June 9, 2014 Australia Is All Worked Up About Rape In The Military Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Australia Is All Worked Up About Rape In The Military

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Luke Ford

Whenever you put young men and women together, you get sexual harassment and sexual tension. If you add privacy and alcohol to the equation, you get rape. When men can, they rape (unless they’re frightened or particularly moral). If you don’t want women to get raped in the military, don’t have women in the military. If you want women in the military, you are going to have to put up with a certain amount of rape.

Australia is all worked up about rape in the military but there’s no mention in the media that if you force the military to admit women, you are going to have needless sexual tension and rape. The military does not want to admit women. It destroys efficiency and group cohesion. They have been forced to admit women by the politicians.

Steve Sailer examines the hysteria about rape in the U.S. military. Sailer discusses the Army coach fired for not recruiting enough accused rapists.

Sailer wrote: You would assume that the Jameis Winston case would have been a huge story in the New York Times all fall with lots of long think pieces about the Meaning of It All. After all, the prestige press has been getting worked up recently over Rape Culture on Campus and in the Military and the like. But it has been slow to delve much into this particular story about the star of the #1 team beyond laconic news accounts like this one because it runs into other social concerns: promoting black quarterbacks, and the worry that the woman is white.

In contrast, the NYT was all over a story a year or two ago about an obscure white college quarterback accused of rape in some place like Montana or Wyoming. He wound up acquitted. (Reinstated as starting quarterback the day after his acquital, he’s thrown for 28 touchdowns and only 4 interceptions this year for Montana, which will be in a small college playoff game on Saturday against Coastal Carolina.)

And of course the NYT ran a couple of dozen stories promoting the hoax that a black stripper (who, by the way, was just convicted of murder) had been gang raped by the white Duke lacrosse team.

There’s a similar case at the Naval Academy where three black football players are accused of raping a female student, presumably white, but that has gotten some Serious Attention because that can be filed under the Sexual Assault Epidemic in the Military category (talk about bogus trend stories …). And the alleged rapists are not shattering stereotypes by being passing quarterbacks.

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The Nurture Assumption

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Luke Ford

Parents should relax. There’s nothing much they can do, beyond the basics, beyond being the best selves they can be, to effect their kids’ lives in a statistically meaningful way. The primary thing they give their children is an attachment style and this primarily depends on the parents coming to terms with their life narrative, not on anything the parents do to or for their kids (with the possible exception of abuse and deprivation, etc, even then that is usually less influential on the children than their genes).

I don’t have kids, but I’ve been a kid and I’ve lived in different homes and I’ve known dozens of families and I’m impressed with this New York Times book review by Carol Tavris about The Nurture Assumption:

