Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals

Scientists reveal health benefits of breeding with Neanderthals

Neanderthals mated with early humans, according to research. Photo: BBC

Interbreeding between the two species between 65,000 and 90,000 years ago... It was established last year that a small part of the human genome can be traced back to Neanderthals.

Here's a descendent of this inter-breeding who herself also mated with a half-breed:

Yeah I know it's nasty, but it's not racist: they did it too Bush:

MEMO TO "HOLIER THAN THOU ED MORRISSEY" ONE OF THE BLOWHARDS AT HOT AIR:

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY.

EXIT QUESTION:

IS BARRY HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA JUNIOR A HALF-BREED, OR A HYBRID?

BASED ON THE RESULTS SO FAR, I'D SAY HALF-BREED.

AND BEFORE SQUEAMISH MODERATES LIKE ED JUMP IN AND ACCUSE ME OF COMMITTING ANOTHER SLUR, EVEN OBAMA HAS CALLED HIMSELF A MUTT.

BBC: "International concern over the upsurge of violence between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces, as cross-border attacks continue"

International concern is growing over the upsurge of violence between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces, as cross-border attacks continue.

MEANWHILE THERE IS NO SUCH INTERNATIONAL CONCERN ABOUT TURKEY'S ATTACKS ON THE PKK IN IRAQ.

WHY THE DISPARITY?

TURKEY IS MUSLIM AND THE "INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY" AND THE MSM DO NOT CRITICIZE MUSLIMS.

ISRAEL IS JEWISH AND THE "INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY" AND THE MSM ARE ANTISEMITIC.

UPDATE: SO-CALLED "MODERATE ARAB" STATE JORDAN CONDEMNS ISRAEL FOR ITS RETALIATIONS.

PAR FOR THE COURSE: "KING" ABDULLAH 2 OF JORDAN IS LIKE MOST ARAB MUSLIMS: LYING IMMORAL EVIL SCUM.

REMINDER TO "KING" ABDULLAH 2:

YOUR FATHER KILLED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SO-CALLED "PALESTINIAN" SCUM - MORE THAN ISRAEL,

AND YOUR GRANDFATHER WAS ASSASSINATED BY THEM.

INSTEAD OF APPEASING THEM YOU SHOULD BE FIGHTING THEM LIKE YOUR FATHER DID ONCE.

SIGH.

ALL EVIL ISLAM NEEDS TO FLOURISH IS FOR GOOD MEN TO APPEASE THEM.

LEFTIST SHRINKS WANT PEDOPHILIA REMOVED FROM THE LIST OF MENTAL ILLNESSES

ALL PART OF THE GRAMSCIAN AGENDA: THEY WANT TO NORMALIZE ALL FORMS OF DEVIANCY IN ORDER DESTROY TRADITIONAL VALUES IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR AND DESTROY OPPONENTS OF THE SOCIALIST STATE.

POSTMODERN LEFTIST'S HAVE AN INVERTED MORAL UNIVERSE WHERE GOOD IS EVIL AND EVIL IS GOOD.

POSTMODERN LEFTISTS ARE EVIL.

MORE ON THE LEFT'S GRAMSCIAN AGENDA HERE AND HERE, TOO.

HOLLYWOOD DOES A LEFTIST PROPAGANDA BIOPIC OF THATCHER

DETAILS HERE.

ON THE ONE HAND:

THEY SPREAD VICIOUS LIES ABOUT THATCHER AS THEY DID REAGAN IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT PEOPLE - ESPECIALLY THE YOUTH - FROM HOLDING THESE TWO LEADERS, AND LEADERS LIKE THEM - IN PROPER ESTEEM.

ON THE OTHER HAND:

THEY'D NEVER DO AN ACCURATE MOVIE ABOUT THE PEDOPHILE RAPIST AND GENOCIDAL TERRORIST MOHAMED.

THE LEFTISTS WHO DOMINATE HOLLYWOOD ARE TOTAL FU*KING LYING SOCIALIST POSTMODERN SCUM. AND COWARDLY TOO.

OBAMA IS DOOMED

I THINK OBAMA FEELS HE'S DOOMED.

