That's okay CRS, as Liberal as I am I'm down for some straight-sapien pride.

"How did some of us get so pale? And does that part about all the homo-sapiens also apply to the straight-sapiens???"

The scientific explanation for that is that paler skin leads to better vitamin D absorption from more indirect and weaker sunshine in northern latitudes. Hence, paler skin in Europe and Asia. (The Americas were colonized by migrants from Asia) While indigenous people in Africa, Southern India and Australia (Aboriginals), kept and retained their darker skin for better UV protection from stronger sunlight.

Democrats can heretofore just insist they've won every single presidential election and then "Stop the Steal" via the Trumpian Method. Afterward, nobody is held accountable because this all happens in January! Awesome! :)

Church bells as the precursor, weather as a contributing factor, and textile production as the relevant threshold.

The sequence of technological developments that made it feasible to colonize an entire continent happened only once. There was nothing all that special about Europe. Each of the steps could have happened anywhere, and some of the key parts happened in China and the Arab world, but some of the later steps were based on metalworking techniques that had been developed for European church bells. There have always been periods of better and worse weather everywhere, but one of the periods of regional better weather happened to Britain just as the steam engine was getting good enough for use first in coal mining and then in textile manufacturing. Spinning and weaving were sufficiently labor-intensive that their mechanization was a leap that made the industrial revolution a lot more revolutionary than most events named 'something revolution'.

How did some of us get so pale? And does that part about all the homo-sapiens also apply to the straight-sapiens???

(OK, stupid joke, just couldn't resist.)

True, based on the genome project's research, it appears that the distant ancestors of all modern homo-sapiens came from Africa. specifically East Africa, in the region of Ethiopia or Somalia. That's where every single one of us is from.

JL

"I recall once reading the history of the colonization of Africa by the European nations. The author raised the question, "Why didn't Africa colonize Europe?"

Any thoughts?"

1) Africa really begins south of the Sahara, NOT on the southern shores of the Mediterranean. Culturally and politically in a historical context, there has been no difference between Algeria and Tunisia on the one hand, and Italy or Southern France on the other. Look at the Roman Empire, Greek and Phoenician colonies, etc. The Sahara is a much bigger geographical barrier.

2) Africans never developed large ocean going ship technology the way Europeans and the Chinese did. Africa below the Sahara is really rather isolated geographically, rather like South America or Australia.

3) Europe WAS colonized by Asians instead, i.e. witness just the two examples of the Ottoman and Mongol empires for instance. Not to mention all the so called "Barbarian" invasions from the steppes of Asia to the east.

They did. Both in the long game: humans evolved in Africa and spread across the globe from there. And the short game: the Moors held the Iberian peninsula for quite some time.

The real question you should be asking is didn't the Chinese...

Re "White supremacy". The phrase can have multiple meanings/definitions, and most of you guys would hate each and every one of them and label them all with the "racist" pejorative.

I'm not interested in a discussion about racism, and I'm equally not interested in another one of your endless frequently incorrect interpretations regarding what you believe "most" of us "hate."

I recall once reading the history of the colonization of Africa by the European nations. The author raised the question, "Why didn't Africa colonize Europe?"

Any thoughts?

It's not relevant to the end of the Whig Party nor the impending end of the Republican Party as we know it.

Re "White supremacy". The phrase can have multiple meanings/definitions, and most of you guys would hate each and every one of them and label them all with the "racist" pejorative.

I recall once reading the history of the colonization of Africa by the European nations. The author raised the question, "Why didn't Africa colonize Europe?"

Any thoughts?

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"We shouldn't have followed him." ~ Nikki Haley

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No shit, Nimrata! Quite a few of y'all seem to be jockeying for position to see who's going to become the new leader of the GOP. You, Josh Hawley, Rafael Cruz, Marco Rubio. I cannot fathom why quite a few of you would wish to lead the White Supremacist Party (or believe that you even could), but here we are now.

Bottom Line: Every one of these dorks choosing to ignore the facts of this trial and selecting to live in your invented fiction referred to as the "alternate reality" or "Earth 2," are obviously jockeying for position as to who will lead the Trumplican Party going forward.

The Party of Lincoln came into the world arguing over issues regarding White Supremacy, and it looks to me like that's exactly the way it's going to go out. They're already "Republicans in Name Only," and Americans are leaving in droves.

What I posted: "a majority of the jury"... owned by Trump

What I meant: "a majority of the GOP in the jury"... owned by Trump

I can't saying anything about the Impeachment 2.0 (Day 3) without cursing... so.

The Defense today:

* 1st Amendment -- Not Applicable to POTUS regarding impeachment
* Whataboutism -- People we hate say things too
* False Equivalency -- Apples and oranges... 2 different things

There is no one the Defense can name who has ever attempted to gaslight an entire nation/world into believing they won a presidential election, lost 60+ court cases regarding same, phoned the election official of a State in America and illegally tried to tamper in an election wherein multiple recounts were certified multiple times, and when all that failed you, assembled a mob on the exact day of the constitutionally mandated joint session of Congress wherein you informed them "I'll be with you" and "we're going to walk down to the Capitol."

Don't bother, Defense. Might as well just walk to the podium, state the fact that the majority of the jury is owned by your client, rest your case and sit back down.

Why waste time?

DEPOSITION TESTIMONY OF LARRY FLYNT

DIRECT EXAMINATION:

BY MR. GRUTMAN:

Q. Mr. Flynt, what is your full name?

A. Christopher Columbus Cornwallis I.P.Q. Harvey H. Apache Pugh. They call me Larry Flynt. And all those historical figures.

Q. Are you known as Larry Flynt?

A. No. Jesus H. Flynt, Esquire.

~ Larry Flynt, excerpts from deposition testimony (read into evidence at the trial on December 5 and 6, 1984)

The entire thing seems like a dress rehearsal for a "Republic of Virtue" pageant from the French Revolution, with all the righteous politicians declaiming undeniable truths, while the actual people in charge are setting up the guillotine.

That is, if Trump is acquitted as it seems he will be, it will be because the Republican Senators have not allowed themselves to review the evidence or process the fear they themselves experienced on that day - because they know that it's too late for them already. They have every reason to believe that anyone who crosses Trump and his minions at this point will be the first to get a fire-bomb in their home or shooter in their kids' schools.

The House managers pointed this out in the plainest terms today - this coup attempt is the future of Republican politics in America if Trump gets off scot free due to the cowardice of the few remaining sane legislators in his own party.

Another question is how senate Republicans who vote to acquit the former president will deal with a vindicated Trump once this trial is over. Trump has been keeping a very low profile since leaving office but, he's going to be like an exploding volcano when he is acquitted, again.