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This exclusionary attitude (or “otherization” as we say) is not an anti-social or malevolent choice on our part.  It is firmly embedded in our cultural ethos and our DNA, given that strangers’ reputations, such as for honesty, would likely be less well known and hence interacting with them would be risky. It goes back many, many millennia to a time when we wandered in tribes or extended families across the Eurasian plains.

In the beginning, we were “hunter-gatherers” whose days were devoted to acquiring food off the land.  To survive, homo sapiens or Cro-Magnons needed a cooperative and close-knit bond of familial unity. The hunt for prey and food was the focal point of each day’s activities. Women, if social paleontology is correct, did not stray far from home—whether a cave, a hut or some other form of habitat. They were presumably “keepers of the hearth.”  They bore and raised children, searched for edible vegetation, and cared for the elderly or infirm.  The familial unit within the tribe was a protective shield against a mysterious and dangerous world.  When another humanoid or family group appeared unexpectedly, the entire unit’s stability and safety were threatened.

The “stranger-danger” motif was and continues to be wired into the individual psyche: without this defense mechanism, each member of the tribe was put in jeopardy.  For the most part, the intruder was either expelled or killed.
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Suspicion of the “other” runs deep in our genetic code. The exclusion of strangers is a primordial means of survival.

Even though contemporary rates of intermarriage are high, the Jewish community continues to take steps to ensure its homogeneity. There are dating sites for Jewish couples.  Jewish social gatherings for singles are organized by synagogues, and Jewish teenagers are given trips to Israel to solidify Jewish identity and promote marriage to other Jews.

To outsiders, Judaism has a cultish appearance: Orthodox Jews typically wear distinguishing clothing, and there are rites of passage (bar and bat mitzvahs) and multiple customs that set them apart from the Christian population.  Religious holidays play a significant role in the life of the average Jew.  In the Christian world, only Christmas and Easter have any true importance.  The rest are listed on the calendar but rarely observed. Devout Jews (e.g., Hassidic) lead a parallel life of religious observance.  In a sense, one is first and foremost a Jew and only secondarily an inhabitant of a specific country—even in Israel.

We cannot unlearn the defensive strategies of our cultural and genetic heritage.

'You don't just sneak up on a whitetail': Epic spot-and-stalk hunt ends with trophy deer
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"We were debating if he was 4 or 5 years old," Davis said. "We try to shoot 5-year-olds or better. We try to let them mature."

Davis wasn't sure, though. He'd only seen photos of the buck and wasn't trusting them.

"We had it in our heads he was just a 135-inch 4-year-old," Davis said.
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After about 20 minutes, the buck left the lane and Davis was able to slowly walk along the edge of the lane and shorten the distance to his stand, but the buck came back and continued feeding.
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He'd been messaging back and forth with his father, Dean, about what was happening.

"I guess we'll see how good you are," Dean Davis wrote.
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"He got to that limb and stepped out and I took my shot," he said. "He was quartering toward me and I put it right on the front of the shoulder and that's where I shot him."

Davis said he saw he had a good blood trail and felt confident recovering the deer would not be an issue.
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"Oh man, from the trail camera pictures he grew 20 inches. He was a 5-year-old, 230-pound, 150-inch deer," Davis said. "I looked at my dad and I didn't know how I pulled that one off. You don't just sneak up on a whitetail. He looked at me and said, 'Well, I guess we know how good you are.'.

"It was a cool feeling."

And False Leftists think fat-shaming is bad.....

Fatphobia is a phobia in which overweight people will call you out for not liking fat people. Also a word used to use as a excuse to not go to the gym and continue to eat junk food.

A phrase created by attention seeking lazy people who think they deserve the same attention as marginalized and oppressed communities (such as racial minorities and the LGBTQ+ [community]), based solely off the fact they think being unhealthy should be normalized.

A stupid non existend (sic) phobia created by fat people to cancel people who avoid being fat or think healthy bodies are more attractive than unhealthy bodies. Also created as an excuse for fat people to stay fat and talk bs about how they get "opressed" for being fat. You cannot compare " Fatphobia " to racism/homophobia/Islamphobia (sic)/sexism and such stuff.

A Montana hunter who shot and skinned a Siberian husky she had mistaken for a wolf on a hunting trip, and then boasted about the kill on social media, has been cited for animal cruelty, officials said.

Amber Rose Barnes, 36, of Martin City, was cited with animal cruelty – a misdemeanor – for the unsanctioned death of the 6-month-old husky in September, the Flathead County Sheriff's Office told Fox News Digital.

