The Olympics are always a festival of human biodiversity, with each sport having its ideal body-type.

The Chinese Olympic team flagbearer Yao Ming, the enormously tall Houston Rockets center who memorably led the Chinese in during the Opening Ceremonies next to the tiny hero boy who rescued two classmates buried in the recent earthquake, is the product of a more or less arranged marriage between the centers on the Chinese national men’s and women’s basketball teams. Colby Cosh points out the 2005 book Operation Yao Ming by Brook Larmer, which begins:

The faint whispers of a genetic conspiracy coursed through the corridors of Shanghai No. 6 Hospital on the evening of Sept. 12, 1980. It was shortly after 7 p.m., and a patient in the maternity ward had just endured an excruciating labor to give birth to a baby boy. An abnormally large baby boy. The doctors and nurses on duty should have anticipated something out of the ordinary. The boy’s parents, after all, were retired basketball stars whose marriage the year before had made them the tallest couple in China. The mother, Fang Fengdi, an austere beauty with a pinched smile, measured 1.88 m—more than half a foot taller than the average man in Shanghai. The father, Yao Zhiyuan, was a 2.08-m giant whose body pitched forward in the kind of deferential stoop that comes from a lifetime of ducking under door frames and leaning down to listen to people of more normal dimensions. So imposing was their size that ever since childhood, the two had been known simply as Da Yao and Da Fang—Big Yao and Big Fang.

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There still isn’t much MSM/ Respectable Right commentary on the Census Bureau’s latest estimate of the date (2042) when America’s founding population will become a minority in its own land because of immigration policy, which I blogged on here and here.

But NumbersUSA’s Roy Beck has blogged on it: New Nightmare Census Projections Reveal CHAIN MIGRATION Still Choking Our Future. Roy’s blog is well worth reading because of its emphasis on, well, numbers:

The Census projection of 135 million more people crammed into our communities by 2050 is like adding the entire current population of Mexico and Canada.

Does that really make sense?

Why would our elected leaders think we want to pile all of Mexico and Canada on top of ourselves?

Another comparison is that 135 million is approximately the entire population of the United States during World War II in the 1940s.

Or here is another: Visualize half of all the roads and streets, houses, shopping malls, office buildings, mining sites, industrial sections that are now required to support our current population. All of that will have to be added in order to support the population growth being created by federal immigration policies.

How many of you live in an area where adding half of the current physical structures on top of what is already there would improve the quality of your life?

Roy’s point is of course correct and important. There is a real question if America can handle a policy-inflicted increase of 135 million people, especially in stressed environments like California, quite apart from why it should.

Roy as usual completely avoids the issue of the shifting racial balance, although it’s equally numeric and policy-inflicted. This is no doubt because he’s nicer than I am and wants to avoid upsetting people. He also has to operate inside the Beltway.

My postion continue to be that the truth shall set us free.

Look for Steve Sailer on the Coming White Minority, due on Sunday night.

Coolidge here is talking about the Immigration Act of 1924, a bill he signed after earlier presidents had vetoed it.

IMMIGRATION

American institutions rest solely on good citizenship. They were created by people who had a background of self-government. New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this i purpose, it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. It would be well to make such immigration of a selective nature with some inspection at the source, and based either on a prior census or upon the record of naturalization. Either method would insure the admission of those with the largest capacity and best intention of becoming citizens. I am convinced that our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be admitted. We should find additional safety in a law requiring the immediate registration of all aliens. Those’ who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.[Calvin Coolidge: First Annual Message]