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If we were actually accomplishing anything other than rearranging rubble and killing non-combatants,...
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
We'd be so much more effective if we dropped depo provera into their water supply.
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
We'd be so much more effective if we dropped depo provera into their water supply.
I don’t watch RT America With Rick Sanchez a lot but did view it today.
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Trump's taxation changes has only enlarged the wealth disparity, which is extremely unhealthy for the country, fomenting economic unfairness and anger. A small amount of money may have returned from off-shore, but it only boosted share prices as companies bought back shares, a totally artificial and temporary price increase.
We're probably already in a recession or its economic equivalent. The market has been kept afloat by Trump supporters on Wall Street, but how long can that last? The moves by the Fed suggest they are also working to keep things going, without overreacting. Only time will tell if it will be enough. The existing system is sick, sick, sick, and only severe counter-measures similar to those voiced by Warren, Sanders and the like, have any chance of keeping things going, but good luck getting those through Congress. We could finally be fucked for good this time. Could progress be made in the ensuing chaos?
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Trump's taxation changes has only enlarged the wealth disparity, which is extremely unhealthy for the country, fomenting economic unfairness and anger. A small amount of money may have returned from off-shore, but it only boosted share prices as companies bought back shares, a totally artificial and temporary price increase.
We're probably already in a recession or its economic equivalent. The market has been kept afloat by Trump supporters on Wall Street, but how long can that last? The moves by the Fed suggest they are also working to keep things going, without overreacting. Only time will tell if it will be enough. The existing system is sick, sick, sick, and only severe counter-measures similar to those voiced by Warren, Sanders and the like, have any chance of keeping things going, but good luck getting those through Congress. We could finally be fucked for good this time. Could progress be made in the ensuing chaos?
Republican lawmaker denounces Trump’s tweet predicting ‘civil war’ if he’s impeached
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Where is the Pied Piper to rid us of our rats, piping them to a watery grave...
(I love Grieg's music so much...)
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Where is the Pied Piper to rid us of our rats, piping them to a watery grave...
(I love Grieg's music so much...)
"linking population control to climate was a topic "poisonous for politicians, but it's crucial to ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
It's true, discussing population control is a non-starter. It's also too late to bring it up.
Our population will have to be largely decimated (by a poisoned water supply?) before we'll admit the need to limit reproduction. And it will be too late then, too.
The questions I pose are:
1. What would it take to save ourselves?
2. How close are we to being able to enact those changes?
The answers are:
1. Severely limit reproduction and learn how to live in something like harmony with the environment.
2. We are nowhere close to the mindset needed to live in harmony, and no path is evident (Except via apocalypse, and that only pushes use back 5000 years, not forward).
racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
It's true, discussing population control is a non-starter. It's also too late to bring it up.
Our population will have to be largely decimated (by a poisoned water supply?) before we'll admit the need to limit reproduction. And it will be too late then, too.
The questions I pose are:
1. What would it take to save ourselves?
2. How close are we to being able to enact those changes?
The answers are:
1. Severely limit reproduction and learn how to live in something like harmony with the environment.
2. We are nowhere close to the mindset needed to live in harmony, and no path is evident (Except via apocalypse, and that only pushes use back 5000 years, not forward).
Trump Calls Greta Thunberg ‘a 4’ | Andrew Hall
racocn8 comments on Sep 29, 2019:
Yeah, she's not his type at all. Especially with that flat chest.
I'd like to hear Trump's rating of his friend, Roy Cohn. A tight ass for a tiny dick.
racocn8 comments on Sep 29, 2019:
Yeah, she's not his type at all. Especially with that flat chest.
I'd like to hear Trump's rating of his friend, Roy Cohn. A tight ass for a tiny dick.
Here's my problem with liberals.
racocn8 comments on Sep 28, 2019:
Some small amounts of truth may be present, but they are overwhelmed by naive GOP-like bias.
You write reasonably well, so you may not be the usual GOP idiot, you're still in the grip of their brainwashing propaganda. Do you watch a lot of Fox? You probably come from a GOP environment, and are still there. The claim that your demonizing isn't from a right wing view simply isn't credible. The GOP is all about the same hate you show. You think Liberal ideology is myopic and unimaginative? That's pure projection.
racocn8 comments on Sep 28, 2019:
Some small amounts of truth may be present, but they are overwhelmed by naive GOP-like bias.
You write reasonably well, so you may not be the usual GOP idiot, you're still in the grip of their brainwashing propaganda. Do you watch a lot of Fox? You probably come from a GOP environment, and are still there. The claim that your demonizing isn't from a right wing view simply isn't credible. The GOP is all about the same hate you show. You think Liberal ideology is myopic and unimaginative? That's pure projection.
Rough couple of days
Wednesday evening my back was spasmodic.
racocn8 comments on Sep 28, 2019:
CBD is a viable option, but you may need a fair amount and it could get pricey. You should also consider cannabis oil. Yes, the THC will get you high, but if the problem is serious enough, you could take the oil for a week. Once you build up a tolerance to the psychoactive effect, the pain-relief and the anti-inflammatory effects are apparent. The cannabis may also help your appetite. If you're interested, I can help you get it.
racocn8 comments on Sep 28, 2019:
CBD is a viable option, but you may need a fair amount and it could get pricey. You should also consider cannabis oil. Yes, the THC will get you high, but if the problem is serious enough, you could take the oil for a week. Once you build up a tolerance to the psychoactive effect, the pain-relief and the anti-inflammatory effects are apparent. The cannabis may also help your appetite. If you're interested, I can help you get it.
For the upcoming fight
racocn8 comments on Sep 28, 2019:
Lemmings come from lemmings, which is to say, the GOP lemming Senators were elected by evangelical lemmings. As all said lemmings are religiously delusional, they are incapable of distinguishing the so-called *right thing*. One cannot distinguish lies after a lifetime of lying to oneself.
All this contemplation can be interrupted if these nitwits are brought down a rung or two on Maslow's pyramid. We need to allow the red states to opt out of the ACA, or to be kicked out. If they hate socialism so much, take it away from them. Stop sending them money collected from the blue states, and maybe we'll see how fond they really are of capitalism.
racocn8 comments on Sep 28, 2019:
Lemmings come from lemmings, which is to say, the GOP lemming Senators were elected by evangelical lemmings. As all said lemmings are religiously delusional, they are incapable of distinguishing the so-called *right thing*. One cannot distinguish lies after a lifetime of lying to oneself.
All this contemplation can be interrupted if these nitwits are brought down a rung or two on Maslow's pyramid. We need to allow the red states to opt out of the ACA, or to be kicked out. If they hate socialism so much, take it away from them. Stop sending them money collected from the blue states, and maybe we'll see how fond they really are of capitalism.
Does anyone agree with Richard downkins?
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Tell us what you don't agree with
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Tell us what you don't agree with
Caption this
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Four walls for a spy is three too many.
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Four walls for a spy is three too many.
Putin Angrily Resigns from Trump’s Reëlection Campaign [newyorker.com]
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Perhaps you're aware that Trump is using Putin's claim that Ukraine was responsible for the 2016 election meddling rather than Putin. That's part of the absurd line advanced by Trump and Stone in their defense. Both of them are actually foreign agents. That Trump calls the whistleblower a spy is the height of irony.
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Perhaps you're aware that Trump is using Putin's claim that Ukraine was responsible for the 2016 election meddling rather than Putin. That's part of the absurd line advanced by Trump and Stone in their defense. Both of them are actually foreign agents. That Trump calls the whistleblower a spy is the height of irony.
True or False: No One Can Make You Feel Anything?
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
You have been given a grossly simplistic sentiment. In order to understand its real meaning, it has to be greatly unpacked. As noted below, one invests one's feelings in any relationship, and thus become vulnerable. A lot of people are insecure and the one way they imagine they can gain security is by exerting power over others. Using threats of revealing secrets, or abusing in any way is a hurtful way of exerting control. Quite a few people will allow this abusive behavior because they are also insecure and fear losing the relationship.
The notion that one can disregard abusive behavior is naive. The idea is to tell the victim that they do have some control over themselves and to devalue the other person, and in due course, the relationship.
The stupidly simplistic sentiment really is a call to break off abusive relationships. This is so much easier said than done, and there will be pain. Still, it is a choice to go on tolerating hurtful behavior, or to find some way to move on, and leave the abuser behind.
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
You have been given a grossly simplistic sentiment. In order to understand its real meaning, it has to be greatly unpacked. As noted below, one invests one's feelings in any relationship, and thus become vulnerable. A lot of people are insecure and the one way they imagine they can gain security is by exerting power over others. Using threats of revealing secrets, or abusing in any way is a hurtful way of exerting control. Quite a few people will allow this abusive behavior because they are also insecure and fear losing the relationship.
The notion that one can disregard abusive behavior is naive. The idea is to tell the victim that they do have some control over themselves and to devalue the other person, and in due course, the relationship.
The stupidly simplistic sentiment really is a call to break off abusive relationships. This is so much easier said than done, and there will be pain. Still, it is a choice to go on tolerating hurtful behavior, or to find some way to move on, and leave the abuser behind.
So I guess he's saying that Repub senators are a bunch of pussies
"12:30 p.
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Trump has dirt on most of them via the Enquirer, and he's been blackmailing them from the outset.
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Trump has dirt on most of them via the Enquirer, and he's been blackmailing them from the outset.
As Biden falters, Hillary attacks Trump and positions herself to enter presidential race
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Wingnut insanity. Figures.
racocn8 comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Wingnut insanity. Figures.
BREAKING NEWS MSNBC AT 3:00 pm - Adam Schiff, head of House Intelligence Committee announces the ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 25, 2019:
Either the Acting DNI Director turns over the complaint or he is turned over to the DC Jail for violating the law and his oath of office. And he should be the first of many.
racocn8 comments on Sep 25, 2019:
Either the Acting DNI Director turns over the complaint or he is turned over to the DC Jail for violating the law and his oath of office. And he should be the first of many.
Hidden History.
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
That figures...
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
That figures...
Similar one can hope
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
Guantanamo is the place for enemy spies to be water-boarded for the fun of it. Maybe we could make a reality TV show out of it? I'd watch...
