Illinois Police Union Ousts Whistleblower For Leaking Video – NewsOne

anglophone comments on Nov 15, 2021:

There is something rotten in the State of Illinois.

racocn8 replies on Nov 15, 2021:

It's probably everywhere. White racists look to policing as a way to be bullies.

Why not evolution?

racocn8 comments on Nov 15, 2021:

Religion is a product of evolution - - a waste product. Improved cognitive capabilities can confer improved survival. The process of correlating abstractions, for example: hearing a twig snap under the weight of a stalking predator signals it's a good idea to try to escape. Having seen what ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 15, 2021:

@skado I meant that the social cohesion that religion provided is no longer needed. I was referring to pre-industrial times when people were scattered in a rural landscape. Tribalism provided some benefits in the distant past. Religion may now provide refuge against urban isolation, but that causes suspicion and paranoia that are not beneficial. Social cohesion is now available via shared interests that do not degrade rationality or morality.

Why not evolution?

racocn8 comments on Nov 15, 2021:

Religion is a product of evolution - - a waste product. Improved cognitive capabilities can confer improved survival. The process of correlating abstractions, for example: hearing a twig snap under the weight of a stalking predator signals it's a good idea to try to escape. Having seen what ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 15, 2021:

@skado I suppose an argument could be made for religion reinforcing beneficial social structures, but that time is mostly passed. If religion has a benefit, it is more like the broken clock that happens to provide benefit once in a while, but because it does, people continue. Every win suggests the gambler is on a 'streak'.

Why not evolution?

Tejas comments on Nov 15, 2021:

I'm not sure I understand the question. Evolution is a natural process that continues to exist as long as there are living organisms. Religion is man made, and without the existence of humans it is non existent.

racocn8 replies on Nov 15, 2021:

@skado Obviously religion is an evolved trait or else animals would engage in it. Just as obviously, with the world of information at their fingertips, one believes out of gullibility, social pressures, and confirmation bias, oh, and laziness in not using the available information. Or stupidity in restricting ones sources of information, this being done to avoid cognitive dissonance.

China is penetrating markets, nuff said...

racocn8 comments on Nov 13, 2021:

I want a set...

racocn8 replies on Nov 13, 2021:

@St-Sinner Hey big boy, wanna feel the merchandise?

14 Characteristics of fascism has been reviewed by Beau of the Fifth Column.

CuddyCruiser comments on Nov 13, 2021:

Sorry to say it……The USA and the world is FUCKED!! When I was in my late 20s I remember thinking I’d hate to see what things are going to look like in 20 to 30 years. Turns out they are 20 times worse than I ever could have fantasized. I have no such hope for the future either. If some ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 13, 2021:

I think quite a few share your view. Mores the shame that facing such pervasive corruption, Biden doesn't seem willing to inform the nation of its seriousness, nor to insist that his appointees deal with the problem with the level of effort needed. We ARE fucked if he doesn't get on it.

Billionaire Leon Cooperman Says $400,000 Income Doesn’t Make You Rich

rainmanjr comments on Nov 11, 2021:

I have one friend who makes well over that and doesn't consider themselves to be rich. Nor do I but they are able to indulge most of their whims. Eats out a lot (but tips well so that works out) and his wife is a Dem. Wealthy folks can be decent humans and poor folks can suck as humans so it's not ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 12, 2021:

What is/are MC?

Hello, all, new the group, joining here from sunny southern California.

racocn8 comments on Nov 5, 2021:

But beware of fanatical social justice warriors corrupting Humanist organizations (like Americal Humanists Association).

racocn8 replies on Nov 11, 2021:

@ItsMeVer3 Last year, the AHA stripped Richard Dawkins of an award given to him in 1996. They did this because of a tweet he made asking questions that sought to discuss why a Trans person should be treated differently by society than a White person who identified as Black. I surmise that a wealthy Trans took offense and bribed AHA to take the action against Dawkins. I made some comments on the local atheist Facebook blog on related topics. The blog operator, Evan Clark, started in with calling everyone who didn't support Trans 1000% as being Nazis. My criticism of his behavior got me booted (no loss really). SJW's are notoriously thin-skinned and naive, and their reputation precedes them.

And you can nuke ‘em also……

racocn8 comments on Nov 10, 2021:

The most productive Russian spy in history...

racocn8 replies on Nov 11, 2021:

Although Boris Johnson is a close second.

So a nurse from my work is quitting to become a full time youth pastor.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Nov 10, 2021:

First, the 10 Commandments are standard in just about all religions and cultures; they are not exclusive to Moses and Judaism. Hammurabi's Code covers them. Moving on (partial list): Thou shalt not judge any human being by skin color or ethnicity. Thou shalt not treat women as second ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 10, 2021:

See my post above also...

In a world where there seems to be a crazy theory about practically everything, how many of the more...

racocn8 comments on Nov 10, 2021:

Major shame on those who voted for the pyramids.

racocn8 replies on Nov 10, 2021:

@SnowyOwl If you really wanted to explore it, I highly recommend this course: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-ancient-egypt

In a world where there seems to be a crazy theory about practically everything, how many of the more...

racocn8 comments on Nov 10, 2021:

Major shame on those who voted for the pyramids.

racocn8 replies on Nov 10, 2021:

@SnowyOwl No one voted for the Trump option, but of course, very extreme shame for them considering the complete lack of evidence (If only MAGA idiots had the capacity for shame). The evolution of Egyptian pyramid construction is well documented. Nothing alien about it.

I have zero problems with unvaccinated people.

HeAdAkE comments on Nov 10, 2021:

cant u just get another booster?

racocn8 replies on Nov 10, 2021:

Even with the booster, if a person gets enough virus in them, they can still get seriously ill or even die. The so-called anti-vaxxers are really just politically motivated sociopaths.

This is what we got

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 10, 2021:

I agree with the gist of that, but unfortunately, when the next elections happen in a years, most voters will only be thinking about how high inflation is and how their personal economics did not improve significantly, and that they did not personally get any promised benefits like child tax ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 10, 2021:

Yeah, like they'd get any of that from the Republicans? Remember, zero Republicans have offered to vote for the BBB, so who is rightly to blame again?

