Those Self-regulating Market Forces at Work Again.

davknight comments on Mar 6, 2019:

"Free enterprise" is an old euphemism for piracy. So too, is "Commerce",which is a French word for piracy.

If wealth was the result of hard work . . .

davknight comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Real work is measured in ergs. An erg is the amount of energy spent by one beetle in climbing a wall one centimeter in height. By that measure, the people who do the hardest manual labor would earn the most ergs. Real value is measured in the time spent in making a particular product.early socialists argued for what they called the 'Labor Wage', whereby one would be 'paid' in 'time credits', which could be exchanged for products. Example: A typical automobile has around 1,800 hours of labor that goes into it. Therefore, you'd work 1,800 hours; and be able to buy a new car. By the Labor Wage, those who worked the most hours would be able to buy the most stuff. Under either system, the average worker would be getting a fairer deal.

Open discussion: The evolution of Jesus based on the influence from the history of Church Councils.

davknight comments on Mar 6, 2019:

The 'Lost Gospels' make for interesting reading. Most of them have been collected together in the "Gnostic Bible".One of them says that Adam and Eve had a daughter, with whom Abel, and Seth had incest with, to begat the multitudes. And most of them, to me anyways, make Jeshua look like a schizophrenic cult leader.

Do u think Christianity is bad ? What's your opinion on it

davknight comments on Mar 6, 2019:

Christianity has one redeeming feature. Every 25th of December, the Christians are relatively nice to each other!

The Movement To Skip The Electoral College Just Passed A Major Milestone | FiveThirtyEight

davknight comments on Mar 6, 2019:

We need to get rid of the Senate too! We don't need a House of lords!

Growing up did you ever take piano lessons or other instruments and how good were you?

davknight comments on Mar 6, 2019:

My earliest memories are of hearing accordion music emanating from Polish households, violins playing in Hungarian households, Country music playing from Southern households, and Elvis playing from households that had teenagers.The only thing I learned how to play was a plastic bugle, on which I practiced the cavalry calls I'd hear on tv westerns.

Who knows what our world would be like if we weren’t such greedy fucking barbarians?

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

The equitable distribution of surpluses has been one of Humanity's biggest problems since the founding of civilization, 12,000 years ago.

Racism - social problems are escalating world wide regarding refugees & immigrants.

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Overpopulation should be the major concern. There were approx 155 million people in the U.S.when I was born. There are now around 330 million, and ours is the third most heavily populated country in the World.If we don't wish to overtake India, or even China, we are going to have to put a damper on all immigration, legal and illegal alike. 'Open borders' is a suicidal concept.

Half of the today worlds problems started when a French and a British sat across a table and started...

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Where the geographics, and the demographics don't match up, conflict generally results.

I look at this thing and know daym well I couldn't finish it: a 2 pound taco offered by a local ...

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Anyone know of a place that sells Gyros that big?

Kellyanne Conway's husband calls for impeachment George Conway If proven, such an attempt to ...

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

There are some strangely mis-matched couples out there! Would the feminists care to explain how him and Kellyanne manage to stay married???

What are people's thoughts on psychedelics?

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

LSD makes one view reality in a whole different light. Mescaline makes one laugh at authority. And psilocyn makes little bunny rabbits look like great big bunny rabbits. All have a 'subversive' effect on young, restless minds.

Fact-checking Donald Trump's two-hour speech at CPAC | PolitiFact

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Only fifteen lies? I'm surprised!

Your favorite line from Monty Python?

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

"We don't have any Kings around here! This is an anarcho-syndicalist commune!" (from "In search of the Holy Grail").

The surveillance cameras are better on Mars.

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Nah! The wee folk who reside under the rocks , are brisk as bees, and are too fast to be caught on surveillance cameras!

How could middle income people afford to travel to Marz on Elon's space fleet?

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I predict that 80 years from now, interplanetary shuttles full of drunken college kids,will be flying there to get drunker n stupider!

Iceland Declares All Religions Are Weapons Of Mass Destruction | Andrew Hall

davknight comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I just knew that one day, the U.S. would be thinking of a reason to invade Iceland.After all, they've got that there "socialismic" medicine, they've got free hot water, schools of "red" herrings swimming around the place, and now this!

Where I come from, a lot of people go to church on Sundays and Wednesday nights.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Let me guess? Twice on Sunday, and once on Wednesday? And they shake you down for "offerings" three times per service?