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
Guantanamo is the place for enemy spies to be water-boarded for the fun of it. Maybe we could make a reality TV show out of it? I'd watch...
[youtu.be]
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
First, with the rarest of exceptions, the many Economics schools have become wholly owned propaganda farms of right-wing ideologues. Consequently, virtually no meaningful research into economics gets done. Almost the whole of the discipline fiddles around the edges of a larger whole picture, and intentionally omits those aspects which argue against the right-wing notions and values of Capitalism.
Chief among those values is anti-intellectualism and the denigration of individual invention and technological creativity. Our lifestyle and economic growth are far more directly derived from the utilization of useful technology than from any sort of Capitalism. But shhhhh, that is an obvious truth you'll never hear in Business Schools.
The US culture of underemployment and diversion of creative genius is what is slowing the economy to a standstill. That along with the saturation of corruption in the political and financial spheres. A big part of what is keeping the economy afloat is back-engineering alien technology. That and some of our own creations, but who wants to be a technologist when they can make so much more as a lawyer or banker?
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
First, with the rarest of exceptions, the many Economics schools have become wholly owned propaganda farms of right-wing ideologues. Consequently, virtually no meaningful research into economics gets done. Almost the whole of the discipline fiddles around the edges of a larger whole picture, and intentionally omits those aspects which argue against the right-wing notions and values of Capitalism.
Chief among those values is anti-intellectualism and the denigration of individual invention and technological creativity. Our lifestyle and economic growth are far more directly derived from the utilization of useful technology than from any sort of Capitalism. But shhhhh, that is an obvious truth you'll never hear in Business Schools.
The US culture of underemployment and diversion of creative genius is what is slowing the economy to a standstill. That along with the saturation of corruption in the political and financial spheres. A big part of what is keeping the economy afloat is back-engineering alien technology. That and some of our own creations, but who wants to be a technologist when they can make so much more as a lawyer or banker?
Federal judge rules an anti-LGBTQ church can legally be called a ‘hate group’ / LGBTQ Nation
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
Sorry, but as near as I can tell, religion is all about hate. It is asking members to worship lies that define a fake US and THEM, THEM becoming objects of hatred. What church or religion doesn't do this?
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
Sorry, but as near as I can tell, religion is all about hate. It is asking members to worship lies that define a fake US and THEM, THEM becoming objects of hatred. What church or religion doesn't do this?
Trump says it doesn't matter if the US has a recession because the trade war is more important
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
As long as the trade war mainly impacts Trump's red states, let's hope he believes his own lies. And increases his chances of being defeated in 2020.
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
As long as the trade war mainly impacts Trump's red states, let's hope he believes his own lies. And increases his chances of being defeated in 2020.
Greta Thunberg To World Leaders: "How Dare You Continue To Look Away" - News & Guts Media
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
All these young people protesting climate change? Good for them!
But I wonder if they realize what a load of happy horseshit it all is. Let's see a show of hands of all the kids who will swear off having children, and undertake, today, being sterilized. What? No takers? What happened to all that youthful enthusiasm and outrage?
Short of eliminating the bulk of humanity, the Earth is fucked.
racocn8 comments on Sep 24, 2019:
All these young people protesting climate change? Good for them!
But I wonder if they realize what a load of happy horseshit it all is. Let's see a show of hands of all the kids who will swear off having children, and undertake, today, being sterilized. What? No takers? What happened to all that youthful enthusiasm and outrage?
Short of eliminating the bulk of humanity, the Earth is fucked.
US Navy confirms UFO videos are the real deal - YouTube
racocn8 comments on Sep 23, 2019:
Per UFO lore, the variety of craft, flight characteristics, inhabitants, etc. indicate a variety of species conducting 'scientific' studies, making Earth comparable to a sort of wildlife sanctuary. Quite the opposite of seeking to make contact, ET's are indifferent or reclusive, and contact is generally avoided except to take samples, to conduct tests, or to send a message.
The biggest surprise is that for all the physical evidence left behind, no extraterrestrial biological species have been noted or have become established. Given the history of how humans have unintentionally spread assorted pathogens or other species, it's hard to imagine the number and variety of extraterrestrials coming and going without accidentally contaminating the biosphere, now or in the past. Perhaps we are all made of exactly the same stuff, DNA, RNA, etc because it gets spread around? Or, the visitors have perfected the prevention of contamination?
It is hard to reconcile the uniform genetics of Earth life with the notion that multiple species are visiting.
On the other hand, UFO lore contains various mentions of those who encounter crashes or ET as perishing from illness shortly thereafter (Sverlovsk Midget, Coyame Mexico, and Varginha)
The US Navy and other services know these are not 'phenomena' but are structured machines. The pilots note that they exhibit performance characteristics that are significantly beyond the capabilities of known aircraft and contemporary nation-states.
Here's another video from Homeland Security which travels at a sustained velocity above 70 mph and is capable of underwater travel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnUM3x3GvaU
And one from the Chilean Navy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI
While the Prime Directive is mostly in effect, the exceptions are notable: interference with ICBM electronics systems in the US and purportedly in Russia. Sustained surveillance of nuclear research and nuclear weapons storage sites is also notable.
A leaked letter from the estate of a Canadian envoy revealed that the US classified the subject higher than the hydrogen bomb.
Recently, emails recovered (from the estate of Neil Armstrong) validate the existence of ongoing deeply classified programs to study the issue.
However, neither we nor our elected officials are deemed to have a 'need to know' qualifying them for briefing.
It would be nice to get the other videos and reports generated by AATIP declassified, as the were the three videos released by DeLonge. Recovered materials held by Bigelow Aerospace are being studied and also indicate unknown technological fabrication techniques.
Debunkers wear their own foil hats with their mantra: Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up.
racocn8 comments on Sep 23, 2019:
Per UFO lore, the variety of craft, flight characteristics, inhabitants, etc. indicate a variety of species conducting 'scientific' studies, making Earth comparable to a sort of wildlife sanctuary. Quite the opposite of seeking to make contact, ET's are indifferent or reclusive, and contact is generally avoided except to take samples, to conduct tests, or to send a message.
The biggest surprise is that for all the physical evidence left behind, no extraterrestrial biological species have been noted or have become established. Given the history of how humans have unintentionally spread assorted pathogens or other species, it's hard to imagine the number and variety of extraterrestrials coming and going without accidentally contaminating the biosphere, now or in the past. Perhaps we are all made of exactly the same stuff, DNA, RNA, etc because it gets spread around? Or, the visitors have perfected the prevention of contamination?
It is hard to reconcile the uniform genetics of Earth life with the notion that multiple species are visiting.
On the other hand, UFO lore contains various mentions of those who encounter crashes or ET as perishing from illness shortly thereafter (Sverlovsk Midget, Coyame Mexico, and Varginha)
The US Navy and other services know these are not 'phenomena' but are structured machines. The pilots note that they exhibit performance characteristics that are significantly beyond the capabilities of known aircraft and contemporary nation-states.
Here's another video from Homeland Security which travels at a sustained velocity above 70 mph and is capable of underwater travel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnUM3x3GvaU
And one from the Chilean Navy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI
While the Prime Directive is mostly in effect, the exceptions are notable: interference with ICBM electronics systems in the US and purportedly in Russia. Sustained surveillance of nuclear research and nuclear weapons storage sites is also notable.
A leaked letter from the estate of a Canadian envoy revealed that the US classified the subject higher than the hydrogen bomb.
Recently, emails recovered (from the estate of Neil Armstrong) validate the existence of ongoing deeply classified programs to study the issue.
However, neither we nor our elected officials are deemed to have a 'need to know' qualifying them for briefing.
It would be nice to get the other videos and reports generated by AATIP declassified, as the were the three videos released by DeLonge. Recovered materials held by Bigelow Aerospace are being studied and also indicate unknown technological fabrication techniques.
Debunkers wear their own foil hats with their mantra: Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up.
Help please, can somebody tell me what this is and what it's used for?
racocn8 comments on Sep 23, 2019:
Just a guess: The blades at the bottom puncture a flat metal surface on the top of a drum. The lever pushes in the wedge-shaped flaps to make a proper hole. Then, the drum contents can be poured out.
racocn8 comments on Sep 23, 2019:
Just a guess: The blades at the bottom puncture a flat metal surface on the top of a drum. The lever pushes in the wedge-shaped flaps to make a proper hole. Then, the drum contents can be poured out.
Is einstein's e=mc2 even possible?
racocn8 comments on Sep 22, 2019:
At the atomic and sub-atomic level, physicists measure the mass of nuclei or individual particles, and back-calculate the hypothetical rest mass of said particles.
When one looks at the rest mass of hydrogen and deuterium and compare them to helium 3, you see a very tiny difference, and that difference in mass correlates precisely with the amount of energy that is generated when the hydrogen and deuterium fuse together. The calculation of the change in rest mass is multiplied by c-squared to calculate the emitted energy.
The same thing happens in fission, the rest masses of the daughter nuclei, etc are compared to the original nucleus, and the difference in mass multiplied by C^2 is the energy generated by the fission.
When a positron (positively charged electron) annihilates with an electron, the energy released is twice the rest mass of an electron times C^2, or twice 511 kiloelectron Volts (keV).
The E=MC^2 is actually fallout from reconciling the Maxwell Equations. It was Einstein's insight to have been the first to derive that relationship.
What is interesting is that technology enables these calculations to be checked to many places, and the relationship holds up with impressive precision (more than 10 decimal places), but, NOT EXACTLY. If the equations are right, the numbers should agree exactly, but they don't. Apparently, the equations are missing one or more terms, which are insignificant except for these super-precise experiments.
The real question then becomes, what are these missing terms? The implication is that they become important under the right conditions, that they have been elucidated, and that they are a highly classified state secret, too critical to be taught in public schools.
racocn8 comments on Sep 22, 2019:
At the atomic and sub-atomic level, physicists measure the mass of nuclei or individual particles, and back-calculate the hypothetical rest mass of said particles.