For atheists, the idea of aliens seems real.

racocn8 comments on Nov 7, 2021:

Numerous documents show that the DOD and CIA have conducted a concerted campaign of disinformation, disparagement and intimidation of anyone reporting UFOs. Part of the motivation for the Pentagon's revelations last summer related to lifting the gag orders against such reporting from service ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 8, 2021:

@Druvius "The U.S. government can't explain 143 of the 144 cases of unidentified flying objects reported by military planes, according to a highly anticipated intelligence report..." (Not explained, much less completely explained ) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ufo-report-government-can-t-explain-143-144-mysterious-flying-n1272390

For atheists, the idea of aliens seems real.

racocn8 comments on Nov 7, 2021:

Numerous documents show that the DOD and CIA have conducted a concerted campaign of disinformation, disparagement and intimidation of anyone reporting UFOs. Part of the motivation for the Pentagon's revelations last summer related to lifting the gag orders against such reporting from service ...

racocn8 replies on Nov 8, 2021:

@Druvius I've seen the debunkers explanations for the various Pentagon videos, and they totally fail to explain the witness accounts. As you have demonstrated, debunking has its own fanatically devoted followers. You cannot back up your claim that UFO's don't exist, so you're asserting they don't exist with the religious claim that UFO's can not exist. That is clearly implied given the extensive history of UFO sightings.

Conservatives are now dying of COVID at 3x the rate liberals are. [nytimes.com]

racocn8 comments on Nov 8, 2021:

I had heard the rate was 5 times higher.

racocn8 replies on Nov 8, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay What is your concern here? Do you think the rates are equal? Do you think the issue is put out for nefarious reasons?

Conservatives are now dying of COVID at 3x the rate liberals are. [nytimes.com]

racocn8 comments on Nov 8, 2021:

I had heard the rate was 5 times higher.

racocn8 replies on Nov 8, 2021:

I think it was Maddow's or O'Donnell's show, so I don't have that reference. But there's this: https://theweek.com/politics/1005560/conservative-media-is-killing-republican-voters-the-party-can-ill-afford-to-lose A higher death rate among (politically motivated anti-vax) MAGA would be expected given the circumstances. What's important is that the MAGA's are doing this to themselves. Those that support public safety and an end to the pandemic have advocated that everyone be vaccinated.

It's so weird being in a room full of people that have no idea what it's like wanting to die more ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 7, 2021:

Suicidal thoughts are a biochemical imbalance. As example, going cold turkey on some SSRI's is guaranteed to induce suicidal thoughts. Assuming you'd prefer not to have them, seek an appropriate regimen, whether herbal or pharmaceutical or...? Get help. Feel free to DM me.

racocn8 replies on Nov 7, 2021:

@PondartIncbendog No one should take any pharmaceutical without reviewing the literature. Neutral research is highly advisable. You CAN NOT (and should not) trust your doctor to provide you with contraindications and side effects of medications.

Such a terrible burden

Killtheskyfairy comments on Nov 6, 2021:

That’s not a hard burden to unload.

racocn8 replies on Nov 6, 2021:

Maybe not for you...

I worked for the UCI Physics Dept.

Robecology comments on Nov 6, 2021:

It's not clear what you're trying to achieve...but the image is interesting. When you blow it up/expand it..different colors appear.

racocn8 replies on Nov 6, 2021:

The diffraction lens spreads out the focal point according to the wavelength. The exercise was to reduce the chromatic aberration and align the different colored focal points.

MDMA (Ecstasy) therapy is proving to be very effective in combating PTSD: [today.com]

PondartIncbendog comments on Nov 6, 2021:

I think we have to be careful with the meds right now. The world doesn't look too good and a lot of the depression may be not a sign of mental disorder but a reflection of reality.

racocn8 replies on Nov 6, 2021:

While hallucinogens can also help with depression, this was about relieving PTSD.

If the Democrats in the House don’t pass the one bill that is already done in the Senate and ready...

racocn8 comments on Nov 5, 2021:

Um, no. The Republicans have zero record on anything to stand on. They haven't done anything constructive. The Democrats have had their majorities bribed out from under them by the corporations. It won't be the Democrat's fault if nothing gets done.

racocn8 replies on Nov 6, 2021:

@rainmanjr The Dems are adept at providing the Republicans with ammunition. Progressives and Independents walk away too easily, usually because they don't or won't understand the whole picture. AND, the Republicans can now reliably count on the Russians to assist their elections. That's a huge benefit that has yet to be discussed openly (because it would reveal the extent of their beachhead).

If the Democrats in the House don’t pass the one bill that is already done in the Senate and ready...

racocn8 comments on Nov 5, 2021:

Um, no. The Republicans have zero record on anything to stand on. They haven't done anything constructive. The Democrats have had their majorities bribed out from under them by the corporations. It won't be the Democrat's fault if nothing gets done.

racocn8 replies on Nov 5, 2021:

@Barnie2years A very big part of that is how MSM management controls the content they broadcast. It is profoundly dishonest and destructive, but the MSM management secretly support the Republicans. We really don't have an honest media source of information, and that is very much a part of the ongoing coup. It is infuriating to see the city-on-the-hill get sold to Russia. Putin-Americans (MAGA) are very much an existential threat to the US and the rest of the world.

Common sense that few have

racocn8 comments on Nov 4, 2021:

Christians are so fond of using the word "Holocaust", give it back to them. Say, "Merry Holocaust" . Or anything similar. Saying Merry Christmas gives respect to something that is wholly undeserving of respect, a cult of hatred, fascism enforcing stupidity, and white grievance.

racocn8 replies on Nov 5, 2021:

@Cast1es My comment was meant to be taken as facetious, the real objective being to point up the ugly hypocrisy of Christians using the word "Holocaust" to refer to abortion, mandating masks or mandating vaccination. One would only resort to that level of exchange if one sought to be rude etc. as you describe, which should be highly unlikely. No, my suggestion was not intended to be taken literally, and atheists should behave honorably.

