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7 years ago @ Daryl Cagle - Fathers Day at the Cre... · 0 replies · +2 points

El Nino and La Nina are related to WEATHER. Weather is not the same thing as climate.

Yup, science has a fatal virus yet it continues to improve our lives. It helps provides us enough to eat. It helps provide us clean drinking water. It helps protect us from disease. It even helps us stay entertained and provides for us new ways of learning things. You might want to consider taking advantage of learning some things.

7 years ago @ Daryl Cagle - Fathers Day at the Cre... · 0 replies · +4 points

Evolution is questioned all the time. For 150 years scientists have been questioning evolution and every other science. Correcting errors and trying to increase our understanding of the our world and the universe around it.

To say that evolution has nothing to do with real science is to display a level of ignorance that is frightening. The Theory of Evolution, like all science, is consists of making inferences based upon observations to arrive at conclusions and then looking for ways to validate or falsify those conclusions.

If you have better conclusions based upon the observations, then feel free to present them. You can formalize them in a paper; get that paper published and then address the questions and issues raised about your conclusions by other knowledgeable scientists. That's how science works.

10 years ago @ Cagle Post - Congress Obamacare Waiver · 0 replies · -1 points

This is slightly misleading. The issue at hand is not the insurance policy but who pays for it.

Today the government pays for 75% of health coverage for congress and staff in the same way many large companies provide health benefits. When the law goes into effect they MUST get policies off of the exchanges but the OPA ruled that the government can still pay the same percentage that it pays now. It ruled that there was no intent to strip health care benefits away from congress and staff.

10 years ago @ Cagle Post - College Student Debt · 0 replies · +1 points

Bob, I wish the debt was only $3,279 and change per person. You're off by more than an order of magnitude. It's closer to $52,000 per person.

10 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Returning to 1967 · 0 replies · +1 points

Two points.

Point #1 - The 1967 borders, as a STARTING POINT for negotiations. has been an assumption for at least a decade. Note that this is the start and not the end point. No one expects Israel to return to the 1967 borders.

Point #2 - Assertions of the form "where a negative attitude towards Jews and Israel was no doubt instilled in him" are absolutely meaningless. Indonesia is not Pakistan or Syria. This may or may not be a true statement. Do you have any EVIDENCE that the school in Indonesia provided such teachings in 1967? I suspect the answer to that is no isn't it?

10 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - 10 Planned Parenthood ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your second quote comes from "The Wickedness of Creating Large Families" - Chapter 5 of "Women and the New race." In it Sanger argues that excessively large families are the root cause of all kinds of evils: prostitution, low wages, child labor, war, the oppression of women, ill health, mental dejection, spiritual hopelessness, malnutrition, inadequate medical attention, crime, insanity, child abuse, and, especially, infant and child mortality. She quotes research showing that the likelihood of death before the first birthday rises with each additional child, reaching 60% by child number twelve and many of the children who survive to age one will not make it to age five. Sanger is not advocating infanticide: she is using hyperbole to underline the squalid conditions of the large working-class families she encountered in New York tenements.

The original works are easy enough to locate. Feel free to read them in context yourself to see that what I'm saying is correct. Sanger was certainly a strange duck, and some of her ideas were ridiculous, but she's not guilty of planning black genocide or advocating infanticide.

10 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - 10 Planned Parenthood ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your Sanger quotes are out of context and do not mean what you appear to think they mean.

In 1939 Margaret Sanger wrote a letter to colleague Clarence James Gamble that she believed the Negro Project, an effort to deliver birth control to poor African Americans, needed a black physician and black minister to gain the trust of the community. It's from that letter your first quote comes. Allow me to provide the full quote in context.

"The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

In other words Sanger was concerned that there would be a misconception about the objective of the project and the minister, understanding the true objective. would be the right person to correct that misunderstanding.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Long Awaited Conspi... · 1 reply · +1 points

Give me a god damned break. The majority of the items in this list are total crap. Where is the EVIDENCE for any of this nonsense. It doesn't exist that's where.

#10 - Technically there's a mystery because no one knows exactly what happened. But far and away the most likely is they crashed into the Pacific. TIGHAR believes they crash landed on the island of Nikumaroro rather than in the water.

#7 - Apricot pits & Laetrile do not cure Cancer and telling people they do is downright dangerous. Doctors don't need Cancer to make money.

#5 - Barcodes and Revelations? Cut it out. Let's start with John of Patmos was writing an Apocalypse, which was a fairly common literary form in the 1st century, about ROME and Nero is the Anti-Christ. It's NOT a prophecy. Second, let's recognize that the earliest and best manuscripts have 626 as the mark of the beast and not 666. Third...oh forget it, this is too freaking dumb.

#4 - Of course the NSA exists and they tend to make my life miserable on a regular basis with their rules and guidelines. The NSA is concerned with Communications Security and Espionage. That means they establish rules for protecting our communications and capture and decode potential enemy communications. Do they have Top Secret things going on? Of course they do. Are some of these things not being properly controlled? Possibly, but not very likely.

#3 - An extraterrestrial attack that Reagan was keeping secret? Well, we didn't build the Stars Wars thing, so what happened to it? I suppose Ronnie neglected to pass the information on.

#2 - The freaking earth is not hollow and Hitler died in Berlin in 1945.

#1 - Total bullshit. Allow me to fill you in on a little known secret of engineering. 75% of any engineering problem is knowing that something is possible. If Ogle's invention was real, it would have been duplicated by now. It wasn't, it hasn't and it won't.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Ridiculous Cases of... · 0 replies · 0 points

I flat out do not believe you Kairs. I'm not saying you're lying, but I suspect you have the story wrong somehow.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Ridiculous Cases of... · 0 replies · 0 points

I'm not sure you have the story right on #5, The Song of the South.

The issue with the film is the subservient role that blacks are relegated to in the film. While the original stories take place after the Civil War, the Disney film is unclear on the time frame and has scenes of blacks happily trudging to work in the fields and living happily in shacks on the plantation.

If the relationship between the white child character Johnny and the black child character Toby isn't master and slave, it is clearly master and servant. Toby waits on Johnny and is scolded if he doesn't play his role properly. During the scenes of Johnny's birthday party at the "big house," Toby is curiously absent.

I suspect most of us would find the live action portions downright embarrassing. Although I would like to see the animated sequences again.