From the New York Times:

“All Brains Are the Same Color”

Richard E. Nisbett

… During World War II, both black and white American soldiers fathered children with German women. Thus some of these children had 100 percent European heritage and some had substantial African heritage. Tested in later childhood, the German children of the white fathers were found to have an average I.Q. of 97, and those of the black fathers had an average of 96.5, a trivial difference.

This Eyferth study was published in 1961 and has been relentlessly cited ever since. And yet, nobody has replicated this 46 year old analysis. It’s not as if African-American soldiers stopped fathering half German children so that it can’t be done anymore. It’s just that nobody seems to want to do it. I wonder why.

By the way, perhaps the best-known son of an African-American soldier and a German woman was Rob Pilatus, one-half of Milli Vanilli, the Grammy Award-winning singers who didn’t actually sing.

This is from a Seattle website

Seattlest: Sorry, FDR, But December 7th Probably Lives in Less Infamy Than Your Internment Order
December 7, 2007
The most unfortunate victims of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor–which happened 66 years ago today–were surely the 2,333 military personnel who lost their lives.

FDR called it, “a date which will live in infamy.” Perhaps in 1941, a surprise attack on another country’s military was infamous. But considering that in 1986 the U.S. launched a surprise attack on another country’s civilians, [They mean a raid on Libya ordered by Ronald Reagan]12/7 looks a lot less infamous than the direct domestic aftermath, felt especially keenly here in the Northwest.

Well, no. The Japanese attack and mass murder at Pearl Harbor were a lot worse than the internment of either enemy aliens or their American citizen relatives. The US Government eventually let the all internees go, many of them long before the war with Japan was over, while all the dead at Pearl Harbor remain dead to this day.

And the Empire of Japan was famous for its atrocities–the rape of Nanking, the torture and murder of Allied POWs, the Manila Massacre, all the things that everyone learns about in school–wait, I’m wrong, they don’t learn about it in school. What they learn about, at great length, is the internment. But for the record, Wikipedia finds it necessary to divide the subject of “Japanese War Crimes” under nine headings:

• 3.1 Mass killings
• 3.2 Experiments on humans and biological warfare
• 3.3 Use of chemical weapons
• 3.4 Preventable famine
• 3.5 Torture of POWs
• 3.6 Cannibalism
• 3.7 Forced labour
• 3.8 Comfort women
• 3.9 Looting

Those are just the basics–major atrocities have their own individual pages. Nothing FDR ever did, and he did a lot, (I’m not an FDR fan) equaled the cruelty of the Japanese in World War Two. And if he does live in more infamy than the Empire of Japan, then it’s the fault of multicultural propaganda in the schools.

Tis the season in which citizens are urged to feel compassion toward foreign job thieves who broke into America and then got themselves into trouble.

It’s not enough that we are forced to pay billions yearly in healthcare and other costs for illegal aliens: we are guilt-tripped by the press that we should be happy to redistribute our hard-earned dollars toward foreign invaders, and particularly around Christmas.

In southern Mexifornia, the tab is still accumulating from recent fires (see the previous Wildfire Costs Include Expensive Healthcare for Illegal Mexicans).

(One study put the 2006 cost of illegal alien medical care in San Diego County at $155 million.)

The San Diego Union Tribune featured the story of Maria Guadalupe Beltran, a Mexican who was caught in the October fire and later died [Mother of 4 burned near Tecate dies of injuries, November 11, 2007)]

In a December 8 article in the North County Times, Families of burned illegal immigrants grieve while medical bills and questions mount, one subhead was “A family without Christmas,” where the misery was sensitively detailed.

More interesting was the material included and omitted from the section “Who will pay?”

Mercado said his wife had health insurance, provided through her U.S.-born children, to cover her medical costs. Dr. Thomas McAfee, UCSD’s physician-in-chief, said he was unaware of Beltran’s case, but said that the hospital had been able to get emergency Medi-Cal coverage for some of the patients. [...]

McAfee said that during previous fires the average cost of care per burn victim was about $90,000. However, he cautioned that costs can vary widely depending on the care that is needed. [...]

In California, hospitals spent more than $1 billion in 2005 on health care for illegal immigrants that was not reimbursed by federal or state programs, according to federal government estimates. Meanwhile, the state received $66 million in federal money in 2005. The county received about $1.4 million.

We know who pays — not the illegal aliens themselves, not the enemy Mexican government that pushes its poor peasants out the door, but the overburdened American citizen.

It’s all taxpayer money, whether it’s strained through Washington or Sacramexico. Celebrate the season of American generosity–whether you want to contribute or not.

Of course, if America had a real border, the Beltran-Mercado family would all be happily alive in the beloved homeland of Mexico. No Feliz Navidad for them.

The Associated Press published a list of the “worst jobs” that Presidential candidates can recall holding–they turn out to be jobs that are nowadays almost always taken by immigrants:

Personal side: Presidential candidates and the jobs they were glad to leave behind

The Associated Press asked major presidential candidates a series of questions about their personal tastes, traits and backgrounds. Today’s question first in a series and their answers:

What was your worst job?
DEMOCRATS:

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “Sliming fish in a fish cannery in Valdez, Alaska.”

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: Textile mill. “I cleaned out overhead in the weave room, which is where all the crap goes. And I’d be up there climbing around, knocking the stuff down. And it would go down on the looms. The weavers would be, uh, not happy with me for that.”

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: Scooping ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins and eating too much of it.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Landscaping, while playing baseball on Cape Cod in 1967. “The pay was terrible. I remember it was backbreaking work.”

Obama’s “worst job” emphasizes how easy he had it growing up–that’s why Steve Sailer called him the “preppie from paradise.”

As for Richardson’s jobs, landscaper, baseball player, and any summer job on Cape Cod are all jobs that Americans “won’t do” or rather, can’t have because immigrants are doing them cheaper.

This story about a 15-year old welfare mother, whose own mother is 29, [The Education Wonks: Babies Having Babies: Now A Generational Problem] reminded me that Queen of Country Music Loretta Lynn was famously a grandmother at 29 herself. But you and I didn’t have to pay for that. The difference is that Loretta was married at 14, so she and her husband were responsible for the expenses involved. Her daughter was also married when she had two little girls. This story’s looking different. For one thing, unlike Loretta, the now 16-year old mother is not planning to be a successful songwriter and singer.

“Celia writes rap songs in her spare time, but she does not foresee making a living by doing that. “I want to do computers,” she said, or maybe health occupations. “[Teen pregnancies in Q-C region: Baby starts new role for teenage mom, Quad-City Times, December 2, 2007]

Another difference–instead of signing a permission slip to allow her daughter to marry at 16, as Loretta did, and Loretta’s own father back in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky  did, Celia’s mother signed a permission slip allowing her to get a tattoo.(With her rap name on it.)