The historical context of Mormonism, "Christian Science", and Scientology are well known and documented in detail. If well known fraud and idiocy aren't sufficient to deny them legal status, Pastafarianism ought to be on firm ground.
Timbuktu is African desert, so there is a disadvantage there with respect to natural resources and intelligence. The population density is pretty low, which also discourages the accumulation of brainpower needed for advancement. More importantly, like almost every place in Africa, the government is none too good. Mali is 90% Islam, so that helps screw things up also.
You can't eat bullshit or drive it, or live in it. Hucksterism is destructive, and it's not what made America great.
It appears that many people consider 40 hours a week a good trade for the stuff it makes possible for them to acquire
There is very little hard manual labor in the US any more. The claim "we just work people harder" is blatantly false.
Government taxes (including bracket creep) and regulation continue to increase, meaning that gains in productivity enabled by technology are cancelled by government screwing with our lives.
exclude more people from the workforce without providing them with a basic income.
The first is a direct result of minimum wage laws and other f***ups like Obamacare. And providing them with a basic income... Where the hell do you think that is going to come from - the magic money fairy? An adult who lives without producing is the recipient of stolen property.
"Working smarter" is management jargon which means "this problem can't be solved, so I'm going to blame you for not solving it. No raise this year, and put in more unpaid overtime."
The wikipedia article on productivity is a prime example of how experts will take a term well understood by the general public and warp it into something unrecognizable, the better to fool people and get themselves an undeserved income. Wikipedia mentions labor productivity as one factor of productivity, and the popular (and proper) understanding of productivity is labor productivity: the production of value per person.
Freedom is directly related to productivity because government regulations (reduction of freedom) makes production less efficient. Let's say I buy $11,000 worth of potassium ferricyanide for an industrial process. The bank reports the transaction to the feds because it's over $10,000, raising the bank's costs and wasting taxpayer's money.The chemical company might be required to report the sale to several federal agencies, such as the EPA and Homeland Security; another government expense and a burden on the chemical supplier. Maybe one of those agencies decides that the sale should be prevented, which is really expensive for everyone, or demands that I fill out a form explaining why I need the chemical and how I'm going to handle it to meet OSHA regulations. The DOT puts its hand in also, requiring that the chemical be boxed in containers of no more than 10 pounds each, with no more than 200 pounds carried on a single vehicle, with a signed form in triplicate taped to each box, using tape meeting a federal specification (which is no longer manufactured). And on, and on, and that's why freedom accompanies productivity.
I've used butter for pie crusts, and the result is not a light, flaky crust.
Olive oil has a distinctive flavor that is not necessarily pleasant, depending on what it's used in.
It gets better yet. It's not enough just to get adequate omega-3, it has to be the right type (especially if you're older). DHA is the mostly-needed variety of omega-3, and there generally isn't DHA in vegetable sources of omega-3 (which contain mostly EPA).
So, eat salmon or fish oil. Keep your DHA intake up to at least half of your omega-6 intake, and don't stress out if you have some saturated fats (particularly coconut oil).
The story is that the FBI was looking for a contact list: people or organizations to be considered for further investigation. If such a list contained Joe's Pizza, Al's Garage, and 9 people named Mohammed, some of that list is likely to be terrorist related.
It's a question of looking for likely suspects, and being on the list is by itself not evidence of guilt.
Even "confidential" material can make people dead if leaked. There are many considerations, including but not limited to duration, scope, scale, and cost of the damage caused by compromised information.
Antigun laws tend to be passed at the local and state level, usually by Democrats or left-leaning Republicans. Occasionally those laws are overthrown in court.
You can drive your car on your road all you want and never pay the state a penny on the car after the original purchase taxes. Drive on the government's roads, you pay for it.
Property taxes are excessive because they fund much more than the proper functions to protect your property. That does not mean that some low level of taxation is not proper, nor that if you refuse to pay for services rendered the government shouldn't seize whatever is necessary to cover the value you've stolen.
Urban area unemployment rate is over 33% approaches even 50%. That means even in those blighted areas 50 to 66% of the people actually go to work.
Egads, is that what you think? The popularly quoted government statistic for unemployment rate only considers people who (claim they) are actively looking for a job.
A person not seeing why such a service is necessary is a person who never thinks of assaulting women, That is not "part of the problem," it's not even related to the problem.
You're forgetting the ambitious ones, who'll pull out and sell the built-in appliances, strip out the wiring and sell it for the copper. Or host booze parties for underage teens.
There's a huge difference between taking care of the truly mentally defective and providing taxpayer funded hospitalization for a skier who jumps off cliffs because "Hey, I don't have to pay." When people are allowed not to bear the consequences of their actions they will act irresponsibly; that's the basis of communism and it should be minimized.
You lumped together items that do not belong together and then claimed "What they do not want, it seems, is to pay for all that."
Police, fire dept., and schools are things people are forced to pay for whether they use them or not. Public grade schools are particularly egregious because some people don't use them at all, and because costs are roughly twice what they should be. Where I live, about 2/3 of taxes go to public schools, and that's egregious. Housemaids and restaurant service are recognized as luxuries and no reasonable person is unwilling to pay for them.
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The historical context of Mormonism, "Christian Science", and Scientology are well known and documented in detail. If well known fraud and idiocy aren't sufficient to deny them legal status, Pastafarianism ought to be on firm ground.
