jakelafort

Unseen you implied debate.

But if he does not appear for debates you call him a coward. You take every opportunity to discuss the way he has conducted himself.  You question his competence, his intelligence and his integrity.  You say he is afraid to face you. You ask the public whether they are comfortable voting for an incumbent who is either t…[Read more]

Reg, I give you the world as it is v. how it ought to be.

If Americans were as they ought to be Trump would not have had a chance.  Yet his tactics succeeded.  The notion that candidates ought to avoid the sandbox has been the mantra of political advisers for a long time.  Yet Trump proved that flying by seat of his orange ass and flinging fe…[Read more]

Man alive, Unseen, i cant understand why you  think Trump is a tough guy to oppose.

On the contrary i can’t imagine an easier opponent. If you as a candidate can not eviscerate him, leave him in a puddle of sweat, vomit and piss while he ignominiously grabs his crotch for emotional support, then you  as a candidate suck!

Get down in the dirt a…[Read more]

Easy Peezy…lemon breezy…coincidences that blow our mind are inevitable…we don’t think twice or are even aware of the potential coincidences that fail to materialize. (This is like confirmation bias)

If you have one million potentials for coincidence and the odds of forming that connection are one in a million you have to expect the…[Read more]

oh okay Jody…i see those goals as okaay…but how do they stack up against giving supremacists a little nod…building a massive wall that the Mexicans will pay, believe me…setting trade policies that will lead to economic ruin…enabling and conveying a legitimacy to despots…denying climate change and taking no steps to arrest its rapid…[Read more]

Jody, i just checked on Castro’s background.  Harvard law.  The few times i listened to him he struck me as a dolt.  But maybe i ought to hear more from him. On other hand he does not seem to have much of a chance.  How about the guy who wants to pay us monthly?  Talk cash…yeah!

Reg, not half bad take.

Jodi, over the years i have heard a variation on a joke about people in WV…something like…I am not going to date that girl.  If she is not good enough for her brother she is not good enough for me.  Is that joke circulating there?

It does seem like Bernie has been at the forefront of obvious but important issues.  If…[Read more]

Jody,

You must have a higher regard for his potential supporters than those of Trump. Trump can’t stay coherent or avoid a tangent for more than a sentence and often within a sentence he goes off course. (I love Sam Harris’ metaphor of Trump speaking is air going out of a balloon.

I have not noticed him repeating himself although am not staying…[Read more]

Jody, whachu talkin boat…held together….ya mean the flapping silver hair and the way he emotes…or sumpin else?

Ivy, you have faith exactly wrong.  Doubt and faith are antithetical as a mutha.

I always think atheists are missing the mark in their various formulations of faith as belief without evidence.  It is true.  It is also weak.

Faith requires the faithful to hit the kill switch on the ordinary smarts they use to navigate day to day issues.  And it…[Read more]

Ivy, in comparing quality of life in secular v. theocracy we can ONLY assess the objective manifestations of the nation/culture as opposed to how an individual fares.  Peculiar experiences and or idiosyncracies will vary and cause some to prosper in one and not the other. So if a person is beset by horrible luck..always meeting the wrong person…[Read more]

Ivy,  while those same factors i mentioned,  money, politics and human conceit have a role in science as in religion, i argue vigorously that religion is not  corrupted in the same way that science is corrupted.  I suppose in their absence there might be fewer instances of sexual misconduct, evangelist who will save your soul for a tenner and a s…[Read more]

Yeah Ivy,

Science is conducted by humans. Consequently it is lacking in purity.  Politics, money, human conceit have a role in its reduced form.

I am one of those anti-theists you see as being as bad as theists.  I am not sure how you can look at history and fail to appreciate religion as a substantial cause of atrocities,  discrimination, ha…[Read more]

Ivy,  close minded and fair minded are not the same. If you were listening to people of the third century pontificate about a flat earth you might think there is value in terms of anthropology but you too (sorry for the assumption) would be close minded as to their assertions accurately describing reality.  And all such nonsense receives a s…[Read more]