People aren't going hungry because we can't grow enough food.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

People aren't going hungry. There is an epidemic of obesity in the USA. If you want to blame capitalism for the overabundance of food, then you have a point.

BD66 replies on Feb 15, 2019:

@Jolanta I know you are in Australia, so you may not know about the programs for people in the USA, so I will respond to your points: >You know what, how about educating them instead of making them feel less than they already feel. I was in college prep courses, so I took Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II, Trig. Calculus, etc. but the people who were not destined for college took Basic Math and Consumer Math. Consumer math is specifically designed to help people make wise buying decisions. We were also required to take a course called Consumerism which gave you advice for grocery shopping, clothes shopping, car shopping, banking etc. There were also multiple home economics classes that were available in my high school. I never took them because I was focused on getting in to a top university, but several students in the top ten of my high school class padded their GPAs by getting all As in those simple courses. >Or how about people in the US get a living wage, that would help. I know Australia does a lot more to protect the wages of its workers than the USA does. I was interested in faculty positions in Australia, and the Universities pretty much had to prove no Australians could do the work before a foreigner could come in to do it. The USA has never had policies nearly as restrictive on foreign workers as Australia had. Those policies in the USA would definitely keep wages up. The actions Donald Trump is trying to take (limiting unskilled low-cost workers from illegally entering the USA) would benefit US workers a great deal, but he's being vilified for it. > Do you honesty think that it can be achievable. It probably could if they limited the products that could be sold at food stamp stores, WalMart would likely be able to stock those items for very cheap.

Midwest farmers going broke at record rates thanks to Trump's trade war | Salon.com

BD66 comments on Feb 14, 2019:

That article is BS. Corn is at a higher price today than it was when Trump took office. They are comparing 2008 (A peak in the commodities bubble) to 2018. https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-chart-data

BD66 replies on Feb 14, 2019:

@Closeted Soybeans are down a little from Jan 2017, but they are WAY down from 2008 which the article used for comparison. Of course farmers aren't doing as well today as they were in 2008, they were making huge profits in 2008 because of the worldwide commodities bubble: https://www.macrotrends.net/2531/soybean-prices-historical-chart-data

People aren't going hungry because we can't grow enough food.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

People aren't going hungry. There is an epidemic of obesity in the USA. If you want to blame capitalism for the overabundance of food, then you have a point.

BD66 replies on Feb 14, 2019:

@Jolanta What they need to do is have stores "Food Stamp Certified" and have their shelves stocked only with healthy, nutritious, reasonably priced food. People with food stamps could only shop at those stores for those products. That will keep them from using their food stamp money to buy pop tarts, Doritos chips, soft drinks, etc.

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BD66 comments on Feb 13, 2019:

This is nuts. It's been going on for 2 years. Mueller needs to either present his evidence of collusion or end his investigation. He's becoming Ken Star 2.0.

BD66 replies on Feb 13, 2019:

@Paul4747 You said you wanted to compare the prison sentences and guilty pleas, so I compared them.

People aren't going hungry because we can't grow enough food.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

People aren't going hungry. There is an epidemic of obesity in the USA. If you want to blame capitalism for the overabundance of food, then you have a point.

BD66 replies on Feb 13, 2019:

@Jolanta I'm a single father. I run a business. I cook my kids bacon, fried eggs, and milk in the morning before they go to school. At night I fix my kids spaghetti, marinara sauce with chicken sausage, mushrooms, onions, peppers, etc. If I can do all of that, run a business, take care of three kids, one with special needs, and still fix those meals for my kids, why can't someone who is unemployed, and collecting food stamps do the same? Is it the fault of capitalists that they cannot make those decisions and take those actions?

[alternet.

BD66 comments on Feb 13, 2019:

This is nuts. It's been going on for 2 years. Mueller needs to either present his evidence of collusion or end his investigation. He's becoming Ken Star 2.0.

BD66 replies on Feb 13, 2019:

@Paul4747 14 Convictions and 2 Acquittals in Whitewater. Mueller's team has now charged eight Americans once affiliated with Trump's campaign or administration, 13 Russian nationals, 12 Russian intelligence officers, three Russian companies, and two other people. The scope and number of convictions are very similar https://www.cbsnews.com/news/caught-in-the-whitewater-net/

People aren't going hungry because we can't grow enough food.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

People aren't going hungry. There is an epidemic of obesity in the USA. If you want to blame capitalism for the overabundance of food, then you have a point.

BD66 replies on Feb 13, 2019:

@Jolanta It looks like you have conceded that capitalism makes it possible to feed a very poor child for 74 cents per day, and who made it possible? Sam Walton, the ultimate retail capitalist. You are now falling back on another false statement, that it's not possible for people in poor areas to get access to all that cheap food at WalMarts. That can easily be proven to be false by using the WalMart store finder. If you search Chicago, IL, you will see that the WalMarts are evenly distributed throughout the Chicago area. So Capitalism makes it possible to provide the cheap food. Capitalism brings the cheap food to every part of the USA, and Capitalism provides the money for the generous safety net that makes it possible to give poor families way more money that what is necessary to feed the poor children. I believe I have made my point. https://www.walmart.com/store/finder?location=Chicago%2C%20IL=50

People aren't going hungry because we can't grow enough food.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

People aren't going hungry. There is an epidemic of obesity in the USA. If you want to blame capitalism for the overabundance of food, then you have a point.

BD66 replies on Feb 12, 2019:

@Jolanta Please go to walmart.com and type in "eggs". You will see you can get eggs for 5.5 cents each. Then type "milk". You can get a gallon of milk for $1.28 or a glass of milk for 8 cents. So a child an have a breakfast of 2 eggs and a glass of milk for: 5.5 cents + 5.5 cents + 8 cents = 19 cents. Now repeat for a pound of spaghetti; 82 cents, and 24 ounces of spaghetti sauce 88 cents. So a child can have a quarter pound of spaghetti and 4 ounces of spaghetti sauce for: 82/4 + 88/6 = 36 cents. Then you can throw in 2 more eggs and a glass of milk for 19 cents. So a very poor child in the USA could get the following: Breakfast: 2 eggs and a glass of milk 19 cents (or free breakfast at school) Lunch: free lunch at school Dinner: 1/4 pound of spaghetti 4 ounces of spaghetti sauce 36 cents plus 2 more eggs and a glass of milk (19 cents). So on a weekday, that child can be fed a diet high in protein and carbs for 19 + 36 + 19 cents = 74 cents. There should be plenty of extra money left over from welfare, food stamps, food banks etc. to buy the child fruits, vegetables, multivitamins etc. Capitalism and the safety net are what make it possible to feed a kid for 74 cents on a weekday. The fact that parents are too stupid to do those calculations and properly feed their child for 74 cents per day is not the fault of capitalism, it's the fault of the parents.

I agree with many ideas if Elizabeth Warren, but she killed her run with the whole Native American ...

nicknotes comments on Feb 10, 2019:

I don't get the native American controversy with Elizabeth Warren. What difference does it make if she is an Indian or not? If she said she is an Indian she's an Indian.

