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You ignore the fact that blacks from families making a 100K a year have lower SAT scores on average than whites from families making 30K. Try some other politically correct argument, no matter how false it may be. The differences are quite significant even when economic factors are ignored.

Yep, and zero maintenance. I'd be careful with wood.

More words to live by. Barry Goldwater quotes:

Any woman is just one flat tire away from needing a man.

Spend a few bucks and get ceramic tile.

Yep, socialism sucks.

There is actually a divide among feminists concerning porn.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^Correction...thalidomide scare.

You have been Idiot Boxed for the following reason: Socialism is a GOOD thing. Wrong, socialism has killed tens of millions in the last century.

The Kefauver Amendment was originally passed in 1962. GW was in high school. That is the amendment that led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans from the delay of heart thinning medications alone. The Kefauver Amendmet is what keeps helpful drugs off the market and increases drug company profits. Of course, it was passed, after the thalimide scare, to protect the little guy.

Paroxysms of Denial Arthur Jensen [...] Nowadays the factual basis of The Bell Curve is scarcely debated by the experts, who regard it as mainstream knowledge. The most well-established facts: Individual differences in general cognitive ability are reliably measured by IQ tests. IQ is strongly related, probably more than any other single measurable trait, to many important educational, occupational, economic and social variables. (Not mentioned in the book is that IQ is also correlated with a number of variables of the brain, including its size, electrical potentials, and rate of glucose metabolism during cognitive activity.) Individual differences in adult IQ are largely genetic, with heritability of about 70 percent. So far, attempts to raise IQ by educational or psychological means have failed to show appreciable lasting effects on cognitive ability and scholastic achievement. The IQ distribution in two population groups socially recognized as "black" and "white" is represented by two largely overlapping bell curves with their means separated by about 15 points, a difference not due to test bias. IQ has the same meaning and practical predictive validity for both groups. Tests do not create differences; they merely reflect them. [...] Although social problems involving race are conspicuously in the news these days, too few journalists are willing or able to discuss rationally certain possible causes. The authors' crime, apparently, is that they do exactly this, arguing with impressive evidence that the implications of IQ variance in American society can't be excluded from a realistic diagnosis of its social problems. The media's spectacular denial probably arises from the juxtaposition of the book's demonstrations; first, that what is termed "social pathology" -- delinquency, crime, drug abuse, illegitimacy, child neglect, permanent welfare dependency -- is disproportionately concentrated (for whites and blacks alike) in the segment of the population with IQs below 75; and second, that at least one-fourth of the black population (compared to one-twentieth of the white population) falls below that critical IQ point in the bell curve. Because the smaller percentage of white persons with IQs below 75 are fairly well scattered throughout the population, many are guided, helped, and protected by their abler families, friends, and neighbors, whose IQs average closer to 100. Relatively few are liable to be concentrated in the poor neighborhoods and housing projects that harbor the "critical mass" of very low IQs which generates more than its fair share of social pathology. The "critical mass" effect exists mostly in the inner city, which has been largely abandoned by whites. Of course thinking citizens are troubled. Thinking about possible constructive remedies strains one's wisdom. But can any good for anyone result from sweeping the problem under the rug? Shouldn't it be exposed to earnest, fair-minded public discussion? Our only fear, I think, should be that such discussion might not happen. Consideration of the book's actual content is being displaced by the rhetoric of denial: name calling ("neo-nazi," "pseudo-scientific," "racism"), sidetracks ("but does IQ really measure intelligence?"), non-sequiturs ("specific genes for IQ have not been identified, so we can claim nothing about its heritability"), red herrings ("Hitler misused genetics"), falsehoods ("all the tests are biased"), hyperbole ("throwing gasoline on a fire"), and insults ("creepy," "indecent," "ugly").

Women got the vote in 1920---12 years later the great socialist state.

IQ tests are highly accurate when measuring large numbers of a certain demographic. When large samples of two demographics are compared the inaccuracies of individual tests do not matter. The fact is there are problems in the black community that are responsible for the IQ gap. The root causes of the IQ gap need to be studied and addresses. The band-aid of affirmative action programs is leaking.

I don't see any laws that prevented Bill Gates or Sam Walton from getting ahead. In the ruthless capitalist society you speak of there would be no progressive taxation. Politicians will cater to the powerful. Bureaucracies, such as the FDA and DOT, do impose barriers to competition thus protecting existing drug companies at the expense of smaller, or prospective, ones. The answer is smaller government. The government that governs best governs least.

John Lennon was a fucking socialist.

Lethal and Manic are a couple of fucking socialists.

Most women are fucking socialists.

Socialists need less sleep...since they hardly ever fuckin' work.

Streisand is a fucking socialist.

Penn and Teller are a couple fucking socialists.

Saint Paul agrees with him. The socialists hate religion.

The fact is everyone, except white males, are encouraged to celebrate their superiority. That is where socialism has brought us.

Jesus was a socialist.

There is truth behind what some term racism. It is a fact that blacks commit proportionately more crime and that the average IQ of black America is somewhere between 85 and 90.

City Fearful of H2O Almost Bans Cups Posted: March 15, 2004 at 12:22 p.m. ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) -- City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production. Then they learned, to their chagrin, that dihydrogen monoxide -- H2O for short -- is the scientific term for water. "It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research." The paralegal apparently fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as "an odorless, tasteless chemical" that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled. As a result, the City Council of this Orange County suburb had been scheduled to vote next week on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events. Among the reasons given for the ban were that they were made with a substance that could "threaten human health and safety." The measure has been pulled from the agenda, although Norman said the city may still eventually ban foam cups. "If you get Styrofoam into the water and it breaks apart, it's virtually impossible to clean up," Norman said. (Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Yep...California.