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Both Parties Ignore the Facts
An anonymous reader writes "Any democrat will tell you the republicans ignore the facts. Any republican will tell you the democrats ignore the facts. Turns out they're right. A new study monitored brain activity of partisans; they shun logic and use emotional processing centers to justify their candidate's contradictory statements. 'With their minds made up, brain activity ceased in the areas that deal with negative emotions such as disgust. But activity spiked in the circuits involved in reward, a response similar to what addicts experience when they get a fix.'"
Change your dictionary.
Both parties are to blame for the rise in power of the central government. These politicians are mandated by the Constitution to take an oath to uphold the Constitution and they've failed that. I have a solution for those that violate the law they promise to abide by or create.
top worrying about the rest of the country or the rest of the world or even the rest of your state
Yeah sure, what the World needs is the US ignoring even more what's happening elsewhere. I would have rather said "stop trying to fix the rest of the State/Country/World". But keeping in touch with what happens in our World while working to improve our close communities is probably more positive.
Some communities kind mind their own business when their business is influenced by a very close-by neighbour. They have to work together in common interest. But sure, I guess that in the US there are plenty of far-and-away communities who just have to take care of themselves and not worry about the rest. They just need to keep in touch with what's happening.
"You superiour intellect is no match for our puny weapons" - The Simpsons
Yup. And screw over the democrats. Thanks again!
Love,
-the republican party.
But, if you allow guns to be sold to anyone, and the majority of people are peaceful, law abiding, life-andproperty rights respecting people, then it's a win. If you believe the vast majority of people are vile, despicable, lawless and likely to commit gun crimes, then civilization is lost already (and you are probably a democrat).
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Wow, that's interesting. I'd have been happy to tell you where kerry was wrong. Actually, 5 areas might have been pushing it, since he was so wishy washy on so many issues. Still, I figured he'd be better than bush, and i'm pretty well convinced by the outcome.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Heh heh. I think you'd be hard pressed to find many Republicans who will agree to your health care premises. Most of them feel that the status quo is just fine, that people with money should have access to better care than those without.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
You're right, but what he thinks about the law also sucks. Unitary executive theory can blow me.
And goddamn get your own talking points. The baseball analogies have been played to death.
And I suppose you were armed? No? Then WTF are you talking about? You didn't have the choice to shoot the mugger! When you say "choose to fight" I think you mean "fight an unarmed battle against an armed man". IF I'm armed and someone tries to rob me and IF I can get to pistol instead of wallet, guess which one I'm gonna go for? Obviously, if the mugger is already presenting a firearm, your chances of shooting him go down dramatically. If however, the bad buy doesn't have his weapon pointed at me or seems as if he's not really motivated to kill me, he's gonna die (unless he shoots me in the head first!)
This sig kills fascists.
To the extent that Republicans are capitalistic, they are selfish. (I'm an Objectivist; I regard this as a good thing.) Don't confuse selfish with short-sighted.
Alas, you are correct that much that is bipartisan is bad: it results from both sides discarding the good parts of their philosophies, with a result that is both stupid and short-sighted.
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It's funny how ignorant the democrats can be to the same blind bias they bitch about the right.
Only on Slashdot would such a biased subjective troll be modded +4 Insightful and your own objective post left untouched.
BWAHAHAHAH!
Not quite, moron.
There is a war going on for your mind.