HE INCORRECTLY BLAMES OTHERS, BUT HIS PROGNOSIS IS CORRECT.

AND I THINK THAT BECAUSE OBAMA IS A NARCISSIST, HE WOULD RATHER QUIT THAN GET SMASHED IN THE POLLS, AND BLAME EVERYONE ELSE.

SO HE WILL EITHER RESIGN AND BLAME EVERYONE ELSE, OR ANNOUNCE HE'S NOT RUNNING AND BLAME EVERYONE ELSE.

ECO-TERROR ATTACK IN HAWAII?

Thousands of papaya trees were chopped down on 10 acres of Big Island farmland under the cover of night last month. Hawaii County police said the destruction appeared to be done with a machete, but there are no leads and few clues beyond the tree stumps and all the fruit left to rot.

"It's hard to imagine anybody putting that much effort into doing something like that," said Delan Perry, vice president of the Hawaii Papaya Industry Association. "It means somebody has to have passionate reason."

A growing theory among farmers is that the attack was an act of eco-terrorism, a violent protest against the biotechnology used in growing papayas here. Police did not respond to calls seeking comment.

The majority of papayas grown on 170 farms on Oahu and the Big Island are genetically modified.

FREAKING LEFT-WING LUDDITE MORONS.

THEY'VE BEEN EATING GM PAPAYA FOR 60 YEARS! IDIOTS.

BUMPERSTICKER: OBAMA SHOULD RESIGN

NYTIMES DOES A FRONT PAGE STORY ON THE PROBLEMS TRANSGENDER "WOMEN" ARE HAVING GETTING GOOD SILICONE INJECTIONS

REALLY:

James Estrin/The New York Times

The High Price of Looking Like a Woman

By LAURA RENA MURRAY

Some transgender women seek out practitioners who will illegally, and dangerously, inject them with silicone to achieve a more feminine appearance.

THE GRAMSCIAN AGENDA RUN AMOK.

AS THE WORLD SPINS DOWN INTO A GLOBAL DEPRESSION, THE NYTIMES IS COVERING A TRANSGENDER SILICONE CRISIS AND OBAMA PLAYS GOLD ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD.

SHEESH.

LIBERALS ARE ABSOFREAKINLUTELY INSANE.

OBAMA: PASSING THE BUCK AGAIN...

GREAT "BUCK STOPS OVER THERE" POST OVER HERE.

INSTAPUNDIT NOW HARPING ON "STUDENT LOAN BUBBLE"

NOW PROFESSOR REYNOLDS LINKS TO A STORY ON A SUPPOSED "STUDENT LOAN BUBBLE" -

ONE OF HIS 250 POSTS THIS YEAR ON ONE SORT OF "EDUCATION BUBBLE" OR ANOTHER.

(THE ONLY THING HE POSTS ON MORE FREQUENTLY IS AMAZON SALES - HE GETS A COMMISSION FOR!)

REYNOLDS AND THE GUY HE LINKED TO ARE WRONG AGAIN.

THERE IS NO STUDENT LOAN BUBBLE.

IT HAS NONE OF THE FEATURES OF A TRUE BUBBLE.

(GLENN: EVERY THING THAT CRASHES IS NOT A BUBBLE!)

EXCERPT:

The numbers are just staggering. Not surprising, but a stark reminder that we’ve got another huge economic problem that nobody cares about. From the Huffington Post:

Outstanding student debt has climbed 25 percent since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — an increase from $440 billion then to $550 billion now

AS THE EXCERPT WITHIN THE EXCERPT PROVES, THE DELINQUENCY IS THE RESULT OF THE RECESSION.

IT IS NOT A HUGE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF GRADUATES - (THERE HAS BEEN A SLOW STEADY INCREASE OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS), NOR A STEEP INCREASE OVER A SHORT TIME IN THE PRICE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (COSTS HAVE GONE UP AT A RATE HIGHER THAN INFLATION, BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN EXPLOSIVE --- NOT ANYTHING LIKE A BUBBLE).

FACT: THIS RECESSION ACTUALLY PROVES THAT A COLLEGE DEGREE IS STILL THE BEST WAY A PERSON CAN GUARANTEE HE WILL EARN MORE AND BE LESS LIKELY TO BE LAID OFF.