When one looks at the rest mass of hydrogen and deuterium and compare them to helium 3, you see a very tiny difference, and that difference in mass correlates precisely with the amount of energy that is generated when the hydrogen and deuterium fuse together. The calculation of the change in rest mass is multiplied by c-squared to calculate the emitted energy.
The same thing happens in fission, the rest masses of the daughter nuclei, etc are compared to the original nucleus, and the difference in mass multiplied by C^2 is the energy generated by the fission.
When a positron (positively charged electron) annihilates with an electron, the energy released is twice the rest mass of an electron times C^2, or twice 511 kiloelectron Volts (keV).
The E=MC^2 is actually fallout from reconciling the Maxwell Equations. It was Einstein's insight to have been the first to derive that relationship.
What is interesting is that technology enables these calculations to be checked to many places, and the relationship holds up with impressive precision (more than 10 decimal places), but, NOT EXACTLY. If the equations are right, the numbers should agree exactly, but they don't. Apparently, the equations are missing one or more terms, which are insignificant except for these super-precise experiments.
The real question then becomes, what are these missing terms? The implication is that they become important under the right conditions, that they have been elucidated, and that they are a highly classified state secret, too critical to be taught in public schools.
US university racism workshop returns, just NINE students come to learn about white privilege — RT...
racocn8 comments on Sep 22, 2019:
Fuck Russia
racocn8 comments on Sep 22, 2019:
Fuck Russia
Internaționala Panteistă-Protectivă a Familiei Terra/The International Pantheist-Protective of ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
Off your meds?
racocn8 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
Off your meds?
Conspiracy?
racocn8 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
As the damage was minimal, I'd say this was a warning to Saudi Arabia to back off from Yemen or a real strike would shut them down for real.
Sadly, these two have been at each other for decades. The US wants them to stay peaceful so we can keep selling weapons systems.
racocn8 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
As the damage was minimal, I'd say this was a warning to Saudi Arabia to back off from Yemen or a real strike would shut them down for real.
Sadly, these two have been at each other for decades. The US wants them to stay peaceful so we can keep selling weapons systems.
[vice.com]
The US Navy says the UFOs in Tom Delonges videos are unidentified aerial phenomena.
racocn8 comments on Sep 19, 2019:
Per UFO lore, the variety of craft, flight characteristics, inhabitants, etc. indicate a variety of species conducting 'scientific' studies, making Earth comparable to a sort of wildlife sanctuary. Quite the opposite of seeking to make contact, ET's are indifferent or reclusive, and contact is generally avoided except to take samples, to conduct tests, or to send a message.
The biggest surprise is that for all the physical evidence left behind, no extraterrestrial biological species have been noted or have become established. Given the history of how humans have unintentionally spread assorted pathogens or other species, it's hard to imagine the number and variety of extraterrestrials coming and going without accidentally contaminating the biosphere, now or in the past. Perhaps we are all made of exactly the same stuff, DNA, RNA, etc because it gets spread around? Or, the visitors have perfected the prevention of contamination?
It is hard to reconcile the uniform genetics of Earth life with the notion that multiple species are visiting.
On the other hand, UFO lore contains various mentions of those who encounter crashes or ET as perishing from illness shortly thereafter (Sverlovsk Midget, Coyame Mexico, and Varginha)
racocn8 comments on Sep 19, 2019:
Per UFO lore, the variety of craft, flight characteristics, inhabitants, etc. indicate a variety of species conducting 'scientific' studies, making Earth comparable to a sort of wildlife sanctuary. Quite the opposite of seeking to make contact, ET's are indifferent or reclusive, and contact is generally avoided except to take samples, to conduct tests, or to send a message.
The biggest surprise is that for all the physical evidence left behind, no extraterrestrial biological species have been noted or have become established. Given the history of how humans have unintentionally spread assorted pathogens or other species, it's hard to imagine the number and variety of extraterrestrials coming and going without accidentally contaminating the biosphere, now or in the past. Perhaps we are all made of exactly the same stuff, DNA, RNA, etc because it gets spread around? Or, the visitors have perfected the prevention of contamination?
It is hard to reconcile the uniform genetics of Earth life with the notion that multiple species are visiting.
On the other hand, UFO lore contains various mentions of those who encounter crashes or ET as perishing from illness shortly thereafter (Sverlovsk Midget, Coyame Mexico, and Varginha)
[vice.com]
The US Navy says the UFOs in Tom Delonges videos are unidentified aerial phenomena.
racocn8 comments on Sep 17, 2019:
The US Navy and other services know these are not 'phenomena' but are structured machines. The pilots note that they exhibit performance characteristics that are significantly beyond the capabilities of known aircraft and contemporary nation-states.
Here's another video from Homeland Security which travels at a sustained velocity above 70 mph and is capable of underwater travel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnUM3x3GvaU
And one from the Chilean Navy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI
While the Prime Directive is mostly in effect, the exceptions are notable: interference with ICBM electronics systems in the US and purportedly in Russia. Sustained surveillance of nuclear research and nuclear weapons storage sites is also notable.
A leaked letter from the estate of a Canadian envoy revealed that the US classified the subject higher than the hydrogen bomb.
Recently, emails recovered (from the estate of Neil Armstrong) validate the existence of ongoing deeply classified programs to study the issue.
However, neither we nor our elected officials are deemed to have a 'need to know' qualifying them for briefing.
It would be nice to get the other videos and reports generated by AATIP declassified, as the were the three videos released by DeLonge. Recovered materials held by Bigelow Aerospace are being studied and also indicate unknown technological fabrication techniques.
racocn8 comments on Sep 17, 2019:
The US Navy and other services know these are not 'phenomena' but are structured machines. The pilots note that they exhibit performance characteristics that are significantly beyond the capabilities of known aircraft and contemporary nation-states.
Here's another video from Homeland Security which travels at a sustained velocity above 70 mph and is capable of underwater travel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnUM3x3GvaU
And one from the Chilean Navy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI
While the Prime Directive is mostly in effect, the exceptions are notable: interference with ICBM electronics systems in the US and purportedly in Russia. Sustained surveillance of nuclear research and nuclear weapons storage sites is also notable.
A leaked letter from the estate of a Canadian envoy revealed that the US classified the subject higher than the hydrogen bomb.
Recently, emails recovered (from the estate of Neil Armstrong) validate the existence of ongoing deeply classified programs to study the issue.
However, neither we nor our elected officials are deemed to have a 'need to know' qualifying them for briefing.
It would be nice to get the other videos and reports generated by AATIP declassified, as the were the three videos released by DeLonge. Recovered materials held by Bigelow Aerospace are being studied and also indicate unknown technological fabrication techniques.
[dailykos.
racocn8 comments on Sep 16, 2019:
It is a violation of the UN Genocide Convention and should be prosecuted as such.
racocn8 comments on Sep 16, 2019:
It is a violation of the UN Genocide Convention and should be prosecuted as such.
Why does the beauty of the world, the order (and chaos) we discovered that underlies the universe, ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 16, 2019:
Supernatural explanations are provided by those who seek to provide authority and exert control. It's all about power and control.
racocn8 comments on Sep 16, 2019:
Supernatural explanations are provided by those who seek to provide authority and exert control. It's all about power and control.
What's the most outrageous thing one of your parents ever said to you?
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2019:
Your Mom's response sounds both accurate and clever; nothing ghoulish about it.
When I was 3, my Grandfather pointed to the big can transformer on a nearby telephone poll and told me that bad boys would be put in there on time-outs. I was horrified, but couldn't quite grasp how children would fit inside; it didn't look big enough...
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2019:
Your Mom's response sounds both accurate and clever; nothing ghoulish about it.
When I was 3, my Grandfather pointed to the big can transformer on a nearby telephone poll and told me that bad boys would be put in there on time-outs. I was horrified, but couldn't quite grasp how children would fit inside; it didn't look big enough...
Trump To Rally Crowd: I'm Never Leaving Office - YouTube
racocn8 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Trump at North Carolina Rally: "The Left hates America."
racocn8 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Trump at North Carolina Rally: "The Left hates America."
Look it up, how you/we are being lied to curtesy of the American tax payer.
racocn8 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
It wasn't New Jersey; it was the Palestinians who cheered 9/11.
racocn8 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
It wasn't New Jersey; it was the Palestinians who cheered 9/11.
Interplanetary relations
racocn8 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Yes. So, what do you suggest?
racocn8 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Yes. So, what do you suggest?
Does free will exist?
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2019:
First, Free Will is a cultural misnomer. (Promulgated by religious BS)
Second, If you're like me, you've got a committee of personalities knocking around up there, arguing and debating. Much of the time, I just stand back and let them hash it out. Does actually intervening count? Do all these voices have 'free will'. My suspicion is that they are programs, albeit chaotic programs, rifling through the memory RNA.
Third, What people might count as 'free will' assumes there's some ongoing and persistent personality or self that is inside expressing that free will. That self is a lot less reliable as an ongoing entity. It's easily influenced by pain, diet, sunlight, electrical charge, electromagnetic fields, antigens, etc. Where's the continuity? If anything, that personality is just another logic program that compares the values and timing of the various committee members and evaluates the decision making processes against the matrix of circumstances. That evaluation is often too ephemeral to put into words, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It's like you know you had a dream, but you forget what it was about.
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2019:
First, Free Will is a cultural misnomer. (Promulgated by religious BS)
Second, If you're like me, you've got a committee of personalities knocking around up there, arguing and debating. Much of the time, I just stand back and let them hash it out. Does actually intervening count? Do all these voices have 'free will'. My suspicion is that they are programs, albeit chaotic programs, rifling through the memory RNA.
Third, What people might count as 'free will' assumes there's some ongoing and persistent personality or self that is inside expressing that free will. That self is a lot less reliable as an ongoing entity. It's easily influenced by pain, diet, sunlight, electrical charge, electromagnetic fields, antigens, etc. Where's the continuity? If anything, that personality is just another logic program that compares the values and timing of the various committee members and evaluates the decision making processes against the matrix of circumstances. That evaluation is often too ephemeral to put into words, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It's like you know you had a dream, but you forget what it was about.
Does anyone have a good recipe for holy water?
