I am very upset. As a cro magnon descendent I have been very proud our our cave paintings. Now, however, scientists have discovered beautiful hand stencils painted 40,00 years ago on the walls of an Indonesian cave. The art had been found in the 1950s and thought to be about 10,000 year[...]
Posts Tagged ‘SMS family’
January 1st, 2015 - 3:24 pm § in Misc.
Today is my birthday but now I know that Europeans, my ancestors, have lost the art title
December 27th, 2014 - 11:05 am § in America
Glad to live in WASTATE
I am very happy to live here rather than in the former confederacy. A state like South Carolina where some of my own family chose to live, disgusts me. Still, before getting too happy let me point out that our own state has a very racist history. When my wife and I moved here the Indian Fi[...]
December 24th, 2014 - 12:33 am § in Misc.
Havimas falls on the last night of Hannukah and Christmas Eve
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Al Sharpton is a Very Bad Man
Sharpton Refuses de Blasio’s Calls to Halt Protests Until After NYPD Funerals As Sharpton told Reuters, he and his followers are holding vigils for Eric Garner and Michael Brown and, thus, are technically not protesting. The false hero of the Tawana Brawley mess has not changed. This man is in it [...]
Another Mitzvah in the spirit of Christmas
This is a wonderful mitzvah Naomi Feil, a Jewish woman, singing Christian hymns for a woman with Alzheimers. Gladys. Gladys is unable to speak and must have very fragmented memories but her religion remains core Gladys identity. . When Naomi sings about Jesus and embraces Gladys the two [...]
Time for real progress
What some would consider progress over the last 60 years since the Montgomery Bus Boycotts is really just widespread tokenism. Progress for a few is not progress at all unless we are looking at it from an individualistic-assimilationist point of view. This view focuses on the success of a few whil[...]
The Schwartz Family
(from Vox) When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New York, and had always — despite[...]
November 25th, 2014 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
Is my Dog Part Fox?
Hmm … if we humans make mistakes about species, how the hell can we claim to identify races? I can’t help wondering at how much our new Shiba puppy looks like a fox. I know that the Shiba has a genome that is 80% wolf, but what does science say? Leolupus on Yahoo answered this 5 [&h[...]
American Breeds: Race in America
The American concept of “race” is a farce. Some 40 years ago, as a medical student, I got into trouble when I asked my mentors why we were supposed to describe patients as Black or White? My mentors answered that there were genetic disorders. Excited by this idea, I began to take race hi[...]