I think there's already a cure for virginity... most people become immune naturally by the time they're twenty or so, but for a modest fee one can be cured at any local brothel.
Hey, if we eliminate virginity on a mass-scale, wont Muslims be pretty fucked? The supply of virgins has to be pretty robust to support the martyrdom industry. Wont somebody pleeease think of the Muslims?
It would be soooo funny if it were still call "Gay-Related Immune Deficiency"... especially now that the majority of the afflicted are heterosexual women. I'm laughing just thinking about it.
It really does sound totally made up. Like something that an insane southern christian would think of to put on a poorly-made sign at a rally.
Here's an idea: if you don't want your kids to see violence, TURN OFF THE TV. Goddam, what kind of pitiful coward can't tell his children to change the channel? If you still can't handle it, get rid of the damn thing. Televisions are not a necessity. I don't own a television precisely because I don't want to see what's on it. See how easy it is? Damn, I thought only Americans were so pathetic and stupid that they would defend censorship in the name of providing completely imaginary protection for children.
Incidentally, people do have an inherent drive to hurt each other. Otherwise, why would every single society in all of Human history have needed laws regarding murder, assault, rape, and all the various other violent crimes that we've been struggling with since before the time of Hammurabi? Even the Otzi Ice-Man -- from 3300 BCE, was murdered. And this was long before there were any violent television programs to convince his fellows that shooting each other with chalcolithic arrows was the cool thing to do.
Who do you think is sending the thousands and thousands of letters to the FCC... who do you think is placing the thousands and thousands of phone calls to the FCC... who do you think sends the millions of e-mails to the FCC... ?
The FCC isn't a group that just randomly censors this and that. They have a "constituency" (of sorts) that tells them what to do. People that complain about things that they don't want to see on television. And nearly all of those people all fall within exactly one group: parents. There's a reason that censorship and the police state are generally referred to be the euphemism of "family values".
Here's another. Oops! That was accidentally a link to a compilation of the corruption, greed, and support for fascist dictatorships that the Bush family has been engaging in for the last six decades. Still, it makes for an interesting diversion on the subject of Republican "family values" (ie: they're completely fictitious).
Funny that it's the Republican-loaded FCC that pulls this kind of bullshit... and supposedly freedom-loving christians from the American South who act as the squeaky wheel that the FCC is constantly greasing with censorship. Christian Fundamentalists and Republicans -- both are groups that constantly decry the evils of big government, yet for some reason they go out of their way to support and encourage the very worst excesses of big government.
Just one more reason they should have been let go during the civil war... then Americans could be happy. Southerners with their theocratic, micromanaging, fascist state where women and black people are property. Northerners with their happiness, free speech, alcohol, sharing, education, non-mandatory church attendance, and no tax-payer-crippling farm-subsidies and corporate-welfare.
I think he's just confusing two different things -- a few mm-turbines running on hydrogen to power, say, flashlights and things, versus enormous arrays of them running on natural gas or something as a portable and inexpensive power plant.
I think it says something very interesting about Americans that the "how can I turn this into a lawsuit?" response has come up so many times now. What exactly is it that makes Americans so incredibly hateful and stupid that all they can think of in response to any situation is how to make other people's lives miserable? WHO CARES if some people walk up a little ways up your driveway and then leave? Y'all need to get a life.
That's funny, we've been refraining from sending JTF2 after your K-Feds and Justin Timberlakes precisely because we love YOUR bacon so much.
The world's strongest international partnership, held together entirely by mutual appreciation for each other's bacon. It's like a fairy tale come to life.
Because this isn't a grant to do research. It's a grant to publically take a certain position on an issue. They are being paid to use their scientific reputations (not skills) as part of a marketing effort to sway public opinion on anthropogenic climate change. No science is actually involved here, other than in the sense that scientific integrity is being as casually trod-upon as the survivability of our descendants.