BD66 replies on Feb 10, 2019:

She falsely claimed to be Native American to get academic positions at top law schools, then she leveraged the academic positions to enter politics. That's why it is important.

"The entire capital of our bankers, merchants, manufacturers and large landowners is nothing but the...

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

They tried Engels ideas, and it didn't work out too well.

BD66 replies on Feb 10, 2019:

@THHA The whole capitalist vs. collectivist experiment has been tried many times: West Germany vs. East Germany Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong vs. Communist China South Korea vs. North Korea Each time, the collectivist side led to poverty, famine, premature death, and sometime mass murder. People were willing to risk their lives for a chance to get OUT of the collectivist country and IN to the capitalist country.

People aren't going hungry because we can't grow enough food.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

People aren't going hungry. There is an epidemic of obesity in the USA. If you want to blame capitalism for the overabundance of food, then you have a point.

BD66 replies on Feb 10, 2019:

@Jolanta I live in Bloomington IL, and the people here have food stamps, free lunches at school, the Midwest Food Bank, and multiple churches have their own food banks. The city provides free transportation for the people to get to the food banks and back. When I was young, I grew up in a farm town, and most kids worked on farms or for seed corn companies. There were almost no fat kids. Today most of the kids are fat. When I visit my daughter's grade school, I don't see any kids who appear to be starving. A good portion of them are overweight.

She is my Helen of Troy.

BD66 comments on Feb 10, 2019:

I'm not going to fight a war with you over her.

BD66 replies on Feb 10, 2019:

I will fight a war with you over that.

Lets just put it out there and own it... Pro-Choice or Anti-Choice

BD66 comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Pro-choice for the first 5 months. After that, when the baby could survive on its own, pro-life.

BD66 replies on Feb 8, 2019:

@freeofgod I'll go back to my original answer "Pro-choice for the first 5 months. After that, when the baby could survive on its own, pro-life." Your best friend's baby could not survive on its own, so an abortion makes sense.

Lets just put it out there and own it... Pro-Choice or Anti-Choice

BD66 comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Pro-choice for the first 5 months. After that, when the baby could survive on its own, pro-life.

BD66 replies on Feb 8, 2019:

@mzbehavin So you believe 3rd trimester abortions should be legal? That's the view of only 13% of the US population.

Lets just put it out there and own it... Pro-Choice or Anti-Choice

BD66 comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Pro-choice for the first 5 months. After that, when the baby could survive on its own, pro-life.

BD66 replies on Feb 8, 2019:

That's what most of the American population believes: https://news.gallup.com/poll/235469/trimesters-key-abortion-views.aspx

Lets just put it out there and own it... Pro-Choice or Anti-Choice

BD66 comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Pro-choice for the first 5 months. After that, when the baby could survive on its own, pro-life.

BD66 replies on Feb 8, 2019:

@mzbehavin No. Pro-choice for the first 5 months. After that, when the baby could survive on its own, pro-life because if you kill a baby after it could survive on its own, that's murder.

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 6, 2019:

@Paul4747 There was no change in business ethos in the 1950's. Go back in the history books and see what they were doing to miners and factory workers in the 1920's and 1930's. Do you think executives were bastards for a hundred years, they suddenly became nice and caring in the 1950's, then they went right back to being bastards again? It was all about supply and demand. After WWII, every other developed country in the world had its industrial infrastructure bombed out. Stalin and Mao had most of the world's potential industrial workers behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains, so if you wanted to manufacture something, you had to manufacture it in the USA. I grew up in a factory town. Back in the 1950's a kid in my hometown could drop out of high school at age 16, go to work for Caterpillar, then retire with a nice pension and benefits at age 50. That's has never happened before in the history of the world. What killed the worker's paradise? The Marshall Plan taxed the US individuals and corporations at ridiculously high rates, and sent the money overseas so they could build factories to compete with us. Then when we "Won" the Cold War, it was all over, you didn't have to give an unskilled guy in the USA a nice salary, benefits, and pension when there were billions of workers overseas who would work for dirt cheap.

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 6, 2019:

@Paul4747 Income inequality is a bullshit metric that will always keep you upset with the status quo. In the 1960's an unskilled factory worker in the USA made great wages because if a capitalist wanted something produced, he pretty much had to do it here, and the labor supply was limited. In 1989, when the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtains fell, the global supply of unskilled labor increased by a factor of 5 or 6. For the past 30 years, unskilled laborers in the USA have had to compete against laborers around the world willing to work for $1 per hour or less. We can't go back to the Cold War situation, so there is little that can be done other than create the most business friendly environment we can in the USA. On the flipside, if you wanted to sell something to people, you had to open up a store and staff your store with people. Then in 1993, the Internet changed all that, Jeff Bezos (the world's richest man) can sell products to billions of people using computer code. That has put millions of shopkeepers out of business. We can't go back and get rid of the Internet. So there is no way to eliminate the competition from foreign labor on the low end of the income distribution, and there is no way to eliminate the "winner take all" effect on the high end of the income distribution. What you can do help people at the low end is to eliminate dirt-cheap unskilled labor from entering the country, you can do everything possible to build up our manufacturing industries (including negotiating more fair trade policies), and you can focus our safety net resources on people who are legal citizens and residents. Trump is doing all these things to help the poor in the USA, and the left is vilifying him for it.

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 6, 2019:

@greyeyed123 $11,700,000,000,000 in deficit spending and $3,000,000,000,000 in money printing will give the economy a heck of a shot in the arm. That's responsible more than anything for our Economic Growth. Obama took credit for it when he was in office, and Trump is taking credit for it now.

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 6, 2019:

@greyeyed123 OK He exaggerated on GDP growth, but not by much. During Obama's 8 years in office GDP grew from 15240.843B to 18979.245B. That's 3.37% per year. During Obama's last year in office GDP grew from 18354.372B to 18979.245 or 3.4% During Trumps last year in office GDP grew from 19588.074B to 20658.204B or 5.46% So he's not growing the economy twice as fast as Obama, he's growing the economy 1.62 times as fast as Obama.

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 6, 2019:

@greyeyed123 Crude Oil and Gas Exports are way up since Trump was elected: https://www.google.com/search?q=US+Energy+exports=lnms=isch&sa=X=0ahUKEwik3s21qabgAhUo5YMKHTZLDNgQ_AUIDygC=1920=963#imgrc=JIfh2Lp-SLk2mM:

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 5, 2019:

@greyeyed123 Asian Unemployment rate looks pretty good. All three hit their all time (or 40 year) lows since Trump's last State of the Union address: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU04032183

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 5, 2019:

@greyeyed123 Hispanic Unemployment Rate looks pretty good: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000009

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 5, 2019:

@greyeyed123 Black Unemployment rate looks pretty good: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000031

Lot of positive things from SOTU tonight

Paul4747 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Name three.