Barnes sparked national outrage after posting a series of gruesome photos with the mutilated pup on Facebook.

"So this morning I set out for a solo predator hunt for a fall black bear however I got the opportunity to take another predator wolf pup 2022 was a great feeling to text my man and say I just smoked a wolf pup #firstworld #onelesspredatorMT," she wrote above five photos of her posing with the bloodied pooch Sept. 23.

In one image, the skinned husky is sprawled out on her flatbed truck as she smiles broadly, stroking the pup's lifeless head with her right hand and clutching her rifle with her left.
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It turned out that the slain husky was one of more than a dozen dogs that had been abandoned in the Doris Creek area of Flathead National Forest about 60 miles south of Glacier National Park – near where Barnes was hunting, according to the local sheriff's office.

The outrageous blunder did not deter Barnes, who later insisted she had shot the pup in self-defense.

"This animal was growling howling and coming at me like it was going to eat me," she wrote. "Yes, I made a mistake because I did think it was a hybrid wolf pup but I was not aware of a [sic] 19 dogs being dropped 11 miles into the wilderness either way yes I would still have shot it because it was aggressive and coming directly for me!"

Andrew Anglin
@WorldWarWang
I like that Hemingway overcame the sexual abuse from women he suffered as a child by killing large animals.

This is very healthy.

Confused young people in America should be sent on big game safaris in Africa.

Your favorite dish may have a mysterious twin.

During my first trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, I snapped a photo of a banana leaf-wrapped rectangle. I immediately sent the photo to my mom, writing, “Look! Mexican zongzi!”

If you had told me that this mole-laced tamal oaxaqueño was a zongzi, one of my favorite Chinese snacks, I would have believed you. A dumpling of savory-sweet sticky rice wrapped and steamed in banana or bamboo leaves, zongzi bears a remarkable similarity to this type of tamal, despite its origins on the other side of the globe.

These leafy lookalikes are far from the world’s only culinary doppelgängers. Give cooks similar resources (say, large leaves, starch, and a little meat) and similar pressures (“How do we turn a sticky, soft dough into an easy-to-eat meal?”) and they may come up with the same solution.

This week, we’re sharing culinary look-alikes that may make you do a double-take before you dig in.

In California, which has large Mexican and Chinese populations, zongzi are often called “Chinese tamales.” But despite their resemblance, the two delicacies predate any recorded contact between China and the Americas...

Meanwhile, the Dresden Codex, a Mayan text from the 11th or 12th century, features corn-husk tamales stuffed with deer, iguana, turkey, and fish, though some scholars speculate that tamales have been around since 8000 BC. Bananas and their broad leaves did not enter the picture until the Spanish brought them to the Americas in the 1500s, but since then, they have been adopted as the wrapper of choice in much of Central America and Southern Mexico.

Today, cooks fill zongzi’s sticky rice with meat, seafood, nuts, sweet bean paste, and fruit, and tamal-makers stuff banana leaves with a rich corn masa and everything from chocolate to herbs to chicken in mole sauce.

The two civilizations that birthed these foods may have been unaware of one another, but it seems that they stumbled upon the same truth: broad leaves are unmatched for wrapping compact, aromatic, and delicious dumplings.

My friend recently traveled to Hawai’i and tried the state’s comfort food, the platter of rice topped with a hamburger patty, gravy, and a fried egg known as Loco Moco. As a native of Rochester, New York, he was thrilled: The dish was very similar to his hometown’s beloved Garbage Plate, a heaping pile of diner starches, such as home fries and macaroni salad, topped with a hamburger patty and covered in a spicy meat sauce.

Diners can add macaroni salad to a Loco Moco, or an egg to a Garbage Plate, making these layered, saucy hamburger plates close to identical. “Did one inspire the other?” he wondered to me.

If the fast-food legends are true, these gut-busters are two independent solutions to the same problem: young eaters with fast metabolisms and empty wallets. In 1949, Richard and Nancy Inouye, owners of Hilo’s Lincoln Grill Restaurant, supposedly came up with the Loco Moco at the behest of members of a local teen football club that needed something inexpensive to fill their bottomless stomachs.

Similarly, Rochester’s Nick Tahou, who holds the trademark for “Garbage Plate,” invented his protein-and-carbohydrate monster after a group of college students asked him for a plate “with all the garbage” on it...


Loco Mocos and Garbage Plates are beloved fast foods in Hawaii and Rochester, New York, respectively. Right, Steven Miller, cropped/Left, Eugene Peretz, cropped