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2019:
Holy Water? --> Batman
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2019:
Holy Water? --> Batman
Anti-stalking...
I've done this....
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
Yeah, but they caught me anyway...
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
Yeah, but they caught me anyway...
Do you agree with Chris Hedges and think the capitalists are afraid? [truthdig.com]
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
This seems to be the mirror image of Ayn Rand's excoriating Communism. The problem with propaganda is that if one has some breadth of experience, it is not convincing and not worth the time to pick apart to demonstrate all the fallacies.
The real bottom line is that Humanity wasn't ready to have modern medicine unleash it's fecundity. The political arena does not have anything like feed-back controls, much less feed-forward, to stop corruption. The US Constitution is altogether blind and lame in this regard, and the US is an utter joke because of it.
We are just about to go extinct because of our hubris. We simply are not worthy to survive.
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
This seems to be the mirror image of Ayn Rand's excoriating Communism. The problem with propaganda is that if one has some breadth of experience, it is not convincing and not worth the time to pick apart to demonstrate all the fallacies.
The real bottom line is that Humanity wasn't ready to have modern medicine unleash it's fecundity. The political arena does not have anything like feed-back controls, much less feed-forward, to stop corruption. The US Constitution is altogether blind and lame in this regard, and the US is an utter joke because of it.
We are just about to go extinct because of our hubris. We simply are not worthy to survive.
[aol.com]
Judge restores nationwide block on Trump's asylum ban. Kudos in order! Agree/Disagree?
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
I agree. However, I'm going to play devils advocate: A lot of people want to come to the US and the US has had established immigration policies, including quotas. While some come in, others are denied entry and put on a waiting list. Thus, allowing people to come in who claim asylum can give the appearance of unfairness. Many of the asylum seekers may claim that they fear for their lives for whatever reason, but the US has no real way to check that. It would be nice if everyone had a place to go, but where I live, the infrastructure is already badly stretched; lots of traffic, lots of potholes, lots of homeless.
DT and company are far from competent in adjusting existing policy, and their white Nazism should disqualify them. It would be great if some middle road could be found, if only the rational negotiators had partners.
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
I agree. However, I'm going to play devils advocate: A lot of people want to come to the US and the US has had established immigration policies, including quotas. While some come in, others are denied entry and put on a waiting list. Thus, allowing people to come in who claim asylum can give the appearance of unfairness. Many of the asylum seekers may claim that they fear for their lives for whatever reason, but the US has no real way to check that. It would be nice if everyone had a place to go, but where I live, the infrastructure is already badly stretched; lots of traffic, lots of potholes, lots of homeless.
DT and company are far from competent in adjusting existing policy, and their white Nazism should disqualify them. It would be great if some middle road could be found, if only the rational negotiators had partners.
Gay Flight Attendants rock!! 🤣
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
Fabulous, darling, simply fabulous...
racocn8 comments on Sep 9, 2019:
Fabulous, darling, simply fabulous...
I know someone (I have been distancing myself from) who is a Trump supporter.
racocn8 comments on Sep 8, 2019:
It's a fake (bogus) rationalization. They are lying to you and to themselves in order to conform with their preferred cohort.
I have a new name for them: GOProbots, pronounce Go Pro-bots
racocn8 comments on Sep 8, 2019:
It's a fake (bogus) rationalization. They are lying to you and to themselves in order to conform with their preferred cohort.
I have a new name for them: GOProbots, pronounce Go Pro-bots
OMFG! Wow! Just, Wow! I mean Wowzer! I can’t believe this sht!
[illinoisfamily.org]
racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2019:
One simply cannot contemplate rational negotiation to solve problems with such assholes. Indeed, their hatred of all things non-religious forces them to be obstacles to all possible solutions. It isn't just conservatism, it is Luddite. The degeneration of the GOP into DT Know-nothingism puts the US, not just into Constitutional Crisis, but the negation of the idea of Democracy. It's not a good direction.
Really, it's a race between the decaying environment and the impulse to press the button.
racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2019:
One simply cannot contemplate rational negotiation to solve problems with such assholes. Indeed, their hatred of all things non-religious forces them to be obstacles to all possible solutions. It isn't just conservatism, it is Luddite. The degeneration of the GOP into DT Know-nothingism puts the US, not just into Constitutional Crisis, but the negation of the idea of Democracy. It's not a good direction.
Really, it's a race between the decaying environment and the impulse to press the button.
DNC shitting on Tulsi as payback for ratting them out!
[youtube.com]
racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2019:
It's a curious thing about the idea of inclusion. Everyone likes the idea of a big tent, but the bigger the tent, the more likely you are to include people who want to exclude others. Hence, the proliferation of purity litmus tests of all kinds: Do you support Medicare for all? Do you support reparations for slavery? Do you support all-out amnesty for illegal immigrants? In the real world, these aren't just non-starters, they're poison pills. Alternately, as soon as you don't support an extreme progressive position, you're seen to be either racist, a corporate stooge, etc. Tulsi said she objected to the expulsion of a Muslim staffer, but we don't know if it was because they were Muslim or because they were problematic for some other reason. Some Muslims are virulently anti-Semitic, or anti-LGBTX, or want to go easy on Islamic extremists. How much of that should be tolerated?
@silverotter11 As for the DNC being just as bad as the GOP, c'mon, that absurd level of false equivalence is only worthy of a troll.
racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2019:
It's a curious thing about the idea of inclusion. Everyone likes the idea of a big tent, but the bigger the tent, the more likely you are to include people who want to exclude others. Hence, the proliferation of purity litmus tests of all kinds: Do you support Medicare for all? Do you support reparations for slavery? Do you support all-out amnesty for illegal immigrants? In the real world, these aren't just non-starters, they're poison pills. Alternately, as soon as you don't support an extreme progressive position, you're seen to be either racist, a corporate stooge, etc. Tulsi said she objected to the expulsion of a Muslim staffer, but we don't know if it was because they were Muslim or because they were problematic for some other reason. Some Muslims are virulently anti-Semitic, or anti-LGBTX, or want to go easy on Islamic extremists. How much of that should be tolerated?
@silverotter11 As for the DNC being just as bad as the GOP, c'mon, that absurd level of false equivalence is only worthy of a troll.
Stop Vaping! CDC issue another warning after series of deaths.
racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2019:
These vaping deaths need to be closely investigated as to the specific causes of death.
Vaping is an industry with competition as well as health issues, so any number of parties are inclined to generate negative and/or biased information.
Vaping is often obnoxious, but a lot of things are obnoxious. Smoking anything can be offensive. However, some people like to take offense so they can express their drama.
If you're going to smoke cigarettes, you should include some amount of cannabis to reduce your chances of getting cancer.
racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2019:
These vaping deaths need to be closely investigated as to the specific causes of death.
Vaping is an industry with competition as well as health issues, so any number of parties are inclined to generate negative and/or biased information.
Vaping is often obnoxious, but a lot of things are obnoxious. Smoking anything can be offensive. However, some people like to take offense so they can express their drama.
If you're going to smoke cigarettes, you should include some amount of cannabis to reduce your chances of getting cancer.
IS DONALD TRUMP EVIL?
racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2019:
The term 'evil' is problematic because of its religious roots. However, if it is stipulated that the term is being applied within a secular context, I would say yes, DT is evil. But then the question is, what is the meaning of 'evil' within a secular context? Is it someone who indulges and revels in their perversity? Is it someone who is devoid of empathy, and leverages that indifference as they engage in depraved actions?
racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2019:
The term 'evil' is problematic because of its religious roots. However, if it is stipulated that the term is being applied within a secular context, I would say yes, DT is evil. But then the question is, what is the meaning of 'evil' within a secular context? Is it someone who indulges and revels in their perversity? Is it someone who is devoid of empathy, and leverages that indifference as they engage in depraved actions?
IN GOD WE DISTRUST: Will America’s embrace of atheism be the death of us all? — RT Op-ed
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
This will be very interesting to watch. Will no-religion continue to rise at the same rate or accellerate? My understanding is that other countries that went secular accelerated briefly. Also, once no-religion achieves 40% and more, will that intimidate the proselytizers? Will we be able to repudiate the nonsense openly?
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
This will be very interesting to watch. Will no-religion continue to rise at the same rate or accellerate? My understanding is that other countries that went secular accelerated briefly. Also, once no-religion achieves 40% and more, will that intimidate the proselytizers? Will we be able to repudiate the nonsense openly?
One of the most confusing thing I deal with as an atheist is Christians asking me in public ( work ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
Asking someone if they believe in Jesus is rude and asinine. It's a no-win scenario, and thus, an excellent question. Before responding, I'd just reiterate that Christians are all about lying to themselves to deal with their cognitive dissonance. Also, they lie like the dickens when they witness to each other. It's a Liar's Club. So, to a big extent, your choice of strategy mainly depends on your personality, values and the circumstances. All that said...
1. Say that you do and lie back to them. But be ready to tell them a story about why you're not interested in joining their prayer meeting or church. Maybe say you don't like how different Christian sects run each other down, so you only pray privately rather than wearing your religion on your sleeve (like Jesus says).
2. Say that you're afraid of being fired for discussing religion while at work.
3. Say that you were molested by a pastor and will never let yourself get into that situation again.
4. Tell them that religion is a private, personal matter and that you don't want to discuss it.
5. You can say you do or don't believe in Jesus as far as that has meaning to you.
6. Try to confuse them by asking them which Jesus: Jesus as God, Jesus as prophet, the Baptist Jesus, the Lutheran Jesus, the Catholic Jesus, the Eastern Orthodox Jesus, ad nauseum.
7. Etc.
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
Asking someone if they believe in Jesus is rude and asinine. It's a no-win scenario, and thus, an excellent question. Before responding, I'd just reiterate that Christians are all about lying to themselves to deal with their cognitive dissonance. Also, they lie like the dickens when they witness to each other. It's a Liar's Club. So, to a big extent, your choice of strategy mainly depends on your personality, values and the circumstances. All that said...
1. Say that you do and lie back to them. But be ready to tell them a story about why you're not interested in joining their prayer meeting or church. Maybe say you don't like how different Christian sects run each other down, so you only pray privately rather than wearing your religion on your sleeve (like Jesus says).