First, researchers have been unable to find any child-rearing practice that predicts children’s personalities, achievements or problems outside the home. Parents don’t have a single child-rearing style anyway, because how they treat their children depends largely on what the children are like. They are more permissive with easy children and more punitive with defiant ones.
Second, even when parents do treat their children the same way, the children turn out differently. The majority of children of troubled and even abusive parents are resilient and do not suffer lasting psychological damage. Conversely, many children of the kindest and most nurturing parents succumb to drugs, mental illness or gangs.
Third, there is no correlation — zero — between the personality traits of adopted children and their adoptive parents or other children in the home, as there should be if ”home environment” had a strong influence.
Fourth, how children are raised — in day care or at home, with one parent or two, with gay parents or straight ones, with an employed mom or one who stays home — has little or no influence on children’s personalities.
Finally, what parents do with and for their children affects children mainly when they are with their parents. For instance, mothers influence their children’s play only while the children are playing with them; when the child is playing alone or with a playmate, it makes no difference what games were played with mom…
The first problem with the nurture assumption is nature. The findings of behavior genetics show, incontrovertibly, that many personality traits and abilities have a genetic component. No news here; many others have reported this research, notably the psychologist Jerome Kagan in ”The Nature of the Child.” But genes explain only about half of the variation in people’s personalities and abilities. What’s the other half?
Harris’s brilliant stroke was to change the discussion from nature (genes) and nurture (parents) to its older version: heredity and environment. ”Environment” is broader than nurture. Children, like adults, have two environments: their homes and their world outside the home; their behavior, like ours, changes depending on the situation they are in. Many parents know the eerie experience of having their child’s teacher describe their child in terms they barely recognize (”my kid did what?”). Children who fight with their siblings may be placid with friends. They can be honest at home and deceitful at school, or vice versa. At home children learn how their parents want them to behave and what they can get away with; but, Harris shows, ”These patterns of behavior are not like albatrosses that we have to drag along with us wherever we go, all through our lives. We don’t even drag them to nursery school.”
Harris has taken a factor, peers, that everyone acknowledges is important, but instead of treating it as a nuisance in children’s socialization, she makes it a major player. Children are merciless in persecuting a kid who is different — one who says ”Warshington” instead of ”Washington,” one who has a foreign accent or wears the wrong clothes. (Remember?) Parents have long lamented the apparent cruelty of children and the obsessive conformity of teen-agers, but, Harris argues, they have missed the point: children’s attachment to their peer groups is not irrational, it’s essential. It is evolution’s way of seeing to it that kids bond with each other, fit in and survive. Identification with the peer group, not identification with the parent, is the key to human survival. That is why children have their own traditions, words, rules, games; their culture operates in opposition to adult rules. Their goal is not to become successful adults but successful children. Teen-agers want to excel as teen-agers, which means being unlike adults…
Others, however, may reject this book because of concerns about its potential misuses. If children ”naturally” exclude ”outsiders,” why should schools make any effort to integrate children of different ethnicities, sexes or abilities? Why should we pay for prenatal care or better schools if smart, resilient kids will turn out all right whatever we do, and troubled ones will be lost to deviant peer groups?

There is one powerful way that parents can influence their children and that is through their attachment style. So far there has been no genetic component found for attachment style. So whether a kid is secure or anxious or avoidant or disorganized in his attachment style, that is largely up to the parenting style and parents can’t help but act out their own style of attachment and level of differentiation. Differentiation — the ability to securely hold on to yourself and to calm your own anxieties while in relationship to the people you love — does not tend to change over generations.

* A bad habit I developed in childhood was to always clean my plate. It has led to a lifelong pattern of over-eating.

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So Why Doesn’t Australia Have Protests About Its High Cost Of Living?

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Luke Ford

In 2011, the main story in Israel were the social justice protests, aka the cost of living was too high.

Australia’s cost of living is far higher than Israel’s. So why aren’t Australians taking to the streets?

Because Australians and Israelis are very different peoples.

If you’ve read the Old Testament, you know that the people Israel are not afraid to complain. By contrast, Australia’s religious heritage is Protestant and Protestants don’t tend to complain much.

Another factor is that Australia’s wages are near the highest in the world. They are third in this chart while Israel ranks at 24 (and America is at seven).

According to the statistics, Australia has the seventh-most expensive cost living in the world. Israel is 20th. Australia’s cost ranks at 108.51 while Israel ranks at 91.45, well below Japan.

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Australia Is A High-Trust Country

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Luke Ford

In Australia, you pump your gas and then you pay. In America, you pay and then you can pump your gas.

In regional Australia, people usually don’t lock up their homes and cars. In American cities, that is mandatory.

So why is there so much crime in America and so relatively little in Australia? The answer has almost nothing to do with Australia and America. These two countries simply exemplify world-wide trends in crime — black people commit the most, Orientals the least and whites are in between.

I’ve been in Australia two weeks now and hardly seen any blacks and no Mexicans. By contrast, Los Angeles is the most racially mixed city in the United States with large numbers of blacks and Mexicans and consequently huge rates of crime in areas where blacks and Mexicans live.

Some parts of Australia are dangerous but they are areas with lots of blacks or low-IQ Muslims or other low-IQ types. Why Australia imports this dysfunction is beyond me. Overall, however, Australia has about the most sane immigration policy around.

J. Philippe Rushton found:

In the U.S., Blacks are less than 13% of the population but have 50% of all arrests for assault and murder and 67% of all arrests for robbery. Fifty percent of all crime victims also report their assailants are Black, so the arrest statistics cannot be due to police bias.