FEDERAL CANNABIS NEWS 11/4/2021 Sen.

racocn8 comments on Nov 4, 2021:

What do you expect from a Kansan Republican? He's probably a Creationist too.

racocn8 replies on Nov 4, 2021:

The problem is that even a senator can exert some control, but this guy is unfit to hold that office.

Real reason why Terry McAwful lost Deep Purple Virgina...

Tejas comments on Nov 3, 2021:

Hopefully biden voters realize their mistake and vote for an actual progressive next election.

racocn8 replies on Nov 3, 2021:

Yeah, Progressives are shoo-ins.

Since most of you live in the Northern Hemisphere, this one is just for you....LOL.

bobwjr comments on Nov 2, 2021:

Gives cold head

racocn8 replies on Nov 2, 2021:

@Lizard_of_Ahaz She squirts icicles.

Call me paranoid but I see the reincarnation of 1861-1865 .

racocn8 comments on Oct 31, 2021:

If you're not in a state of panic, you simply do not understand the situation.

racocn8 replies on Nov 1, 2021:

@rainmanjr I was attempting to recall a famous epigram which was prominently displayed at the Capitol somewhere. It's doubtful panicking ever helps. Like you, I have the gravest misgivings about what the Republicans are doing.

Letters From An American 11/29/2021

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 30, 2021:

“This return to principles that ushered in our most prosperous years hardly seems like a good reason to curse the president.” I find it ironic that President Biden, in working to restore our stature internationally and pursuing policies that are reminiscent of Eisenhower’s, is doing more to...

racocn8 replies on Oct 30, 2021:

As long as the Republicans can regain power, another country would be foolish to place trust in the US. Trashing Iran, Syria, the Kurds and the Afghanis left an indelible stain.

Lincoln Project Says It Planted White Supremacist Impersonators At Event For Virginia Republican ...

Barnie2years comments on Oct 30, 2021:

This kind of activity is not going to help at all!

racocn8 replies on Oct 30, 2021:

The Lincoln Project seems to have been successful even though their tactics hit below the belt. We find it distasteful, but Republicans are a different species.

Just when you thought you knew what stupidity was...

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 30, 2021:

This has to be a put up. No thinking human would admit to such a post!

racocn8 replies on Oct 30, 2021:

Not all people think as you or I do.

Trump pulling out of the nuclear agreement with Iran was basically brain-dead stupid.

racocn8 comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Trump has zeroed out whatever credibility the US had on the world stage, and there's no getting it back.

racocn8 replies on Oct 30, 2021:

@AnneWimsey Yes they did, but it was totally premature. As well as Biden is doing (ignoring his missteps), he needed to come in as though it was a 5 alarm fire and rapidly mobilize what's left of our justice system to enact a full scale war on corruption. Instead, he is just giving glasses of water to the traitors in our midst, in the stupid delusion that they can be weaned away from their sedition. And, even if, somehow, someway the US is still here in 2024, no country in their right mind would make a deal with the US unless they realize any agreement isn't worth the paper its written on. Republicans now openly believe in chucking honor, decorum, rules, laws ethics and morality into the trash, so long as they regain and forever keep power. Democrats are demons incarnate in their delusion, and that justifies gas chambers, nukes or whatever it takes to keep the majority subjugated.

How to get disqualified from the pumpkin carving contest at work.

SnowyOwl comments on Oct 29, 2021:

I don't care how juicy that is on the inside, you're gonna need a lot of lube to penetrate that orange orifice.

racocn8 replies on Oct 29, 2021:

That's are real tight-ass.

So True...

racocn8 comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Dems control SCOTUS? Dems control Congress (when the GQP have infiltrated at least 2 boll weevils )?

racocn8 replies on Oct 26, 2021:

@RoboGraham That the SCOTUS justices don't belong to political parties is the ideal. It's all too clear that a number of decisions have been very politically slanted to the point of violating Stare Decisis. In his hearing, Kavanaugh demonstrated his psychopathic partisanship, and Barrett and Thomas are surely just as unfit.

Just curious what people are feeling about dating apps.

racocn8 comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Yes, they are not worth it, but what else is there? Yes they are a waste of time, until they aren't. I was tortured for years by different dating services. I am so glad to have finally found someone. Loneliness is ugly, but so many bring it on themselves.

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

@TomMcGiverin And then there are the scammers. I got stung badly once. I even mailed a package to the FBI to get them to pursue the perpetrator, but got crickets for a response. I also feel badly because I often excluded Black women. Then I met a lady in the supermarket and had a fair relationship for a few years, ended by her alcoholism and other values. I got hugely lucky somehow on Silver Singles with another Black lady, and we are very happy. But I especially remember going through numerous profiles and wondering what sort of society would produce women who were lonely, but unwilling to do more than post their profile. My invitations were ghosted more than 95% of the time. Sucks to be them.

This comes around every few years, My first experience with the price jumps was the Arab oil embargo...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Oct 25, 2021:

Same. In 74, I switched from a muscle car to a small sports car. In 79, I was stationed in San Diego; California went to odd and even gas buying days - most of us were exempt because we had out of state plates; I also remember long gas lines and having a placard that said "last car for gas."

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

In 73, we once bribed the attendant with a joint to get gas.

Functionally identical to non-existent

glennlab comments on Oct 25, 2021:

sounds like a plan

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

But a Divine Plan? What WOULD such a plan look like?

Just love it

twitch comments on Oct 25, 2021:

So how is this different than when Born Again Christians leave their bible tracts in restaurants for the waitress instead of a tip?

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

@bobwjr Except that the waitress actually provided a beneficial service; the church does not.

It needs more love.....

racocn8 comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Worship??? And you can't prove it exists to those who won't listen.

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

@Mcflewster Good question. I think therefore I am? What we take to be real or natural can be shown to be quite different from what we superficially perceive. Are you standing on one leg?