2. Say that you're afraid of being fired for discussing religion while at work.
3. Say that you were molested by a pastor and will never let yourself get into that situation again.
4. Tell them that religion is a private, personal matter and that you don't want to discuss it.
5. You can say you do or don't believe in Jesus as far as that has meaning to you.
6. Try to confuse them by asking them which Jesus: Jesus as God, Jesus as prophet, the Baptist Jesus, the Lutheran Jesus, the Catholic Jesus, the Eastern Orthodox Jesus, ad nauseum.
7. Etc.
The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges.
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
Christians would have you believe the Nazis and Hitler were atheists. I seriously doubt the percent of atheists among the Nazis were more than low single digits. You can be sure the rest were Christians of one sort or another. That's how effective Christian morality really is.
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
Christians would have you believe the Nazis and Hitler were atheists. I seriously doubt the percent of atheists among the Nazis were more than low single digits. You can be sure the rest were Christians of one sort or another. That's how effective Christian morality really is.
Stupid heartless bastard only cares about himself period!
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
Yeah, they aren't red states, they aren't fly-over states, they are white-trash states. Of course they call us coastal elites, that's how dumb they are.
racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2019:
Yeah, they aren't red states, they aren't fly-over states, they are white-trash states. Of course they call us coastal elites, that's how dumb they are.
My loving and caring parents are actively trying to pass down Christianity to my little, ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Well now, what is more important, saving rent money or watching your parents inflict psychological abuse on your children? I suggest that you discuss your position with your parents and ask them to stop the brainwashing. Commit yourself to the best interest of your children; you'll sleep a lot better. If they kick you out, you did the responsible thing, and your parents will never see their grandchildren again (or they shouldn't).
racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Well now, what is more important, saving rent money or watching your parents inflict psychological abuse on your children? I suggest that you discuss your position with your parents and ask them to stop the brainwashing. Commit yourself to the best interest of your children; you'll sleep a lot better. If they kick you out, you did the responsible thing, and your parents will never see their grandchildren again (or they shouldn't).
Recently I wrote a post about my interest in connecting with someone with a split tongue, preferably...
racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Get a snake. But Gere says gerbils are better.
racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Get a snake. But Gere says gerbils are better.
Could this be the underlying problem with dating on this site?
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racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Garbage in, garbage out. The term 'soul' is bullshit, so anything that uses the term is also bullshit.
Let's call this what it really is: hate-speech. While the term is nonsense, it does have a societal context where people consider the soul to represent the essence of the person, and people who are disliked, or who commit heinous acts have less of a soul, or are even soul-less (even though that defeats the original concept of soul). Inferring that agnostics lack a soul is equating agnostics to those that society considers to be evil sociopaths. Inferring that agnostics lack a soul lays the foundation to support murdering them. In that context, killing a body that has no soul might not be a crime, because, after all, they're not really human beings. It's pretty much the same line the Germans used on the Jews to rationalize their mass murder.
racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Garbage in, garbage out. The term 'soul' is bullshit, so anything that uses the term is also bullshit.
Let's call this what it really is: hate-speech. While the term is nonsense, it does have a societal context where people consider the soul to represent the essence of the person, and people who are disliked, or who commit heinous acts have less of a soul, or are even soul-less (even though that defeats the original concept of soul). Inferring that agnostics lack a soul is equating agnostics to those that society considers to be evil sociopaths. Inferring that agnostics lack a soul lays the foundation to support murdering them. In that context, killing a body that has no soul might not be a crime, because, after all, they're not really human beings. It's pretty much the same line the Germans used on the Jews to rationalize their mass murder.
George Galloway makes a lot of sense .
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Brexit would never have passed but for Putin's social media campaign. Continuing to pursue Brexit is not only illegitimate, but probably not in England's best interest. The inability to develop a cogent Brexit should be a hint that it is not a good idea. Also note the complete resistance of the pro-Brexit pundits to have another vote on it to see if it would pass without Putin's manipulations. It is incumbant on people of all nations to ensure that their pundits, like Galloway, have not been co-opted by foreign money, whether from Russia, Ukraine, China, Saudi Arabia, or Israel. That sort of treason should be a capital offense.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Brexit would never have passed but for Putin's social media campaign. Continuing to pursue Brexit is not only illegitimate, but probably not in England's best interest. The inability to develop a cogent Brexit should be a hint that it is not a good idea. Also note the complete resistance of the pro-Brexit pundits to have another vote on it to see if it would pass without Putin's manipulations. It is incumbant on people of all nations to ensure that their pundits, like Galloway, have not been co-opted by foreign money, whether from Russia, Ukraine, China, Saudi Arabia, or Israel. That sort of treason should be a capital offense.
Interesting and provacative read.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
It is highly questionable to casually lump Dawkins' denunciation of all things religious with Islamophobia in particular. To be sure, Islam is at least as hateful and violence-prone as Christianity. With the massive influxes of Islamic immigrants, Islamophobia is to be expected. Islamic terrorism would still be the main terrorism problem except for Trump's encouraging White Nationalism.
The other elephant in the room is the Putin regime's campaign of abusing social media whether it's in the Ukraine, France, Britain or in the US. The Russian campaign has sought to inflame tensions on a massive scale, either to elect Le Pen, to pass Brexit, or to elect Trump. Shame, shame, shame on our intelligence services for not tamping this down. The Senate issued a report on how Putin helped Brexit to pass and yet not one American news agency covered it. The NSA monitored all this before our own 2016 election, and did nothing to intervene. This may all be part of some ugly plan by the Deep State; it's hard to understand their indifference unless they tacitly endorse it. Maybe they don't give a shit as long as they can bribe the GOP with their agenda.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
It is highly questionable to casually lump Dawkins' denunciation of all things religious with Islamophobia in particular. To be sure, Islam is at least as hateful and violence-prone as Christianity. With the massive influxes of Islamic immigrants, Islamophobia is to be expected. Islamic terrorism would still be the main terrorism problem except for Trump's encouraging White Nationalism.
The other elephant in the room is the Putin regime's campaign of abusing social media whether it's in the Ukraine, France, Britain or in the US. The Russian campaign has sought to inflame tensions on a massive scale, either to elect Le Pen, to pass Brexit, or to elect Trump. Shame, shame, shame on our intelligence services for not tamping this down. The Senate issued a report on how Putin helped Brexit to pass and yet not one American news agency covered it. The NSA monitored all this before our own 2016 election, and did nothing to intervene. This may all be part of some ugly plan by the Deep State; it's hard to understand their indifference unless they tacitly endorse it. Maybe they don't give a shit as long as they can bribe the GOP with their agenda.
Wonder what he means by this.... [agnostic.com]
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
You'd really need to see the context in which he made the statement.
Remember that it was Pasteur who demonstrated the falsity of the Spontaneous Generation doctrine which claimed that life could spring forth anywhere; an old shirt and grain could create mice. The belief in spontaneous generation was endorsed by the church, and the development of life was considered to be magical. Thus, disproving spontaneous generation was problematic. Rigorously demonstrating that life only came from other life was a huge game changer in understanding what life was. Creating a vaccine that prevented chicken cholera presented a mechanical explanation of disease. Again, this was at odds with religious doctrine that claimed, (and still claims,) that illness is an expression of God's will. Pasteur was definitely encroaching on the Church's territory, and for the Christians of his day, they surely weren't too happy to have their established understanding of reality upended.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
You'd really need to see the context in which he made the statement.
Remember that it was Pasteur who demonstrated the falsity of the Spontaneous Generation doctrine which claimed that life could spring forth anywhere; an old shirt and grain could create mice. The belief in spontaneous generation was endorsed by the church, and the development of life was considered to be magical. Thus, disproving spontaneous generation was problematic. Rigorously demonstrating that life only came from other life was a huge game changer in understanding what life was. Creating a vaccine that prevented chicken cholera presented a mechanical explanation of disease. Again, this was at odds with religious doctrine that claimed, (and still claims,) that illness is an expression of God's will. Pasteur was definitely encroaching on the Church's territory, and for the Christians of his day, they surely weren't too happy to have their established understanding of reality upended.
I have long held the position that people use god like a spare tire or switchblade.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Christianity, for all its "love thy neighbor", is, in practice, really all about: "fear and hate the OTHER". In part it has to do with the insistence on exclusivity; ONLY Christianity provides a path to God. And ONLY this or that particular church. Yes, it is madness. The real problem is that we tolerate it and continue to give Freedom of Religion a priority it doesn't deserve (it can no longer be justified).
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Christianity, for all its "love thy neighbor", is, in practice, really all about: "fear and hate the OTHER". In part it has to do with the insistence on exclusivity; ONLY Christianity provides a path to God. And ONLY this or that particular church. Yes, it is madness. The real problem is that we tolerate it and continue to give Freedom of Religion a priority it doesn't deserve (it can no longer be justified).
I have long argued that we should shift our vehicles to hydrogen power.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Hydrogen has been competitive for a while, except you need fuel cell driven cars, and fuel cells aren't cheap (yet).
However, I recently read an article describing an electrode modification that makes electrolysis much cheaper too. If we do the work, petroleum can be replaced, albeit gradually.
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Hydrogen has been competitive for a while, except you need fuel cell driven cars, and fuel cells aren't cheap (yet).
However, I recently read an article describing an electrode modification that makes electrolysis much cheaper too. If we do the work, petroleum can be replaced, albeit gradually.
What's the most "poetic" line or two of poetry that you can remember?
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Somewhere in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOHhhwnK6k
racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Somewhere in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOHhhwnK6k
[crooksandliars.com]
This got me thinking, how many people on here support strict gun control?
racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2019:
Handguns and hunting rifles only; no military shit or high capacity magazines. People have to qualify with a MMPI personality evaluation, be tested and be registered with the local police.
racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2019:
Handguns and hunting rifles only; no military shit or high capacity magazines. People have to qualify with a MMPI personality evaluation, be tested and be registered with the local police.
Has anyone ever wondered why the Christian right supports Trump, but never questions the address of ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
They have perfected the art of confirmation bias.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
They have perfected the art of confirmation bias.