BD66 replies on Feb 5, 2019:

Lowest Asian unemployment of all time. Lowest African American employment of all time. Lowest Hispanic unemployment of all time. Lowest unemployment for people with disabilities of all time. Economic rate of growth twice what it was 2 years ago. US now world's largest producer of energy. US now an exporter of energy. Shall I go on?

Yeah, AOC is crazy for thinking we should have a 70% marginal tax rate.

BD66 comments on Feb 5, 2019:

The amount of taxing and spending that was done to "Win" the Cold War was complete insanity. The USA had most of the world's capital, most of the world's industrial infrastructure, and the most efficient economy in the world. If the rest of the world had inefficient ...

BD66 replies on Feb 5, 2019:

@jerry99 We were spending like crazy long before Reagan took office and long after he left office. We've had a long ling of shitferbrains Presidents and Congressmen who turned the wealthiest country in the world into the largest debtor nation in the history of the world.

Trump has been a lot better president for business than Obama ever was as Obama was a regulation nut...

BD66 comments on Jan 29, 2019:

It's pretty simple: Higher taxes and more regulation -> fewer jobs. Lower taxes and less regulation -> more jobs.

BD66 replies on Feb 1, 2019:

@kensmile4u That's quite a response. It's by far the most well researched response I have received in my 16 months at agnostic.com. I'm busy with my business, taxes, and kids for the next 3 days, so it will take me a while to get back to you on this.

Who's in with me?

glennlab comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Just don't do it in Texas, you will get shot by vigilantes.

BD66 replies on Jan 31, 2019:

Good point! It probably wouldn't be too safe in Florida either.

Trump has been a lot better president for business than Obama ever was as Obama was a regulation nut...

BD66 comments on Jan 29, 2019:

It's pretty simple: Higher taxes and more regulation -> fewer jobs. Lower taxes and less regulation -> more jobs.

BD66 replies on Jan 31, 2019:

@kensmile4u The economy goes through cycles that typically last 6 to 7 years. It takes on average 2 of those cycles to create a subprime bubble, then that bubble pops and we get the same messes we had in 1929 and 2008.

Trump has been a lot better president for business than Obama ever was as Obama was a regulation nut...

BD66 comments on Jan 29, 2019:

It's pretty simple: Higher taxes and more regulation -> fewer jobs. Lower taxes and less regulation -> more jobs.

BD66 replies on Jan 30, 2019:

@kensmile4u Google "Subprime Lending Crises" "Redlining" "Community Reinvestment Act" "1995 HUD Directive" All that material is readily available on Wikipedia and other sources.

Trump has been a lot better president for business than Obama ever was as Obama was a regulation nut...

BD66 comments on Jan 29, 2019:

It's pretty simple: Higher taxes and more regulation -> fewer jobs. Lower taxes and less regulation -> more jobs.

BD66 replies on Jan 30, 2019:

@Jolanta Obama did not put a single law in place to prevent subprime lending. Trump has done nothing to encourage subprime lending.

Trump has been a lot better president for business than Obama ever was as Obama was a regulation nut...

BD66 comments on Jan 29, 2019:

It's pretty simple: Higher taxes and more regulation -> fewer jobs. Lower taxes and less regulation -> more jobs.

BD66 replies on Jan 30, 2019:

@Jolanta There were 5 sub prime lending crises between 1865 and 1930. (That's an average of once every 13 years). Congress (being not 100% brain dead) saw the pattern and put in place protections to prevent future sub prime lending crises, one of them involved not making loans in the part of town where home prices would most likely depreciate. Then in the late 1970's Carter and a Democratic Congress came up with the "Community Reinvestment Act" which was directly contrary to the protections adopted in the 1930's. The "Community Reinvestment Act" had no teeth, so the banks ignored it for 15+ years. In early 1995, just before the Republican Congress swept into power, Clinton and a Democratic Congress put enforcement provisions into the Community Reinvestment Act forcing banks to make risky loans if they wanted to merge or open up new branches, so they kick-started subprime lending. Then the 1995 HUD directive of (Henry Cisneros/Bill Clingon) forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy up the risky loans, thereby creating a secondary market for subprime loans. The Democrats forced the banks to make bad loans, They forced public/private companies to buy up the loans. The banks made profits by issuing then selling the bad loans, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made profits as long as the properties increased in value, then exactly 13 years later (in 2008) the subprime lending bubble popped just like it popped 5 times in the 65 year time span from 1865 to 1930. The taxpayers were left holding the bag.

First encounter

BD66 comments on Jan 30, 2019:

12 years old. I was supposed to start confirmation classes to become an adult member of the church. I told my parents I thought it was all nonsense.

BD66 replies on Jan 30, 2019:

@Trajan61 My mother said "Fine! Be an Atheist Freak! I don't care!"

On a scale of 1 to 10, where would you put Laura Gemser's beauty?

Arouet comments on Jan 28, 2019:

She's lovely, but I still have difficulty with rating the appearance of women numerically as if they were poodles in a dog show.

BD66 replies on Jan 29, 2019:

@Arouet Calm down bud. I'm quite aware what classy means. Here's my first wife. I was married to her for 13 years before she became mentally ill and passed away. She was knockout beautiful. Both of her parents are Harvard PhD's. She was bilingual, incredibly intelligent, and a best selling author, so yes, I'm aware what the word classy means. https://www.facebook.com/Iris-Chang-173357149387914/

On a scale of 1 to 10, where would you put Laura Gemser's beauty?

Arouet comments on Jan 28, 2019:

She's lovely, but I still have difficulty with rating the appearance of women numerically as if they were poodles in a dog show.

BD66 replies on Jan 28, 2019:

This is the sexy classy pictures group. Please get off your moral high horse. ;-)

At the risk of upsetting gun owners, Have everyone noticed that we are having multiple murders ...

BD66 comments on Jan 27, 2019:

Murder rates have been falling steadily since the 1980's. The media is distorting the severity of gun violence in an attempt to circumvent the 2nd Amendment.

BD66 replies on Jan 27, 2019:

@kauva I don't have guns, but I can spot a scam or a conspiracy when I see one. 1. The incident rate of violent crime is going down rapidly. 2. The coverage of violent crime in the media is going up rapidly.

At the risk of upsetting gun owners, Have everyone noticed that we are having multiple murders ...

BD66 comments on Jan 27, 2019:

Murder rates have been falling steadily since the 1980's. The media is distorting the severity of gun violence in an attempt to circumvent the 2nd Amendment.

BD66 replies on Jan 27, 2019:

@kauva You don't believe murder rates are falling? Are all of these sources lying? https://www.infoplease.com/us/crime/homicide-rate-1950-2014 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-u-s-murder-rate-is-up-but-still-far-below-its-1980-peak/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/04/jeff-sessions/violent-crime-some-still-well-historical-highs/ http://www.jrsa.org/projects/Historical.pdf https://www.vox.com/2018/9/20/17882172/murder-crime-us-2018 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/03/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

Do you object to consensual cloning of humans?