You didn't read the article, did you. ExxonMobil isn't offering the money to DO research. It's offering the money for scientists to just start saying that they doubt the validity of anthropogenic climate change. This isn't a bounty for reserarch, it's a standing offer for scientists to trade their integrity for cash.
As long as there's still some hope that the cat may be alive, it will exist in a superposition such that the living-cat component has some non-zero weight, which we will call XL.
We stick ourselves with burdens to benefit our children's children all the time. New Yorkers have spent decades paying for an aqueduct system that wont benefit anyone for decades yet. We also stick ourselves with burdens that will never benefit anyone but our parents. Retirement for the baby boomers is a particularly severe example of this, since my generation will pay far, far more into the world's retirement savings plans than we will ever have any hope of getting out.
So you're saying you DIDN'T have a negative reaction to 9/11? There are certain presumptions that one can reasonably make -- I can presume that you breath a mixture of mostly oxygen and nitrogen, for example. I can presume that you possess a liver and an instinctive desire to own a residence of some kind. And I can presume -- particularly since you are an American -- that you freaked-the-fuck-out on 9/11, and continue to live in a state of deep and profound fear. It's a presumption that has a high likelihood of being correct, so there is no reason not to make out. Thanks for trying to piss on the basic concept of approaching life empirically though...
Do some research -- most projections suggest that Manhattan will be experiencing serious flooding on a regular basis.
They're quite confident that flooding on the scale of what occurred in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina would be a frequent occurrence; much of Manhattan would be underwater multiple times a year.
I know you think that scientists just make these things up because they hate you and want to take away everyone's SUVs, but it's just not the case. And I'm sure you believe that people who are concerned about this are actually just jealous of you and want to take away your money, but that too is not the case. You're confusing scientists and environmentalists with politicians and other sorts of busybodies.
Do I have the right to put your life in danger? Can I store pipe bombs in your house? Can I leave a baggy of Acetone Peroxide on the hood of your car, just because I need to set it down somewhere and it's convenient? Of course not -- the very idea is retarded. And it goes both ways. You don't have the right to put me or my descendants in danger. It doesn't matter one little bit that you're too fucking cheap to accept the true costs of transportation, of electricity, of heating and air-conditioning, etc. If you have to endanger me and my descendants to get those things, you should expect to pay a premium. My lung-tissue isn't free -- do you think that you should be allowed to pump mercury and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, just because you want cheap power? Fuck you. You think you can play russian roullette with the world's climate, just because you're too cheap to buy an electric car and pay for renewable electricity? Nope, sorry. My right to life and security, and my descendants right to life and security, trump your greed and selfishness. Even if it is just a risk, and not a certainty, you don't have the right to put ME at risk.
You can put yourself at risk of course -- get your own little coal-generator, run it in your basement, and plug your chimney so that the emissions stay inside your house. I bet you'll suddenly feel VERY strongly about how dangerous those emissions are.
Yeah, the title of this article is horribly misleading. This device is exactly the opposite of Maxwell's Demon -- it consumes energy and increases entropy. Maxwell's demon reduces entropy and can generate energy.
Obviously, the article irresistably leads to a discussion of Maxwell's Demon, and how this machine highlights the thermodynamic principles that were uncovered during the examination of that wonderfully subtle and insightful thought experiment. But it definitely doesn't mean that Maxwell's Demon may be a reality than machines that exploit relativistic effects suggest that we'll be able to ride around on beams of light, as in Einstein's thought experiment. Or that we'll be able to create superpositions of alive cats and dead cats (the hot new Valentine's gift for 2007 -- all the furriness and half the upkeep!)
1. You've obviously never seen an oligotropic lake. Acid rain IS a serious problem. It's effect on the forest industry and on lake ecosystems is quite dramatic.
2. Oil IS running out. All nonrenewable resources will ultimately be depleted, basically by definition. The estimates of how much we have were wrong back then, but that's a stupid, stupid reason to discount the idea of oil EVER running out. I mean, that's some circus-grade stupidity.