I'VE POSTED LINKS SEVERAL TIMES CORRECTING REYNOLDS' MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT BUBBLES AND THE PROBLEMS GRADUATES ARE CURRENTLY FACING - AND EVEN EMAILED THEM TO REYNOLDS.

BUT ON THIS ISSUE INSTAPUNDIT WOULD APPARENTLY RATHER CONTINUE TO POST SENSATIONALIST ITEMS THAT SPREAD FALSEHOODS, THAN ADMIT HE'S WRONG AND SPREAD THE TRUTH.

THERE IS A HUGE STUDENT LOAN PROBLEM LOOMING - BUT IT'S BECAUSE OF THE RECESSION AND SOCIALISM:

OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES SAW TO IT THAT THE GOVERNMENT TOOK OVER THE STUDENT LOAN INDUSTRY AND BECAUSE OF THE RECESSION (ONE WHICH IS THE RESULT OF 3 DECADES OF SOCIALIST HOUSING POLICIES) MANY GRADUATES WILL DEFAULT.

AND THE TAXPAYER WILL HAVE TO PAY.

WHAT'S THE CURE:

SIMPLE:
LESS SOCIALISM FROM WASHINGTON DC AND MORE ECONOMIC GROWTH. THE LATTER WILL RESULT FROM THE FORMER.

PS:

EVERY TIME I CRITICIZE INSTAPUNDIT I LOSE SEVERAL HUNDRED REGULAR READERS - (FOLKS WHO WORSHIP THE BLOGFATHER I GUESS? AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM!).

SO BE IT.

I'D RATHER SPEAK TRUTH, BLUNTLY - NO MATTER WHOSE FEATHERS IT RUFFLES THEN LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHEN I SEE MISTRUTHS SPREAD BY PEOPLE WITH BIG MEGAPHONES.

TRUE LEADERS BECOME MORE POPULAR IN CRISES, NOT LESS

CHURCHILL IN WW2, BECAME LOVED.

SO WAS DUBYA AFTER 9/11 - FOR A FEW YEARS, AT LEAST...

BOTH OF THEIR THEIR NUMBERS WENT UP.

AND OBAMA?!?!?!?

HIS NUMBERS HAVE GONE DOWN. DOWN. DOWN.

WHY? BECAUSE OBAMA ISN'T EVEN A HALF-WAY DECENT LEADER.

HE SUCKS.

IF A CRISIS IS A TEST OF LEADERSHIP, THEN OBAMA HAS FAILED MISERABLY.

IF HE HAD A SHRED OF HONOR OR DECENCY OR TRULY LOVED THIS NATION, THEN HE'D RESIGN - OR AT LEAST ANNOUNCE HE WON'T SEEK RE-ELECTION.

HERE'S A NICE SCENARIO: THIS OCTOBER -

• IN THE DEPTHS OF THE DOUBLE DIP,
• WITH CHRISTMAS SALES TANKING AND UNEMPLOYMENT RISING ---
• AND AS IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE SUPER-COMMITTEE WILL BE UNABLE TO DO EVEN A HALF-ASSED JOB ---
• OBAMA ANNOUNCES THAT HE WON'T SEEK RE-ELECTION,
• BUT INSTEAD WILL WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO FORGE A TRULY NON-PARTISAN DEBT PLAN WITH THE COMMITTEE FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION.

(WELL.. I GUY CAN HOPE CAN'T HE!?)

MR. AND MRS. OBAMA TO AMERICA: "LET THEM EAT CRAP!"

Obamas Share Sacrifice at Pricey Vineyard Restaurant

President and Mrs. Obama are sharing in the sacrifice tonight at the Beach Plum Restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard, which features an array of overpriced selections for the first couple to choose from that could easily bring the bill within range of $200.

JOHN EDWARDS WAS RIGHT, THERE ARE TWO AMERICAS:

ONE IN WHICH HARD-WORKING AMERICANS STRUGGLE DURING A DOUBLE-DIP RECESSION...

AND ANOTHER WHERE INCOMPETENT LEFT-WING PRESIDENT'S FLAUNT THEIR POWER WHILE VACATIONING AMONG THE NATION'S LIBERAL ELITE.