BD66 comments on Jan 25, 2019:

It would make organized sports a joke. Could you imagine watching the Olympics with 100 Michael Phelps clones competing in swimmng and 100 Usain Bolt's competing in sprinting? The NBA would consist of 100 LeBrons, 100 Kevin Durants, and 100 Anthony Davis's. And imagine a rugby team or an ...

BD66 replies on Jan 26, 2019:

@thinktwice Jason and Jarron Collins https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/retired-nba-player-jason-collins-praises-clinton-dnc-article-1.2725958

Do you object to consensual cloning of humans?

BD66 comments on Jan 25, 2019:

It would make organized sports a joke. Could you imagine watching the Olympics with 100 Michael Phelps clones competing in swimmng and 100 Usain Bolt's competing in sprinting? The NBA would consist of 100 LeBrons, 100 Kevin Durants, and 100 Anthony Davis's. And imagine a rugby team or an ...

BD66 replies on Jan 26, 2019:

@thinktwice Tom and Dick Van Arsdale https://www.nba.com/suns/history/suns-throwback-dick-and-tom-van-arsdale

Do you object to consensual cloning of humans?

BD66 comments on Jan 25, 2019:

It would make organized sports a joke. Could you imagine watching the Olympics with 100 Michael Phelps clones competing in swimmng and 100 Usain Bolt's competing in sprinting? The NBA would consist of 100 LeBrons, 100 Kevin Durants, and 100 Anthony Davis's. And imagine a rugby team or an ...

BD66 replies on Jan 26, 2019:

@thinktwice Another data point to prove that if one identical twin is successful in sports, the other is likely to excel in the same sport: http://mentalfloss.com/article/53675/15-sets-athletic-twins

Who has ever heard of the Alpha male?

BD66 comments on Jan 26, 2019:

It's more of an issue among men than it is among men and women. I'll give you a few examples: LeBron James is the Alpha male of the Los Angeles Lakers. Michael Jordan was the Alpha male of the Chicago Bulls. They are the ones who call the shots on the basketball court and tell their ...

BD66 replies on Jan 26, 2019:

@GinaMaria You are correct. The Alpha Male in a wolf pack is the leader of the pack of wolves. It works the same way in the workplace.

Do you object to consensual cloning of humans?

BD66 comments on Jan 25, 2019:

It would make organized sports a joke. Could you imagine watching the Olympics with 100 Michael Phelps clones competing in swimmng and 100 Usain Bolt's competing in sprinting? The NBA would consist of 100 LeBrons, 100 Kevin Durants, and 100 Anthony Davis's. And imagine a rugby team or an ...

BD66 replies on Jan 26, 2019:

@PalacinkyPDX There are a lot of people who would like to win multiple gold medals in swimming, and they train incredibly hard, but there is only 1 Michael Phelps. There are a lot of people who would like to win multiple gold medals in sprinting, but only 1 Usain Bolt. Michael and Usain have a huge genetic advantage. If you cloned 100 Michael Phelps and 100 Usain Bolts and trained them for swimming and sprinting, they would not all achieve the success Phelps and Bolt did, but enough of them would enjoy tremendous success as youth athletes that they would stick with it and many would make it to the Olympic Games. In his worst Olympic Games as an adult, when Michael Phelps (only) won 4 golds and 2 silvers, he said "You get out of it what you put into it, and I only put enough into it to win 4 golds and 2 silvers"

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 25, 2019:

One could say two sides......................but that man did nothing. Don't be a dick. He was there for other reasons. Let's say the kids were afraid of the BLACK Muslims, okay, why accost another guy? Instead of standing their ground, the chickenshits ran off to find someone else. And face it, ...

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

@DoctoralZombie Do you have any links that show the Covington Catholic Boys harassing women. I searched and found an 8 second clip, but I couldn't understand a word they said.

Both parties are equally to blame for all of the problems in this country

PBuck0145 comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Until the "left" and the "right" grow up and learn to cooperate and collaborate, the problems will continue.

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

They are so diametrically opposed on almost every issue that that seems highly unlikely.

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 25, 2019:

One could say two sides......................but that man did nothing. Don't be a dick. He was there for other reasons. Let's say the kids were afraid of the BLACK Muslims, okay, why accost another guy? Instead of standing their ground, the chickenshits ran off to find someone else. And face it, ...

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

@DoctoralZombie In his own teenage years and early 20s, Phillips, using his adoptive name Nathaniel R. Stanard, was charged with escaping from prison, assault, and several alcohol-related crimes, according to local news reports at the time from his hometown of Lincoln, Neb. Phillips, who was 19 at the time, was “charged with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined May 3,” according to a May 9, 1974, article in the Lincoln Star. The court approved a bond of $500 and set a preliminary hearing for May 14. Later that year, Phillips pleaded guilty to assault and was fined $200. He also was charged with underage possession of alcohol in 1972, 1973 and 1975, as well as negligent driving, the Examiner reported. In August 1973, a charge of destruction of property against him was dropped, but he was sentenced to a year of probation for a related charge of alcohol possession by a minor. In December 1978, Phillips was charged with driving without a license. Phillips was charged on March 9, 2004 in Mohave, Arizona for driving at a speed greater than reasonable or prudent, and for failure to produce evidence of financial responsibility. He was then charged with No Mandatory Insurance on July 4, 2004. On all three charges, the disposition is recorded as “Failure To Appear.” And no I'm not afraid of brown people. My girlfriend is brown. She was born in the Phillipines. I've also played in basketball leagues with lots of current or former Division 1 basketball players. Most of them were African American. I wasn't afraid of them either. I wish I could still play like that, but that's another story.

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Green_eyes comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Nice racist trolling.. you must be bored today

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

@Green_eyes What lie did Nick Sandman tell? His account of what happened appears to be 100% truthful, and Phillips's account appears to be mostly false.

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

RobertMartin comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Who is that?

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

Nathan Phillips and Elizabeth Warren.

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 25, 2019:

This is what Snopes says.............................suggest you always look there first. Or end up watching your heroes like Stone arrested by the FBI. How many of those evil Obamaites got arrested? How many of those poor, misused Trumpites have been arrested. Unproven About this rating ...

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

@Beowulfsfriend They aren't even Black Muslims. They are Black Hebrew Israelites: Most Hebrew Israelites reject the Quran You are so clueless I don't even know where to begin. Did you even watch the video from 1:20 to 1:26? The Catholic Christians weren't the least bit afraid of them or aggressive towards them. the Black Hebrew Israelites weren't the least bit afraid of the kids or aggressive towards them. After Phillips and his group left, the kids circled around the Black Hebrew Israelite guy for 6 minutes listening to him spout his BS. They weren't scared of the Black Hebrew Israelites, and neither group threatened the other. Phillips entire story about intervening to save the Black Hebrew Israelites was 100% false. https://haitianisraelites.weebly.com/25-beliefs-of-the-hebrew-israelites.html

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Green_eyes comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Nice racist trolling.. you must be bored today

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

@Green_eyes You have a true Native American who tells outrageous lies to the press, and you have a true politician who got her start telling lies about being a Native American. That's pretty simple to understand isn't it?