I will never understand why African Americans kept christianity after emancipation.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Religion is egomaniacal; you have a relationship that no one else has, including special luck.
Jesus is a myth, so whoever depicts him can make him as he wishes, and that's usually going to be the same race/ethnicity.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Religion is egomaniacal; you have a relationship that no one else has, including special luck.
Jesus is a myth, so whoever depicts him can make him as he wishes, and that's usually going to be the same race/ethnicity.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Mangos are said to intensify the high from cannabis. This is reported to be due to the terpene, myrcene, in the mango. Cannabis has it's own myrcene, but the additional amount from the mango makes a difference somehow.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Mangos are said to intensify the high from cannabis. This is reported to be due to the terpene, myrcene, in the mango. Cannabis has it's own myrcene, but the additional amount from the mango makes a difference somehow.
LOCAL BANS IN CALIFORNIA
Some California Cities Still Ban Local Marijuana
With legal marijuana ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
California's leadership bowed to assorted corporate interests and stacked the BCC with thoroughgoing assholes. The resulting regulations are insanely onerous beside being idiotic. The Black Market is doing fine thank you very much, and will continue to do so as long as these laws are on the books. In the meantime, other states will take the lead, and California won't see more than a fraction of the billions in fees and taxes it might have otherwise had.
As for all those morons who enact local cannabis bans, I wish they would please, please, promise not to use cannabis when they come down with this or that cancer.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
California's leadership bowed to assorted corporate interests and stacked the BCC with thoroughgoing assholes. The resulting regulations are insanely onerous beside being idiotic. The Black Market is doing fine thank you very much, and will continue to do so as long as these laws are on the books. In the meantime, other states will take the lead, and California won't see more than a fraction of the billions in fees and taxes it might have otherwise had.
As for all those morons who enact local cannabis bans, I wish they would please, please, promise not to use cannabis when they come down with this or that cancer.
[wellness.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Last week I attended a presentation where inch-thick notebooks were available detailing foreign studies that show how cannabis CURES the prevalent forms of cancer. The problem is you have to take a lot of extracted oil and it's not cheap. Also, you have to be able to deal with the hallucinatory and other mental effects. And you have to deal with the derision from know-nothings, including doctors. Scores of millions of Americans have needlessly died horrible deaths because of the vilification of cannabis, promoted largely by White Nationalists who sought to use drug-laws to disenfranchise non-whites.
Hemp can do the same thing as cannabis (it actually is the same plant), and hemp is now legal everywhere. You can apply Richard Simpson's protocol for cannabis to hemp, and obtain a viable and legal anti-cancer cure, without the high.
The medical community cannot endorse cannabis until they see double-blind scientific studies, and those results are still 20 years in the future because of the DEA and Rethuglican beliefs.
@CarolinaGirl60 Sadly, anecdotal instances of glioblastomas being cured with cannabis have been recorded. My Mother died from breast cancer, and that has also been seen to be cured.
Message me if you have specific questions.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Last week I attended a presentation where inch-thick notebooks were available detailing foreign studies that show how cannabis CURES the prevalent forms of cancer. The problem is you have to take a lot of extracted oil and it's not cheap. Also, you have to be able to deal with the hallucinatory and other mental effects. And you have to deal with the derision from know-nothings, including doctors. Scores of millions of Americans have needlessly died horrible deaths because of the vilification of cannabis, promoted largely by White Nationalists who sought to use drug-laws to disenfranchise non-whites.
Hemp can do the same thing as cannabis (it actually is the same plant), and hemp is now legal everywhere. You can apply Richard Simpson's protocol for cannabis to hemp, and obtain a viable and legal anti-cancer cure, without the high.
The medical community cannot endorse cannabis until they see double-blind scientific studies, and those results are still 20 years in the future because of the DEA and Rethuglican beliefs.
@CarolinaGirl60 Sadly, anecdotal instances of glioblastomas being cured with cannabis have been recorded. My Mother died from breast cancer, and that has also been seen to be cured.
Message me if you have specific questions.
I suffer with really bad anxiety and so when it came to the first day of college, i was really ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Now that it is legal, you should at least try full spectrum hemp extract. Pure CBD is a poor substitute, but might work also. If you wanted to try some hemp pills that I'm developing, email me.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Now that it is legal, you should at least try full spectrum hemp extract. Pure CBD is a poor substitute, but might work also. If you wanted to try some hemp pills that I'm developing, email me.
As children, we Catholics were taught that god is everywhere, and I'm pretty sure most Christians ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
True Believers are rarely capable of engaging in intelligent conversation, so that's a fool's errand. Interaction should be functional as well as goal-oriented.
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
True Believers are rarely capable of engaging in intelligent conversation, so that's a fool's errand. Interaction should be functional as well as goal-oriented.
White supremacists 'swatted' my home to silence me. I will not be silent | World news | The Guardian
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
We need an open season on white supremacists...
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
We need an open season on white supremacists...
Interesting...
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racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Carefully misleading disinformation by Rethuglicans.
Yeah, the problem with other countries is that they impoverish their citizens by developing green energy instead of "cheap" fossil fuels. (Pay no attention to how the US has raped the world's resources for it's own benefit).
racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2019:
Carefully misleading disinformation by Rethuglicans.
Yeah, the problem with other countries is that they impoverish their citizens by developing green energy instead of "cheap" fossil fuels. (Pay no attention to how the US has raped the world's resources for it's own benefit).
I see posts here about "If we don't win the next election there will be a civil war".
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
Yeah, probably Russian propaganda. No misspellings so probably not from nitwit White Nationalists, who are only military wannabees.
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
Yeah, probably Russian propaganda. No misspellings so probably not from nitwit White Nationalists, who are only military wannabees.
Fox News guest states Millennials are not having kids because.
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
Forget the inane beliefs of the spewing heads. Take away that allegiance to religion is inverting quickly. The hysteresis curve will be at maximum slope in just a few years.
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
Forget the inane beliefs of the spewing heads. Take away that allegiance to religion is inverting quickly. The hysteresis curve will be at maximum slope in just a few years.
A Long Memo to The DNC — It’s time to say “Uncle” to The Bernie Sanders Campaign
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
No, Trump became president because he and his campaign staff worked with the Russian Intelligence to brainwash voters in swing states to either vote for Trump or to not vote for Hillary. The Russian campaign actions were directed by the data furnished by Manifort and by Cambridge Analytica/Bannon.
The Deep State orchestrated the whole thing as it has for several decades.
Sanders has never been a serious candidate for president, and didn't have a chance against Hillary. Both Hillary and Trump are both clothes-horse stooges for the Deep State (i.e. Hillary's Bilderburg involvement).
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
No, Trump became president because he and his campaign staff worked with the Russian Intelligence to brainwash voters in swing states to either vote for Trump or to not vote for Hillary. The Russian campaign actions were directed by the data furnished by Manifort and by Cambridge Analytica/Bannon.
The Deep State orchestrated the whole thing as it has for several decades.
Sanders has never been a serious candidate for president, and didn't have a chance against Hillary. Both Hillary and Trump are both clothes-horse stooges for the Deep State (i.e. Hillary's Bilderburg involvement).
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racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
If only it were so. The treasonous Rethuglicans certainly deserve to be replaced. They prove democracy is a sham if it allows every idiot cultist to vote. It's one thing to have one's own opinion, but it's another thing if that opinion is based on easily disproved myths.
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
If only it were so. The treasonous Rethuglicans certainly deserve to be replaced. They prove democracy is a sham if it allows every idiot cultist to vote. It's one thing to have one's own opinion, but it's another thing if that opinion is based on easily disproved myths.
Oh baby, pull my hair...
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
They had feathers, not hair.
racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:
They had feathers, not hair.
Incoming Harvard Freshman Is Deported Over Friends’ Social Media Posts
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racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2019:
I cannot personally attest to this, but I have heard that Palestinian children are raised with 'educational' materials that are virulently anti-Semitic as well as being utterly anti-Israel.
What I can attest to is being given a magazine from a Palestinian college student I befriended. The magazine was devoted to anti-Israel propaganda and described in horrific photos what the Israelis had done to Palestinians. People indoctrinated with that kind of hate-speech propaganda are legitimately suspect. This magazine had the highest quality printing, and was printed on the best magazine paper stock. I'd never seen a magazine of that quality; it took real money to produce it. (Why/Implications?)
If Ajjawi's media posts revealed radicalized intentions, it's good to have found that out. if Immigration authorities determined that Ajjawi posed a significant potential threat, withholding entry is entirely prudent. Please recall that it was the Palestinians who cheered 9-11 (regardless of who actually committed it.). https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/24/the-video-of-celebrations-that-was-broadcast-on-911/
Many people seek entry into this country. We are entitled to protect ourselves against those disposed against us, to be selective. Doing so is reasonable. White supremacists may have our attention, but Isis-types are still a threat.
racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2019:
I cannot personally attest to this, but I have heard that Palestinian children are raised with 'educational' materials that are virulently anti-Semitic as well as being utterly anti-Israel.
What I can attest to is being given a magazine from a Palestinian college student I befriended. The magazine was devoted to anti-Israel propaganda and described in horrific photos what the Israelis had done to Palestinians. People indoctrinated with that kind of hate-speech propaganda are legitimately suspect. This magazine had the highest quality printing, and was printed on the best magazine paper stock. I'd never seen a magazine of that quality; it took real money to produce it. (Why/Implications?)
If Ajjawi's media posts revealed radicalized intentions, it's good to have found that out. if Immigration authorities determined that Ajjawi posed a significant potential threat, withholding entry is entirely prudent. Please recall that it was the Palestinians who cheered 9-11 (regardless of who actually committed it.). https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/24/the-video-of-celebrations-that-was-broadcast-on-911/
Many people seek entry into this country. We are entitled to protect ourselves against those disposed against us, to be selective. Doing so is reasonable. White supremacists may have our attention, but Isis-types are still a threat.
More to despise about the Catholic Church!
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racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2019:
Really awful...
racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2019:
Really awful...