America's infrastructure is crumbling, its people are struggling financially while the billionaires ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Post-WWII was the peak, and many knew it. The National Security Act of 1947 that created the CIA and Deep State sowed the seeds of demise. Thank you, Mr. Truman. Eisenhower warned what was happening. The un-atoned sins of the Civil War dogged the US, and LBJ's forward thinking got mired in Viet ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

Storm1752 Ok, maybe I was riffing there. The creation of the CIA and the cold war had a lot to do with the evolution of the Deep State. As the CIA gained its own power and meshed with the rest of the military industrial complex, the power structure of the world shifted. CIA policies and decisions favored Christianity at the expense of the truth, and reinforced the secrecy and excessive classification of information to prevent release to the public. A certain amount of 'Christian Republican ultra-right' infiltration of the intelligence agencies necessarily hampered their competence. That definitely includes the racism of said 'Christian Republican ultra-right' , and that's the reference to the Civil War. The Koch family wealth largely derived from supplying oil refining equipment to eastern Europe. as I recall. Per Wiki: "In 1925, Koch had entered into a partnership with Lewis Winkler, a former employee of Universal Oil Products (now UOP LLC). Winkler developed a cracking apparatus for heavy crude oil with ostensibly no patented difference in comparison to his former employer's intellectual property; thus, in 1929, UOP sued Winkler-Koch for patent infringement. Also that year, nearly three years before the patent case went to trial, Winkler-Koch signed contracts to build petroleum distillation plants in the Soviet Union,..."

How does it happen?

racocn8 comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Are you sure they were an atheist? Christians often claim to have been atheists, or drug users, or sex addicts. Most will adopt some lie to tell the others and then embellish it over time. It's part of the degradation process... Francis Collins claims to have been an atheist, but doesn't know the...

racocn8 replies on Oct 25, 2021:

@Storm1752 I've heard Collins tell that story several times. And yet never does he venture to connect the three frozen waterfalls with the Trinity, nor why that impressed him so deeply. Again, I'm betting that this is his 'just so' story. According to an expert on this issue, Collins must have had some deeply traumatic event and perhaps the waterfall triggered his decision to go down the rabbit hole, or gave him an excuse as to why he needed to stick with his original religion and stay in the rabbit hole.

The big lie

Redneckliberal comments on Oct 24, 2021:

FOOLS PLAYING A FOOLS GAME......IT WOULD BE LAUGHABLE IF IT WERE'NT SO DEADLY

racocn8 replies on Oct 24, 2021:

At least a goodly amount of the 'joke' is on them.

In every Human Resources report, there is a reason for termination.

NostraDumbass comments on Oct 24, 2021:

You forgot Prince Charming, a privileged white male who was forced to resign/ abdicate for sexual harassment of Snow White and discrimination against vertically challenged people who are the victims of institutionalized bigotry.

racocn8 replies on Oct 24, 2021:

Prince Charming was the forerunner to Bill Cosby: Advancing on a drugged female...

This video is remarkable for its relevance.

LucyLoohoo comments on Oct 24, 2021:

"abandoning all attempts to reason with a stupid person" isn't acceptable. If they can be motivated to turn away from reason...they can be motivated to return to it. There's a very real difference between STUPID and UNEDUCATED. And the GOP's efforts to dilute/downgrade education in our public ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 24, 2021:

It appears that Bonhoeffer used 'stupid' to refer to those who, for various reasons, rejected the reality shared by the rest of us, more specifically, embracing a fantasy where God has chosen them to lead the non-believers to heaven. Education and Christianity have often been at odds in that education presents the common reality that Christianity seeks to block.

Rudy Giuliani Drains Final Dregs of Dignity With Abraham Lincoln Filter Attack Video ...

St-Sinner comments on Oct 20, 2021:

We don't like it but it will drive some Republicans to voting booths. He is not doing it to please us. We dislike what they do but they have 10 times more hatred for us. They are very highly motivated to win the Congress back in 2022. We, Biden and his camp are asleep.

racocn8 replies on Oct 20, 2021:

Given that with Roe in shreds, and birth control next, women and young people might get a clue (but keep your passports ready).

[fb.watch] Man confronting the cop who arrested him for possession of LEGAL weed.

altschmerz comments on Oct 18, 2021:

Did anything happen as a result of that video? Did he get his money back? Did the asshole cop get punished? Anything???

racocn8 replies on Oct 18, 2021:

I suspect he felt a small measure of satisfaction. However, I sensed that cop to be a shallow sociopath, and not adverse to violence. I'm glad he didn't get hurt in the second encounter, and worry about them meeting again. That's the problem; police are not safe.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams ‘Fascist’ NBA With Idiotic COVID-HIV Comparison

Paul4747 comments on Oct 16, 2021:

The next time she and her ilk use the word "fascist", someone please get out a pot & a kettle.

racocn8 replies on Oct 17, 2021:

I meant that by saying that "That's the pot calling the kettle black" , that infers that Greene is correct in her claim that the NBA is fascist. She is the fascist, and that is understood. Nit picking, I know. sorry.

“I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so; but at no time was I led to believe ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 16, 2021:

That was always a wholly bogus argument. Besides having zero basis, the real purpose was to instill hate and disdain for non-believers. Pure, BS propaganda, but worse. The worse part is that in order to believe, people must lie to themselves, and that paves the way for all the other lies. Honesty ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 16, 2021:

Marionville The bogus argument was that non-believers had no morals and acted immorally because they chose not to be guided by Jesus/Mohammed/God/etc.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams ‘Fascist’ NBA With Idiotic COVID-HIV Comparison

Paul4747 comments on Oct 16, 2021:

The next time she and her ilk use the word "fascist", someone please get out a pot & a kettle.

racocn8 replies on Oct 16, 2021:

I assume that is an unintended false equivalence.

Should we dance on the graves of black people who died from COVID?

racocn8 comments on Oct 16, 2021:

Those that celebrate the deaths of Republicans understand that their anti-vaccine stance comes from political obstruction along with some Christian hatred of science. Black vaccine hesitance derives from centuries of using Blacks as unknowing medical subjects in unethical research. Motive, ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 16, 2021:

@TheIntelooper "Attitudinal studies suggest that mistrust of clinical investigators is strongly influenced by sustained racial disparities in health, limited access to health care, and negative encounters with health care providers." ... "Ethnic minority patients receive less information, empathy, and attention from their physicians regarding their medical care than their White counterparts." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4354806/ "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. The book cites instances from throughout US history where medical schools disproportionately used African Americans in clinical trials and live surgical demonstrations. " https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2007/12/102785/scholar-speaks-about-history-medical-experimentation-african-americans John Quier’s experiments with smallpox inoculation in a population of 850 slaves. https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/10/medical-experimentation-slaves-18th-century-caribbean-colonies/ The book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present," contains some really horrific experiments, such as "putting several Blacks into a hole and then pouring boiling hot water down on them to 'learn how fast it took for their skin to peel.'". Some enslaved people were hired out to medical facilities for experiments like amputations. A healthy person would leave the plantation in the morning and return in the evening with an arm or leg cut off….just to teach medical interns how to do such surgeries." https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/12/02/5-unethical-medical-experiments-that-used-black-people-as-guinea-pigs/2/

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the ...