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Green_eyes comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Nice racist trolling.. you must be bored today

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

If a non-white person makes up a bunch of outrageous lies, and you call them out on that, that is racist? Am I racist for calling out Elizabeth Warren's lies if in fact she is 1/1024 Native American? I need some clarity here.

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 25, 2019:

This is what Snopes says.............................suggest you always look there first. Or end up watching your heroes like Stone arrested by the FBI. How many of those evil Obamaites got arrested? How many of those poor, misused Trumpites have been arrested. Unproven About this rating ...

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

I don't see anything on SNOPES about Nathan Phillips's false account of what happened from 1:07 to 1:26 on this video. And why use SNOPES anyway? You can see what happened with your own eyes. Phillips told lie after lie after lie about what happed in that time window. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OblYLTWfR20

Looks like the Democrats have their Presidential Ticket for 2020.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 25, 2019:

One could say two sides......................but that man did nothing. Don't be a dick. He was there for other reasons. Let's say the kids were afraid of the BLACK Muslims, okay, why accost another guy? Instead of standing their ground, the chickenshits ran off to find someone else. And face it, ...

BD66 replies on Jan 25, 2019:

Phillips is a violent criminal who went AWOL 3 times, never once received a promotion during his time in his Marines, was never deployed in Vietnam, and was not "honorably discharged" from the marines. If you watch the videos, you can see the entire account he gave to the media was 100% false. This is almost like you believe in Santa Claus. I bring you to the North Pole, show you it's the North Pole on a GPS device. Show you there aren't any magic reindeer or elves building toys there, and you still insist on believing in Santa Claus. How can you catch on to the Christianity BS, and fall for Nathan Phillips BS? Here: Watch the Black Hebrew Israelites video from 1:05 to 1:26. You will see everything Phillips claimed was false: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OblYLTWfR20

They don't mind sending kids with red hats out though, rallying to tell women that they don't own ...

BD66 comments on Jan 24, 2019:

I'm torn on this one. I believe the Covington Catholic kids have every right to express their opinion, but I really do hate Joel Osteen.

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

@Hathacat They were told to gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to be picked up at 5:30 by a bus. Watch the video from 1:20 to 1:26, They're all standing around the Black Hebrew Israelites like a bunch of docile puppies listening to that guy spout his BS. They are much more mellow than the college kids were who interacted with the "Quad Preachers" when I went to school at the University of Illinois back in the 1980's. Then the bus arrives and they all leave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pFMZaw5f0

They don't mind sending kids with red hats out though, rallying to tell women that they don't own ...

BD66 comments on Jan 24, 2019:

I'm torn on this one. I believe the Covington Catholic kids have every right to express their opinion, but I really do hate Joel Osteen.

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

@Hathacat There were teachers present. After Phillips and his group left, you can see adults periodically keeping the kids separated from the Black Hebrew Israelites. I'm not sure when they arrived or how many of them were there, but they were overwhelmed by the situation.

Fake news, partial truths and perspective The situation of Native Americans vs MAGA Catholic ...

Elganned comments on Jan 24, 2019:

Lost in all of this is Nathan Phillips' own account, which is that he felt the situation between the boys and the Black Israelites was escalating towards violence, so he and his people moved to separate them. So *he* moved into *them*, not the other way around. Phillips deserves credit for ...

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

@thinktwice I've heard it's quite rare to serve 4 years in the Marine Corps, receive a "discharge" rather than an "honorable discharge" and remain a private the entire time. What's your take on that?

Fake news, partial truths and perspective The situation of Native Americans vs MAGA Catholic ...

Elganned comments on Jan 24, 2019:

Lost in all of this is Nathan Phillips' own account, which is that he felt the situation between the boys and the Black Israelites was escalating towards violence, so he and his people moved to separate them. So *he* moved into *them*, not the other way around. Phillips deserves credit for ...

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

@thinktwice I didn't know AWOL was a common thing.

Fake news, partial truths and perspective The situation of Native Americans vs MAGA Catholic ...

Elganned comments on Jan 24, 2019:

Lost in all of this is Nathan Phillips' own account, which is that he felt the situation between the boys and the Black Israelites was escalating towards violence, so he and his people moved to separate them. So *he* moved into *them*, not the other way around. Phillips deserves credit for ...

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

@thinktwice There has seldom been an event as well documented as this one. That's why people should watch the videos themselves and reach their own conclusions rather than rely on CNN or Nathan Phillips.

Fake news, partial truths and perspective The situation of Native Americans vs MAGA Catholic ...

Elganned comments on Jan 24, 2019:

Lost in all of this is Nathan Phillips' own account, which is that he felt the situation between the boys and the Black Israelites was escalating towards violence, so he and his people moved to separate them. So *he* moved into *them*, not the other way around. Phillips deserves credit for ...

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

@thinktwice OK. That one was a CNN lie rather than a Nathan Phillips lie. It's hard to keep them all straight. The truth is the guy went AWOL 3 or 4 times, was never promoted above private, and never received an honorable discharge.

Fake news, partial truths and perspective The situation of Native Americans vs MAGA Catholic ...

Elganned comments on Jan 24, 2019:

Lost in all of this is Nathan Phillips' own account, which is that he felt the situation between the boys and the Black Israelites was escalating towards violence, so he and his people moved to separate them. So *he* moved into *them*, not the other way around. Phillips deserves credit for ...

BD66 replies on Jan 24, 2019:

Watch the video from 1:07 to 1:12 before Nathan Phillips arrived and from 1:20 to 1:26 after Nathan Phillips left. Before he arrived, the Black Israelites were spouting their BS, and the Covington boys were responding with their school fight songs. After he left, the Covington Catholic boys were gathered around the Black Hebrew Israelites politely listening to the BS that the guy was spouting out of his mouth. There was never going to be any violent confrontation between those two groups. They were getting along fine before Nathan Phillips showed up, and they were getting along fine after Nathan Phillips left. Nathan Phillips is completely 100% full of shit. He lied about the incident that day. He lied about his military record. Please stop defending that despicable human being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWznlSZVT7o

America was great but is a return to the conditions that made it great even possible now?

BD66 comments on Jan 23, 2019:

After WWII, we had the majority of the world's capital and the majority of the world's industrial infrastructure. Blue collar workers in the USA had a much higher standard of living than white collar workers in every other country of the world. Then we taxed American individuals and corporations at...

BD66 replies on Jan 23, 2019:

@Moravian You could expand that to the entire Cold War. We spent Trillions making sure other countries had economic systems that were roughly as efficient as ours was at the end of WWII. 35K or our boys died in Korea and ~60K of our boys died in Vietnam. It turned out those blue collar boys who were drafted were fighting on the wrong side. If 85% of Earth's population remained mired in Socialism and Communism, the demand for the labor of our blue collar boys would have been sky high, but once the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain fell, 5 times more labor was available for free market capitalists, and our blue collar workers haven't had a chance since then.

Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial - CNN

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

From reading the news stories and watching the videos, it appears the following happened. Nathan Phillips is a political activist who is strongly against Trump's policies. He was in DC to express his political feelings. The kids were in DC on a school trip, and (from their hats) are in favor ...

BD66 replies on Jan 22, 2019:

@Maindawg Did you watch a single video of the event? Phillips went into the group of teens banging his drum in front of him and forcing kids out of the way. When Sandman would not be intimidated, he banged his drum in sandman's face tor 2 minutes, and was singing his Native American song in Sandman's face for 2 minutes at a very high volume.

Many senior citizens have so much to offer children that I believe school systems from kindergarden ...

BD66 comments on Jan 22, 2019:

You sure you want a bunch of old guys who watch Fox news 6 hours per day in there educating the children :-)

BD66 replies on Jan 22, 2019:

I'm not prejudiced. I'm joking.

How to Get a Wall

BD66 comments on Jan 21, 2019:

Actually Obama got Obamacare through a backdoor unconstitutional trick that avoided debate in the Senate. Trump should have gone that route, and he would have his wall.

BD66 replies on Jan 22, 2019:

@KenChang Here's a lengthy explanation, and my memory was not 100% correct. The Dem's had 60 Senate votes when the Obamacare legislation originated and 59 Senate votes when the Obamacare legislation concluded. The Republicans never had 60 Senate votes, so the methods the Democrats used was not an option open to Trump and the Republicans. https://www.briansussman.com/politics/how-obamacare-became-law/

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

ThisIsPatrick comments on Jan 21, 2019:

Not sure how playing a drum is disrespectful. He’s even stated he went between the two groups to break up the tension.

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@OtherPatrick Nope. You are a complete waste of my time.

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

ThisIsPatrick comments on Jan 21, 2019:

Not sure how playing a drum is disrespectful. He’s even stated he went between the two groups to break up the tension.

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@OtherPatrick I'm obviously wasting my mental energy having a discussion with you.

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

ThisIsPatrick comments on Jan 21, 2019:

Not sure how playing a drum is disrespectful. He’s even stated he went between the two groups to break up the tension.

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@OtherPatrick I'm certainly not afraid of an old man with a drum. Let me tell you about one of my best friends from high school, Allen Brooks. Allen Brooks was adopted by two white parents. He was half white and half Native American. He was 6'2" 185 pounds and he and I played basketball together for many years. Just after Allen Brooks graduated from high school, a teacher at the school who was ~45 years old, 6'5" and 230 pounds said "Hey Brooks, how is your dyke sister?" My friend Allen proceeded to beat the guy to a pulp. Everybody in my home town thought it was funny that the jackass teacher who called Allen's younger sister a dyke got exactly what he deserved. The police knew about it, but they didn't do a thing because that was small town justice in the 1980's. If Allen Brooks, a group of my high school friends, and I were standing where the Covington Catholic kids were standing, and Nathan Phillips had gone into our group beating his drum moving one way after another through the crowd forcing one kid after another to move out of the way, then came up to Allen Brooks and starting beating a drum in his face, I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that Allen Brooks would have hit him right on the chin and dropped him. Nathan Phillips would have received exactly the small town justice he deserved for trying to intimidate a group of high school kids. Personally, I don't know how I would react if that old jackass had approached me hollering and beating a drum in my face. I would most likely hold my arm out to keep him at a distance and preserve my personal space. If he struck my arm with his drumstick, I would have likely shoved him back. I think Nick Sandman handled the situation as well as or better than I would have if I was in his shoes. The only thing he could have done better was to gesture to Nathan Phillips that there was plenty of room to go past him on the left or the right.

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

jondspen comments on Jan 21, 2019:

Yea....you missed the SJW snowflake bus. Don't worry, another will be around in 5-10 min on the internet.

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

What does SJW stand for?

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

AmiSue comments on Jan 21, 2019:

MAGA hats people! The kid tried to backpedal from what he did to the Elder. I call BS. The kids were wearing those hats, advertising hate.

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

How does "Make America Great Again" advertise hate?

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

Benthoven comments on Jan 21, 2019:

First of all, the hat. MAGA hats are red flags that announce you're looking for a fight. Put on a MAGA hat and you're saying, "I'm a racist douche and I dare you to confront me on that... I DARE you... Bring it..." And then they get all snow-flaky when the hat has the exact effect that they wanted ...

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

Could you explain how "Make American Great Again" means you are looking for a fight?

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

t1nick comments on Jan 21, 2019:

You missed it completely. The native elder was trying to de-escalate by using traditional drumming, by his own admission in subsequent interviews. The drum in his culture is a symbol of coming together, besides he is an elder. The children have varying degrees of guilt regarding disrespect. Many...

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@t1nick This all would have been a non-issue. The kids would have gone back to Covington telling about their encounter with Phillips and the Black Hebrew Isrealites. The Black Hebrew Israelites would have their fond memories of heckling the group of rich snot-nosed Catholic school kids. However Nathan Phillips went to the media with a completely false account of what happened that day attempting to smear the kids from Covington.

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

t1nick comments on Jan 21, 2019:

You missed it completely. The native elder was trying to de-escalate by using traditional drumming, by his own admission in subsequent interviews. The drum in his culture is a symbol of coming together, besides he is an elder. The children have varying degrees of guilt regarding disrespect. Many...

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

Have you even watched the videos? Phillips and his group come out of nowhere, barge their way into the kids forcing them out of the way, change directions multiple times forcing more kids out of the way until they encountered Nick Sandmann. When Sandmann would not be intimidated, Phillips banged the drum in has face for 2 minutes? That's deescalating? He deserved to be knocked back on his ass, but Sandmann was very disciplined.

So I've watched the video of the kids with the MAGA hats.

ThisIsPatrick comments on Jan 21, 2019:

Not sure how playing a drum is disrespectful. He’s even stated he went between the two groups to break up the tension.

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

Well if you were standing with a group of your friends, and I marched into the group banging a drum forcing your friends out of the way, changed directions 2 or 3 times each time forcing a new group of your friends out of the way. Wouldn't you and your friends consider that to be disrespectful? Those kids were quite disciplined in the face of his aggressive intimidation tactics.

Fewer Republicans Bleating, "FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS"???

BD66 comments on Jan 21, 2019:

No. there was a perfect example of fake news this weekend: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-students-full-video-shows-viral-protest-new-light/2635085002/

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@Lucky57 USA today provides a balanced account. Go to CNN for the fake news version of the incident.

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@kensmile4u Phillips was there for a march. The Covington Catholic Boys were there for a march. Phillips attempted to intimidate the Covington Catholic boys. When he failed, he went to the news media and reported a bunch of false accusations about how the Covington Catholic boys treated him and his group. The cowardly school administration issued that statement before they had even spoken to the boys and their chaperones. They should be ashamed of themselves for throwing their own students under the bus. I will guarantee you that once they have seen the videos and heard their own students and chaperones accounts of what really happened, there will be no more apologies.

