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Unholy Catholic Ireland: Despite secular shift, many cling to Catholicism

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Hopefully Ireland is a bellweather.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Nov 4, 2022:

@rainmanjr ""Holy Catholic Ireland” is quickly turning unholy."

From our graceful ageing department:

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Got out of bed too quickly. ( Speaking from experience. )

Flyingsaucesir replies on Nov 2, 2022:

I've done that 😂

Why doesn't the IRS care when churches endorse candidates from the pulpit?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Revoke the tax-exempt status of every church, synagogue, mosque, and temple that violates the Johnson Act!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Nov 2, 2022:

@xenoview Yeah, you're right. They don't deserve tax-exempt status anyway.

What they're for? You don't want to know. 😐

HippieChick58 comments on Oct 31, 2022:

They are for THEIR freedom to purge the tax the life out of the rest of us.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 31, 2022:

...and burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow, and voter disenfranchisement, and cutting medicare, and gutting social security, and fascism, and...

Wang Wenbin: "The US 2022 Nuclear Posture Review smacks heavily of Cold War & zero-sum mentality.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 29, 2022:

US has been the only ones who have used nuclear weapons against Japan and even greater against Iraq. What a super waste!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 31, 2022:

@Castlepaloma That's mighty noble of you. So no now you just stand on the far side of the line and throw rocks. 👏👏👏

Interesting how a post about belief can trigger some folks. Isn't this agnostic.com?

DenoPenno comments on Oct 27, 2022:

Yes, we all have beliefs. As a former theist who once studied for the Pentecostal ministry I am finding that most beliefs are pure bullshit with no evidence, but you are entitled to your beliefs.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 31, 2022:

Most RELIGIOUS beliefs are bullshit. But belief in science, belief in rule of law, belief in egalitarianism, belief in democracy are worthy. Some would even say noble.

Hey, scariest ex-president ever.

HippieChick58 comments on Oct 30, 2022:

Donnie's worst nightmares coming to his front door.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

Maybe he'll have that long overdue cardiac infarction. Just trying to think positively. 😂

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Like 2 to 5 yesrs (?)

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Definitely hope you're wrong about that!

Wang Wenbin: "The US 2022 Nuclear Posture Review smacks heavily of Cold War & zero-sum mentality.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 29, 2022:

Funny (not really) the only ones threatening use of nuclear weapons are Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@FrayedBear Uh huh, there you go with the threats. At least you're true to form, Russian Bear. 🖕

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin The police and military have been infiltrated, that is a fact. To what degree is unknown. We hope it's not too significant.

Wang Wenbin: "The US 2022 Nuclear Posture Review smacks heavily of Cold War & zero-sum mentality.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 29, 2022:

US has been the only ones who have used nuclear weapons against Japan and even greater against Iraq. What a super waste!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@FrayedBear No, people like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un would not give up their nukes. They would use them for leverage, nuclear blackmail. Because that's who they are. They're just ambitious, sociopathic criminals.

Wang Wenbin: "The US 2022 Nuclear Posture Review smacks heavily of Cold War & zero-sum mentality.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 29, 2022:

US has been the only ones who have used nuclear weapons against Japan and even greater against Iraq. What a super waste!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@FrayedBear Nor should we support the TPNW. If we were to give up our weapons then only outlaw states like North Korea and Russia would have them.

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 29, 2022:

The diff is that now, if the fascists want to start a civil war, we do not have tens or hundreds of thousands who are willing to fight and risk death to stop them. At best, the law enforcement and military will stand down and let them fight unabated against their political enemies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

Not too sure about that. There are people who will stand up.

It's my sixth day of work, down at the election Polls, and I got into a fight with a Party Of ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 29, 2022:

Ty is a dick and you were right to counter his line of bullshit. Glad things didn't turn out worse. Carry on. 😎👍

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 30, 2022:

@rainmanjr I mean carry on in general. In the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young sense.

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

alliwant comments on Oct 29, 2022:

This would be funny if it was not an existential crisis, but it is. The GOP has retreated from reality because reality has become a litany of doom, and every move they have made to seize and control what is possible just leaves them with fewer options. From Trump, there is no place to go but ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

And the Democratic Party does actually constitute a fairly conservative party. MAGA Republicans are radical in a way that can only end in disaster.

Wang Wenbin: "The US 2022 Nuclear Posture Review smacks heavily of Cold War & zero-sum mentality.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 29, 2022:

US has been the only ones who have used nuclear weapons against Japan and even greater against Iraq. What a super waste!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@FrayedBear History shows that we do care. We have strived diplomatically to limit nuclear proliferation at home and abroad. The only player that has tactical nukes and a policy to be the first to use them is Russia (arguably now an outlaw state).