Timbuktu is African desert, so there is a disadvantage there with respect to natural resources and intelligence. The population density is pretty low, which also discourages the accumulation of brainpower needed for advancement. More importantly, like almost every place in Africa, the government is none too good. Mali is 90% Islam, so that helps screw things up also.
You can't eat bullshit or drive it, or live in it. Hucksterism is destructive, and it's not what made America great.
It appears that many people consider 40 hours a week a good trade for the stuff it makes possible for them to acquire
There is very little hard manual labor in the US any more. The claim "we just work people harder" is blatantly false.
Government taxes (including bracket creep) and regulation continue to increase, meaning that gains in productivity enabled by technology are cancelled by government screwing with our lives.
The first is a direct result of minimum wage laws and other f***ups like Obamacare. And providing them with a basic income... Where the hell do you think that is going to come from - the magic money fairy? An adult who lives without producing is the recipient of stolen property.
"Working smarter" is management jargon which means "this problem can't be solved, so I'm going to blame you for not solving it. No raise this year, and put in more unpaid overtime."
The wikipedia article on productivity is a prime example of how experts will take a term well understood by the general public and warp it into something unrecognizable, the better to fool people and get themselves an undeserved income. Wikipedia mentions labor productivity as one factor of productivity, and the popular (and proper) understanding of productivity is labor productivity: the production of value per person.
Freedom is directly related to productivity because government regulations (reduction of freedom) makes production less efficient. Let's say I buy $11,000 worth of potassium ferricyanide for an industrial process. The bank reports the transaction to the feds because it's over $10,000, raising the bank's costs and wasting taxpayer's money.The chemical company might be required to report the sale to several federal agencies, such as the EPA and Homeland Security; another government expense and a burden on the chemical supplier. Maybe one of those agencies decides that the sale should be prevented, which is really expensive for everyone, or demands that I fill out a form explaining why I need the chemical and how I'm going to handle it to meet OSHA regulations. The DOT puts its hand in also, requiring that the chemical be boxed in containers of no more than 10 pounds each, with no more than 200 pounds carried on a single vehicle, with a signed form in triplicate taped to each box, using tape meeting a federal specification (which is no longer manufactured). And on, and on, and that's why freedom accompanies productivity.
I've used butter for pie crusts, and the result is not a light, flaky crust.
Olive oil has a distinctive flavor that is not necessarily pleasant, depending on what it's used in.
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Unprocessed casava will kill you by cyanide poisoning. Properly processed, the result is relatively harmless tapioca.
"Natural" is sleeping nude on a glacier. Permanently.
It gets better yet. It's not enough just to get adequate omega-3, it has to be the right type (especially if you're older). DHA is the mostly-needed variety of omega-3, and there generally isn't DHA in vegetable sources of omega-3 (which contain mostly EPA).
So, eat salmon or fish oil. Keep your DHA intake up to at least half of your omega-6 intake, and don't stress out if you have some saturated fats (particularly coconut oil).
The story is that the FBI was looking for a contact list: people or organizations to be considered for further investigation. If such a list contained Joe's Pizza, Al's Garage, and 9 people named Mohammed, some of that list is likely to be terrorist related.
It's a question of looking for likely suspects, and being on the list is by itself not evidence of guilt.
Even "confidential" material can make people dead if leaked. There are many considerations, including but not limited to duration, scope, scale, and cost of the damage caused by compromised information.
<sarcasm> That's why troops are still forcibly housed in private residences in peacetime. </sarcasm>
Antigun laws tend to be passed at the local and state level, usually by Democrats or left-leaning Republicans. Occasionally those laws are overthrown in court.
The Valerie Plame story that got widest distribution was BS, missing critical details that showed Libby blameless.
You can drive your car on your road all you want and never pay the state a penny on the car after the original purchase taxes. Drive on the government's roads, you pay for it.
Property taxes are excessive because they fund much more than the proper functions to protect your property. That does not mean that some low level of taxation is not proper, nor that if you refuse to pay for services rendered the government shouldn't seize whatever is necessary to cover the value you've stolen.
Egads, is that what you think? The popularly quoted government statistic for unemployment rate only considers people who (claim they) are actively looking for a job.
A person not seeing why such a service is necessary is a person who never thinks of assaulting women, That is not "part of the problem," it's not even related to the problem.
"You can't just not allow enemy soldiers into your country" is what you're claiming. Read the Koran.
Our efforts would be entirely superfluous.
Perhaps your dad would have been better off in a state with open carry. Even an empty holster tends to make strangers polite.
Religious nutters have mostly lost the power to drain your wallet. Progressives base their lives on draining your wallet.
You're forgetting the ambitious ones, who'll pull out and sell the built-in appliances, strip out the wiring and sell it for the copper. Or host booze parties for underage teens.
There's a huge difference between taking care of the truly mentally defective and providing taxpayer funded hospitalization for a skier who jumps off cliffs because "Hey, I don't have to pay." When people are allowed not to bear the consequences of their actions they will act irresponsibly; that's the basis of communism and it should be minimized.
You lumped together items that do not belong together and then claimed "What they do not want, it seems, is to pay for all that."
Police, fire dept., and schools are things people are forced to pay for whether they use them or not. Public grade schools are particularly egregious because some people don't use them at all, and because costs are roughly twice what they should be. Where I live, about 2/3 of taxes go to public schools, and that's egregious.
Housemaids and restaurant service are recognized as luxuries and no reasonable person is unwilling to pay for them.