HAVING FLOWN THERE IN HIS'N HER JETS.

WE WILL HAVE THE LAST WORD:

PREDICTION: IF OBAMA RUNS FOR RE-ELECTION HE WILL ONLY CARRY DC.

NEW PHOTO OF OBAMA IN SITUATION ROOM DURING OSAMA ASSASSINATION

HOLLYWOOD VERSION HERE.

Spencer and Geller are right to be concerned about Perry's connections with Norquist

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller have spoken about how they've been attacked for voicing concerns about GOP candidate Rick Perry's ties to Islamic sources, which includes the whitewashed educational program that was used in Texas schools and even Perry's associations with Grover Norquist. Geller's response, to Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, includes:

Jawad also criticizes me for pointing out that the curriculum that Perry has gotten from the Aga Khan for Texas schools is "whitewashing Islam's bloody historical and modern-day record." I stand by my words. A reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com has examined the curriculum and found numerous questionable aspects of it. "The religion that the Prophet Muhammad preached provided his followers an ethical and moral vision for leading a life of righteousness," it tells kids. Muhammad's jihad conquests and cultural annihilations? His child marriage? Forget it. The curriculum also discusses "the beauty and perfection of the Qur'an." Calls to jihad? Calls to hate unbelievers and wage war against them? Nothing.

Then Jawad turns to my criticism of Perry's ties to Grover Norquist, saying, "one need only note, as Pipes did, that all of Perry's connections to Norquist concern taxation issues, not Islam." That's the kind of thinking people use to say that Hezbollah is a fine group, because look, they run schools and hospitals. No candidate worth his salt should have anything to do with Norquist, for tax issues or any other reason. You can't come out for cutting taxes without playing ball with Norquist? Please.

And Perry's ties to Norquist are extensive: Robert Spencer notes that "Perry and Grover Norquist held a joint press conference in March 2011. Perry appeared at a fund-raiser for Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform group. Also, Norquist actively campaigned for Perry back in 2009. Their association is longstanding: Perry was investigated by the Texas Ethics Commission in 2004 for allegations that the Governor illegally used campaign money to finance a trip to Bahamas; the point here is not the allegations, but the fact that along on the Bahamas trip at his own expense was Grover Norquist. Perry and Norquist are clearly not just casual acquaintances."

So what will happen when Norquist approaches his good buddy Perry and asks him to give an appointment to or do some favor for some Islamic supremacist? Will Perry then turn against his old friend? I hope so. But if we don't call out Perry on his ties to Norquist now, how can we be sure of that?

More at the link, and she's quite right to be concerned. This may suggest a flaw on Pipes' behalf - to say that Perry's links with Norquist are on a financial level at best is a weak argument; why couldn't Perry do it himself?

Those who are oh so bothered about Geller's and Spencer's criticisms would do well to lay off of it, as it will do no good in getting Perry to fix some of his mistakes. If this is brought more clearly to light, it could help improve things a lot more. We can't afford to have another capitulator in the White House.

WWWT!? - (WHAT WOULD WASHINGTON THINK?)

OBAMA: MUBARAK :: CARTER : THE SHAH

CARTER'S FAILURE TO SUPPORT THE SHAH LED TO THE IRANIAN THEOCRACY - WHICH HAS BEEN BAD FOR IRANIANS AND BAD FOR THE WORLD.

OBAMA'S FAILURE TO SUPPORT MUBARAK IS LEADING TO SIMILAR RESULTS.


APPEASING THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST IS NEVER A GOOD THING.

AS A RESULT OF OBAMA'S APPEAEMENT, THE ISLAMO-FASCISTS ARE ON THE RISE IN EGYPT.

IT WILL BE TOUGHER TO RID THE WORLD OF THEM THAN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO SUPPORT MUBARAK AND DISCOURAGE THE SO-CALLED "ARAB SPRING" - (A MISNOMER IF EVER THERE WAS ONE: THERE CAN BE NO SPRING WITHOUT LIGHT, AND ISLAMO-FASCISM IS DARKNESS).

Youtube and Sharia Law: Working Against Free Speech

Welcome to ShariaTube

We've had a good run on YouTube. With nearly eight million views and close to seven thousand subscribers, it seemed like YouTube took international communication to the next level for us. But things have changed.