3. The mean estimates for sea level rise by 2100 are about 4.8 metres. That's more than enough to submerge many parts of Manhattan, and to flood the majority of the city during even a small hurricane. Manhattan is a major centre of US economic activity, and contains a great deal of American infrastructure. A sizable portion of the US population lives there. The hilarious thing is that you probably still get all misty-eyed about 9/11, despite the knowledge that even a modest increase in sea level will have far, far worse effects on exactly the same city. The stupidity is amazing.
4. Only a moron is deterred by exaggeration. Every issue, without exception, has people making exaggerations. If those exaggerations make it impossible for you to take a subject seriously, you'll never believe anything and have difficulty navigating your way through your daily life. But of course, that's not what this is about -- you're perfectly fine with exaggerations. You just don't want to feel bad about being a part of the problem, and so you choose to believe things that will comfort you, rather than using reason.
It's sad that you've let the fear-mongering get to you. I suppose you don't take Republicans seriously, because of their terrorist fear-mongering? And I'm sure you wont mind if, when getting surgery, the surgeon doesn't bother to wash his hands... after all, who would ever take bacteria seriously after all this fear-mongering about drug-resistant TB and Staph infections? Covering your mouth when you sneeze? No way -- then the SARS-people win.
Welcome to the real world. Global climate change is happening. It's VERY real. And the consequences can be very, very serious. Sticking your head in the sand and thinking happy thoughts wont help.
National security IS a federal concern, isn't it? If Manhattan were to end up 10 feet below sea-level, the American economy would be severely impacted and vast amounts of American infrastructure would be destroyed. Increased hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico would kill many Americans. Droughts reducing America's agricultural potential, increasing American dependence on imports? Floods in other areas, similarly destroying crops? Malaria becoming rampant in the USA again?
You seem to be too stupid to understand the notion of consequences, so here's how it goes down: global warming == grave national threat. Think about it -- the feds can combat terrorism, and all terrorists can do is (at best) murder people and destroy infrastructure. Global climate change can utterly impoverish America and make it a supplicant nation, dependent on others for basic food-stuffs while half the population lives in shantytowns after having to abandon their flooded hometowns, and 10% of the workforce is unable to work because they have drug-resistant malaria.
I'd say that any president who DOESN'T make global climate change their business is not just stupid and incompetent, they're also a traitor. Frankly, it's kind of surprising that you would hold your president to a lower standard of accountability that you would a hobo or, say, a dead raccoon.
Incidentally, I have never hurt anyone, never committed adultery, I don't do drugs, and my government is much less corrupt than yours (I'm not American, after all). My government mostly uses its money to cure the sick -- ie, doing "godly" work. Your government mostly uses its money to kill people. My country is vastly more atheistic than yours, but has a much, much lower murder rate. And interestingly, Christians have a HIGHER divorce rate than atheists. Ain't that something? You can confirm all of these facts for yourself, incidentally.
The idea that these problems are due to people like me is laughable. The real problem is people like you that are too high and mighty to actually help anyone that isn't part of their church. Do you go out and give food to junkies? Do you help run programs to get them over their addictions? Do you do anything other than try to force kids to read the bible in school and badmouth the government? The bible even says that you should obey all secular authority and stay out of politics, you hypocrite.
You DO agree that women should not be allowed to hold the job of teacher, at least not to teach men. This pretty much screws over every single female college instructor, female university professor, and any other woman who does adult education of any kind.
You believe that if a girl experiences STATUTORY rape (ie: she is 12 and is raped by an adult) that she should be sold to that man and forced to marry her. So you're world is the pedophiles' utopia. All they have to do to get their own lolita-sex-slave is rape an underage girl -- after that, he owns her. Nice...
You believe that if a son squanders his family's wealth on drugs and girls, that it's okay to have him killed by the state (the bible is specific about stoning -- a punishment that is supposed to lead to death... slow, painful death). So death is the reasonable punishment for a child that doesn't love his family, community, and self?