Marionville comments on Oct 16, 2021:

There seem to be a lot more of them about than there used to be. The antivaccer/COVID deniers spring immediately to mind.

racocn8 replies on Oct 16, 2021:

They were always here. They just had the good sense to stay in the closet.

In keeping with the Halloween season, below is the link to another wonderful piece.

AnneWimsey comments on Oct 16, 2021:

Ummmm, there was none of that before "Fantasia"?

racocn8 replies on Oct 16, 2021:

Christians made heavy threats of hell, but the depictions were static images, or verbal. I thought it interesting that the animators would show people-like spirits who then turn into demons, who are then cast into the flames.

It would have been the same with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.

zeuser comments on Oct 15, 2021:

I still, for the life of me, can't figure out how he's getting away with all of this.

racocn8 replies on Oct 15, 2021:

You don't have a copy of the script. (Or a need to know)

Too funny to pass on.

BitFlipper comments on Oct 14, 2021:

This is a stupid meme. It is drawing a false parallel to the situation with covid-19. Let's try something more realistic. "Imagine, if you will, that there's a deadly disease circulating in your neighborhood. There's a 97% chance you won't die of it, but you have to take precautions anyway. Now, ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 14, 2021:

The pandemic and Trump provide an education into what passes for humor among the empathy-handicapped (sociopaths). It would be a great subject for analysis.

A dangerous trap is living as though a god exists: I don't think there can be a more detrimental ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 14, 2021:

Except that we hear daily of how a religious person does something horrific or ugly and they either say they did it for a religious reason, or you know that it was inspired by their religious cohorts. Being subjective beings, we CAN not know if it is 'God' or an hallucination. Thus, no one can ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 14, 2021:

@p-nullifidian While argument by incredulity is a fallacy, I totally salute your elegant expression of it.

A dangerous trap is living as though a god exists: I don't think there can be a more detrimental ...

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 14, 2021:

If a “supreme being” existed, he-she-its existence would be an objective physical fact, like the existence of the sun. Not a supernatural phenomenon, but a natural one, explainable by the laws of physics. It seems illogical to presume that a supreme being would interact with “lesser” beings ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 14, 2021:

That's it. The notion that a god would be bothered by our lack of allegiance strains credulity. It strains OUR credulity, but apparently not that of the believers promoting their particular god. But either way, those are our projections. Also straining credulity is that such a being would or could exist without some sort of physical manifestation. Why is there nothing to point to? Is god a sneaky trickster like the Loki Hypothesis, or impotent and omnipotent at the same time? The definitions are as useless as the injunctions to be moral. Maybe if believers ever behaved in a genuinely noble way, inspired by god to do good works, but almost none of them do!! If anything, it all becomes another instance where absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

I think these complement each other.

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2021:

What quality of life is it for people (like Christians) that live believing a storyline that has been proven false. They are compelled to defend their lie with more lies, and die in delusion. If that were all, it might be OK, but their delusion also exhorts them to hate everyone who doesn't believe ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 13, 2021:

@Diogenes It certainly would be just as bad for atheists to invent lies, but I have rarely seen atheists invent lies. Where is the need to do so? Do you have any particular lies in mind? By comparison, religious claims and values are mostly based on fiction. Atheists don't have a belief to support and have no conflict with reality.

We always knew they were close!!

Killtheskyfairy comments on Oct 13, 2021:

I don’t know if it’s this close but Putin has him by the purse strings and by the short hairs with blackmail.

racocn8 replies on Oct 13, 2021:

And through him, the GQP and the rest of the country.

Of all the incredibly utopian and delusional memes I come across in a daily basis… this one has ...

ChestRockfield comments on Oct 11, 2021:

100% That debate I posted about recently touched on this subject. They asked me if I was proud to be Italian and were quite taken aback when I said no. I explained that I didn't * do * anything to earn my heritage, so even if it was demonstrably better (which I also deny) I don't own any of it.

racocn8 replies on Oct 11, 2021:

The most that can be said for Italy is that is has a colorful history. So many dynasties had problems coming up with a male heir. Actually, that problem seems to have been shared with Russia & China as I recall.

A few posts/comments I've written on the isssue of abortion .

FearlessFly comments on Oct 11, 2021:

. . . safe, legal, rare.

racocn8 replies on Oct 11, 2021:

@SirDaddyGru "Some pro-lifers... claim life starts at conception". That might be ignoring that both the sperm and egg are already living cells. Life doesn't start at conception. The two living cells merge to form one living cell. Other problematic issues: 1) When the fertilized egg splits in two and these two go their separate ways, forming two identical twins. 2) When two fertilized eggs merge forming a single organism (allotropic). 3) When the formation of twins is incomplete, resulting in conjoined twins.

The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. - Bahá'u'lláh

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2021:

Honorable citizens do not despoil their country.

racocn8 replies on Oct 11, 2021:

@Diogenes Exactly my point. Most of Humanity are a blight upon their own environment.

Believers and non-believers alike seem to gravitate toward literalizing mythology these days.