Wang Wenbin: "The US 2022 Nuclear Posture Review smacks heavily of Cold War & zero-sum mentality.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 29, 2022:

US has been the only ones who have used nuclear weapons against Japan and even greater against Iraq. What a super waste!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

@Castlepaloma Hey the WWII example was the only time, and at the time it seemed like a legitimate action. After the first bomb the US waited a couple days for Japan to surrender. It was only their obdurate silence that precipitated the second bomb.And, in fact, they probably saved tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. But you don't care about that, do you? You would rather bitch and moan about this country (of which you are not even a citizen).

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

nogod4me comments on Oct 29, 2022:

When the Republicans do not want reconciliation and will consistently disparage the Democrats because they themselves have no agenda to make things better, there can never be cooperation. Republicans have already stated that they will not work with Democrats.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

Yup, one side is stepping out, and it ain't the Dems.

The couple in question almost divorced divorced once before; 620,000 soldiers died.

HippieChick58 comments on Oct 29, 2022:

It is funny, but sad. This is going to be a really messy divorce if we keep up this way.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

No shit.

Uh oh is right.

HippieChick58 comments on Oct 29, 2022:

It is sad times we live in.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

Like it was in the 1930s, early 1940s, before Pearl Harbor, sort of.

Rare example of bipartisanship:

HippieChick58 comments on Oct 29, 2022:

I admire Liz more every day.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 29, 2022:

She's taking the fight to the enemy 😎👍

Forum - "Gender Neutral Language" by Karen Lynn Humanist Association of Toronto [meetup.

MsHoliday comments on Oct 28, 2022:

I can see that this might blur the lines and be a benefit to many people in this capitalist, patriarchal system we are living in. The Good Old Boys are not about to let that happen.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

...many people who are not part of the entrenched power structure...

Yikes: 45% of Americans say the U.S. should be a 'Christian Nation'

of-the-mountain comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Seems they confuse these Christian Nationalism as a religion within Fascism!!! The same way Hitler and Mussolini did not interfere with the Vatican on the 1930ties and 1940ties!!!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

Nationalism is a component of fascist ideology.

Yikes: 45% of Americans say the U.S. should be a 'Christian Nation'

CuddyCruiser comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Well…..speakin’ of Marjorie….

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

Stupid, yes; dangerously so.

A better booster campaign YLE 10/24/2022

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I've had 2 boosters already. I don't have a problem getting a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. 12th,...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@BDair Again, the last line is telling: "However, no epidemiological studies focusing [on] the association between vaccination and myocarditis death." Look man, you asked me to school you, and I did that. If don't trust your education, or the CDC, or the National Institutes of health, that's on you. My question to you is this: why do you keep posting this anti-vax nonsense? Can't you just make your choice and let others make theirs? Who exactly are you trying to impress? The standard for dissemination of information regarding the safety and efficacy of vaccines is publication of peer-reviewed articles in reputable scientific journals. I gave you a list of relevant scientific journals. I defy you to find one epidemiological study showing that thousands of people have been killed by the vaccines. Put up or shut up. (mic drop 🎤)

At long last the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, succinctly expresses what is thought by many ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Placing the white dove of peace and Putin's name on the same page is an exercise in contrast, a clash of opposing ideas, a cognitive dissonance, a tasteless joke.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@FrayedBear Virtual equivalence:

At long last the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, succinctly expresses what is thought by many ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 28, 2022:

Placing the white dove of peace and Putin's name on the same page is an exercise in contrast, a clash of opposing ideas, a cognitive dissonance, a tasteless joke.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@FrayedBear Putin's naked aggression obviates any diplomatic engagement. Ukraine will just have to keep up their splendid defense of their homeland. Slavo Ukraine!

A better booster campaign YLE 10/24/2022

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I've had 2 boosters already. I don't have a problem getting a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. 12th,...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@BDair RE vaers: the most important line in the page(s) in the link is the very last one. It reads, "Reports are not proof of causality." The thing is, people are dying all the time, from a variety of causes. Some old guy gets up one morning, pulls on his socks, and later that morning kicks the bucket. We don't ascribe his death to pulling on his socks, even though the sequence of events does imply a causal link. That would be a fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc (it happened after, therefore because of). It's the same thing with the vaccines. Somebody gets their shot, and then they die from one of the other million things that can kill you. But some family member says "Wow! He got the shot and now he's dead!" The assumption of a causal relationship is fallacious. As of October 19, 9 deaths in the US have be caused by the vaccines. That's after administration of almost 700 million doses. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than of dying from a COVID-19 vaccine.

