Here's a thought:
Ghengiz Khan's genes appear in 8% of modern Chinese population - that's an amazing new finding indicating how systematically and effectively he used his harem. Probably more effectively than any other ruler.
Here's what's interesting. So huge an experiment in "eugenics" that HE must have been 75%+ reconstructed several times in the last 8 centuries. If genes determined fate, he would have ridden again.
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Now, an interesting quotation to show conservatives just how far the present clade of klepto-morons has departed from true (or at least traditional) conservatism.
"We invaded a country that did not threaten us, did not attack us,and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have. We may have ignited a war of civilizations it was in our vital interest to avoid. Never has America been more resented and reviled in an Islamic world of a billion people. --- As custodian of the national economy and decisive actor in the management of the Budget of the United States, George W. Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness."
-- conservative spokesperson Pat Buchanan, in his new book, "Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency".
What's interesting here is that Buchanan himself represented a huge departure from earlier libertarian-style conservatives like Barry Goldwater (a truly admirable and intellectually vivid human being.)
To call these monsters "conservative" is to call a hippo a crab because they have four legs. Barry Goldwater has been whirring in his grave for years.
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