Church of the stunned chicken....

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

In what town can we see this deified fowl? I'll bet the locals use it as a landmark. Marietta, GA used to have a chicken restaurant in the middle of town. And on the roof, was a giant, wooden chicken. The locals would reference their "Big Chicken" when giving directions--"1 mile north of the Big Chicken. 2 miles south of the Big Chicken". Etc.

These damn ecigs make me cough more than a regular cig.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Join a stop smoking class. I did, and it worked. I've been smoke-free since 2014.

This must be the right place to ask this question.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

In Colonial, and Early America, corncobs were used for that purpose. The Chinese are believed to have invented toilet paper in the 6th century A.D.. Modern, rolled toilet paper was patented in 1883.

God created humankind. Hmm... Who created God?

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

I AM DOG. THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. AND I CREATED EVERYTHING WHICH CREEPETH, WALKETH, SWIMETH, OR FLYETH UPON THE EARTH! AND I DID IT ALL IN SEVEN DAYS!

A staple of my youth

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

He had a special knack for making lousy weather seem more bearable.

Teachers, their salaries, and only working a partial year.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

I think ALL people with college degrees need to be paid in accordance with their educational level. Not just teachers.

What are your thoughts on "white privilege?

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

"White" privilege? Or class privilege? Wealth and power are synonymous. "White" privilege implies all, or most, White people are rich. This is not remotely the case. Therefore, "White" privilege is a false concept. While class privilege is, unfortunately, the reality.

Dear Donald, We're Letting You Go: America's Final Letter to Trump | Opinion

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Dear Orange Stupid--You're FIRED!

American Military Dominance In One Staggering Chart

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Military "dominance" cannot be measured by money spent. Keep in mind the Americans pay $500 for potty seats, $8,000 for Allen wrenches, and an average of $7,500 per DAY, per person, to keep troops abroad. The U.S. military has a tremendous capacity to generate violence. But that is mostly of the thermonuclear variety. The U.S. Army, and Marine Corps can only field about 60% of the ground combat troops they had in South Vietnam, at the height of the Vietnam War. They are ridiculously expensive in upkeep, and small in the number of ground combat troops they can actually field. That would put them at a serious disadvantage in a real-war scenario with China, or the Russian Federation.

Can cannibis cure cancer, yes or no?

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

I think most of the healthcare industry in the U.S. is a scam!

Why he's a stable genius!

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

I wanna see his IQ test results!

Humanity First! Universal Basic Income: $1,000/mo for all.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

What, with inflation, better make that $2,000 a month!

'Underwear dates well': how fashion forensics are helping solve crimes | Global | The Guardian

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

It would be a good way for historical archaeologists to date excavation levels in landfill sites. A hundred years from now, a team of researchers are excavating a landfill, and all of a sudden, they start turning up bell-bottom trousers and tie-dyed tee-shirts, they'll know they've reached the 1970s. A little further down, and they start turning up women's girdles, with the garter clasps, and they know they've hit the 1960s. Mickey Mouse hats and coonskin caps, the 1950s, and so on. The same goes for consumer fads, like transistor radios, and hula hoops.

I have a question to members of this group.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

In the U.S., Native American remains are protected by NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection Act, which stipulates that they must be re-interred by the nearest tribe. Many forensic anthropologists argue that they need time to examine them. This causes friction with the tribes (e.g. the "Kennewick Man' controversy of twenty-plus years ago). Still others argue over who the remains should be returned to, pointing out that Native American tribes seldom lived in the same area for longer than 100-150 years. So, someone in Arizona finds remains.And they date back 5,000 years. Do they go to the Dine (Navajo)? The Apache?, the Hopi? (None of whom were living there 5,000 years ago). NAGPRA, as written, probably needs to be re-written.

I remember trying to break these in half, didn't always work out , sometimes I got three pieces.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Do they still make those make-your-own popsickle kits?

Late 60's had some good tunes.

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

#18

Great Lakes, USA Link: [vividmaps.com]

davknight comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Cool map!

A Child In Idaho Has Contracted The First Local Case Of Bubonic Plague In Nearly 30 Years | ...

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

It's also native to the mountainous steppe regions of the wild, wild west. Prairie dogs are known to carry the microbe.

Irresponsible and utter stupidity. And you thought trump was bad ....