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2021:

Edited to make true: "Science is exactly like that. The combined natural forces that created us, and whose laws we must learn and obey if we are to have satisfactory lives..." Redefining truth to fit religion negates that truth.

racocn8 replies on Oct 11, 2021:

@skado Updating religion cannot come fast enough. Already, in the US, we have seen Christians adopt a political personality cult to supplement, and potentially replace, their values (as described by Eric Hoffer's True Believer). You have done a fair job of describing the generalized beliefs and how they translate to scientific parlance. I would take issue with your interpretations, but another time. Suffice to say that Christian dogma does believe in a literal rather than metaphorical crucifixion. I believe there is an innate biological impulse to go good in the sense that people have intrinsic revulsion in contemplating bad acts - - better to turn the other cheek than witness horror of ones own making. Revulsion, a visceral nausea, is viewed by some philosophies as a significant basis for moral imperatives. How to constructively update Christianity? Hard to do when only a low level of education reveals a myriad of problems. Should one try to avoid throwing out the whole thing? The big problem with that proposition is that science, wonderful thing that it is, is badly lacking in the social and moral fabric religion has too much of. Voltaire worried that without Christianity, people would behave badly. Hard to tell if help to give it up is available, even by an expert system. Anyway, thanks for your reply.

Believers and non-believers alike seem to gravitate toward literalizing mythology these days.

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2021:

Edited to make true: "Science is exactly like that. The combined natural forces that created us, and whose laws we must learn and obey if we are to have satisfactory lives..." Redefining truth to fit religion negates that truth.

racocn8 replies on Oct 10, 2021:

@skado What would be one or two profound 'religious' truths that should be translated into scientific language?

Is the Department of Justice pursuing a case against Donald Trump?

glennlab comments on Oct 9, 2021:

Normally the DOJ makes no notice of an investigation until an indictment has been handed down.

racocn8 replies on Oct 10, 2021:

How do we know all the crimes won't be swept under the rug if there are no notifications? If Trump can be shown to be ineligible for further candidacy, that is critical to know (given the extent of his cult).

Is the Department of Justice pursuing a case against Donald Trump?

glennlab comments on Oct 9, 2021:

Normally the DOJ makes no notice of an investigation until an indictment has been handed down.

racocn8 replies on Oct 9, 2021:

OK, but if they aren't pursuing Trump, I'd like to know why. If no one has made that decision, and good evidence is in hand, I'd want someone to get them started.

New Rule: The Slow-Moving Coup | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

silverotter11 comments on Oct 9, 2021:

Bernstein said pretty much the same thing on Anderson Cooper's show. We are in the middle of a coup. If you listen to Heather Cox Richardson she is very concerned with where America is heading.

racocn8 replies on Oct 9, 2021:

Also Fiona Hill.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FROM THE NEW "SYSTEMIC" MASS THOUGHT CONTROL There is no doubt that ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

When I run across a post that contains contents that consistently sounds racist, I am not inclined to believe that mindset can be influenced. All cultures contain behavior patterns that are self-destructive or impeding. Frankly, Blacks may be more aware of their weaknesses than Whites are. It's nice...

racocn8 replies on Oct 9, 2021:

@Alienbieng (How would it not be?) Why do you ask?

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FROM THE NEW "SYSTEMIC" MASS THOUGHT CONTROL There is no doubt that ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

When I run across a post that contains contents that consistently sounds racist, I am not inclined to believe that mindset can be influenced. All cultures contain behavior patterns that are self-destructive or impeding. Frankly, Blacks may be more aware of their weaknesses than Whites are. It's nice...

racocn8 replies on Oct 9, 2021:

@Alienbeing I still consider calling someone racist to be an extremely negative epithet. It seems possible for people to use phrasing common to racists without necessarily being racist themselves. Phrasing that sounds racist is distinguished from life experience, listening to what people say and what they do. The poster says "Was it the 70 years of intermittent looting, burning, and rioting?", focusing on the purported behavior of Blacks, and omitting any mention of the discrimination coming from the other side. It could be an innocent and sincere if badly worded question, or it could be your standard racist propaganda. Several other sentences are similarly unbalanced, hence the first line of my reply. The posters response verifies that.

I am never using her real name again!

bobwjr comments on Oct 9, 2021:

Yet so beautiful

racocn8 replies on Oct 9, 2021:

...only on the outside...

My mom couldn’t get a credit card when she got a divorce and she was the main breadwinner!

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

Except that Christian women accept male dominance (abuse) and will not go against him, even when in the privacy of a poll booth. And in 2016, lots of Bernie sisters listened to the GRU bots and stayed home.

racocn8 replies on Oct 9, 2021:

@AnneWimsey While these articles describe Bernie supporters as switching to Trump, I believe the Russian messaging focused on dissing Hillary. Bernie supporters either voted for Trump, wrote in Bernie's name anyway (per Wikipedia) or stayed home. Russia had numerous targets other than Bernie supporters. The main thing is that, armed with Trump campaign's demographic data, they succeeded. https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-2016-election-654320 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fnews%2Fthousands-of-russian-owned-twitter-bots-targeted-bernie-sanders-supporters-for-trump-in-2016 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/mueller-report-internet-research-agency-detailed-2016

Colorado woman who won't get vaccinated denied transplant When religion strips away the last of ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

This is the shame and horror of religion - - She has been brainwashed and thus betrayed by cohorts, to death.

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

@skado Religion has competition these days in the form of Fox (or other ultra-conservative platforms). The loyalty involves the same pattern of conspiracy and unreasoning acceptance of messages, and loyalty (litmus) -testing. In that way, the association and fealty and nonsense becomes its own cult. It is the impulse to address insecurity with joining a multi-entity colony mega-organism

Lock them up! Lock them up!

Redneckliberal comments on Oct 8, 2021:

I HAVE A MUCH BETTER IDEA!!

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

Of course that works too, but maybe the soap first...

Wanna hear a rape joke?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 8, 2021:

They are mimicing the same bullying, threatening behavior of their allies in the anti-abortion movement, screaming abuse at women who walk into clinics. If I were one of those parents being harassed and threatened, I would probably lose my temper and shout back at them to stay out of my face or I ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

I'm probably too old for street fighting, but I endorse much of what you say. I have listened to GQP BS all my life and I'm more than ready to consider them an enemy to be dispatched. I'm sure they feel the same about us, but I happen to know who is right and who embraces treason, sedition and cowardice. Fundamentally, they don't like what America stands for as an ideal. If they want fascism so bad, I'm okay with showing them how to die for it.

