Whose side is time on?

My side.

Yes it is.

WHAT? OMG!!!

… to 10 million, far outstripping the growth in Israel.

..oh, right.

ROFL Gavin. Nice one! No, far better than a nice one. Brilliant.

These rantings are why I have a link to the Wiki(damn those liberals)pedia page on The Know Nothings on my blog and frequently link it everywhere else as well. At least we have the comfort of knowing that that movement faded away into complete oblivion.

So, for every Arab child, there are at least two Jews. This is a demographic problem how?

But honestly now, and by way of preface: The realists among us used to appreciate the relative non-batshit-insanity of ‘paleocons’ like Pat Buchanan on matters geopolitical, specifically Middle Eastern. Buchanan’s magazine, American Conservative came out against the Iraq War in its first issue, in 2002, and his past acolytes, such as Justin Raimundo at Antiwar.com, can tend to be pretty good guys. In fact, here’s Buchanan himself, from his inaugural column in the magazine:

If Providence does not intrude, we will soon launch an imperial war on Iraq with all the “On-to-Berlin!” bravado with which French poilus and British Tommies marched in August 1914. But this invasion will not be the cakewalk neoconservatives predict. More likely, it will be the “bloody mess” of which Tony Cordesman warns.

I have also appreciated Raimondo and Antiwar.com. It was indeed a breath of fresh air to discover that there were self-styled conservatives who were opposed to the Iraq war since before it started. But, my opinion of Raimondo went down considerably when I discovered that his column was rife with crazy-ass conspiracy theories, such as this one which posits that Pearl Harbor was planned by FDR & the Japanese. Now I look at Antiwar.com with a somewhat colder eye.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/enlarge/379147/ajax=1

Is treatment, particularly bad treatment, ever given to a person?
No. It is always meted out.
Is anything else ever meted out?
No. The only thing that is ever meted out is treatment.
And what does the meting out of treatment evoke?
The strongest protest against the treatment meted out.

But does a canary come into it at all?
No, they are all down in the coalmine.

“the Jews … by the bacteriocidal power of their blood, destroy the bacilli they breathe, which therefore do not survive a lodgement in the lungs.”

“Nothing could be clearer that the residence in any climate is made safe by skin pigmentation in accordance with the amount of sunlight, and this proves the impossibility of colonizing out of our proper zone. Brown and black people who now live in light tropical countries will always live there. We cannot exterminate them. … they are indestructible but will be used forever by white men, to their mutual benefit, not as slaves, or serfs, or domestic animals, but as junior partners with little voice in the management of the firm.”

“Should the blond types from Northern Europe die out in America, as they did in Italy, our republic and civilization would of course degenerate into the condition of the Roman state and civilization when it fell into the hands of the lower types. These lower Mediterranean races are flocking to the United States, and will survive of course, but it is quite likely that the Northern types will survive in sufficient numbers to prevent the destruction of our republic, though of course a perfect democracy is out of the question now and forever.”

-C. Woodruff, The Effects of Tropical Light on White Men (1905)

If every generation of group A had a 33% advantage in breeding over group B, there’d be hyperbolic growth of one over the other. On the other hand, a 60% advantage in kids becomes a 40% disadvantage in adults by, you know, killing babies.

If the infant mortality rate in Palestine weren’t so damned bad, the difference in infants would be a pure population growth matter. Simplest possible population pyramid:

x <- Adults
xx <- Youth

(You’ll note it’s a triangle. Assume hermaphroditic Palestinians.)

In this scenario, the old generation of adults have died out, leaving the new generation of kids to become adults, and they proceed to breed at whatever rate. So the next generation you have, setting aside the possibility of infant mortality and so on:

x <- (elderly)
xx <- Adults
xxxx <- Youth

And the next one would be

xx
xxxx
xxxx xxxx

etc.

Ya think that life in the occupied territories might just be really dangerous for small children? That cutting off power, water, and food supplies might actually, I dunno, be killing babies?

Egypt is near the perfect example of demographic transition. The population increased form 20M in 1950 to 70M in 200 (less than quadrupling), and now the birth rate is failing. The population will unlikely grow more than 100% during current century.

“EXTERMINATE!”

Have you seen the last Doctor Who episodes?

“But if you’re living in the West Bank [...]” (alec)

Indeed. That’s why west bank 2007 fertilty rate was about 4.17 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html#People altought 2007 egyptian fertility rate was about 2.77 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html#People .

Notice than iranian was about 1.71, which mean than even in a theocracy women can choice their fertility. Bad new for american christian conservatives. The good news it that this low fertility rate is because hight level of education of young women. So they only have to forbiding girl education after their coup d’état.

Oh, Buchannan’s premise? Too stupid to consider, but mocked in the highest style…

mikey

Pat will loudly give his viewpoint on anything…even if he knows zip about the issue.

If something interesting happens in the Dem primary race…go to Pat. He’ll be sure to bash them and give the Republican spin to any subject under the sun.

He’s almost mad MSNBC unwatchable.