A better booster campaign YLE 10/24/2022

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I've had 2 boosters already. I don't have a problem getting a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. 12th,...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@BDair Here are some major journals that might interest you. However, what you seek is something you would find in good biology, immunology, and/or molecular biology textbooks. American Journal of Epidemiology Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health European Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of Epidemiology The Lancet Journal The New England Journal of Medicine Journal of the American Medical Association The British Medical Journal The Journal of Pathology Journal of Immunological Sciences The Journal of Immunology The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Frontiers in Immunology Immunity Nature Reviews Immunology Science Immunology Human Vaccines Genetic Vaccines and Therapy Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination To answer your question: The mRNA in a vaccine is built according to a viral DNA code called a gene. Whether the mRNA is made in a lab or in a cell makes no difference; mRNA is mRNA. The skeletal muscles are composed of cells. Intramuscular injection introduces the mRNA vaccine 8nto cells. Once the mRNA is in a cell it finds an organelle called a ribosome. There are many ribosomes in the cell's watery cytoplasm. There are also lots of amino acids floating around in the cytoplasm. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. When the mRNA links up with the ribosome, the ribosome begins to act like an enzyme, catalyzing a series of chemical reactions. Each reaction adds a new amino acid to a growing chain of amino acids, called a polypeptide. There are twenty different types of amino acids. Which specific acid goes where in the sequence is determined by the mRNA code. As the ribosome "reads" the mRNA the polypeptide gets longer. When complete, the polypeptide separates from ribosome. It then folds up into the final shape, called a tertiary protein structure. In this case, that structure is the spike protein. It's not really a spike: it's a more complicated shape, more analogous to a key. But even that analogy is not good, because the protein is not long and thin; it's short and squat. This protein fits into a receptor on the surface of a body cell, like a key in a lock. If there were an actual virus, it would thus gain access to the cell. But in the vaccine there is no virus. The presence of these spike proteins is detected by specialized cells of the immune system called T-cells. T-cells are like a general on a battlefield. They rally troops to fight off an invader. T-cells "tell" B-cells to produce antibodies against the spike protein. Antibodies are proteins too. They are custom made by the B-cell to neutralize a specific foreign body (in this case, the spike protein). The general term for any ...

A better booster campaign YLE 10/24/2022

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I've had 2 boosters already. I don't have a problem getting a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. 12th,...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 28, 2022:

@BDair Transparency is a key characteristic of science. Scientists are keen to share their work with the world. The standard for dissemination of information regarding the safety and efficacy of vaccines is publication of peer-reviewed articles in reputable scientific journals. Journalists who cover the science beat read the journals and interview the scientists who write the articles. And just as scientists are constantly double-checking each other's work, so too are journalists. Interested individuals routinely get information from multiple publications. You never rely on just one source. Over time you get to know your sources. You have been seeing their work confirmed for years. Suddenly some unknown source comes out of nowhere with information that is completely at odds with everything you are seeing elsewhere. You look for credentials and associations, but it's thin or nonexistent. You may find that the new source has a criminal history; he/she did time for fraud or practicing medicine without a licence. It's not too hard to determine who is actually doing journalism a who is just blowing disinformation out their ass.

A better booster campaign YLE 10/24/2022

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I've had 2 boosters already. I don't have a problem getting a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. 12th,...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@BDair I taught biology for 20 years. What are your science credentials?

For Republican politicians, every day is October 31, and Halloween never ends.

Barnie2years comments on Oct 27, 2022:

Identifying the problem is easy. Coming up with a solution that will wean nearly 50% of the population away from the adrenaline rush of Republican fear mongering is a much harder, if not impossible task. Even more so the 40% of Trumpilcan demented supporters,. Much the way little has been ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

Obviously books are better than bullets. Even in a country where half the population doesn't read, education is still our best bet. Republicans are masters at communicating their falsehoods. Democrats need to counter them more aggressively. And get a little discipline.

(regarding events that took place around 1940): Introducing Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra ...

CuddyCruiser comments on Oct 27, 2022:

More sad than anything is that no one learned nothing.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

So true. Here we are almost a century later, with the last of the Holocaust survivors passing away, and American neo Nazis are hanging antisemitic banners on bridges. The Greatest Generation must be spinning in their graves.

(regarding events that took place around 1940): Introducing Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra ...

snytiger6 comments on Oct 27, 2022:

Not too many people are aware that Rachel Maddow has a Phd in Political Science. She also did a podcast I heard on NPR in several parts about Nixon/Agnew ending with Watergate. I was aware of the plot to overthrow the government just prior to WWII. Now I'll have to listen to get a better ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

Maddow's Nixon/Agnew book, titled, "Bagman," is an excellent read. I lived through the Watergate period and thought I had a pretty good grasp of what took place, but it turned out I had only scratched the surface. I learned a lot from reading Bagman.