You would actually burn your daughter for idolatry. I seriously hope that you have a daughter someday, so that when she turns her back on the church and becomes a buddhist (with those lovely gold statues) you can kill her and get the chair.
You didn't even read the bible quotes where Jesus says quite clearly that -- because of him -- you will be at war with your family, and that you will most likely have to abandon them. This is why I despise Christians -- they claim that the bible is infallible, but then they have to be really choosy about which parts of the bible they take seriously. They have to find bizarre contexts that certain rules only apply in. Read up:
Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. So all that stuff you say God gave you? Sorry, you don't get to keep it. You have to give it up, and soon.
Luke 18:29-30 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting. So yes, JESUS WANTS YOU TO ABANDON YOUR FAMILY! Children too.
Luke 9:59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. How is that for honouring thy father and mother? The bible isn't even consistent with itself. YOU aren't even close.
Mark 7:9-12. You just have to read that one for yourself, and then really think about whether you want to execute children for not being sufficiently obedient. Ask yourself whether YOU were obedient as a child, and whether you would even be alive today if your parents had been obeying the bible.
And still, no one has ever grown back an amputated arm. Ever. Not at a revivalist meeting, not at the vatican, not at your church, and not at mine. Not EVER. IT NEVER HAPPENS. EVER.
Just think about that one some more -- where are the miracle cures for amputees? Forget other disorders -- why doesn't God heal amputees? Just answer the question. Why hasn't God cured so much as a single amputee EVER? Why can't I find at least ONE person who had their severed limbs grow back because of faith? Is there really not even a single person on EARTH with enough faith? I suppose I should be happy -- it means Christianity really is dead, and there isn't enough faith left in the world to move a molehill.
I'm not sure, I didn't witness the event personally. But apparently it was impressive enough to change lives, particularly since it was done strictly because the gent in question felt the need for joint, and wasn't inclined to stop the bicycle. No stunt or showmanship, just one man, a dimebag and rolling paper, and what may very well have been the greatest feat in the history of that town (unless you count the stunning and poignantly empty acts of vandalism -- like larcenous Haikus, they were).
Where were we? Oh yes. It's not too surprising that people would assume that Hillary had a great deal of influence. How many other presidents had wives that were that active in federal politics? She had more influence over the president's decisions than anyone else, probably more than every other member of that government combined. That's not even asserting anything particularly unusual, unless you think that a husband completely tuning-out his wife is the usual state of affairs. I suppose Laura Bush could be just as influential; but we would probably never know because she's not out there campaigning and stating "her own" political views.
Impose it on others? What on earth are you talking about? Where did I say to ban religion? All I'm doing is using one of the freedoms that you pay lip-service to -- the freedom to tell others the truth.
And you still haven't addressed the glaring contradiction between the bible's claims of cures for faithful and the complete absence of most types of miracle cures, other than those that would have happened anyway regardless of faith.
And this -- "The Bible has advice on finances, planting, homebuilding, how to raise children, etc" -- this is just as much an argument in favour of Buddhism or Confucianism as it an argument in favour of Christianity. MOST of the old religions were designed to get people to do things that just happen to useful, particularly in the environments in which those people lived. It's the presence of advice that ISN'T usefull -- like stoning rape victims and murdering your children if they misbehave -- that proves the bible is as stupid as any other ancient mythology. Circumcision, for example, which the bible ORDERS people to do, is great for maintaining personal hygiene if you happen to live in an arid environment. But if you live in a land like ours, where water and soap are cheap and abundant, circumcision becomes an extremely stupid idea that bears a slight risk of causing death and makes life less enjoyable for men.
Besides, you DON'T live by the bible. You pick and choose which things to obey, just like every hypocrite.
Prevent women from teaching? You've probably had female teachers, and I doubt you're out campaigning for the PTA to bar female teachers. You're breaking God's law by not doing so.