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@kensmile4u it’s pretty obvious to me that the boys were 14 to 18 years old plus many of them had on the same school clothes

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@kensmile4u The boys go to a Catholic school. They were in DC to march in a Pro Life rally that day. The school sent them to DC to send a political message. That was the entire purpose for their trip. I agree with you 100%, the boys should have never been left unsupervised in such a volatile hostile environment. I also agree with you that the adults were reacting to kids with MAGA hats. They showed no maturity at all. They should have left the kids alone regardless of what hats and shirts the kids were wearing.

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@kensmile4u Did you see the two hour video? The kids are just waiting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial like they had been told to do. Then at about 1:07 a group of Black Israelites starts to taunt them. Nathan Phillips and his group marched into the middle of the group of kids trying to intimidate them. When the one kid stood his ground, Phillips and his group left, and the Black Israelites started in on the kids again. Three groups of adults screwed up: The Black Israelites should have left the kids alone. Nathan Phillips and his group should have left the kids alone. The school administrators should not have left the kids alone in such a volatile hostile environment.

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@kensmile4u The media outlets are all starting to realize they were swindled by Nathan Phillips, and they have begun apologizing to Covington Catholic High School. There may be lawsuits over this, and those would be well deserved.

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@kensmile4u Watch the video. He approached the boys to confront them. He has instigated violence in the past at Eastern Michigan University. The man was a political activist who was there to create a conflict. When he couldn't get much of a reaction from the kids, he made up a bunch of false stories slandering them. He's an absolutely despicable individual.

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@kensmile4u Check out this link. It clearly shows all of Nathan Phillips's false statements about the confrontation. It shows him approaching the boys from a considerable distance away. He's clearly the one who initiated the conflict, and (in my opinion) the boys handled it quite well. Much better than you could expect from a group of high school boys. http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=59696=IwAR2x5be4y6dZKYI2rRnDzcyW8xMNOdxz58K_FEQ-1qF-5dwHCwQZ_APfSnc

Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

You should be upset about being deceived (AGAIN) by the leftist media. The kids from the Catholic school were in the middle of a school cheer when Nathan Phillips walked into their midst banging a drum. They were confused and thought the group was joining them. Then Nathan Phillips approached one...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@redbai These are not random videos, they are presented in sequence of the entire incident from start to finish. It's clear the boys were very far apart from Nathan Phillips engaged in some form of group cheers. It's also clear Nathan Phillips approached the boys and forced one after another of them to move out of his way until one boy stood his ground. It will be interesting to see how the school responds. They sent the boys as a group to DC to protest, then a (bullshit little) conflict occurred that is being blown way out of proportion. It will be interesting to see if the school backs the boys or throws the boys under the bus. Hopefully the school officials with have spines and stand with the boys rather than Nathan Phillips who tried (unsuccessfully) to provoke them.

Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial - CNN

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

From reading the news stories and watching the videos, it appears the following happened. Nathan Phillips is a political activist who is strongly against Trump's policies. He was in DC to express his political feelings. The kids were in DC on a school trip, and (from their hats) are in favor ...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@Maindawg Here are the videos of the whole incident start to finish. Watch it and stop believing the bullshit being peddled by Nathan Phillips and the leftist media. https://twitter.com/aclementswkrc/status/1086822521012473858?s=21=IwAR2fjG71kDX8oC2wWsGyJ2eh9ODj4ojmfv5VSudta3m_MmmTZyDd5SWhuzE

Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial - CNN

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

From reading the news stories and watching the videos, it appears the following happened. Nathan Phillips is a political activist who is strongly against Trump's policies. He was in DC to express his political feelings. The kids were in DC on a school trip, and (from their hats) are in favor ...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@Maindawg Read Nathan Phillip's description of events, then watch the videos. You can come to only one conclusion. Nathan Phillips is a liar. He's completely 100% full of shit. The boys handled the situation about as well as you could expect them to handle it when they were in the middle of doing their school songs and Phillips walked into the middle of the group banging his drum and forcing one boy after another to move out of his way.

Regarding the "snowpocalypse:" so far, here in middle rural Illinois, we are still just getting lots...

snytiger6 comments on Jan 19, 2019:

I've been to Illinois, only in the summer, visiting friends in Rockford, aroudn the tiem of the "on The Water Front" festival. I was surprised at how much rain Illinois gets even in summer.

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@snytiger6 I grew up on an Angus cattle farm. The cattle ate grass all summer and hay and oats all winter. The steaks and burgers were fantastic. Once I got to college and tasted the awful stuff they served to students, I almost lost all my taste for beef.

Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial - CNN

BD66 comments on Jan 20, 2019:

From reading the news stories and watching the videos, it appears the following happened. Nathan Phillips is a political activist who is strongly against Trump's policies. He was in DC to express his political feelings. The kids were in DC on a school trip, and (from their hats) are in favor ...

BD66 replies on Jan 20, 2019:

I believe he approached them banging his drum forcing them to move out of the way. Their clapping along and chanting along was a reasonable response to the situation. You have two groups with opposing political views that encountered each other in a non violent way. The media is trying to make the Catholic boys into Duke Lacrosse 2.0. Nathan Phillips is trying to make himself into Clock Boy 2.0.

Regarding the "snowpocalypse:" so far, here in middle rural Illinois, we are still just getting lots...

snytiger6 comments on Jan 19, 2019:

I've been to Illinois, only in the summer, visiting friends in Rockford, aroudn the tiem of the "on The Water Front" festival. I was surprised at how much rain Illinois gets even in summer.

BD66 replies on Jan 19, 2019:

That's what makes all the corn grow.

Does Game of Thrones get better after episode 1? Because I keep falling asleep....

SleeplessInTexas comments on Jan 19, 2019:

I've never watched it and have no interest in ever watching it.

BD66 replies on Jan 19, 2019:

You don't know what you are missing.

Saddest thing.

BD66 comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Global population of polar bears has increased by 2,650-5,700 since 2001 https://polarbearscience.com/2013/07/15/global-population-of-polar-bears-has-increased-by-2650-5700-since-2001/

BD66 replies on Jan 18, 2019:

@kmdskit3 I'm going to bed. No more time to debate this. Why do you have so much faith in Polar Bears International?

Saddest thing.

BD66 comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Global population of polar bears has increased by 2,650-5,700 since 2001 https://polarbearscience.com/2013/07/15/global-population-of-polar-bears-has-increased-by-2650-5700-since-2001/

BD66 replies on Jan 17, 2019:

@Hathacat Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said at the department’s press conference that the polar bear population increased from "a low of about 12,000 in the late 1960s to approximately 25,000 today." But the size of the world’s polar bear population is subject to much debate. There are roughly twice as many polar bears living in the wild today as there were when I was born. Wild polar bears live up to about 20, so every year 1250 polar bears die for some reason (disease, starvation, etc.) So every year there is the opportunity to take 1250 photos that to you will be the "saddest thing" But there are twice as many polar bears living today as there were 50 years ago.

pence calls his wife mommy, one would think he was gay! Karen Pence begins teaching at a ...

