No offense intended, but if the events of the last year have gone to prove anything, they've proven that the rich and powerful DO conspire. And that it's pretty much their standard way of operating. As for picking unlikely people to do your dirty work, who would have guessed that a pajama boy would...

In thinking about this some more: To what extent might a CIA-inspired plot to foment a race war have shaped J. Edgar Hoover's view of certain black civil rights leaders as among the most dangerous subversives alive? How might it explain, a half-century later, the need to portray Hoover as a flaming ...

No offense intended, but if the events of the last year have gone to prove anything, they've proven that the rich and powerful DO conspire. And that it's pretty much their modus operandus. As for picking unlikely people to do your dirty work, who would have guessed that a pajama boy would be the CIA...

Thanks for the links, Sweetbthescrivner. They'll make good listening tonight! One of the things I've been curious about is Manson's preoccupation with the notion of "Helter Skelter," a sort of civil war between the races that would plunge society into a state of chaos. Was this simply the ...

After reading a couple of chapters of the McGowan e-book, I did some of my own fact-checking on the internet, as the number of uncanny associations he was making seemed so implausible. Interestingly, many of the facts he recites can indeed be verified from multiple independent sources, and they're n...

For a long while, I've been intrigued by the prospect that the counterculture movement of the sixties was both spawned and propelled by U.S. intelligence in close collaboration with the Hollywood elite and the music industry--ostensibly for the purpose of undermining traditional American culture and...

I can't speak to the situation in California, but around here, harvesting of timber on state and federal land is a major culprit. The right to harvest is bid out to private timber companies which more often than not leave an obscene mess just waiting to ignite. The state and federal bureaucrats who ...

31 percent of millinneals have major depression--and 15 percent are flat-out psychotic? The article goes on to explain how this mental health crisis can be explained by the unusual hardships experienced by this generation: Some younger millennials watched their parents lose their homes and jobs, pot...

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 5:35 pm
But,,,the thing that doesn’t seem to be in dispute (by most?) is that climate is changing. . .

If climate wasn’t changing, then why are there larger, more destructive fires in CA than even 10, 20, 30 years ago?

Was there ever a "golden age" in which the climate was NOT changing?

WiseOne wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:14 am

ochotona wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:25 pm 58 and take 3. Mediocre genes.

. . . Alzheimer's (which has been rightly dubbed as type 3 diabetes).

Please explain! Sounds interesting.

Any person on this board would make a better representative, senator or president than the people who are there now. Why can't government work this way? Dammit, you all have rational responses and are smart people. Who the hell do we have representing us and how do we change that? I ran across an a...

Xan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:07 pm Replacing something of a rant with the observation that Tyler is right that believing weird things is a human problem, not a Republican problem, and the book and post that started this thread are uninterested in honest discussion about why people believe what they do.

Thank you.

Anyone here have kids in the house, say age 5-18? I cringe thinking about how he represents America and himself and how that might affect what they think about right and wrong. A simple point is how quickly he turns on anyone who has any level of disagreement with him. There's no level headed debat...

stuper1 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 7:10 pm Isn''t tweeting like a 13-year-old girl impeachable?

Only if she gets on the plane.

And I would also reject your premise that Maddy clarified anything other than her (assuming Maddy is a her) subjective take. I'd imagine if you polled all attorneys, my guess is that millions, if not a majority, would state that Trump has committed impeachable offenses. Well, those are the incendia...

Very Bright Light FASAB 56, which effectively took all of the government's accounting records dark. Did the American People really know what the Money was spent on Before it went dark? Probably not, but accounting statements were required and could be obtained by anyone who asked for them. Not so a...

How is the impeachment inquiry "completely unconstitutional?" I could write volumes on this, but with only four or five more hours of sunshine and a long list of winterization projects, I'll provide just a quick overview: The impeachment inquiry began with and was pursued for nearly two y...

Also, it's distressing to me that we've heard absolutely nothing from Trump on the subject of FASAB 56, which effectively took all of the government's accounting records dark. I'm not sure if I'm this cynical or not, but does it really matter? Even if we have visibility to where the money is going,...

While acknowledging all of Libertarian666's points, Trump's accomplishments have included virtually nothing in the area of individual liberties or, for that matter, the defense of basic constitutional principles. His pursuit of strategic alliances between the government and Big Tech, and the acceler...

Phase 1: Integrate all ethnicities and economic strata within school districts, giving all an equal opportunity to succeed. Result: Smart, motivated kids still did better. Phase 2: Move lower-achieving students to the head of the line, giving them artificially-created opportunities to succeed that o...

I have no idea how they think they are going to be able to know everyone's wealth, and there will be massive incentive to hide it. The underlying assumption could not be clearer: that a centralized digital payment system is coming, augmented by a massive centralized data base that tracks your comin...

For people buying drugs from India...here's a pretty scary article to gulp down with your Valsartan: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-12/how-carcinogen-tainted-generic-drug-valsartan-got-past-the-fda Importing drugs from Canada is a crazy idea. The reason Bernie wants to do it is tha...

boglerdude wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:27 pm Whats funny about human nature is we act outraged when an injustice to Our Guy happens, but would be fine with impeachment even if facts had to be "stretched a little."

That's certainly the position of the social egalitarians. Everybody's equally unprincipled.

Just like the fact that you’re an apologist for an orange buffoon with his finger on the button. . . I'm an apologist for the rule of law--nothing more, nothing less. But the most glaring examples of corruption and illegality are, at this time, coming from the Left. And I see nothing of merit in th...

What I've always felt about Omar is not that she's being controlled by someone else but that she is either blind to her hypocrisy or chooses to be. She picks and chooses what she likes about each culture. We all do, but most of us are not in office. Or maybe she's just not all that bright? Occam's ...