Sunday School

One thing is true time and time again. Modern corporations and their CEOs have short term financial goals. They measure themselves by the quarter. Exhibit A, The “self-regulating” Boeing Company. Look at the tabaco industry or opioid manufacturers if want to know their true nature. Environment be dammed. When governments are weak this is always…[Read more]

Robert,

We have heard that story for 5o years. Nobody ever mentions that government spending become people’s wages, jobs and contracts for American companies. Until they find out they are the ones getting cut.

As if business would not even open without government contracts?

Nobody mentions that we actually need roads and good safe b…

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Reg,

That Neil Degrasse Tyson video was fantastic, and the exact antipode and anticote to the goody-grinning nonsense of Francis Collins:

Richard Dawkins challenges Francis Collins on miracles

With a view of science like Francis Collins’, I shudder to think that this man was head of the National…[Read more]

Thanks Reg for the How Minds Change/McRaney video.

Would love to see the technique work against the hard core brain dead far right Trump cultists, orthodox anythings, lefty brain dead genocide, apartheid, colonialists. It is encouraging to think there is way to get through to such persons. From what little i heard sounds somewhat similar to a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Robert, Are you trying to out-Strawman Unseen? Reducing taxes and untaxing everyone and reducing government spending across the board isn’t “Trickle-Down” or “Trickle- Up,” but a Big Splash. And wouldn’t people of all classes be more resilient against disasters with more of their own earnings in their pocket?

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Strega,

It turns all boats into racers and could power generators tapping it.

Big Splash = Tidal Wave

Robert,

Are you trying to out-Strawman Unseen? Reducing taxes and untaxing everyone and reducing government spending across the board isn’t “Trickle-Down” or “Trickle- Up,” but a Big Splash. And wouldn’t people of all classes be more resilient against disasters with more of their own earnings in their pocket?

@Unseen – I shared out the first linked post again. Hopefully it will work this time. I can share 10 posts per month with my NYT account.

From the Atlantic photos:

“An Indian army cadet performs drills at the Officers Training Academy in Chennai on March 7, 2025.”
WTF. He’s training to attack a kid?

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Robert, A government that kept to Constitutional bounds wouldn’t be worth billionaires buying it off because attempting to buy off such a government would be self-defeating for anyone wanting to accumulate wealth. By the way, accumulating wealth is how the poor stop being poor.

Happy with your trickle-down, are you? I’d b…[Read more]

Robert,

A government that kept to Constitutional bounds wouldn’t be worth billionaires buying it off because attempting to buy off such a government would be self-defeating for anyone wanting to accumulate wealth.

By the way, accumulating wealth is how the poor stop being poor.

Reg,

Or was he? He got around alot!

Which Was Arafat’s Faith?

Which was Arafat’s faith?

Fixed That For Me

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

The SCOTUS case that’s not getting enough attention.

Paywall.

Reg

World of Woo: The dangers of digital media.

The dangers of any media without thinking. And why do the words of Rumi make a damn? Things can be true witout being “Necessary” or “Kind.”. And hey, Yassir Arafat was a Sufi too.

Fixed That For Ya.

Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!

“Those people aren’t attacking Tesla dealerships. They are tourists showing love. I learned that on January 6th 2021” – FaceBook meme.

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Fellow Unbelievers, Wokeism, Antisemitism/Antizionism, and Pseudoscience all at taxpayer expense. And it was all on Biden’s, Obama’s, and Bush’s watches. No big loss if this dies. A Columbia Professor Marched for Hamas—and Received Millions in Public Funding Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million…

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Fellow Unbelievers,

Wokeism, Antisemitism/Antizionism, and Pseudoscience all at taxpayer expense. And it was all on Biden’s, Obama’s, and Bush’s watches. No big loss if this dies.

A Columbia Professor Marched for Hamas—and Received Millions in Public Funding
Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 y…[Read more]