Religion is a Distortion of Reality. From the show Mr. Robot
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racocn8 comments on Aug 26, 2019:
The problem with saying "Fuck God" is that it signifies an acceptance of the God concept. Better to say "Fuck religion" or "Fuck believers".
Sadly, we have been reduced to "bumperstickerism"; the need to compress truth to a minimal number of syllables.
Saying "Fuck anything" is essentially an ad hominem, and your unlikely to convey truth by shouting, much less cursing.
It really comes down to preventing people from being brainwashed in the first place, and the passive process of mere public education isn't adequate.
racocn8 comments on Aug 26, 2019:
The problem with saying "Fuck God" is that it signifies an acceptance of the God concept. Better to say "Fuck religion" or "Fuck believers".
Sadly, we have been reduced to "bumperstickerism"; the need to compress truth to a minimal number of syllables.
Saying "Fuck anything" is essentially an ad hominem, and your unlikely to convey truth by shouting, much less cursing.
It really comes down to preventing people from being brainwashed in the first place, and the passive process of mere public education isn't adequate.
Facts don’t lie.
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
Don't bother me with facts, my mind is made up... (repeat)
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
Don't bother me with facts, my mind is made up... (repeat)
Could Trump Drive Young White Evangelicals Away From The GOP?
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
While it's true that the Evangelicals mostly behave as loyal robots, defection does occur among those who haven't fully discarded their brains and their hearts. Trump's treatment of immigrant children is intrinsically offensive. Indeed, so many attitudes and policies are intrinsically offensive, and provoke an increase in the cognitive dissonance felt by Christians. Christians must abide by Trumps sexual perversions, his treason, his bigotry, his bullying, his incompetence, his corruption, his avarice, his self-aggrandizement, and so much more. None of these are sanctioned within Christianity's values, but they own it now. Hopefully a few Christians are choking on it.
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
While it's true that the Evangelicals mostly behave as loyal robots, defection does occur among those who haven't fully discarded their brains and their hearts. Trump's treatment of immigrant children is intrinsically offensive. Indeed, so many attitudes and policies are intrinsically offensive, and provoke an increase in the cognitive dissonance felt by Christians. Christians must abide by Trumps sexual perversions, his treason, his bigotry, his bullying, his incompetence, his corruption, his avarice, his self-aggrandizement, and so much more. None of these are sanctioned within Christianity's values, but they own it now. Hopefully a few Christians are choking on it.
No one can tell me why I am here in this mystery.
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
That is the serenity of evolution, to give answer, or at least context to these great questions. You may not like the answers evolution gives; they are not wish-fulfillment happy stories. Still, the context is as eternal as it get, and probably Universal in scope. What religion can claim that with a straight face?
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
That is the serenity of evolution, to give answer, or at least context to these great questions. You may not like the answers evolution gives; they are not wish-fulfillment happy stories. Still, the context is as eternal as it get, and probably Universal in scope. What religion can claim that with a straight face?
CAN WE KNOW TRUTH?
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
While the potential for delusion is always present, many truths seem to be knowable. We should not be discouraged by the ignorance that surrounds us. Indeed, the search for truth, and even grand Truth may well be the one worthwhile aspiration in life. Physics and evolution count as grand Truths.
racocn8 comments on Aug 22, 2019:
While the potential for delusion is always present, many truths seem to be knowable. We should not be discouraged by the ignorance that surrounds us. Indeed, the search for truth, and even grand Truth may well be the one worthwhile aspiration in life. Physics and evolution count as grand Truths.
UPDATE on Religion's professor saying atheism is a religion.
racocn8 comments on Aug 21, 2019:
The professor is himself, and ignorant troll brainwashed by his own social milieu to present the standard Christian lies. Trolls nearly always resist reason, so don't bother. He is unqualified or disqualified to be where he is, but it's probably not worth your time to do anything about it. Learn from this experience: Christianity is as much about hate as it is about love, and Truth is not only not revered, but quickly cast aside in favor of lying for Jesus. True Believers end up being Liars Clubs with the most absurd witnessing winning the trophy. For yourself, revere Truth first, wisdom and serenity will follow.
racocn8 comments on Aug 21, 2019:
The professor is himself, and ignorant troll brainwashed by his own social milieu to present the standard Christian lies. Trolls nearly always resist reason, so don't bother. He is unqualified or disqualified to be where he is, but it's probably not worth your time to do anything about it. Learn from this experience: Christianity is as much about hate as it is about love, and Truth is not only not revered, but quickly cast aside in favor of lying for Jesus. True Believers end up being Liars Clubs with the most absurd witnessing winning the trophy. For yourself, revere Truth first, wisdom and serenity will follow.
Sanders thinks Israel should decline aid if they refuse admission to two members of congress because...
racocn8 comments on Aug 20, 2019:
It's pretty clear that this was another ploy by Tlaib and Omar to get traction for BDS. Israel has no obligation to foster or give a platform for BDS advocates, even if they are in Congress. Tlaib and Omar's support for BDS is Islamic anti-Semitic hate speech. By it, Tlaib and Omar demonstrate that they are bigots. It is useful for Trump to claim that their bigotry is comparable to his own, the false equivalence the GOP thrives on. The bigotry of all of them does make them unfit for office, but Trump's bigotry is obviously much more dangerous and deadly. Still, Israel doesn't need Tlaib and Omar stirring up anger; there is enough there already, largely paid for by Saudi Arabia. Truth is, Tlaib, Omar and Trump are all on the same side, being paid, directly and indirectly by Saudi Arabia. Tlaib's claim that she would support BDS against Saudi Arabia and Egypt (if such movements existed) is pure BS. And silly at that.
racocn8 comments on Aug 20, 2019:
It's pretty clear that this was another ploy by Tlaib and Omar to get traction for BDS. Israel has no obligation to foster or give a platform for BDS advocates, even if they are in Congress. Tlaib and Omar's support for BDS is Islamic anti-Semitic hate speech. By it, Tlaib and Omar demonstrate that they are bigots. It is useful for Trump to claim that their bigotry is comparable to his own, the false equivalence the GOP thrives on. The bigotry of all of them does make them unfit for office, but Trump's bigotry is obviously much more dangerous and deadly. Still, Israel doesn't need Tlaib and Omar stirring up anger; there is enough there already, largely paid for by Saudi Arabia. Truth is, Tlaib, Omar and Trump are all on the same side, being paid, directly and indirectly by Saudi Arabia. Tlaib's claim that she would support BDS against Saudi Arabia and Egypt (if such movements existed) is pure BS. And silly at that.
Progressive Peeps, what do you think about the points made in this video?
racocn8 comments on Aug 16, 2019:
Too many stupid comments (anti-socialism, number of candidates, in-fighting)
I don't believe Bernie is as good as other candidates because his progressive points are a turn-off to the right and middle. He has lost the fire-in-the-belly or it no longer stands out as it did against Hillary. Also, his links to actual Communists have yet to be well publicized. They don't matter to me, but the midiots will eat it up. A progressive will not do well against Trump, and Bernie isn't the best/most competent of those.
Bernie could still come out on top if the other front-runners trip, but his odds against Trump seem even or worse to me. He is too willing to get buried in Health Care Plan details that bore people and are unrealistic to promise. That shows a lapse in political judgment.
The Democratic field are generally poor candidates for different reasons (age/looks (Biden/Sanders), weird behavior/mannerisms (Klobuchar, Wang, Harris, Delany, Castro, Beto), history/background (Harris, Buttigieg), extreme/goofy ideas(Warren, Inslee, Wang, Booker, Gabbard)), know-nothing/assholes (Harris, Gillibrand, Ryan, Brown, Delany, Murphy, Cuomo, Hickenlooper, Patrick, DeBlasio)).
Isn't there anyone who is seriously bright but clever enough to stick to a script the majority can stomach? It really is too much to ask because, according to my hypothesis of social selection, only egomaniacs can tolerate today's politics, and that's a shitty litmus test.
racocn8 comments on Aug 16, 2019:
Too many stupid comments (anti-socialism, number of candidates, in-fighting)
I don't believe Bernie is as good as other candidates because his progressive points are a turn-off to the right and middle. He has lost the fire-in-the-belly or it no longer stands out as it did against Hillary. Also, his links to actual Communists have yet to be well publicized. They don't matter to me, but the midiots will eat it up. A progressive will not do well against Trump, and Bernie isn't the best/most competent of those.
Bernie could still come out on top if the other front-runners trip, but his odds against Trump seem even or worse to me. He is too willing to get buried in Health Care Plan details that bore people and are unrealistic to promise. That shows a lapse in political judgment.
The Democratic field are generally poor candidates for different reasons (age/looks (Biden/Sanders), weird behavior/mannerisms (Klobuchar, Wang, Harris, Delany, Castro, Beto), history/background (Harris, Buttigieg), extreme/goofy ideas(Warren, Inslee, Wang, Booker, Gabbard)), know-nothing/assholes (Harris, Gillibrand, Ryan, Brown, Delany, Murphy, Cuomo, Hickenlooper, Patrick, DeBlasio)).
Isn't there anyone who is seriously bright but clever enough to stick to a script the majority can stomach? It really is too much to ask because, according to my hypothesis of social selection, only egomaniacs can tolerate today's politics, and that's a shitty litmus test.
Turned 58 years old on the 12th of August and for sometime been pondering this whole life thing.
racocn8 comments on Aug 15, 2019:
You are a super non-believer, and yet you describe life as futile. The rough opposite to futility is Purpose which most people describe as being provided by a deity. And yet, how could a deity provide Purpose? (The notion of Purpose is the child's "Why?" taken to the Nth degree. )
Consider that life has neither Purpose nor futility, and that such notions are merely semantic misunderstandings. You give the experience of being whatever meaning that you will.
We have the opportunity to understand some fraction of reality in a way that other living things cannot; that provides some satisfaction. More understanding provides more satisfaction, and sometimes wisdom. Atheism may not be spiritual in the conventional sense, but it can still provide any number of ineffable experiences and epiphanies.
