which means its time to boot the Liberal-NDP coalition.
But will the Tories do better?
Tokyo Adopts 4-Day Workweek to Encourage Women To Have More KidsSaturday, December 7, 2024
Percent Global Manufacturing: China versus the US
Thus the US, with a population of 335 million, or 4.2% of the World's total, accounts for 16.3% of global manufacturing versus China, with a population of 1.418 billion, or 17.4% of the World's total, which accounts for 31% of global manufacturing.
Thus on a per capita basis, US manufacturing is more than twice (2.16 times) that of China. This difference in relative productivity may continue for some time. Last year, China's industrial production growth outpaced that of the US only slightly at 3.6% versus 3.4%.
Evidently, with a moderate stimulus, the rate of growth in US industrial production might well catch up with, or exceed, that of China. The tariffs planned by the incoming Trump administration may be all it takes.
Friday, December 6, 2024
There's a Real chance You Could Be Hit By a Black Hole: But Not to Worry, You Won't Feel It
Formed in the fiery afterglow of the Big Bang, primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates for dark matter — the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up 85% of the universe's matter. As heavy as mountains these hypothetical entities are barely larger than hydrogen atoms.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Ukrainians Would Like to be Shot of Zelinsky. Some Might Like to See Zelensky Shot
As reported in Britain's Times newspaper, "Just 16 per cent (of Ukrainians) would vote to re-elect him (Zelinsky) for a second term," that being according to an opinion poll of 1,200 Ukrainians published this week by the Social Monitoring Centre in Kyiv. And the report continues: "The poll, the most comprehensive study of electoral preferences since the invasion began in 2022, also found that about 60 per cent would prefer Zelensky not to even stand for re-election."