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

A Pence presidency won't last long. His will be as short, and uneventful,as that of Gerald "Whoopsy" Ford.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's just a few years before they eliminated it as being separate from ...

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

I'm a self-diagnosed 'aspie'. I learned about it 12 years ago, took an online test, and passed with flying colors. My only regret was it took me so long to find out I was Vulcan!

Which one or more is/are likely in 2020 presidential elections?

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

All, or most of the above!

Vicar caught 'watching porn, sniffing cocaine, and using a crack pipe' | Metro News

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

As teenagers, we used to break into the basement of a local Catholic church. You'd be amazed at all the porn magazines, and porn movies, we used to find down there. But we were just there to pillage all the wine and booze!

Ilhan Omar poster sparks outrage, physical altercation in W.

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

Just another Trumplerite having a childish tantrum!

Oregon Now Has Statewide Rent Control, Push Continues Across Country – Next City

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

This should be done in conjunction with a tax on rental income. A landlord tax could be levied to build housing for the homeless. And rent controls would be in place, to keep rents affordable for the poor, and prevent them from being raised.

I guess being President is the next best thing to being a god. (Or is it?)

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

What do you wanna bet that Orange Dumbo has made arrangements with a cryogenics firm to have himself frozen after death?

Inside the Chaotic Early Days of Trump’s Foreign Policy - POLITICO Magazine

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

I didn't know he had a foreign policy?

At what age did you realize that most adults were complete idiots?

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

Eleven or twelve.

Fordham confirms that Trump team threatened the school if his grades became public - MarketWatch

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

We wanna see his IQ test results, his psychiatric exam, and his tax statements! We already know he flunked kindergarten!

Pyramid of White Supremacy. Thought this may be helpful.

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

Graphic looks like it came from a university campus. I spent six years in a university. They like to call it 'Academia'. But I took to calling it 'Macadamia', like the nut. Because you meet a lot of nuts in Macadamia!

This must be the right place to ask this question.

davknight comments on Mar 2, 2019:

We did like the bears, n wiped our butts on trees!

What do you think will happen if Trump won't leave the WH when he loses in 2020?

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Of course, he could be trapped in a drainpipe by an enraged mob!

What do you think will happen if Trump won't leave the WH when he loses in 2020?

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

He will be dragged out, bellowing like an indignant hippo, by the US Marshals Service.

I find it interesting how some small, rural, hard-scrabble southern towns like the one I grew up in ...

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

There are many! Only Rand-McNally doesn't put them on their road maps anymore.

Pyramid of White Supremacy. Thought this may be helpful.

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Self-hate is not a good thing.

What words of wisdom have you picked up throughout your life that you think is important enough to ...

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Perseverance is the most important Human quality. Don't read books. They are bad for your eyes. Don't ask me what I think of you. I might not give the answer that you want me to. Everybody's fecal matter stinks. Try to learn something new every day. Try to do a good deed every day. Try not to eat anything with sugar in it. Try not to eat anything made with white flour.(It turns into sugar when you digest it). When you find love, keep, and cultivate it. For you may never find it again.

Meep Meep...

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Yeah! But will he still be there, when I get back from Home Depot with the Acme Dynamite Kit?

He's BOTH, trust me!?

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

The Orange Don is an amateur, small-time, wannabe Mob boss. Those other three guys are in the big time!

Good questions to make Christians doubt their beliefs?

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Why do Humans have tail bones?

Someone forged a Nobel Peace Prize nomination of Trump, Norwegian officials say [wapo.st]

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

We bet 'John Baron' forged it!

Check this shit out. [wired.com]

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

As teens, back in the '70s, we found that both weed, and hashish went well with Canadian beer.

Just thought I'd share a picture I took this morning.

davknight comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Yup! That's a Michigan winter scene I remember well! I once took a "short cut" to school across a field like that. But, as I trudged further, the snow got deeper n deeper. Until it was deeper than I was tall (talk about a Charlie Brown moment!). Needless to say, I got to school 20 minutes late, which was a first for me. But it did teach me a lesson about "short cuts"!

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Trump supporters?

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

I always try to keep in mind that 'stupid is forever, but ignorance can be fixed'. Unfortunately, these Trumplerites seem to be a preponderance of the stupid!

1950's HUBLEY ATOMIC DISINTEGRATOR SPACE RAY TOY GUN...?