To summarize: you're stupid and I hate you. You believe stupid things, you're a hypocrite, and if you actually obeyed the bible you'd be in jail the next day (and rightly so, since you'd be a raving sociopathic murderer).
Yeah, as if the president is going to admit that he vetoed a bill because his wife made him do it. The president has enough stress at the office; by the time he gets home at night, he's probably about ready to just shrug and say "yes dear" to pretty much anything.
Also, you should learn to recognize an admission of error couched within an attempt at humour when you see it. It's a valuable life skill, not unlike being able to roll a joint while riding a bicycle in a crosswind.
What makes you think that Americans don't want their business minded? We're talking about a very insecure, frightened people here. A people without even the basic comforts of modern living, like profanity and explicit sex on broadcast television. Having other people mind their business makes Americans feel safe, loved, and protected.
Freedom was a nice idea, but most people prefer to live in a cage. The cage has nice, well-delineated boundaries (the walls of the cage), you know your place (inside the cage), you're protected (by the cage). As long as you can convince yourself that YOU are the free one, and that it's the rest of the world that is actually trapped outside of the cage, then it's all gravy.
Your kids can already watch porn on their cellphones (as I found out in class a few weeks ago). All Telus is doing is offering to sell pornography. The free stuff was already available. So, for that matter, were commercial porn sites, for kids that have a credit card.
The thing is, if you're too goddam fucking stupid to NOT activate the adult-content service when you sign up for your child's cell phone contract, you deserve whatever you get. Granted, most people are indeed too stupid to even read their cell-phone contract, and are definitely too stupid to NOT check the little box that enables the adult content service... but that's just how life is. The kid that eats the most marbles doesn't get to grow up and have more kids. The kid who eats the second most will grow up and give his kids a big bag of cherry-flavoured marbles...
There is no hope for the children of stupid people. Let's just accept that, and allow the rest of us have our freedom.
Once again, Canadians are showing Yankees what capitalism is really all about, that the free market should be unfettered by nonsensical rules derived from implausible fairy tales.
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Hey, if we eliminate virginity on a mass-scale, wont Muslims be pretty fucked? The supply of virgins has to be pretty robust to support the martyrdom industry. Wont somebody pleeease think of the Muslims?
It really does sound totally made up. Like something that an insane southern christian would think of to put on a poorly-made sign at a rally.
Incidentally, people do have an inherent drive to hurt each other. Otherwise, why would every single society in all of Human history have needed laws regarding murder, assault, rape, and all the various other violent crimes that we've been struggling with since before the time of Hammurabi? Even the Otzi Ice-Man -- from 3300 BCE, was murdered. And this was long before there were any violent television programs to convince his fellows that shooting each other with chalcolithic arrows was the cool thing to do.
The FCC isn't a group that just randomly censors this and that. They have a "constituency" (of sorts) that tells them what to do. People that complain about things that they don't want to see on television. And nearly all of those people all fall within exactly one group: parents. There's a reason that censorship and the police state are generally referred to be the euphemism of "family values".
One of the principal offenders.
Here's another. Oops! That was accidentally a link to a compilation of the corruption, greed, and support for fascist dictatorships that the Bush family has been engaging in for the last six decades. Still, it makes for an interesting diversion on the subject of Republican "family values" (ie: they're completely fictitious).
Just one more reason they should have been let go during the civil war ... then Americans could be happy. Southerners with their theocratic, micromanaging, fascist state where women and black people are property. Northerners with their happiness, free speech, alcohol, sharing, education, non-mandatory church attendance, and no tax-payer-crippling farm-subsidies and corporate-welfare.
I think he's just confusing two different things -- a few mm-turbines running on hydrogen to power, say, flashlights and things, versus enormous arrays of them running on natural gas or something as a portable and inexpensive power plant.
I think it says something very interesting about Americans that the "how can I turn this into a lawsuit?" response has come up so many times now. What exactly is it that makes Americans so incredibly hateful and stupid that all they can think of in response to any situation is how to make other people's lives miserable? WHO CARES if some people walk up a little ways up your driveway and then leave? Y'all need to get a life.
