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Viktor is representative of the acumen of a great many humans. It is just discouraging.

Viktor writes: It is not only atheists who are misinformed and confused about religion. Some believers are, too. Unfortunately, unscrupulous people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris and Matt Dillahunty take advantage of people’s ignorance and confusion to p…[Read more]

Unseen, that is a pretty good point.

I knew a family from Norway. They moved back!

Not giving Russia credit is just BS. Similarly one side being noble and Russia ignoble is BS. If ya ever read about Stalingrad it is just riveting. Defending life and country under the most adverse conditions and suffering is a form of sacrifice that is hard to top.

No doubt the USA has a great deal of Zinnful acts to own up to. But it also has…[Read more]

Davis writes: Biden set out his time table in April and he even delayed the withdrawal.

I was not aware. Still hanging the Afghanis to dry and a poor evacuation strategy. Not sure if that falls more on generals or Biden or some other parts of his administration.

I think The Biden administration did a disservice to both Afghan supporters of USA and Americans in USA in failing to give a specific evacuation start date. Further the Afghanis who have been waiting on visas should have had their decisions expedited.

Ya gotta be specific. It is not exactly analogous but it reminds me of general invitations.…[Read more]

Okay Enco!

I got no gripe with that and agree a heads up would have been way better.

Davis that is an excellent point that seems lost on a great many atheists. The no evidence take kind of misses the point. Obviously there is no evidence and a great deal of wish thinking and a fairly universal human tendency to try to make sense of the universe from a selfish perspective. The god hypothesis as a yes or no equal proposition is…[Read more]

No, no Pope. Those are FACTS-unassailable, inerrant, august and didactic. Imbibe the received wisdom. Heresy isn’t next to hearsay. Heresy will get you relaxed to the secular arm for punishment. If not in the here and now in the eternity of hell where unending torture will inspire you to be more circumspect in the next universe.

Unseen writes: Obama will go down as the drone President. Drones don’t result in Americans coming home in body bags, but they also are indiscriminate killers that kill civilians along with bad guys. There’s a 2o:1 ratio. Twenty Afghan civilians killed for every American killed. American lives saved. That’s the most important thing.

There are t…[Read more]

Abuse of women, abuse of power, no civil rights? We get out and the power vacuum will be filled right quick by the Taliban. The abuse will be on steroids under the Taliban. How does that affect us? Under Trump we had promises to Kurds but we just gtfo. Trump was gonna get USA out of Afghanistan too if he had been elected again.

The USA has a…[Read more]

I thought TJ Max went out of business. That damn jingle…you get the max for the minimum at TJ Max….damn earworms

What is the distinction between Enco’s political ideology and a theist’s religious ideology?

God is good. God is great. The bible is inerrant. Heaven is my fate. Capitalism rules. Socialism fools.

I know of what i speak. I am omniscient.

Nice Carlin compilation.

The knee jerk answer is he would be in favor of choice. Let people decide on their own to don or shun masks.

I think he would probably be against government mandates but like the notion of penalties for failure to vaccinate and use masks. He hated government control of individuals but he also railed against bullshit in…[Read more]

Enco it is altruistic.

And freedom to be altruistic is quite the phantasmagoria of political ideology that inures to the benefit of the upper echelon. Give more attention to the notion of freedom. In the current climate of the pandemic republicans want the freedom to decide whether to wear masks and take vaccines. Exercising their freedom has…[Read more]

Wow Enco…i remember being 15 years old struggling through Das Kapital. Never even finished it.

If only i could have fast forwarded 43 years and read your critique with nothing but some old bubble gum and a baseball card you dispatched him.

You make a lot of good points Unseen. I saw first hand practicing law how claims can be denied in bad faith. And then there is the issue with insurers having too great influence in the practice of medicine. Denying coverage as experimental or unnecessary even where legit docs say certain treatments are vital. Various physicians have told me how…[Read more]

With respect to the USA and its national disgrace in having a gazillion uninsured and substandard health care it is important to recognize that profit motive and best interest of citizenry are not always aligned. We would eliminated much of the conflict if we socialized medicine. We got some goddamn weapons though and a whole shit load of brain dead.

Ok Simon that is probably fair.

Lets say it is the colored in part that takes precedence. Not only does the nonstandard get the label but it swallows the standard and negates it.

Hey Pope, I wonder if your therapist reached her conclusion after being influenced by others. The articles i read critiquing the term had her reason as the predominant one. And i get it. The greater inclusion diminishes the sense of identity that comes with the label. The broadening and greater inclusion in the label only fortifies my contention…[Read more]

That is it. Too modest. You are the gumshoe Pope whose parameters lack scope.

I shall take the liberty of hitting em with NCAP. (no color added people) For good measure lets add PIAPOC.U (People identified as people of color UNJUSTLY)