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Greetings Earth Creature! Drop all your weapons, or face instant de-molecularization from my atomic disintegrator pistol!

"The Bible" ?

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Voltaire?

Ladies remember when hair salons looked like this?

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Notice they're all wearing nylons! Us 'leg men' miss the good ol' days!

I remember this big hair look. Do you?

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

I used to hate going into the bathroom after my sister got done in there. The hairspray smelled horrible! Also, that "permanent" stuff they used!

NC BICYCLE BILL: New bill would require North Carolinians to register bicycles, pay fee | WSOC-TV

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

One day, they will be taxing people for the very air they breathe!

Waterfalls

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Sometimes, the most soothing, and picturesque waterfalls are not necessarily huge. My favorites will always be Laughing Whitefish Falls, and Taqhuamenon Falls in Michigan's U.P.

Guess I got kicked out of Bernie Sanders group.

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

If they don't want another four years of Trumpty-Dumbty, they'd better cease the internal bickering, and get their act together!

In a libertarian society who decides the validity of geographical property claims?

davknight comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Towards the end of the Revolutionary War, many people were staking out 'tomahawk claims' on wilderness land in southwest Pennsylvania.( A tomahawk claim was where you just cut notches in trees, to mark out your boundary lines). This was fairly common up and down the frontier line. But this particular land was "owned" by absentee landowners farther east. About five years after the war ended, the absentee landowners attempted to kick all the 'squatters' off the land. Many landowners' representatives ended up being tarred, feathered, and run out to the nearest county line on a rail Then President,George Washington had Alexander Hamilton raise a body of 5,000 Federal troops and State Militia to 'restore order'. This became known as the 'Whiskey Rebellion'. But what is generally not known is that it had nothing to do with taxes on Whiskey-making. Rather, it was a case of wealthy land speculators moving in, and evicting settlers from land they had already improved upon, by building cabins, and putting in crops. (Many of these settlers incidentally, were Continental Army veterans). Tomahawk claimants in Kentucky and Tennessee were luckier. They were much farther removed from the reaches of the Federal government. So, if you're gonna mark out a tomahawk claim of your own, you might consider some uninhabited island somewhere, and go completely off the grid!

Meow vs wuff ?

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

Some dogs go woof-woof-woof! Some dogs go borp-borp-borp! Some dogs go yip-yip-yip! But all cats can do is mew, meowl, and hiss!

Don’t Beam Me Down, Scotty! ‘Beaming’, the near instantaneously conversion and transport of...

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

Over the last 20 years, Australian, American, and European have successfully transferred lone particles from one side of a lab to another. Unfortunately, there is no way to transfer a human's personality, and accumulated learning, from one location to another. So, someone who has been transferred would have the behavioral, and learning level of a newborn infant.

Michael Cohen testifying live right now. Oh boy. Will this turn the tide? I hope so.

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

Trump's Twitter activity about this could give him carpal tunnel!

So who else thinks Trump will Dodge another bullet

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

Somewhere, in a bag of frozen French fries, in a McDonald's cooler, is the French fry with his name on it!

The 'Right to Repair' Movement Is Gaining Ground | Fortune

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

I can remember when cars were designed so that one could repair them, oneself.

Kamala Harris thinks we need to pay for past transgressions. Do you agree?

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

Irish: Where's mine? Poles: Where's mine? Hispanics: Where's mine? Italians: Where's mine? Asians: Where's mine? LGBTQ: Where's mine? Women: Where's mine? Native Americans: Where's mine? Pacific Islanders: Where's mine? Add the above together, and you can see it is a 'PC' wingbat idea! Where is all the money supposed to come from?

I hope no one is experiencing this!

davknight comments on Feb 27, 2019:

A group of kids could make a cool snow fort out of all that snow!

Am I the only one to find this sickening?

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

No!

How many of you have had Shingles?

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

'Shingles' refers to 'fugitive' chicken pox virus, that hides out in your spinal column, not to re-emerge until you are middle-aged. This is why it tends to radiate outwards from the spinal column. Scratch it, and the pus beneath the scabs spreads further on your body, like the arms, the hands, the head and face. Anybody who had chicken pox as a kid is a prime candidate for shingles when they get older.

