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Saturday, March 11. 2006

Is Google chosing evil over good? Clockwork Google.

LGF noted that The Telegraph removed this article on Moslems in Britain from their website.

In praise of The Sopranos. The final season.

Whatever happened to the people of Easter Island? New theory.

Good debate on the economics of medical care. TCS. It seems that the wealthier a nation is, the more they spend on education and medical treatment - if given the choice to do so. Maybe we should trust folks to make their own decisions? Those are rational adult choices.�(And, by the way, when people talk about the "uninsured" they never tell you how many of those are temporarily uninsured, or illegals, do they? Government power grabs always create a "crisis" to justify it.)

Tom Wolfe praises America. Hey, intellectuals aren't supposed to do that.

Billary in bed with evil evil Wall-Mart.

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Thanks for the link. :)

#1 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2006-03-11 11:15 (Reply)

I've read quite a lot about Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and it appears to me that the so-called science in this report is nothing more than PC politics. Conclusion: White men did it! Even the math is highly suspect, unless of course, they had the pill and they appreciated the cultural advantages of having small families: i.e., one caregiver could stay home while the other worked, going to the symphony on Saturday night, more money to invest in fine furniture and shrubberies.

#2 Brad on 2006-03-11 16:26 (Reply)

Re Easter Island revisionism.
This smacks of Lysenkoism. A term often used to mean overt subversion of science by political forces as in the Soviet Union.

If political correctness says the Easter Island residents were victims, then one must look for ways to blame someone else for their actions and the resulting ecosystem crash.

#3 LomaAlta (Link) on 2006-03-11 18:47 (Reply)

You guys have rightly learned to find the political agenda in everything.
However, you need to bear in mind that European diseases - the common cold, flu, etc - did kill native peoples - basically eliminated all but a few of the northeast coast indians by the time the Pilgrims landed. Remember Squanto - he was the sole survivor of his tribe.
It seems plausible to me, despite its PC flavor.

#4 news junkie on 2006-03-11 23:42 (Reply)

News Junkie,
I get your point, and yes it is possible. But I read some of the original observations (translated of course) of some of the first to stop there (I think Cook was amoung them), and they noted that the statues were already knocked down and the people were living a poor life. Also, their verbal history includes a lot of stories of war, and none of what this report describes. Islanders were taken for slavery, but that was long after the collapse of their society, and it was chilean ships that took them. The few that survived were returned about fifty years later.

#5 brad on 2006-03-12 10:51 (Reply)

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