Blacks make up a large share of those arrested for white-collar crimes. About 33% of persons arrested for fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, and receiving stolen property, and about 25% of those arrested for embezzlement are Black. Blacks are under-represented only in offenses, such as tax fraud and securities violations, that are committed by individuals in high status occupations.

On the other hand, Orientals are under-represented in U.S. crime statistics. This has led some to argue that the Asian “ghetto” has protected members from harmful outside influences. For Blacks, however, the ghetto is said to foster crime, so purely cultural explanations are not enough.

Female homicides tell the same story. In one study of female arrests, 75% were Black women. Only 13% were White women. No Asian women were arrested. The cultural explanation for the crime rate of Black men does not apply to Black women, who are not expected to engage in criminal behavior to the same extent. There is no “gangster” image among Black females.

The same pattern is found in other countries. In London, England, Blacks make up 13% of the population, but account for 50% of the crime rate. A 1996 government commission in Ontario, Canada, reported that Blacks were five times more likely go to jail than Whites, and 10 times more likely than Orientals. In Brazil, there are 1.5 million Orientals, mostly Japanese whose ancestors went there as
laborers in the 19th century, and who are the least represented in crime.

Studies find that Blacks are more aggressive and outgoing than Whites, while Whites are more aggressive and outgoing than Orientals. Blacks also have more mental instability than Whites. Black rates of drug and alcohol abuse are higher. Again, Orientals are under-represented in mental health statistics.

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Why Is Brazil So Incompetent?

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Luke Ford

As we get closer to the World Cup, you might be wondering why is Brazil so incompetent? It is rushing to finish three soccer stadiums that will be used in the competition and then rarely used again.

The average IQ in Brazil is 87. The country is a mess. The correlation between IQ and average GDP is high. High IQ countries include Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. They’re organized efficient peoples. The average IQ in the United States is 98 and falling as we are overwhelmed by low-IQ mestizo illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America who reproduce more rapidly than smart people.

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Australia’s Cost Of Living

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Luke Ford

While it seems that the cost of living in Australia is about twice that of America (with the cost of gas and food and lodging for example), in fact Australia’s cost of living is only about 60% higher. Only Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Venezuela, Iceland and Luxembourg have a higher cost of living than Australia (in that descending order). To keep up the standard of living I have in California, I’d have to earn about $35 an hour Australian.

Michael Fumento posts to FB: My friend Mary Jo Joyce uses a term called “smart, smart, stupid,” which doesn’t really translate into anything else, but the general point is that very smart people can make mistakes others wouldn’t BECAUSE they’re smart. “Hubris” is the closest you come, but it’s more than that and it’s something I admit to suffering from.

For example, why didn’t I back out of Colombia after the first signs of trouble? In part because I thought that whatever Colombia threw at me I could overcome with enough persistence and intelligence. NO! The best race car driver in the world can make a Model T do laps faster than other drivers, but a Model T will always be just that. My belief that with enough mastery of the language, customs, experience overall, etc. that I could make Colombia were wrong. Fact is, in most ways I’m worse off than I was seven months ago!

Here’s another interesting example, which forces me to admit I suffer depression but with half of all Americans on anti-depressants, so what.

There are two types of depression: clinical and situational. Clinical has no clear outside cause while situational is just that. It’s my theory that situational depression is often nature’s way of saying “Change SOMETHING!” If Colombians weren’t so damned happy with so damned little, they might have a better country. They quite literally need more depression.

Here’s where stupid comes in. I resisted anti-depressants BECAUSE my depression is clearly situational. To be in my position and be happy would be INSANE! Finally it occurred to me that situational or no, perhaps ADs could still reduce the pain level and even help me think better so as to IMPROVE my situation.

SO, knowing that the traditional SSRIs have lots of side effects I don’t want, I went on something called Mirtazapine and generically Remeron. After about two weeks a curious thing happened in that I began dreaming. Only at that point did I realize I had STOPPED dreaming. Except I knew that couldn’t be true; if you stop dreaming you go insane. Some people have compared dreams to nature’s way of organizing your hard drive while you sleep. It’s a little-known horrific aspect of Michael Jackson’s death that the anesthetic he was on was NOT sleeping medicine! It prevented REM sleep, that part in which you can dream!

