tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89291162024-03-07T16:25:31.917-08:00Pytheas OnlineAn examination of issues of civilization and conflict.Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.comBlogger559125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-68586736455161334162012-01-12T05:51:00.000-08:002012-01-12T06:08:08.715-08:00Saving Haiti from Helping ItselfAn article at Salon.com examines the lingering aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, which killed an estimated 220,000 Haitians and left the country in even more squalid ruins than before. According to Salon, most of the billions in international aid cannot be accounted for and only a trickle had reached the ever-suffering Haitian people. This is to be expected, of course. There is no greaterPytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-33268136966764547442011-06-14T08:05:00.000-07:002011-06-14T08:27:28.931-07:00Stephen J. Gould was a Big Fat LIARThe late biologist, Stephen J. Gould, penned the 1981 book, The Mismeasure of Man, as a polemic against IQ science and any findings that discovered physical, but especially mental differences between the races. Such findings ran counter to Gould's Marxist belief in the absolute genetic equality of all people, and the inherent racism of Western, and particularly American society. Naturally, the Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-78577254289317369542011-05-24T06:30:00.000-07:002011-05-24T06:53:03.461-07:00Another Bias Attack...In New Square, New York, a man was badly burned during an arson attack on his home. The motivation for the attack appears to have been religious.A New Square man who was severely burned early Sunday during an attack on his home had been the victim of growing harassment for more than a year because he did not attend the community's main synagogue.Aron Rottenberg, 43, who suffered third-degree Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-29239836537122034172011-05-09T07:23:00.000-07:002011-05-09T08:06:02.156-07:00Another Racism HoaxWhat happens when a student falsely accuses a university of racism? Well, if the liar happens to be a minority, then the answer is: not much.Last month, Jonathan Perkins, a black, third year law student at the University of Virginia Law School penned a letter to the Virginia Law Weekly in which he alleged that university security guards had harrassed him while he walked home one night solely Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-20462739307793470512011-05-02T11:27:00.000-07:002011-05-02T11:53:01.557-07:00Bin Laden Dead - Muslims CriticalLast night's announcement that U.S. Special Forces teams had cornered and killed al-Qaeda founder and terrorist frontman INSIDE PAKISTAN, produced spontaneous public expressions of joy across the U.S.In the Islamic world, however, news of bin Laden's demise produced criticism. The decision of the Obama administration to bury bin Laden's corpse at sea with full Muslim rites provoked the usual Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-31680466109940836942010-10-01T12:42:00.001-07:002010-10-01T16:22:19.322-07:00CNN Host Speaks Truth to PowerRick Sanchez, CNN's afternoon talking head, was pressed in a radio interview as to why he doesn't like Comedy Central's Jon Stewart. After calling Stewart a bigot, then evading questions about his reasons, Sanchez finally opened up and let it out.Dominick asked Sanchez again what group Stewart is bigoted against. Said Sanchez, "Anybody who's different than you are, anybody who's not form your Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-90019373241792220252010-09-02T05:53:00.001-07:002010-09-02T06:08:55.651-07:00The Obama FreefallThis isn't how it was supposed to be. This was supposed to be "recovery summer" and Democrats thought they would be sailing under favorable winds toward a November election safely under the mantle of President Obama's popularity. But the idolized leader has proven detached, wooden, and not terribly competent. The economy is in tatters, American soldiers are still dying in the worthless sands of Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-74570362743583336692010-08-27T14:43:00.000-07:002010-08-27T15:07:59.769-07:00The Ultimate Act of SpiteOver the past few weeks, America's elite political class, which has no better representative than New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, has displayed something close to ecstacy when spitting on the cultural sensibilities of average Americans by backing the proposed mosque/Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. The opportunity to lecture Americans on the finer points of Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-56333643668259300842010-08-23T10:47:00.001-07:002010-08-23T11:18:08.621-07:00The Socialist Paradise of VenezuelaAfter a decade of Hugo Chavez's beneficient socialist rule, not only is Venezuela's economy contracting, but it has become the murder capital of the Western Hemisphere. The situation is so bad that not even the New York Times can ignore it.In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-58048128784763468262010-08-12T12:29:00.000-07:002010-08-12T13:00:47.469-07:00The White Serial Killer that Wasn'tOver the past few days, various US media outlets had been joyfully bubbling with eager speculation that a white serial killer was running amok targeting black men for brutal, and often, fatal attacks.Police in Flint, Michigan, are investigating 13 stabbings resulting in five deaths since late May that they believed have been committed by one man.Race may be a factor in the crimes: A majority of Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-79245676295571439892010-08-01T21:45:00.000-07:002010-08-01T22:11:39.145-07:00The New Truth ... Same as the Old TruthFaced with mounting criticism that the standardized math and reading proficiency tests used to gauge public school performance were so watered down that chimpanzees could pass them, New York State recently revised the tests, making them tougher. The results were, well, predictable.There were large drops in passing rates across New York, reflecting new requirements intended to correct for years ofPytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-90349988335951725262010-07-29T18:13:00.001-07:002010-07-30T15:50:12.943-07:00The Underlying Pointlessness of the Afghanistan WarClose on the heels of Wikileaks' disclosure of thousands of classified US and NATO intelligence papers, which document clandestine Pakistani support for the Taliban (already an open secret in Washington), a new poll of Pakistanis finds - surprise, surprise - that a solid majority view the United States as an enemy.Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-11088391904692034772010-07-21T16:13:00.001-07:002010-07-21T16:29:33.453-07:00Jewish HypocrisyJews are always foremost amongst leftists in denouncing white Americans and Europeans for racist thoughts, actions and institutions. Indeed, the racism charge has been used by Jewish-run organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center to impugn virtually every non-Jewish American who falls afoul of their ideological dictates. Jewish journalists rail against white racism in every major Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-82414874013907908862010-07-15T18:31:00.000-07:002010-07-15T18:41:51.396-07:00Britain Faces the ConsequencesLast year, former Labor Party officials admitted, publicly, that the open borders immigration policies practiced in Britain by Labor governments for decades were part of a deliberate plan to change the nation's demographics to better favor multiculturalist socialism. This was done without any public disclosure of the Liberals intentions, and with outright denials of the likely outcome of the Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-36310568612413537732010-07-12T19:25:00.000-07:002010-07-12T20:30:19.076-07:00Falling FICO Scores Reveal Real Economic PictureA new report issued by FICO, the company that compiles the eponymous credit scores that determine whether consumers can borrow money, and at what rate, has released a report that says that FICO scores for more and more Americans are falling:As the U.S. economy struggles to recover and unemployment rates remain high, Americans may have another issue to worry about before they can improve their Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-19094446981674247872010-06-09T18:10:00.000-07:002010-06-09T19:35:13.857-07:00Education in New YorkNew York State, faced with years of declining test scores has found an innovative way to brighten the picture (and comply with Bush's No Child Left Behind):When does 2 + 2 = 5? When you're taking the state math test. Despite promises that the exams -- which determine whether students advance to the next grade -- would not be dumbed down this year, students got "partial credit" for wrong answers Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-51528963666062851482010-06-08T19:20:00.000-07:002010-06-08T19:55:17.165-07:00Inconvenient QuestionsOnce upon a time, there was a president of Harvard University who gave a speech in which he pointed out that modern science had found all sorts of biological differences between men and women, some of which translated into different behaviors and capabilities between the sexes. Unfortunately, one of the women in his audience heard his words, cried foul, rallied the forces of the gender studies Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-63929582112344513972010-06-07T19:44:00.000-07:002010-06-07T20:06:06.357-07:00Helen Thomas Discovers the Media's "Third Rail"Veteran reporter, Helen Thomas, who delighted the mainstream press for years with strident, politically-charged, but occasionally trenchant, questions aimed at Republican and Democrat Press Secretaries, and a steady stream of far-left opinion pieces, finally stepped out of line, criticizing the one group of people who are never to be criticized in the media:In the video clip, which was filmed on Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-2905922189390529602010-06-03T16:47:00.000-07:002010-06-03T17:15:35.385-07:00Why Leftists Want to Control the Schools ... and Why We Shouldn't Let ThemThe Los Angeles Unified School District has become infamous for violence, low test scores, a high drop out rate, and, like all of California, massive budget shortfalls. So what is the foremost priority amongst the LAUSD's leadership? Why, condemning Arizona's recent immigration law!The Los Angeles Unified School District school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-10540165546872949682010-06-02T17:07:00.000-07:002010-06-02T17:56:08.625-07:00Misplaced Values, Bad Advice, a Bleak Future...Cortney Munna wanted to graduate from a top-ranked university. She managed to do so, but as the New York Times explains, it's going to cost her much, much more than she bargained for:Like many middle-class families, Cortney Munna and her mother began the college selection process with a grim determination. They would do whatever they could to get Cortney into the best possible college, and they Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-46240212357811570872010-06-01T19:48:00.000-07:002010-06-01T20:30:44.860-07:00The Frog in the Boiling Pot...Once upon a time, oh, about thirty years ago, the US had unquestioned supremacy in high-technology, especially computers. Three decades of free trade later, American dominance in technology is as dead as a doornail. Now the Chinese are advancing swiftly on the one area where American firms still have a slight lead.A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine, Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-39929998900040095782010-05-10T17:47:00.000-07:002010-05-11T16:06:17.249-07:00The Catholic ConnectionAs previously noted, Jewish organizations are strongly supportive of open borders and massive legal/illegal immigration to the US. But Jews are hardly alone in their enthusiasm over mass immigration. Most American Catholic bishops and Catholic organizations have also taken up the cause of increased immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. Since the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-85240327156072501682010-05-06T18:45:00.001-07:002010-05-06T19:58:27.543-07:00A "Naturalized American"Despite the early efforts of the mainstream media (and the leftists who control it) to portray that would-be Times Square Bomber as a "homegrown terrorist," (i.e., Americans are just as bad as radical foreign jihadis) it is now clear that Faisal Shahzad was anything but homegrown, and certainly not an American in any meaningful sense of the word. Mr. Shahzad was born and in Pakistan in 1979, Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-26948691640611531352010-05-04T11:21:00.001-07:002010-05-04T11:21:57.322-07:00Another, Shocking Surprise...It turns out that the apparent perpetrator of the failed car bombing of New York' Times Square was NOT - despite the mainstream media' most earnest leftist wish - a white, native-born American, but a "naturalized American citizen" from Pakistan.(CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Justice Department anticipates charging Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad "with an Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-82173395961905205812010-03-26T18:36:00.000-07:002010-03-26T18:54:38.150-07:00The Consistency of HypocrisyThe New York Times has long been the left's most reliable public pulpit, daily dispensing propaganda to advance its pet causes: income redistribution, social justice and multiculturalism. However, it seems that "economic and social justice" is something that the Times' liberal owners and managers view as something only to be practiced by others, not by themselves.Some New York Times Co. (NYT) Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0