Thanks,
justasking. It's unfortunate that Nick of the Sixes, himself, wasn't able to produce those links, for he professes to be "intelligent." He may have some extra gray matter, but I'm afraid that if he does it's chemically impaired by adult beverage refreshments that can be quickly sucked through a straw.
The "conservative" article is a bit of a mish mash. The author implies that conservatives don't follow or have traditions that otherwise help those groups with lower IQs succeed. Well, I can verify from years of working in the field of human knowledge acquisition and applied anthropology that the idea that "liberals" don't have traditions is a pile of shit pulled out of the author's ass. And his "touching" upon the subject that christian Japanese are smarter (
not having higher IQs, just smarter) he attributed to them having better educations -- at a private christian school, no doubt. And even he didn't offer any further evidence for more reading on the subject.
Smoke and mirrors? Naw, more like the christianist ploy of saying "This is true because I said it was true and christians don't lie." In Ewetaw, mormons have a similar way of avoiding uncomfortable answers to real questions. A well-known joke among those "faithful" (marginal or otherwise) is "The truth is out there, but we won't tell you what it is until we think you're ready for it."
But what do I know compared to the great conservative whackoos who regullarly post to the conservative forum? I'm nothing but plain old :wt: LOL!