So as I explained it to the doctor a couple of days ago, “I know I’ve been dreaming all along, but now I can remember the dreams. And the dreams are always nice, so I wake up feeling good — although once I realize they’re only dreams it does put me in a funk. Whereupon she doubled my dosage! Obviously she thought that a good thing.

Unfortunately, while most drugs here are dirt cheap this one is outrageously expensive! Ouch! So while price-shopping I let my usage lapse for two days.

Here’s where stupid comes in. Since ADs always take weeks to kick in, I assumed no big harm from skipping two days. WRONG! Today I felt awful! More depressed than the US economy in 1933. But why? Colombia didn’t suck any more today than yesterday!

MEANWHILE, last night I watched part of the new Robocop movies and in one scene the doctor (a good guy forced by Michael Keaton to do bad stuff) said of Robocop, “Let’s give him some good dreams; give him anti-depressants.” Now I know, as stated above, that’s not possible. But today while shopping it hit me that one factor HAD changed. I’d stopped the Remeron! THEN it hit me! REMeron! Holy Toledo, researchers had dubbed it that because it affected REM sleep! I WAS having more dreams, and now quite suddenly my REM phase of sleep had been cut short! I was in dream withdrawal!

So I added a nice chocolate bar to my basket, because there’s evidence that chocolate is a temporary mood elevator. I had just finished an aerobic workout, which also has been shown to help, but it didn’t. Anyway, that’s all I needed was temporary. Then I bought the Remerol. I feel better, but only because I figured out the problem and finally got through the huge line at the store. Hopefully as soon as tonight I will have improved REM sleep and feel better tomorrow.

So you can see how the combination of high intelligence both helped and hurt me. What somebody like me needs is what another friend of mine referred to as a “wing-man,” somebody to help me better channel the intelligence and avoid the pitfalls. I used to have this thing called a “wife,” who often acted in that capacity. I had hoped that in Colombia I could find another such person. But it never occurred to me, and probably wouldn’t have occurred to YOU either so don’t get smarmy, to check out international marriage rates whereupon I would have discovered Colombia ranks LAST in the whole world! Nor do they even cohabitate much, as some have suggested. Women here just don’t like men.

So yeah, I still have to fix the SITUATION. Find a less insane country where women don’t hate you or see you just as an ATM because your chromosomes contain an X.

And a country like the US USED to be where my talents at finding and processing information can actually be used to help large numbers of people and be a source of income, as opposed to a mere FB posting.

My guess is I’d love a place like Sydney. But something Americans just can’t understand is you don’t get to pick and choose countries, they pick and choose you. That concerns jobs, visas, and naturalization. It’s not like deciding “I want to live in California!”

Thus, “For anyone wanting to apply through the Australian General Skilled Migration program, there are some basic requirements that you must meet before continuing with your application.

Age

You must be 50 years old or under when you apply.”

Whoops! I’m 54!

But without looking, I know I wasn’t on the list anyway because it’s going to be almost identical to the kiwi list.

I’m considering NZ in great part because I know people there. I know people in very few countries outside the US. But again, NZ is going to be a tough nut to crack. ANY country will accept you if you have a ton to invest; scratch that. And many will accept you just if you’re a pensioner; scratch that for me and indeed NZ and Australia don’t care about those anyway.

So I suspect that with Oz as well as NZ it’s a matter of getting somebody to sponsor you for a special talent waiver.

But I really regret posting on FB that I’m looking for ideas because Americans DO think it’s like moving from one state to another and there seems to a myth floating around that I’m independently wealthy.

No. It’s a matter of getting a work visa, work, and often a matter of language. I had people tell me to “just” move to place with impossibly difficult languages. It’s not like VISITING where you have an English-speaking hotel concierge. In Colombia, outside Bogota NOBODY speaks English. And dialects change by the city. So if you don’t speak VERY good Spanish, keep out!

I don’t give a hoot what those “10 Great Places to Retire To!” articles say. They’re always written by people who have never visited ANY of the countries, nor have either moved to or retired to another country. They’re clueless; all of them.

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No Good Result From Australia’s Draconian Gun Laws

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Luke Ford

Since I was last in Australia in 2000, it has virtually become impossible to own a gun legally unless you are in law enforcement. This is thanks to the efforts of conservative prime minister John Howard.