 MORE HERE

MEMO TO DEMOCRATS: IT'S TIME TO DUMP OBAMA

IF OBAMA
WAS A COACH OR MANAGER OR CEO, THEN OBAMA WOULD BE FIRED.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA SHOULD NOT HAVE A LOWER STANDARD OF PERFORMANCE, NOR THE CITIZENS OF THE USA A HIGHER BURDEN.


IT'S TIME OBAMA MOVED ON.

FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY.

FOR THE GOOD OF HE GLOBAL ECONOMY.

FOR THE GOOD OF THE FREE WORLD

IT'S TIME OBAMA MOVED ON.

THIS SEPTEMBER, INSTEAD OF ANNOUNCING SOME NEW LEFT-WING BOONDOGGLE ALL GUSSIED UP TO SOUND LIKE A "JOBS PROGRAM", OBAMA SHOULD ANNOUNCE HE'S RESIGNING.

THE STOCK MARKETS WILL GO UP 20% THE MOMENT HE DOES.

AND UNEMPLOYMENT WILL COME DOWN.

THAT'S RIGHT: THE BEST POSSIBLE JOB STIMULUS OBAMA COULD DELIVER IS HIS RESIGNATION.

ERDOGAN ATTACKS KURDS IN IRAQ 2ND NIGHT IN A ROW

Turkish warplanes have hit rebel Kurdish bases in northern Iraq for the second night, the separatists and Turkish media say.

The strikes on the bases used by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) follow an attack by the separatists that killed nine Turkish troops.

A PKK spokesman told the AFP there were no casualties from the raids.

TURKEY ATTACKS ANOTHER COUNTRY HARBORING TERRORISTS. IT'S MUSLIM ON MUSLIM VIOLENCE. SO... THERE'S NO OUTCRY.

IF JEWS DID IT THEN THERE'D BE AN OUTCRY.

WHICH IS ANTISEMITIC. BECAUSE EVERY NATION HAS THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE.

DOES ANYBODY THINK OBAMA IS HAVING A GOOD TIME BEING PRESIDENT?

I DON'T.

I THINK HE'D MUCH RATHER BE DICTATOR.

S&P DOWNGRADES VENEZUELA

US ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Venezuela's foreign and local currency sovereign ratings by one notch Friday, citing the country's political risk as a credit weakness.

It cut the ratings from BB- to B+ with a stable outlook, saying the decision "reflects our recently revised sovereign rating methodology's heavier weight on political risk, which is a credit weakness for Venezuela."

S&P said its outlook also weighed both the negative impact of the Chavez government's interventionist investment and growth policies on the one hand, along with the country's modest fiscal and external positions.

"In our opinion, changing and arbitrary laws, price and exchange controls, and other distorting and unpredictable economic measures have undermined private-sector investment and hurt productivity -- weakening Venezuela's domestic economy," it added in a statement.

SOCIALISM IS WRECKING EUROPE'S DEBT STRUCTURE, IT'S WRECKING OURS - AND NOW IT HAS WRECKED VENEZUELA'S.

YES: SOCIALISM.

NEITHER EUROPE OR VENEZUELA GAVE "BUSH TAX CUTS TO THE RICH" OR STARTED "TWO UNFUNDED WARS."

THE MORE GOVERNMENT FU*KS WITH THE ECONOMY, THE WORSE THE ECONOMY GETS.

33,000 YEAR OLD PET DOG SKULL UNEARTHED IN SIBERIA

Ancient Dog Skull Shows Early Pet Domestication

33,000-year-old fossil suggests dogs arose in multiple places, study says.
The skull of a domesticated canine.

It took 33,000 years, but one Russian dog is finally having its day.

The fossilized remains of a canine found in the 1970s in southern Siberia's Altay Mountains (see map) is the earliest well-preserved pet dog, new research shows.

Dogs—the oldest domesticated animals—are common in the fossil record up to 14,000 years ago. But specimens from before about 26,500 years ago are very rare. This is likely due to the onset of the last glacial maximum, when the ice sheets are at their farthest extent during an ice age.

SOME PEOPLE THINK THE DOG DOMESTICATED MAN.