BD66 comments on Jan 17, 2019:

My grandparents had 4 children. Even after all of their children were 50+ years old, they still called each other "Mom" and "Dad". Nothing at all strange about that. I just means being a parent is a very important part of their identity.

BD66 replies on Jan 17, 2019:

@of-the-mountain My grandfather called my grandmother "Mom" from the time his first child was born (in 1937) until he died (in 1999). Do you believe that is psychotic behavior? It seemed perfectly normal to me.

Saddest thing.

BD66 comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Global population of polar bears has increased by 2,650-5,700 since 2001 https://polarbearscience.com/2013/07/15/global-population-of-polar-bears-has-increased-by-2650-5700-since-2001/

BD66 replies on Jan 17, 2019:

They are not starving. Just because you see a picture of a single sick or starving polar bear does not mean the entire population is in trouble.

pence calls his wife mommy, one would think he was gay! Karen Pence begins teaching at a ...

BD66 comments on Jan 17, 2019:

My grandparents had 4 children. Even after all of their children were 50+ years old, they still called each other "Mom" and "Dad". Nothing at all strange about that. I just means being a parent is a very important part of their identity.

BD66 replies on Jan 17, 2019:

You dislike the fact that my grandparents called each other "Mom" and "Dad"?

It's interesting when I bring up Ayn Rand people write the opposite of what she is saying.

Butcherman comments on May 26, 2018:

Ayn Rand was wrong on every level. Her political theory requires altruism from all individuals - a thing that has never existed. Her insistance on hyper individualism is highly toxic to all societies and social institutions. She equates financial success with morality and goodness, and idea that ...

BD66 replies on Jan 6, 2019:

Have you read Ayn Rand's books. How could you conclude that her political theory requires altruism from all individuals. Didn't Howard Roark blow up the skyscraper? Didn't the people in Atlas Shrugged bail on the bulk of humanity to go live in their little Shangri-La of competent individuals?

We keep being told that the infrastructure needs updating or replacement.

BD66 comments on Jan 2, 2019:

If it's cost effective to put in solar panels, people will put in solar panels. Do you want to force people to put things on their buildings that don't make financial sense?

BD66 replies on Jan 2, 2019:

@maturin1919 Well by all means build a commercial building with solar panels on it. If you are correct, you will have a huge advantage over the people who don't use that technology. If you are incorrect, you will lose money on a technology that isn't yet cost effective.

Ruth Bader Ginburg has 2 cancerous tumors remove from her lungs.

David1955 comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Well, why not. A corrupt, fraudulent, unrepresentative, gerrymandered Senate, representing a fraction of the population, supporting a predominantly white oligarchy, rigging your Supreme Court to enforce a Right Wing reactionary agenda of a minority over a progressive majority. Let's hear it for ...

BD66 replies on Dec 23, 2018:

@David1955 That's what the founding fathers intended when there were 4 huge states: Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and MA. It's the same story today. If national elections and congressional representation were purely based on the popular vote, politicians would visit, CA, TX, FL, NY, PA, OH, and IL and ignore all the other states.

Trump hints at firing Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. THE CHAIRMAN IS DOING HIS JOB STUPID!

BD66 comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Trump's biggest mistake is hiring Jerome Powell: Our National Debt has grown from 5,674 Billion September 2000 to 21,516 Billion In September 2018. That's a growth rate of 7.8% per year averaged over Republican Presidents and Democratic Presidents and over Republican Congresses and Democratic ...

BD66 replies on Dec 22, 2018:

@david75090 No I'm saying a corporate tax cut, and a tax cut to most taxpayers, and continued loose monetary policy would have increased the GDP growth rate up close to the rate that our debt is growing, and it would have given us a chance to have our economy grow as fast as our debt and to avoid bankruptcy. That's pretty much what every other Westernd Developed market country is doing. Jerome Powell instead is operating from a playbook that was put in place back in 1913 when the Fed was created, and when our national debt was close to $0 rather than close to $21,700,000,000,000.

Ruth Bader Ginburg has 2 cancerous tumors remove from her lungs.

David1955 comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Well, why not. A corrupt, fraudulent, unrepresentative, gerrymandered Senate, representing a fraction of the population, supporting a predominantly white oligarchy, rigging your Supreme Court to enforce a Right Wing reactionary agenda of a minority over a progressive majority. Let's hear it for ...

BD66 replies on Dec 22, 2018:

How do you gerrymander the Senate? Those are statewide elections. Have they been redrawing the borders of the states, and I'm not aware of it?

A Question for all the Leftists On This Site: I was listening to Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment ...

Tomfoolery33 comments on Dec 18, 2018:

There's a huge difference in government power between even the democratic socialist countries and the planned market/collectivist countries. Capitalism needs balance and some restrictions.

BD66 replies on Dec 18, 2018:

You could probably line up all the countries in the world on a line with the tiny wealthy tax havens like: 1 Monaco 168,004 2 Liechtenstein 164,437 3 Luxembourg 101,835 — Bermuda 99,363 4 Switzerland 79,609 — Macau 73,187 on one side and the Communist or recently communist countries on the other side: 66 Venezuela 9,230 77 Cuba 7,815 157 Myanmar 1,242 On one side, you have the least amount of taxation and government control. On the other side you have the most amount of taxation and government control. The USA would fall far closer the tiny tax havens than the collectivist totalitarian states. But the question is: "Why move in the direction of the collectivist totalitarian states with all their poverty and misery rather than move in the directions of the ultra wealthy tiny tax havens?"

A Question for all the Leftists On This Site: I was listening to Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment ...

EdEarl comments on Dec 18, 2018:

China is booming economically, and it is a socialist country...some say communist; albeit, they have a kind of free market economy. On the other hand, the US is in free fall right now, because the capitalists have control of the government. The market has recently fallen more than any other ...

BD66 replies on Dec 18, 2018:

The Chinese Stock market is down more than 50% from its peak in 2007: https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market The US Stock market is up about 60% from its peak in 2007: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/chart?p=SPY So over the long term the USA's free market capitalism outperforms China's centrally planned markets. That being said, the introduction of some free market reforms has provided tremendous benefits to the Chinese relative to the days of Mao, when his centrally-planned economy led to the deaths by famine of millions.

A Question for all the Leftists On This Site: I was listening to Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment ...

Green_eyes comments on Dec 18, 2018:

America is bit of a contradiction to your statement. America is capitalist, however life expectancies are are on a downward trend unlike the other developed nations. They all have universal healthcare, higher educated populations. America is content to import talent, have people go into ridiculous...

BD66 replies on Dec 18, 2018:

Evidently the root cause of the flat to declining life expectancy in the USA is "Substance Abuse and Despair", so the question is, "Where do you see the most Despair, in countries like East Germany, North Korea, and Cuba where people literally risk their lives to escape, or in free market countries like West Germany, South Korea etc. http://fortune.com/2018/02/09/us-life-expectancy-dropped-again/