Time magazine reported in 2008:

On the afternoon of April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant snapped. A striking figure with his long blond hair and milky skin, he had just eaten lunch at a café within the historic site of Port Arthur, a former prison in Australia’s island state of Tasmania. Described later by his sentencing judge as a “pathetic social misfit,” the 28-year-old then reached into his sports bag and, in the manner that others might pull out a sweater, withdrew two military-style semi-automatic rifles, which he used over the next eight horrifying minutes to kill 35 people — men, women and children — in what remains Australia’s worst mass murder.
Sharing the shock of his people, the newly elected Prime Minister, John Howard — just two months into his eleven-and-a-half years in power — seized the chance to overhaul Australia’s gun laws, trampling all opposition to make them among the strictest in the developed world. “I hate guns,” he said at the time. “One of the things I don’t admire about America is their slavish love of guns … We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.” Howard argued the tougher laws would make Australia safer. But 12 years on, new research suggests the government response to Port Arthur was a waste of public money and has made no difference to the country’s gun-related death rates.
Though he’d acquired them illegally, Bryant used guns at Port Arthur that were lawful in Tasmania at the time. Howard argued there was no reason civilians should be allowed to own assault weapons — and under the 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) these were all but banned. At huge cost, the government bought from their owners some 650,000 of the newly prohibited guns, which police destroyed. It also implemented mandatory gun licenses and registration of all firearms, helping to restrict to 5% of the population the number of Australian adults who owned or used guns last year, down from 7% in 1996.

On his radio show May 27, 2014, Dennis Prager said: “There is another factor. Australia is overwhelmingly homogenous in race, in ethnicity, religion, and it is also a country of only 22 million people.”

There is nothing in homogeneity that automatically yields good results, only in white or asian homogeneity. Black homogeneity predicts massive social dysfunction in first world terms with huge rates of criminal activity (black behavior suits evolution’s purposes in Africa). There’s also nothing about the number of people in a country that is relevant here. Countries with small populations can have massive rates of gun crime and countries with large populations, such as Japan, can have low rates. Race is much more important here than pure homogeneity and the number of a population.

From American Thinker:

Why is it that Vermont, with approximately the same rate of gun ownership as Louisiana, has less than one-eighth the murder rate? Even more strikingly, why does New Hampshire have both a far higher gun ownership rate and a lower murder rate than England, Piers Morgan’s favorite poster-boy nation for gun control?

Professor Thomas Sowell provided more of these seeming contradictions in 2012, writing:

When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks.
… [There are also] countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico. All of these countries have higher murder rates than the United States.
You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.

So what’s the answer we don’t want to hear? The critical difference among these regions and nations is explained right in Sowell’s title: it’s “not guns.”

“It's people.”

What “people” differences are relevant? Let’s start with race and ethnicity. In the cases of homicide in 2012 in which the races of the perpetrators were known, 55 percent were committed by blacks, 62 percent of whom were under 30 years of age. Black youths are 16 percent of the youth population, but constitute 52 percent of those arrested for juvenile violent crime.

The statistics for Hispanics are more difficult to ferret out because, unbeknownst to many, law enforcement agencies tend to lump them in with whites in crime statistics (the FBI has announced that it will finally categorize Hispanic crime — in its report on 2013). However, there is some information available. Examiner’s Ken LaRive tells us that “Hispanics commit three times more violent crimes than whites,” but that the disparity could be even greater because of their often being classified as white.

The National Youth Gang Survey Analysis reports that gang members are approximately 49 percent Hispanic, 35 percent black and 10 percent white. And while whites are 35 percent of NYC’s population, blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of all crime in the Big Apple and 98 percent of all gun crime.

Another good indicator is international crime statistics. Hispanic countries dominate the homicide-rate rankings, with Honduras topping the list with a rate eight times as high as that of our worst state, Louisiana. Also note that there are no European/European descent nations in the top 20 and not one Western-tradition nation in the top 30 (Russia and Moldova are 24 and 28, respectively).

