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  1. The decreasing strength of the U.S. military with respect to other world powers (which gets worse during Democrat administrations (Carter-Clinton-Obama)) means that the US can't protect its interests effectively when bad actors like Russia, China, and North Korea make incursions on their neighbors.

    Of course, it's the sign of a genuine statist when cuts to one part of government are routed to another part of government instead of returned to the taxpayers from whom the money was stolen in the first place.

  2. Selling socialism to the richer middle class that Trump is generating will not work.

  3. Re:Fastest transition to 3rd world nation? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia, circa 1917.

  4. Re:Fastest transition to 3rd world nation? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With luck, the firings will be of political hacks using the NWS to promote global warming propaganda.

  5. Re:Trump isn't going far enough on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    World ends tomorrow. Women, children, transgenders and poor hardest hit. Details at 11.

  6. Re:Trump isn't going far enough on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The White House was used as a B&B during the Clinton administration.

  7. Re:Trump isn't going far enough on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    During the last hurricane season, they let slip their secret. They run dozens of models, and base their probabilities on how many models predict a certain range of results. Little thinking and expertise involved, just dumb accumulation of computer predictions.

  8. Re:Adios, bureaucrats! There's an app for your job on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Satellites aren't run by forecasters.

  9. Modern reseach on The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "Large" doses of vitamin D - 5000 IU/day or more - is fairly effective at preventing the flu. Given that this year's flu vaccine isn't very effective, vitamin D is a superior choice and brings other health benefits. If you're really worried about contracting the flu, use both.

  10. Re:3000 ppl in us died from flu on The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    A not poor woman in my neighborhood died a week ago from complications of the flu. First she was treated in a local hospital, then taken by ambulance to a major hospital of the highest quality. It was neither prejudice nor poverty that did her in, just misfortune and a nasty disease.

    So take your leftist anti-US bias and shove it.

  11. Re:What the devil are you on about? on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The age of "racist drug policy" is long gone; the urge to ban substances is based on authoritarianism and dogooderism. Accusing people of racism where none exists weakens your case and makes you look like a fool.

    It gets worse. Your tying race to poverty reveals that you have racist beliefs.

  12. Re:You know, if people want to.... on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The FDA, like many federal agencies, has a long history of corruption and arresting innocent people. As long as these behaviors are intact, the FDA should not be making any decisions to prohibit anything. Since, in fact, these behaviors will never end as long as the FDA exists, it should be disbanded and a new agency created with far less scope and power. Basically, the FDA should do nothing but test for purity and shut down firms that sell adulterated products. Banning and chasing down mind-degrading drugs should be limited to the DEA.

  13. Everyone benefits from inequality. People who advance civilization are people who aren't equal to the average human.

  14. Re:Giant sucking machine on Hoping That Sucking CO2 From the Air Will Fix the Climate? Good Luck (easac.eu) · · Score: 1

    Filtering out the bad stuff will only give those darned humans another chance to pollute the air. Pump the whole atmosphere into storage tanks and keep it there. That'll show 'em.

  15. Re:As a German, ... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Pride is the crown of the virtues, that can be achieved when all other virtues have been attained.

  16. Re:As a German, ... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume you are referring to legal immigration. A per capita immigration rate 23 times that of the illegal US immigration would make Canada somewhere between majority immigrant.and over 100% immigrant.

  17. Re:I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There's more to the world than fascism and collectivism; neither of which includes freedom.

  18. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are the True Scotsman.

    The only people who define free markets as you do are the enemies of free markets.

  19. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Telling a fictional story, when the audience understands that the story is fiction, does not make you a liar. Most of the rest of your post suffers the same degree of confusion.

  20. Re:unborn baby not fetus on The Second Coming of Ultrasound (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    They're undead theocrats.
    When a corpse bloats, can we say it has risen?

  21. Re:Very sad on Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I read The Dispossessed a couple of years ago. Boring. Inadequate understanding of both communism and capitalism.

  22. Re:That ain't be pop on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Hip-hop started out as "kill the cops and rape your dad, ho". It's the gradual acceptance of hip-hop by pop music that's dragging down pop.

  23. Re:EDM? Maybe 15 years ago on Is Pop Music Becoming Louder, Simpler and More Repetitive? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The record companies own the radio stations

    1959 wants its payola scandal back. In addition,

    [citation needed]

  24. Re:No excuse for another partisan vote... on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "Net Neutrality" is government control of the Internet. How big a fool does one have to be, how ignorant of history, to not understand that this is a tool for the party in power to suppress opposing views?

  25. Re:What they really need on Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Senators and Representatives have as their first priority lining their own pockets, which makes as their 2nd priority serving those who bribe them.