Flat-Earth test...failed [youtube.com]

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Reminds me of when I was four-years old, n tried to dig a hole all the way to China. I never got there, and my dad made me fill that hole in. (It was a big hole, too!).

I can totally keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't.

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead"--Benjamin Franklin

The Turin Erotic Papyrus: The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality (Circa 1150 B.

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

We had parties like that when I was a teenager back in the '70s. Ever hear of Moche Culture? It thrived in Peru, between 100-750 AD. They were renowned for their 'kinky' pottery, which featured human figures in a wide variety of sexual acts.

How many of you have had Shingles?

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

I got it eight years ago. I thought I had poison ivy. A doctor gave me a prescription for an antibiotic, and it cleared up in a few days.

Lost Cause for the Confederacy For those who think the civil war has ended think again

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

I view it all as beating a dead horse.

Roseanne Bar calls Ocasio-cortez a "bug eyed bitch" [secondnexus.

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Roseanne just trumpeting her Trumpism!

A new study says that all men, regardless of age, will always be attracted to women in their 20's ...

davknight comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Girls learn how to walk before boys, talk before boys, and mature before boys. So they tend to be attracted to 'older men', rather than boys the same age or younger. Boys discover that girls younger than they are , are attracted to them. So, their first sexual experiences tend to be with younger girls. It all has to do with the female maturing faster than the male. It's all biology! Nothing new here. But I wonder how much money they wasted on this study?

Lions Eat Three Rhino Poachers Alive In South African Game Reserve - Healthy Food House

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Urp!

Remains of hybrid human girl with Neanderthal mother discovered in Siberian cave | The Independent

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

All you have to do, is watch the monkeys at the zoo. When the female monkeys are in estrus, their rear ends swell, and glow red. When the male monkeys see that, they sneak up behind em, and 'connect'. It is easy to speculate a Homo Sapiens Sapiens, or Early Homo, doing that to a Neanderthal female. Or a Neanderthal male doing that to a Homo Sapiens Sapiens female.

The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds - Motherboard

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

This explains Trump!

More climate records being set! What's that about "good, clean coal", Mr Twit? [bbc.com]

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Trump: Not to worry! I have a natural gift for science!

Trump accuses Spike Lee of 'racist hit' against him in Oscars acceptance speech

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Trump thinks the presidency is a tv show. And that he is the judge, and emcee!

a question re global warming/climate change.

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

During the last Ice Age, sea levels dropped by 300 ft., all around the World. It is not unreasonable to see them rise by that much, in the event of the Polar Ice Caps melting. What would that look like? It is estimated that during the last Ice Age, one could have walked 70 miles east of the Statue of Liberty, before reaching the sea. Now, picture having to swim 70 miles west of the same spot, before reaching dry land!

This could work....

davknight comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Now there's an idea!

Texas Catholic Church releases names of nearly 300 priests accused of child abuse [news.vice.com]

davknight comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Why doesn't the Catholic Church just disband? And return all their money to the World's poor?

5,600-year-old human skull found in the River Thames [bbc.co.uk]

davknight comments on Feb 23, 2019:

He was a construction worker at Stonehenge, who dropped dead the day after he retired!

Do you know that there are VEGAN foods for CATS?

davknight comments on Feb 23, 2019:

What self-respecting cat would be caught dead, eating this stuff?

Little Brother Saves Sister In Wrestling Match! GET OFF My Sister! - YouTube

davknight comments on Feb 22, 2019:

Aren't they awfully little to be wrestling?

Seriously, what is it going to take to get Cheeto Von Tweeto out of office and into a cell?

davknight comments on Feb 22, 2019:

The RICO Act, and a squad of US Marshals!

[motherjones.

davknight comments on Feb 22, 2019:

Maybe he can declare a new "emergency", and raid HUD coffers?

[alternet.

davknight comments on Feb 22, 2019:

The Trumplerites are all mouth, just like their Orange Don. After he's gone, they will become as irrelevant as the Moonies, the Scientologists, or the Hari Krishnas!

from time to time i see posts blaming the baby boomers for everything from trump's being in the ...

davknight comments on Feb 22, 2019:

We had all the best music, and were smoking funny green hay, long before the millenials were even born!

Mooooooooo!

davknight comments on Feb 22, 2019:

I almost hit that cow once. On a gravel road, on a moonlit night, outside Austin, TX, way back in '79! I'd know that cow anywhere!