The world's strongest international partnership, held together entirely by mutual appreciation for each other's bacon. It's like a fairy tale come to life.
Because this isn't a grant to do research. It's a grant to publically take a certain position on an issue. They are being paid to use their scientific reputations (not skills) as part of a marketing effort to sway public opinion on anthropogenic climate change. No science is actually involved here, other than in the sense that scientific integrity is being as casually trod-upon as the survivability of our descendants.
You didn't read the article, did you. ExxonMobil isn't offering the money to DO research. It's offering the money for scientists to just start saying that they doubt the validity of anthropogenic climate change. This isn't a bounty for reserarch, it's a standing offer for scientists to trade their integrity for cash.
As long as there's still some hope that the cat may be alive, it will exist in a superposition such that the living-cat component has some non-zero weight, which we will call XL.
So you're saying you DIDN'T have a negative reaction to 9/11? There are certain presumptions that one can reasonably make -- I can presume that you breath a mixture of mostly oxygen and nitrogen, for example. I can presume that you possess a liver and an instinctive desire to own a residence of some kind. And I can presume -- particularly since you are an American -- that you freaked-the-fuck-out on 9/11, and continue to live in a state of deep and profound fear. It's a presumption that has a high likelihood of being correct, so there is no reason not to make out. Thanks for trying to piss on the basic concept of approaching life empirically though...
Do some research -- most projections suggest that Manhattan will be experiencing serious flooding on a regular basis.
The Goddard Institute's page on the subject.
They're quite confident that flooding on the scale of what occurred in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina would be a frequent occurrence; much of Manhattan would be underwater multiple times a year.
I know you think that scientists just make these things up because they hate you and want to take away everyone's SUVs, but it's just not the case. And I'm sure you believe that people who are concerned about this are actually just jealous of you and want to take away your money, but that too is not the case. You're confusing scientists and environmentalists with politicians and other sorts of busybodies.
Do I have the right to put your life in danger? Can I store pipe bombs in your house? Can I leave a baggy of Acetone Peroxide on the hood of your car, just because I need to set it down somewhere and it's convenient? Of course not -- the very idea is retarded. And it goes both ways. You don't have the right to put me or my descendants in danger. It doesn't matter one little bit that you're too fucking cheap to accept the true costs of transportation, of electricity, of heating and air-conditioning, etc. If you have to endanger me and my descendants to get those things, you should expect to pay a premium. My lung-tissue isn't free -- do you think that you should be allowed to pump mercury and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, just because you want cheap power? Fuck you. You think you can play russian roullette with the world's climate, just because you're too cheap to buy an electric car and pay for renewable electricity? Nope, sorry. My right to life and security, and my descendants right to life and security, trump your greed and selfishness. Even if it is just a risk, and not a certainty, you don't have the right to put ME at risk.
You can put yourself at risk of course -- get your own little coal-generator, run it in your basement, and plug your chimney so that the emissions stay inside your house. I bet you'll suddenly feel VERY strongly about how dangerous those emissions are.
Obviously, the article irresistably leads to a discussion of Maxwell's Demon, and how this machine highlights the thermodynamic principles that were uncovered during the examination of that wonderfully subtle and insightful thought experiment. But it definitely doesn't mean that Maxwell's Demon may be a reality than machines that exploit relativistic effects suggest that we'll be able to ride around on beams of light, as in Einstein's thought experiment. Or that we'll be able to create superpositions of alive cats and dead cats (the hot new Valentine's gift for 2007 -- all the furriness and half the upkeep!)
2. Oil IS running out. All nonrenewable resources will ultimately be depleted, basically by definition. The estimates of how much we have were wrong back then, but that's a stupid, stupid reason to discount the idea of oil EVER running out. I mean, that's some circus-grade stupidity.