And what can we say about these “people” differences? It’s much as with the question of why men are more likely to be drunkards than women. You could explore whether the differences were attributable to nature, nurture or both. But it would be silly to wonder if the answer lay in men having greater access to bars, alcohol or shot glasses.

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We Don’t Get More Of Something When We Make It Illegal, We Get Less Of Something

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Luke Ford

On his radio show June 6, 2014, Dennis Prager said: “If we legalize prostitution, do you think we would have more or less?”

“We are getting more pot use in Colorado [since it has been legalised]. We would get more prostitution… Far more people got liquor before prohibition than after it.”

“I don’t know what we have gained in the legalization of pot. If it had been legal our whole lives, I don’t know that I would be for making it illegal… Tobacco doesn’t make you stupid. The effects are ill health, many years hence. We save money because people smoke and die early.”

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My First Five Years

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Luke Ford

I’ve been asking family about my first five years, because I hardly remember them. I’m told I was an anxious needy child who sought constant reassurance. I loved to play games, particularly anything to do with killing. I drew a lot of stick figures fighting out scenes from the Bible. My favorite gift in my first few years were toy soldiers from my brother, oh, how I loved to maneuver them around in the dirt and go to war. My brother did much of the looking after of me and because of the eight-year age gap, I wasn’t much fun. I cried easily when I got hurt and he got blamed. We used to play conkers and soccer in England. I identify today with my early love of things military, with my love of games and competition, and with my easily hurt feelings. On this vacation, I’m peering into the mists of time and seeing how the child prefaced the man, and how my ancestors prefigured my life.

* Since I was four, I’ve spent less than four years of my life with my sister nearby, and less than eight years with my brother. Until my 20s, I struggled with the meaning of terms such as “uncle”, “aunt”, “cousin”, “niece” etc because I had so little contact with my extended family.

* I’m meeting all these friends I haven’t seen in 30 plus years and they’ve all done better than me in the important respects of marriage, children, and providing for retirement. I find this a tad embarrassing. I try to answer their questions honestly and admit I’ve stuffed up and I’m not sure where I’m headed and then there are these awkward pauses where they try to cheer me up.

* I wasn’t ready to go all Elliot Rodger Sunday afternoon, but I did feel a twinge looking at all the happy couples on Brisbane’s South Bank.

* I used to look forward to going to shul because all of my friends were there, but then all of my friends got married, had kids and moved ahead with their careers. Now going to shul is a constant reminder that I am a loser. Not so much fun anymore.
It was easier to fool people in my 20s and 30s that I belonged.
I used to be charming and outgoing. I could be the life of the party. My world has shrunk over the past decade. I now enjoy the company of less than 1% of the people I see regularly.
The more confidence and joy I have, the more money I have, the more I enjoy other people and want to reach out to them. The more broke I am, the more defeated, the less I feel like reaching out.
Purely on the basis of my disposition, I’m evenly placed between introverted and extroverted. The better I’m doing in life, the more outgoing I am.

Dan emails:

Hey Luke! It’s been great reading your blog lately. I really do empathize with your dismay over your lack of success compared to your friends. I, of course, had a very rocky start compared to many of my friends and find myself without the success many of them have had.
But I have also avoided so many of the pitfalls that others among them fell into (student debt, bad mortgages, divorce after having children) and do actually have a bit in the way of skills to show for myself. The Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana and a couple others have been shielded from the economic collapse by gas/oil discoveries and a largely non-government-dependent population.
I think a couple other people have given you this advice, as well: Don’t get down on yourself for not having as much as some do. In many ways, you excel your peers (self-knowledge, intelligence, etc) and there is a strong foundation in place for future economic success. I know about myself that after resolving the emotional issues resulting from my childhood, my economic frontiers began to open.

A friend says: “There is a sorting out that happens as you age. In your twenties you can all sort of be in the same place, but then people who make wise choices race ahead.”

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The One Jewish Bushranger!

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Luke Ford

I’ve been learning about Edward the Jew Boy Davis. “Davis seems to have been the only Jewish bushranger on record. A misguided and tormented youth, he had yet preserved a certain dignity, and a moral code which might have been inspired by the Jewish teachings of his early life.”

Australia was largely founded by convicts and criminals, particularly bushrangers, play a treasured role in the country’s culture.

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