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Friday, November 13, 2009 12:24 PM

People Are Not Equal: Get Over It

Inequality exists in every single human society ever created because human beings are simply not equal to each other.

This is the brutal truth that most intellectuals cannot face. People are not equal. Period.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 08:23 AM

Rich Have Always Had Longer Lifespan

The rich have always had a longer lifespan than the poor, as well as more power and often physical prowess from nutrition.

And if you socialize medicine, won't the top socialists have better lifespans and nutrition"? All you do when you create socialism is create a new proletariate to lord over, you think you would have learned that by now...

Friday, October 23, 2009 09:26 AM

What would the proceeding be?

So what would the judicial proceeding be like? What kind of process would fulfill this obligation?

Friday, October 9, 2009 09:40 AM
Original article: Is the opt-out a cop-out?

You Really Want To Take Off That Manacle

For the moment Republicans have been under the impression that reconciliation was only to be used for budget matters. You should rationally fear what would happen if they got the majority back and felt they now had a license to go completely berzerk with the power.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 07:55 PM

She Said No

You forgot the whole non consensual "rape" part about it.

And it was the Mom who called the police!!!!

Use you intarnet capabilities to get your facts straight.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 02:10 PM

Post China Dump Shock

If you really want to wall yourself in nanananan I-can't-see-the-real-world-keynesianism then yes, the actual dollar collapse would precede the other countries dropping it.

If, you make the tiny tiny assumption that the Chinese might "strategically" look ahead, and say, not make ahistorical decisions, then the dump will come before the dollar fully dives. The shock from the China bond dump will be fatal, and the dollar will become like the old Italian and Israeli Liras.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:37 AM

Photosynthesis: An Introduction

They probably didn't teach you this for your journalism degree, but photosynthesis is light + CO2 + H2O ---> glucose + O2.

In general, the things that get you more out of the process are solar radiation, carbon dioxide and water. Just ask a farmer. Seriously.

Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 AM

Socialism Failed: Get Over It

Overpopulation was invented by liberals who wanted to explain why their pet third world socialist nations were ravaged by famines. It wasn't the socialism, of course, it was to many brown people! What India needed wasn't capitalist agriculture, but some good old fashioned liberal eugenics!

Seriously, socialism failed because is it a manifest failure of a system, get over it. You don't have to go on some eugenics campaign against the brown people of the world over it.

Monday, September 28, 2009 11:26 AM

Science Based Solutions

1) Genetic Engineering

2) Nuclear Power

3) Extra terrestrial mining and settlement

Friday, September 25, 2009 03:39 PM

Because Global Warming is Dumb Like Eugenics

Global Warming is offensive to the analytical mind. The models are completely unphysical, the data has been obviously forged and the theory clashes with the most elementary knowledge of earth science.

It is, like Eugenics, an anti-human political movement thinly veiled in the guise of junk science. Eugenics models, like climate models, were not based on "observation" or "real world" analysis, but rather on models built entirely on preconceived untested notions.

Monday, September 21, 2009 12:07 PM

What Is Thoughtful About Misery?

You seam to assert that bringing misery on yourself somehow gives you virtue. It actually only makes you a self righteous prick.

Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:35 AM

Child Prostitution Is Not Such A Big Deal Anyways

They only were complicit in the sex trafficking of children and the running of brothels for child prostitutes. I mean, common! What kind of moral perfection do these reactionaries want?

Sunday, September 13, 2009 02:30 PM
Original article: The family who just said no

He Still Used Fire Tools and Language

Hominids lived in harmony with nature long before they controlled fire, used tools or language. No impact my ass.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:21 PM

libertarians on drugs

And the libertarians aren't on drugs? roflz...

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 01:00 AM
Original article: Healthcare, American style

Its Called Confounding Variables Artard

You may have learned the term "confounding variables" in college, if you went to liberal arts college, I forgive you, because they don't require you to analyze anything.

"Confounding variables" are variables not included in the original analysis that could impact the analysis.

In this case, it might be called "lifestyles of Americans". These include:

1) Americans drive more cars than everyone else.

2) Americans are fatter than everyone else.

3) Americans do more drugs than everyone else.

If you paid attention in your freshman stats class (assuming you didn't go to liberal arts college, in which case I expect nothing analytical from you), you would know to factor in for these things.

Thursday, August 27, 2009 02:05 PM

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 03:12 PM

What about a 100 trillion dollar deficit?

What about 100 trillion? You surely cannot tell anyone with an IQ above 70 that that is OK. Where do you draw the line or does your Keynesian catechism only allow you to use math to promote intervention?

Sunday, August 23, 2009 03:03 PM

Revolution IS Violence Against the State

What the f@#$ do you think the American Revolution was? A non violent resistance movement?

Sunday, August 23, 2009 02:05 PM

What About Americans Have Specifically Rejected Health Reform?

The one possibility completely taboo to liberals, even smart ones like Greenwald is that the American people are genuinly rejecting health care reform. That is, the American people, with full knowledge of what Obama wants to do, are rejecting his ideas.

Liberals cannot cognate this because of their ironclad belief that the majority of the people are always liberal, that the people, by definition, can never honestly reject liberal policy.

Writing this will change nothing of course, and all for the best, for this truly is the Waterloo of American liberalism. While health care holds the road and the Hougemont, Blucher's global warming corps comes from the right, to put the liberal hoard to route.

Saturday, August 22, 2009 10:03 AM

No to Egalitarian Death!

I suspect the author has a slight death wish, perhaps a fantasy that her death has to mean something in order for her life to (a pathology of primitive humanity that survives to this day).

British egalitarianism kills. A committee literally called N.I.C.E votes whether your life is worth saving to the body politic, and if they blackball you, you got to the grave.

Now I'm sure this idea thrills the author, as this would give her life meaning. She died in the service of the State budget! How stimulating. How the empty human life she once had now has meaning.

Friday, August 21, 2009 03:52 AM

That Implies the Death Panels in the Bill Are Real

Countering the argument of the bill having death panels by saying death panels already exist tacitly says that the bill has death panels.

Monday, August 17, 2009 12:19 PM
Original article: Our new secret weapon sucks

Not An Absurd Notion

Evacuating the air from tunnels with a giant pump is actually a pretty savage tactical idea. Innovation takes an open mind, in this case, a reactionary open mind.

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