3. The mean estimates for sea level rise by 2100 are about 4.8 metres. That's more than enough to submerge many parts of Manhattan, and to flood the majority of the city during even a small hurricane. Manhattan is a major centre of US economic activity, and contains a great deal of American infrastructure. A sizable portion of the US population lives there. The hilarious thing is that you probably still get all misty-eyed about 9/11, despite the knowledge that even a modest increase in sea level will have far, far worse effects on exactly the same city. The stupidity is amazing.
4. Only a moron is deterred by exaggeration. Every issue, without exception, has people making exaggerations. If those exaggerations make it impossible for you to take a subject seriously, you'll never believe anything and have difficulty navigating your way through your daily life. But of course, that's not what this is about -- you're perfectly fine with exaggerations. You just don't want to feel bad about being a part of the problem, and so you choose to believe things that will comfort you, rather than using reason.
It's sad that you've let the fear-mongering get to you. I suppose you don't take Republicans seriously, because of their terrorist fear-mongering? And I'm sure you wont mind if, when getting surgery, the surgeon doesn't bother to wash his hands... after all, who would ever take bacteria seriously after all this fear-mongering about drug-resistant TB and Staph infections? Covering your mouth when you sneeze? No way -- then the SARS-people win.
Welcome to the real world. Global climate change is happening. It's VERY real. And the consequences can be very, very serious. Sticking your head in the sand and thinking happy thoughts wont help.
You seem to be too stupid to understand the notion of consequences, so here's how it goes down: global warming == grave national threat. Think about it -- the feds can combat terrorism, and all terrorists can do is (at best) murder people and destroy infrastructure. Global climate change can utterly impoverish America and make it a supplicant nation, dependent on others for basic food-stuffs while half the population lives in shantytowns after having to abandon their flooded hometowns, and 10% of the workforce is unable to work because they have drug-resistant malaria.
I'd say that any president who DOESN'T make global climate change their business is not just stupid and incompetent, they're also a traitor. Frankly, it's kind of surprising that you would hold your president to a lower standard of accountability that you would a hobo or, say, a dead raccoon.
The idea that these problems are due to people like me is laughable. The real problem is people like you that are too high and mighty to actually help anyone that isn't part of their church. Do you go out and give food to junkies? Do you help run programs to get them over their addictions? Do you do anything other than try to force kids to read the bible in school and badmouth the government? The bible even says that you should obey all secular authority and stay out of politics, you hypocrite.
- You DO agree that women should not be allowed to hold the job of teacher, at least not to teach men. This pretty much screws over every single female college instructor, female university professor, and any other woman who does adult education of any kind.
- You believe that if a girl experiences STATUTORY rape (ie: she is 12 and is raped by an adult) that she should be sold to that man and forced to marry her. So you're world is the pedophiles' utopia. All they have to do to get their own lolita-sex-slave is rape an underage girl -- after that, he owns her. Nice...
- You believe that if a son squanders his family's wealth on drugs and girls, that it's okay to have him killed by the state (the bible is specific about stoning -- a punishment that is supposed to lead to death
... slow, painful death). So death is the reasonable punishment for a child that doesn't love his family, community, and self?
- You would actually burn your daughter for idolatry. I seriously hope that you have a daughter someday, so that when she turns her back on the church and becomes a buddhist (with those lovely gold statues) you can kill her and get the chair.
You didn't even read the bible quotes where Jesus says quite clearly that -- because of him -- you will be at war with your family, and that you will most likely have to abandon them. This is why I despise Christians -- they claim that the bible is infallible, but then they have to be really choosy about which parts of the bible they take seriously. They have to find bizarre contexts that certain rules only apply in. Read up:And still, no one has ever grown back an amputated arm. Ever. Not at a revivalist meeting, not at the vatican, not at your church, and not at mine. Not EVER. IT NEVER HAPPENS. EVER.
