Hitler isn't alive but followers of Marx alas are, and they've killed

100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years- ... 1510011810

and probably aren't done.

Goes without saying, or should, but it was war, and one needs to be willing to do terrible things (at least as terrible as your opponent) unless you wish to lose.

A lesson we've forgotten and which has relevance for our current circumstances.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 3:53 pm The only crisis that matters! Tossing the source of absolute truth to the wolves.

how about taking a step closer to the source i.e. why this happens--pick a name marxism, cultural marxism, etc.

While the plan to augment unemployment benefits may have had some merit a year ago, there is zero reason to be continuing it at this point. If they stopped giving away free money, people would be forced to actually work to pay the rent and buy food. And then the labor shortage would magically disap...

tomfoolery wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 1:09 am Third, you have a bunch of lunatic republicans who forbid schools from failing a percentage of black students...

"... republican-run public school system "

Can you let us know what planet you live on in which the left doesn't control the schools? many of us would like to move there.

The history of this bookblub is that there have been from time to time people who join to seek attention and who try to dominate the conversation. This one just has an added feature. Even after the brief interchange during the beginning of the last meeting subsided, there was very little discussing ...

Murphy you are correct and I suspect I have not heard the end of this topic (though I can try to find books without any references she can twist.

Thanks everyone. I don't remember what made her uncomfortable. I do remember that the book illustrates issues/flaws with the main characters and with society at that time. She wanted something "more uplifting" and I pointed out she was free to read whatever she wanted but that this was the...

Cortopassi,

Republicans taking out their own i.e. Cheney because she is not representing their views is not the same as Ds forcing their views on everyone else.

Can you take discussion of cancel culture to another thread please.

Alas employment is Gov't hospital.

I’ve run a meetup book club for years—classic novels e.g. Steinbeck, Maugham, Austin, etc. This Month’s book was first half of Vanity Fair. At the online book club last night someone said perhaps Vanity Fair should join Dr Seuss (book recently cancelled). I got upset and said that politics didn’t be...

Josh Mitledorf has written a book on antiaging (Cracking the Aging Code) which is the topic he usually writes about. http://agingadvice.org. is his website where he distills a lot of thoughts on diet, supplements and other interventions toward health. His latest blog is on Covid: Unthinkable Thought...

tomfoolery wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 3:41 pm It’s over, we won, get over it.

Are you really that far gone that you can't see what your side did after Trump was elected? I.e. totally refuse to accept the results of that election?

One thing you get from Fung's book, and others -- everybody is different This can't be stressed enough. Interestingly at the moment both plant based diets (some ultra low fat and some not) and keto are huge trends. I've always known and been told (various typing systems) that I do better eating mea...

Kriegsspiel, Eat less, exercise more. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. I think both 1. It is not that simple and 2. doing it in practice is very difficult (notice, in your post you locked someone in a room). Example: fixed hypocaloric diets: a. result in body a...

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:37 pm If people actually ate less and exercised more, they would lose weight.

In 2021, a large number of people no longer believe that things are even remotely that simple. E.g. see my post above about Dr. Fung and calorie timing.

Jason Fung, MD is a physician big into fasting/intermittent fasting and one of his videos points out that the number of times one eats per day is an important (but not emphasized) factor. Each time you eat, there is elevation of insulin, and one can't burn fat while insulin is elevated. So eating e....

Find 10 people who work for a living e.g. painter, carpenter, electrician, plumber, cashier, etc and ask them what they think the most important job of government is. Compare to your list.

While you folks are busy being offended by words, people of asian descent are being actually harmed by college admission policies e.g. Harvard, Yale, etc which actively discriminate against them. Not only doesn't this bother most of you, but you have never even thought of it.

Kung flu is racist? So the majority here really see it as racist and not simply a joke?

There are weeks of reporters from many networks all calling it the Chinese /town name virus (you can find them on YouTube) History is full of flu’s being named by location. Smith: Trump purposely called it that. He’s not going to let left wing turkeys tell us what words are and aren’t acceptable. Ha...

I doubt anyone is sure, but don’t take NDAIDS eg Advil, Naproxen, etc as I saw at least one article suggesting it may worsen things. Don’t remember details.

WiseOne On Tuesday, a team of French scientists released the first results of a clinical study of the use of hydroxychloroquine on 24 coronavirus patients from southeast France. The research team, led by Didier Raoult, a renowned infectious disease expert from l’Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire in M...

. I have no doubt that on the left the narrative will continue that the Republicans put an attempted rapist on the high court by covering up the evidence against him and not allowing women to speak "their truth". The right will continue to believe that the Dems used dishonest smear tactic...