Slavery in the Bible There are 4 types of slavery referenced in the bible: INTRODUCTION  ...

glennlab comments on Oct 8, 2021:

and why is this important to an atheist or agnostic?

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

Except that slavery still goes on today, in this country. It should get more press...

Lock them up! Lock them up!

Redneckliberal comments on Oct 8, 2021:

I HAVE A MUCH BETTER IDEA!!

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

Does it involve soap in a shower?...

Wanna hear a rape joke?

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 8, 2021:

They are mimicing the same bullying, threatening behavior of their allies in the anti-abortion movement, screaming abuse at women who walk into clinics. If I were one of those parents being harassed and threatened, I would probably lose my temper and shout back at them to stay out of my face or I ...

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

@jlynn37 I like the satisfaction part (...but I cain't get no.....satisfaction...)

Freeman Dyson - Can Science Deal with God? - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2021:

My understanding is that the majority of scientists are agnostics or atheists, and tolerate religion as a matter of social grace. They do not regard religion as having ANY answers. I don't support the notion that evil comes from the development of diversity.

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

@TheMiddleWay @rainmanjr According to this article, God-believing scientists number less than half that in the general population (33% vs 83%). I'll stand corrected that NOT most scientists are non-believers (only just barely), but the pie chart indicates 47 % are. https://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/

Because they're stupid. Why would some Americans rather risk death than get the vaccine?

PBuck0145 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

The choice is actually between risking death by COVID and risking death by the mRNA inoculation. I am in favor of true vaccines. I oppose the hijacking of cells' genetic messaging by the mRNA jabs.

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

Thanks for your response. I agree that the way the World Economic Forum seeks to use the pandemic is concerning. I doubt that they publish their actual intentions, and without actionable information, nothing can be said that doesn't come off as paranoid speculation. I suspect you are correct in suggesting that the media censors and minimizes the deaths and problems resulting from the mRNA jabs as well as the other vaccinations. I'll suggest they are doing this out of loyalty to the notion that vaccination is believed to be the best strategy to curtail the pandemic. Thus, publicizing the downsides doesn't help that strategy. From your article: "Malone clarified that he was not discouraging the use of the vaccine but was providing people with as much fair information as he could about their risks." Addressing the Tucker Carlson's disinformation: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-norway/fact-check-discussion-of-deaths-in-elderly-vaccine-recipients-in-norway-lacks-context-idUSKBN29P2R1

Because they're stupid. Why would some Americans rather risk death than get the vaccine?

PBuck0145 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

The choice is actually between risking death by COVID and risking death by the mRNA inoculation. I am in favor of true vaccines. I oppose the hijacking of cells' genetic messaging by the mRNA jabs.

racocn8 replies on Oct 8, 2021:

Okay. Tell us WHY you are opposed to "hijacking of cells' genetic messaging by the mRNA jabs"? Or why the mRNA jabs are not true vaccines.

Because they're stupid. Why would some Americans rather risk death than get the vaccine?

PBuck0145 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

The choice is actually between risking death by COVID and risking death by the mRNA inoculation. I am in favor of true vaccines. I oppose the hijacking of cells' genetic messaging by the mRNA jabs.

racocn8 replies on Oct 7, 2021:

@Scott321 I stand corrected. Thanks for the update.

Because they're stupid. Why would some Americans rather risk death than get the vaccine?

PBuck0145 comments on Oct 7, 2021:

The choice is actually between risking death by COVID and risking death by the mRNA inoculation. I am in favor of true vaccines. I oppose the hijacking of cells' genetic messaging by the mRNA jabs.

racocn8 replies on Oct 7, 2021:

Please provide an authoritative source validating your claim that any covid vaccine "hijacks" cell genetic messaging. (B-cells express set antibody sequences before they see antigen. No DNA modification is involved when B-cells are activated to proliferate.)

Bernie Sanders Accuses Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema of 'Sabotage'

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2021:

And not even that well paid saboteurs.

racocn8 replies on Oct 6, 2021:

@HankHunter13 Okay. Even a few million seems like chump-change to subvert trillions in spending, but I suppose it's relative.

Anti-Vaxxers are terrorists, plain and simple...

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 6, 2021:

A standard definition of terrorism is “the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.” I do not believe an antivaxer meets the criteria here.

racocn8 replies on Oct 6, 2021:

Perhaps being an anti-vaxer doesn't violate any laws. They do seem intent on furthering political or ideological objectives. To the extent that they pursue their goals by showing depraved indifference to the consequences of their inaction, some locales do have laws against depraved indifference. Definition: "When their actions show an utter disregard for the value of human life, they will be said to be exhibiting depraved indifference. This means that they exhibit a willingness to act, not because they intend to cause harm but because they do not care if their actions will result in harm."

Is it me or does it strike anyone else as insane that the very people who vandalized Auschwitz spray...

Mooolah comments on Oct 6, 2021:

So many are young punks merely attempting to receive attention that mommy & daddy did not provide. Misguided rebellion. Not my favorite type of human. Most are males of the species flooded with testosterone & no way to relieve its grip. Get a job!

racocn8 replies on Oct 6, 2021:

Being castrated, physically or chemically, would be a good step.

Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 4, 2021:

Fox and Facebook crossed the line on promoting insurrection a long time ago. Their Russian connections need to be publicized to explain why they should be broken up.

racocn8 replies on Oct 4, 2021:

@FearlessFly Well, that's the problem, isn't it? What percent of those in the GQP bubble will hear that their newsfeed comes from the GRU, much less understand it?

The hills have eyes!

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Pity the fool who has to watch me … got to be the most boring job on the planet! 🥱

racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2021:

I took a class called Information Therapy in 1975. Students reviewed folders on technology subjects the prof had collected over time. One of my folders discussed artificial languages and part of it related to the potential capacity to analyze speech and convert it into scripts and the capacity to use primitive AI to parse the scripts into meaningful content. From that I surmised that we had the technology to use computers to analyze phone conversations en masse and then screen them for illegal conduct. Presumably, metadata could also be filtered to identify suspects engaged in criminal behavior.

The hills have eyes!

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Pity the fool who has to watch me … got to be the most boring job on the planet! 🥱

racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2021:

That's why they use computers.

