Wednesday, January 16, 2013

A Reason for Gun Control in Populated Areas - The Pigsty Effect

There is something also worthy of mention; what I call the pig sty effect. Most of the nations with stricter gun control in Europe also have a greater population density, such that this pig sty effect is of a greater worry than it is in most of the USA. The same is true in New York, where guns are more restricted than elsewhere in the States.

Basically, from a biological standpoint, pigs are very similar to humans. Pigs in a sty behave far worse than if they were not. In the sty, they fight a lot, eat their own poop, etc. I also have a theory; that a place like New York is also likely to become a sty. Ghettos are essentially cities gone wrong. Ghettos might as well have no gun control at all.

In some parts of NYC that means due to guns the life expectency of males is only about 18yrs old, meaning this life expectancy is due to the pig sty effect. We can't even get the guns out of these ultra-poor areas because it is the children who are the one's pulling the trigger, and children with guns is a very scary idea.

A good movie about this idea, is City of God.

Thus, to respect population as a trigger for gun related violence, gun control should not even be controlled at the state level, but at the district level, especially so that we can keep guns out of the hands of people in more populated areas, such as cities.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king

(The primary reason I am posting this article is so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. I have no intention of making any money on it and I encourage the reader to visit the website below, which is from a more reliable site than mine.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183858/All-presidents-bar-directly-descended-medieval-English-king.html

Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king

12-year-old girl created family tree linking 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to King John of England, who signed Magna Carta in 1215
Only eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was not related to John

By SNEJANA FARBEROV

PUBLISHED: 20:14 EST, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 23:58 EST, 4 August 2012

What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins.

The remarkable discovery was made by 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California, who created a ground-breaking family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common, and rather unexpected, ancestor: King John of England.

‘They all have the trait of wanting power,’ d’Avignon told the station WFMY .

Budding genealogist: BridgeAnne d'Avignon created a family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common ancestor

History detective: It took d'Avignon several months to search through more than 500,000 names and trace the male and female lineages of American leaders

King John, also known as John ‘Lackland’, is renowned for signing the Magna Carta in 1215, which limited the monarch’s power and helped form the British Parliament.

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John’s other claim to fame, or infamy, is that he was depicted as the villain in the Robin Hood tales.

Common grandfather: The 12-year-old traced the lineages of nearly all of the U.S. presidents to King John, the signer of the Magna Carta

D’Avignon, a seventh-grader at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, started the project in hopes of tracing back her own bloodline in France, but somewhere along the way she decided to take her genealogical quest to the highest level.

In order to create the family tree, the 12-year-old spent months scouring through over 500,000 names in search of the ‘presidential Adam.’

Her 80-year-old grandfather, who has been tracing roots for nearly six decades, helped her make the presidential links.

D’Avignon started with the first U.S. president, George Washington, she traced both the male and female family lines to make the connection.

Prior to d’Avignon’s discovery, genealogists were only able to link 22 families of presidents, likely because they only focused on male bloodlines.

The only former commander-in-chief not linked to King John is the eighth president, Martin Van Buren, who had Dutch roots.

The teen also found out that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama. She even wrote to her new-found relative a letter to share her findings with him.

So far, however, d’Avignon said she received only a generic response from the White House.

Odd man out: Only the eighth president of the U.S., Martin Van Buren, was not related to King John because he had Dutch roots

D’Avignon created a poster of the presidential family tree and is selling signed copies of it in hopes of raising enough money to make a trip to Washington DC. The middle-school student says her goal is to hand-deliver a replica of her family tree to the president.

'I think we just all go back somewhere; it’s just a matter of proving it,' she said.

Powerful relative: D'Avignon discovered that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama