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Ridding America of the political neroists who are destroying my country
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We must eliminate every all references to religion from the political arena.
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A comment on Talk: Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth
Well I guess that means it's time for the elites to start planning on how to screw things up even more. Let's see.... Why don't I believe this one....?
Well first off, he talks an awful lot about climate change. Agriculture is the biggest cause he claims. Even bigger than the use of fossil fuels... HORSEFEATHERS! The influence of the greenhouse effect on our climate has been greatly exaggerated. In fact agriculture has an overall cooling effect on our climate, but it's a very slight one, just like our use of fossil fuels. Statistically insignificant. Why?
IT'S THE SUN STUPID!
And besides, 95% of total greenhouse gasses is water vapor. CO2 is plant food. It's NOT A POLLUTANT!
Besides, WARMING IS GOOD!
For decades our government has been paying farmers NOT to grow food.... That made lots of sense right? Now our government is mandating that we put a significant percentage of our corn crop in our gas tanks.... Ethanol makes a lousy fuel, and contrary to what our government has been telling us for years, we have the largest reserves of fossil fuels in the world. Why aren't we using it? Could it be because our community organizer in chief is following his Alinsky method plan to wreck our economy?
In fact this one is going to be a hard sell, because anyone who tries to fix the food shortage is going to run afoul of the Agenda 21 crowd. Those sociopaths believe that the earth can only SUSTAIN 500 million people... That means that 6.5 billion of us have to go... whoops... competing enviro-fascist ideologies.
Yeah.. the Agenda 21 globalists see mass starvation as the way to save the world from those evil pests who are destroying it... That means us folks... that's why they're forcing us to create food shortages all over by putting our corn in our gas tanks.
Leave it to mother nature and the free market economy, and everything will work out just fine. The last thing we need is more far left do gooders who are out to save the world.
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A reply on Talk: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
"wealth attainment is largely ARBITRARY. Wilkinson affirmed this in one of his slides on income mobility. "
All that tells us is that Joseph isn't wealthy.
And since Wilkinson is a Marxist, his "visual aids" don't impress me.
It doesn't matter Joseph whether the rich guy you simultaneously envy and loathe, earned his wealth or inherited it. If he didn't make it on his own then his father or grandfather did, and since it was his, he was entitled to leave it to his kids.
If you were successful, wouldn't you at least in part have become wealthy out of a desire to provide a better life for your kids and your grandchildren?
Of course you would. Yet you espouse a political philosophy that justifies your right to TAKE it away from the kids and grandchildren of others who DID earn it.
There's several descriptive words for people who can't make it on their own, and think the world owes them a better lifestyle... Calling them losers is the most accurate... Calling them democrats is more politically correct.
A reply on Talk: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
"Evolution is satisfaction in who we are, cooperation with each other and the planet."
is pure nonsense. It's human nature to want to improve every single aspect of their lives, and that includes what they have. All of the great accomplishments of mankind derive from that desire.
Socialism doesn't create a rebirth of the human community, it makes it stagnate. Socialism, by all of its different names, has only failed every time its been tried. It will never work because it runs counter to human nature. Life isn't "fair", and people aren't equal, and that's the way it is.
Evolution occurs because only the fittest survive.
A comment on Talk: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
Perhaps we'd be better off if rather than trying to measure the happiness of the masses, we tried to measure the total contribution to civilization of the people who earn the most. When we do, we see that the contributions of the richest are far higher than their earnings suggest.
It's easy to be altruistic with money earned by others. Honor not the pompous altruist who buys his virtue by doling out wealth to others while cursing the evil men who produced it. Honor instead the one who created the wealth in the first place.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."
H.L. Mencken
A reply on Talk: Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
Don't give up. You've got it right, and the elite here simply can't see the forest for the trees. Marxism is alive and well here at TED!
A comment on Conversation: So what is the CO2 footprint of nuclear energy really?
CO2 is plant food. We exhale CO2 with each breath. CO2 is NOT a pollutant, and the entire global warming panic is a hoax.
The most ironic part of the whole stupid scam is that WARMING IS GOOD! And you're going to realize that more and more in the coming years as we enter another cooling period. How was your winter so far in the UK?
Look at the following article in Time Magazine, Another Ice Age?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
Look closely at what it says about our vehicle emissions on page 2 in the 2nd paragraph:
"Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth."
That's right, they're actually claiming that our emissions were blocking the warmth of the sun from reaching earth thereby causing the planet to grow too cold. Wait... I thought the climate alarmists say that our emissions are causing the earth to get too warm.....
Silly me (I get confused too easily these days with all the bull$hit that's flying around) The article mentioned above from Time magazine was from the June 24th, 1974 issue. Isn't that interesting. 35 years ago the alarmists were in a panic over the coming ice age. Then, for the last 35 years, they've been freaking out about global warming... But wait, the warming stopped 10 years ago, and now they're starting to panic over the coming ice age again.
I suggest you check out the following article, "159 Years of Climate Alarmism at The New York Times"
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/01/24/159-years
Why do we even listen to these liars & fools?
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A reply on Conversation: How important is Religion?
"Or perhaps this isn't even a worthy goal? What do you think?"
JT's remark was right on topic. Religion is important only historically. It's an absurd waste of time for any rational person today. There was a great TED talk on the subject that I highly recommend you view:
Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html
On a more lighthearted note, watch Julia Sweeney's video at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_sweeney_on_letting_go_of_god.html
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A comment on Conversation: How do we get countries like USA or Canada to operate more like households & businesses? i.e. to not print money/spend more than they have.
Serious term limits are also quite useful.
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A comment on Conversation: which is the most universal feature of human beings?
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A reply on Conversation: We need a political party devoted to maximizing the value of people's TIME.
How about a FREEDOM PARTY?
Its sole raison d'etre would be the return of all of the individual freedoms and liberties that the American people have had stolen from them by the arrogant elitists who run our government, academia and our media, and who think that they're entitled to tell everyone how to live their lives.
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