Ya know, IF there is alien technology at Area 51, "they" did not brief Trump about it because there ...

DenoPenno comments on Sep 29, 2021:

I agree. The truth however is that there are no crash retrieval sites. At least not for anything not of this earth. In the beginning we used weather balloons to spy on the Russians. Some of these came down. Later on we had to "cover up" our new aircraft technology at area 51. Russians and others ...

racocn8 replies on Sep 29, 2021:

Senator Harry Reid: "I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials," Reid, 81, told the New Yorker of defense contractor Lockheed Martin. "And I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff," he said. "They would not approve that. I don’t know what all the numbers were, what kind of classification it was, but they would not give that to me." Reid spoke to the magazine as part of an article regarding government investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). https://www.the-sun.com/news/2804790/former-senator-harry-reid-believes-ufo-fragments-pentagon-possession/ Dr. Davis met with Vice-Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, who was then tasked with oversight of special programs at the Pentagon, on October 16, 2002. The notes are objectively authentic, and Dr. Davis has not denied their veracity. Vice-Admiral Wilson relayed to Dr. Davis that the Vice-Admiral attempted to meet with the corporate “gatekeepers” of “the program” to reverse engineer alien technology in May and June 1997. Those persons included the corporate’s program director, the security director, and corporate counsel (either general or special). The gatekeepers denied Vice-Admiral Wilson access as he was not on the “bigots list” of people who were need-to-know. The Vice-Admiral hints the program was then run by Lockheed Martin; perhaps they call it SkunkWorks because something smells rotten. https://www.independent.com/2021/07/04/undisclosed-aerospace-programs-ufos/

Ya know, IF there is alien technology at Area 51, "they" did not brief Trump about it because there ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 29, 2021:

The whole of the security apparatus involved in crash retrievals is beyond Trump's comprehension. Most of the technology is beyond our understanding as well. But thanks for the additive manufacturing and glassy metals...

racocn8 replies on Sep 29, 2021:

@Gwendolyn2018 I guess all the Pentagon videos were seagulls... Carlson has an interest and may have spoken to Trump to try to get something released, but others have been working on it for decades. Their prime directive is firmly in place, as is ours for the moment. https://agnostic.com/group/LikelyUFOLore

Red Covid This sounds like a reasonable argument.

racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Can we start asking them not to shoot themselves?

racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@AnneWimsey (Sshhh, reverse psychology)

Has anyone here read any of George Will's books or columns?

racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

While considerably more intellectual that the rest of the GOP, he still suffers from all the conventional delusions of the GOP: opposing everything liberal and supporting the Christian biases and power structure. He's another Bill Buckley Jr. with somewhat less pomposity.

racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@Flowerwall Certainly most GQP, being Christian, are delusional; and I disagree with most of their views. As one who respects science, I am always willing to listen to alternatives. Thus, simply disagreeing with me is not enough to be deemed delusional. Is there a problem?

One idea I really like ... Along with "Eat the rich..."

BD66 comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Wealth-Creator.

racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@Lizard_of_Ahaz @St-Sinner The problem is that those that accumulate the wealth never fairly compensate those that actually created the products.

RBG knew the truth

St-Sinner comments on Sep 27, 2021:

She should have resigned during Obama and she didn't in spite fast failing health. We have to recognize the truth.

racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2021:

And Breyer is pulling the same crap. What disgusting arrogance.

'Race Traitor Syndrome' is actually a thing?

racocn8 comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Quite a few people are self-hating and obsessively denounce (or undermine) the group they themselves belong to. Larry Elder comes to mind.

racocn8 replies on Sep 26, 2021:

Link titles: " Talk show host hoping to unseat California governor says systemic racism ‘is a lie’ - - Larry Elder has a long record of comments casting doubt on the existence of sexism and racism https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/larry-elder-racism-lie-recall-b1916044.html Here's a quote: "Though he himself attended the Ivy League Brown University on affirmative action, he has criticised such programmes," Then there's this where he's using the canard about police killing more Whites than Blacks, excusing police that murder blacks. He says there's no systemic racism, but then says "This isn't your grandfather's America" "...Yes, there are bad cops, but for the most part, they’re trying to do their best, and contrary to popular perception, the police, in recent years, have killed more unarmed whites than Blacks. It is a lie, not supported by the evidence, that cops are killing Blacks just because they’re Black. This is not your grandfathers’ America. " https://www.joplinglobe.com/opinion/columns/larry-elder-no-evidence-of-anti-black-systemic-racism/article_cedff786-97ee-11eb-829d-737cd6512025.html

It's time we started to identify the real enemy

itsmedammit comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Someone who wanted to profit from the chaos.

racocn8 replies on Sep 26, 2021:

Profit may come in the form of degrading the competence of your competitors. Putin benefits when Western countries suffer from conflict and corruption. However, Putin may also be motivated by vengeance.

American town meetings. I don't know whether to laugh or cry! [youtube.com]

PondartIncbendog comments on Sep 25, 2021:

How did we get this stupid?

racocn8 replies on Sep 25, 2021:

Religion. Just religion.

The dumbest family in American history.....

racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2021:

Nothing funny about a thoroughly corrupt psychotic fascist gaining power with the copious help of a hostile foreign power.

racocn8 replies on Sep 24, 2021:

@Lizard_of_Ahaz I see the promise of "Intell" to Stone in a memo seized by the FBI, but did Israel help Trump in other ways? Do you have links? https://www.timesofisrael.com/redacted-fbi-document-hints-at-israeli-efforts-to-help-trump-in-2016-campaign/

Marcin - Paganini's Caprice no. 5 on One Guitar [youtu.be]

rogerbenham comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Far too clever for me.

racocn8 replies on Sep 22, 2021:

It's depressing to see the music play second fiddle to the musician's hubris. I've seen other classical guitarists with that same problem. What did they do to that kid to screw him up that bad. I'm guessing it has to do with the tension between the need for Hispanic machismo and the not so macho perception of being a musician.

Super Heroes....

bobwjr comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Yes she belongs

racocn8 replies on Sep 22, 2021:

... More than the others (that aren't real)