(regarding events that took place around 1940): Introducing Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra ...

of-the-mountain comments on Oct 27, 2022:

Smedley Butler has had more than just a small part in the stopping of various outright confrontations both foreign and domestic as Marine Corp officer in both the nineteenth and twentieth century of US Imperialism!!! This country has been under attack internally since it inception by ultra right ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

Butler's story is soooo revealing about who we are as a nation. It should be required reading in every high school, junior college, and University.

Just so some Americans can read that not everyone agrees with them.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Pretty presumptuous assertion. Or idiotic. Or both. Whatever. BTW, are you actually thinking that anyone here would take seriously anything published by RT? 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@Alienbeing Maybe so, but the American people overwhelmingly support social programs like Medicare, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, the interstate highway system, National Parks, lifeguards, public schools, public libraries, mass transit, fire departments, police departments, the Federal Emergency Management Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the National Weather Service, the Coast Guard, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Archives, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture, etc., etc. Americans like and want these government programs and institutions. Republican politicians love to try and scare people with a bogeyman they call "socialism." They love to insist that only unfettered capitalism can solve our problems. But the reality is that without a strong regulatory framework, and a robust tax structure, and generous investment in public institutions, capitalism quickly devolves into monopolism and extreme income stratification. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class disappears altogether. And, unfortunately, Republicans have been very good at selling fear of their bogeyman. They have a genius for making the most innocuous things sound like armageddon. So a perfectly reasonable proposal to set up a framework for making decisions about healthcare expenditures becomes "death panels." And any effort to tackle climate change (and in so doing achieve energy independence not only for the nation but also for individual citizens) is painted as a liberal plot to wreck our competitiveness internationally. And these Republican shibboleths are repeated ad nauseam until people don't know what to think. So they end up voting from a position of irrational fear rather than confident intelligence. And with every Republican success, the middle class shrinks, the ranks of the homeless swell, and the 1% look down from on high, laughing all the way to the bank.

Just so some Americans can read that not everyone agrees with them.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Pretty presumptuous assertion. Or idiotic. Or both. Whatever. BTW, are you actually thinking that anyone here would take seriously anything published by RT? 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@Krish55 On the big thing, the invasion of Ukraine, RT is publishing Putin's propaganda. They cannot say anything else without being shut down and jailed, and possibly killed.

Just so some Americans can read that not everyone agrees with them.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

So far in this discussion, 22 points have been awarded to various interlocutors, but none to poor, bedraggled, Frayed Bear. The people: 22 Frayed Bear: 0 The people have spoken! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 27, 2022:

@mcgeo52 I was going to ask that 😂

A better booster campaign YLE 10/24/2022

BDair comments on Oct 24, 2022:

Booster uptake is suboptimal because the shots do not work and nobody wants them. People with two shots and 3 boosters are still testing positive. There are millions of doses of the vaccines that are expiring and headed for disposal, and billions of our tax dollars are going to waste.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@Castlepaloma You're soooo wrong about that! In the 70s we had double-digit inflation, mortgage rates were through the roof, high gas prices, long lines to get gas, and sometimes there just wasn't any. We had huge riots, worse than anything we have seen lately. What's worse today is mass shootings. Back in the day only soldiers on active duty in Vietnam had AR-15s. And 55,000 American soldiers were killed there; way more than in Gulf wars 1 & 2 and Afghanistan combined. I know you want to blame Biden for inflation, but it only shows you you know nothing about economics. What devalues your money is spending on things that give no value in return, i.e. misguided and unnecessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and huge tax holidays for Corporations and filthy rich mother fuckers. At least what Biden is spending money on are investments in people and infrastructure, worthwhile things. Get a fucking clue man!

Just so some Americans can read that not everyone agrees with them.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Pretty presumptuous assertion. Or idiotic. Or both. Whatever. BTW, are you actually thinking that anyone here would take seriously anything published by RT? 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@Alienbeing Try telling that to the Norwegians and Swedes. They're the happiest people on Earth.

Bannon calls it "flooding the zone with shit.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

None of them will testify under oath, unless it means taking the Fifth for every damn ?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 26, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin Well let's see if/when he runs.

Bannon calls it "flooding the zone with shit.

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 26, 2022:

None of them will testify under oath, unless it means taking the Fifth for every damn ?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Oct 26, 2022:

It was very nice of Cheato to allow video of himself berating anyone who would take the 5th. We need to throw it in his face mercilessly.

Just so some Americans can read that not everyone agrees with them.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Oct 25, 2022:

So far in this discussion, 22 points have been awarded to various interlocutors, but none to poor, bedraggled, Frayed Bear. The people: 22 Frayed Bear: 0 The people have spoken! 😂