As you grasp the superficiality of acquisitive materialism, relegate it to being a necessary evil of your experience, and only indulge as much as you must. Consider and try minimizing it, and see if the change agrees with you.
racocn8 comments on Aug 15, 2019:
You are a super non-believer, and yet you describe life as futile. The rough opposite to futility is Purpose which most people describe as being provided by a deity. And yet, how could a deity provide Purpose? (The notion of Purpose is the child's "Why?" taken to the Nth degree. )
Consider that life has neither Purpose nor futility, and that such notions are merely semantic misunderstandings. You give the experience of being whatever meaning that you will.
We have the opportunity to understand some fraction of reality in a way that other living things cannot; that provides some satisfaction. More understanding provides more satisfaction, and sometimes wisdom. Atheism may not be spiritual in the conventional sense, but it can still provide any number of ineffable experiences and epiphanies.
As you grasp the superficiality of acquisitive materialism, relegate it to being a necessary evil of your experience, and only indulge as much as you must. Consider and try minimizing it, and see if the change agrees with you.
Does anyone else think it's possible, even remotely, that Jeffrey Epstein is still alive (i.
racocn8 comments on Aug 14, 2019:
When someone has that much money. financing an operation and bribery become significant probabilities. He isn't the only one with money and my money is on hims being murdered, but that's merely a higher probability. I'd give Epstein escaping as 25%, murdered 70% and suicide as 5%.
racocn8 comments on Aug 14, 2019:
When someone has that much money. financing an operation and bribery become significant probabilities. He isn't the only one with money and my money is on hims being murdered, but that's merely a higher probability. I'd give Epstein escaping as 25%, murdered 70% and suicide as 5%.
[msnbc.
racocn8 comments on Aug 14, 2019:
His team works hard to find those things that his supporters know will piss off the Democrats. He believes being vindictive builds his base and he may be right because it focuses the Right's anger against the Left.
racocn8 comments on Aug 14, 2019:
His team works hard to find those things that his supporters know will piss off the Democrats. He believes being vindictive builds his base and he may be right because it focuses the Right's anger against the Left.
[aol.
racocn8 comments on Aug 14, 2019:
Yeah, the US fought Germany in WWII, but before that, Father Coughlin had an audience of 30 million out of 131 million total. Coughlin advocated racism and fascism. Check out the pictures of the Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden. When WWII ended, the CIA brought back Nazi's by the boatload under Project Paperclip, and a lot of them got prominent positions in the Military Industrial Complex, what is now referenced by some as the Deep State. Trump may well have the blessings of the Deep State, in spite of his dissing the Intelligence Services, perhaps as more disinformation. It's complicated and potentially very, very ugly.
racocn8 comments on Aug 14, 2019:
Yeah, the US fought Germany in WWII, but before that, Father Coughlin had an audience of 30 million out of 131 million total. Coughlin advocated racism and fascism. Check out the pictures of the Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden. When WWII ended, the CIA brought back Nazi's by the boatload under Project Paperclip, and a lot of them got prominent positions in the Military Industrial Complex, what is now referenced by some as the Deep State. Trump may well have the blessings of the Deep State, in spite of his dissing the Intelligence Services, perhaps as more disinformation. It's complicated and potentially very, very ugly.
Check out this bit of GOP Facebook dumbassery.
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2019:
Why are so many Hollywood action film stars utter (GOP) douche bags?
Jimmy Stewart
John Wayne
Ronald Reagan
Charlton Heston
Clint Eastwood
Mel Gibson
John Voight
Bruce Willis
Chuck Norris
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kurt Russell
Sylvestor Stallone (and quite a few more not listed)
Is it something about handling weapons?
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2019:
Why are so many Hollywood action film stars utter (GOP) douche bags?
Jimmy Stewart
John Wayne
Ronald Reagan
Charlton Heston
Clint Eastwood
Mel Gibson
John Voight
Bruce Willis
Chuck Norris
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kurt Russell
Sylvestor Stallone (and quite a few more not listed)
Is it something about handling weapons?
To everyone wrongfully blaming these massacres on mental illness- a reminder for you:
Trump Signs...
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2019:
The law was overturned by Trump so that he could reinstate it. It is his pattern: He creates a problem that he can then solve, and then will use it for his reelection campaign. That's my prediction.
As for these shooters being mentally ill...
In the article below, mental illness is said to account for a single-digit percent of the gun violence. Still, whatever helps.
Look at these:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201908/is-it-guns-or-mental-illness
https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/81431
The Constitution clearly says that when the government becomes corrupt, it is up to it's citizens to overturn it. The 2nd Amendment supporters point to this. However, the US has nuclear weapons, about 4000. These should be distributed amongst the population in case the government gets out of hand. It's a 2nd Amendment right. No? And I'm sure the military has a lot of other spare equipment that NRA types would love to get their hands on. Why not? Let's do this right and have a grand show. It's not Armageddon, it's just American fun.
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2019:
The law was overturned by Trump so that he could reinstate it. It is his pattern: He creates a problem that he can then solve, and then will use it for his reelection campaign. That's my prediction.
As for these shooters being mentally ill...
In the article below, mental illness is said to account for a single-digit percent of the gun violence. Still, whatever helps.
Look at these:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201908/is-it-guns-or-mental-illness
https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/81431
The Constitution clearly says that when the government becomes corrupt, it is up to it's citizens to overturn it. The 2nd Amendment supporters point to this. However, the US has nuclear weapons, about 4000. These should be distributed amongst the population in case the government gets out of hand. It's a 2nd Amendment right. No? And I'm sure the military has a lot of other spare equipment that NRA types would love to get their hands on. Why not? Let's do this right and have a grand show. It's not Armageddon, it's just American fun.
Media- Forget the headlines and main articles.
racocn8 comments on Aug 7, 2019:
How much easier is it to stick one's head in the sand? If so, please don't vote your ignorance (Which pretty much proves why democracy is bullshit).
You have the capacity to take it all in, but not the time. Tic Tock. Choose your input and accord it the attention it deserves. You decide how much that is.
racocn8 comments on Aug 7, 2019:
How much easier is it to stick one's head in the sand? If so, please don't vote your ignorance (Which pretty much proves why democracy is bullshit).
You have the capacity to take it all in, but not the time. Tic Tock. Choose your input and accord it the attention it deserves. You decide how much that is.
They burned that cup of sugar or gave it to a Russian oligarch.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2019:
So, what about the data given by Steve Bannon/Cambridge Analytica to Russia, and the data given by Paul Manafort. How does that not constitute sufficient evidence? How could the investigation be done meaningfully when it was hamstrung from collecting financial data?
Do you not see the pattern? Trump ain't goin' nowhere while the Deep State says he stays.
Suck it up. We haven't had a real country since 1947. If even then.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2019:
So, what about the data given by Steve Bannon/Cambridge Analytica to Russia, and the data given by Paul Manafort. How does that not constitute sufficient evidence? How could the investigation be done meaningfully when it was hamstrung from collecting financial data?
Do you not see the pattern? Trump ain't goin' nowhere while the Deep State says he stays.
Suck it up. We haven't had a real country since 1947. If even then.
Fareed Z.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2019:
You might want to know that a big part of the military budget goes into building and sustaining a secret fleet of spaceships. Gary McKinnon found pages of crew rosters headlined as Extraterrestrial Officers. Lots of eyewitnesses have testified to seeing TR3B's, Sport Models and even some very big craft that were not Alien-grade technology. Curiously, it's the secrecy and security that costs so much. Just what these vessels are doing is the really big question. We are so not ready to take our brand of friendship off-world.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2019:
You might want to know that a big part of the military budget goes into building and sustaining a secret fleet of spaceships. Gary McKinnon found pages of crew rosters headlined as Extraterrestrial Officers. Lots of eyewitnesses have testified to seeing TR3B's, Sport Models and even some very big craft that were not Alien-grade technology. Curiously, it's the secrecy and security that costs so much. Just what these vessels are doing is the really big question. We are so not ready to take our brand of friendship off-world.
Don't know whether to laugh or cry.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2019:
Accurate. Not funny at all.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2019:
Accurate. Not funny at all.
Just received an email with an INCREDIBLE opportunity!!
This has to be legitimate!!
I'M IN!!
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racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
What do they want from you in exchange? A favor? (Godfather style?)
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
What do they want from you in exchange? A favor? (Godfather style?)
About a year ago, the long-serving president of American Atheists, David Silverman, was asked to ...
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
I count Lawrence Krauss and Al Franken as being victims of GOP using women's false accusations. Men should not have their careers destroyed because of a scandal-hungry press and overeager social justice warriors.
The #metoo has not stepped up to address this problem, and have thus allowed the GOP to damage their credibility.
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
I count Lawrence Krauss and Al Franken as being victims of GOP using women's false accusations. Men should not have their careers destroyed because of a scandal-hungry press and overeager social justice warriors.
The #metoo has not stepped up to address this problem, and have thus allowed the GOP to damage their credibility.
Yes, get me one of these hats, in blue please.
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
Great hat. I want one too.
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
Great hat. I want one too.
Losing my religion for equality - Jimmy Carter
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
Carter believed in Baptist theology. That makes him an idiot.
Carter claimed to be a big-time negotiator, but then referred to Israel using the incendiary term Apartheid (but never used it on Islamic countries which are far worse.). That makes him an asshole.
racocn8 comments on Jul 23, 2019:
Carter believed in Baptist theology. That makes him an idiot.
Carter claimed to be a big-time negotiator, but then referred to Israel using the incendiary term Apartheid (but never used it on Islamic countries which are far worse.). That makes him an asshole.
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racocn8 comments on Jul 22, 2019:
What Iran claims may be partly true. Probably only a couple have CIA connections; the others are hostages.
For certain, President Hitler is lying. He only tells the truth to cover some other lie.
racocn8 comments on Jul 22, 2019:
What Iran claims may be partly true. Probably only a couple have CIA connections; the others are hostages.
For certain, President Hitler is lying. He only tells the truth to cover some other lie.
[newsmax.
racocn8 comments on Jul 22, 2019:
War with Iran is Trump's Plan B in case impeachment or state indictments get any of traction.
racocn8 comments on Jul 22, 2019:
War with Iran is Trump's Plan B in case impeachment or state indictments get any of traction.
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