Just think about that one some more -- where are the miracle cures for amputees? Forget other disorders -- why doesn't God heal amputees? Just answer the question. Why hasn't God cured so much as a single amputee EVER? Why can't I find at least ONE person who had their severed limbs grow back because of faith? Is there really not even a single person on EARTH with enough faith? I suppose I should be happy -- it means Christianity really is dead, and there isn't enough faith left in the world to move a molehill.
Where were we? Oh yes. It's not too surprising that people would assume that Hillary had a great deal of influence. How many other presidents had wives that were that active in federal politics? She had more influence over the president's decisions than anyone else, probably more than every other member of that government combined. That's not even asserting anything particularly unusual, unless you think that a husband completely tuning-out his wife is the usual state of affairs. I suppose Laura Bush could be just as influential; but we would probably never know because she's not out there campaigning and stating "her own" political views.
And you still haven't addressed the glaring contradiction between the bible's claims of cures for faithful and the complete absence of most types of miracle cures, other than those that would have happened anyway regardless of faith.
And this -- "The Bible has advice on finances, planting, homebuilding, how to raise children, etc" -- this is just as much an argument in favour of Buddhism or Confucianism as it an argument in favour of Christianity. MOST of the old religions were designed to get people to do things that just happen to useful, particularly in the environments in which those people lived. It's the presence of advice that ISN'T usefull -- like stoning rape victims and murdering your children if they misbehave -- that proves the bible is as stupid as any other ancient mythology. Circumcision, for example, which the bible ORDERS people to do, is great for maintaining personal hygiene if you happen to live in an arid environment. But if you live in a land like ours, where water and soap are cheap and abundant, circumcision becomes an extremely stupid idea that bears a slight risk of causing death and makes life less enjoyable for men.
Besides, you DON'T live by the bible. You pick and choose which things to obey, just like every hypocrite.
Do you ...
- Burn the daughters of priests to death if they sin? I doubt it...
- Prevent women from teaching? You've probably had female teachers, and I doubt you're out campaigning for the PTA to bar female teachers. You're breaking God's law by not doing so.
- If your (hypothetical( daughter were raped, would you press charges? The bible COMMANDS you to accept money from him and force him to marry her -- regardless of what she thinks of this. You fucking tool -- you actually obey this retarded book?
- You'd better be willing to murder your son if he doesn't obey you. Just in case you ever DO reproduce, I'm going to wish you luck in prison.
- This isn't actually advice, but I think it's important to note that your god is a god of war and death. He is pretty sure that you'll have to kill your family. You
... ARE willing to kill your family, right?
To summarize: you're stupid and I hate you. You believe stupid things, you're a hypocrite, and if you actually obeyed the bible you'd be in jail the next day (and rightly so, since you'd be a raving sociopathic murderer).Also, you should learn to recognize an admission of error couched within an attempt at humour when you see it. It's a valuable life skill, not unlike being able to roll a joint while riding a bicycle in a crosswind.
Freedom was a nice idea, but most people prefer to live in a cage. The cage has nice, well-delineated boundaries (the walls of the cage), you know your place (inside the cage), you're protected (by the cage). As long as you can convince yourself that YOU are the free one, and that it's the rest of the world that is actually trapped outside of the cage, then it's all gravy.
The thing is, if you're too goddam fucking stupid to NOT activate the adult-content service when you sign up for your child's cell phone contract, you deserve whatever you get. Granted, most people are indeed too stupid to even read their cell-phone contract, and are definitely too stupid to NOT check the little box that enables the adult content service... but that's just how life is. The kid that eats the most marbles doesn't get to grow up and have more kids. The kid who eats the second most will grow up and give his kids a big bag of cherry-flavoured marbles...
There is no hope for the children of stupid people. Let's just accept that, and allow the rest of us have our freedom.
Yeah, because that's how positive changes come about -- by making sure that you never, ever rock the boat.
Once again, Canadians are showing Yankees what capitalism is really all about, that the free market should be unfettered by nonsensical rules derived from implausible fairy tales.
She had the most powerful vote at that point, if you'll recall.