_Robert_

@Enco, sure companies pay taxes, but no company was going to orchestrate a mission to the moon. The return on investment as far as business development enabled by the Apollo program was 700% or 7:1 to the taxpayers.

The point is that universities and businesses work together to elevate our nation and that no business can afford to undertake risky…[Read more]

Triggering empathy is a Spielberg specialty. Most of us are running the same basic software (if you are not a sociopath). The thing is, I am never a fan of having people take pity on others if there is nothing they can or will do to really help. In fact, it results in the most helpless of feelings having to look up at “empath”, shaking their head…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
If empathy is what it takes for us to do the right things, that’s great. However, the dichotomous situation of living standards always throws me for a loop.

In a recent Facebook post answering a person who likes to remind leftists like me that the Democrats were very keen on the KKK and it was a Republican who f…

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13,100 children under the age of 5 die every day. 9 kids a minute. Many starve or just don’t get medicine they need.

We love our pets. More than half a million cats are snuffed out in shelters each year.

Mother nature is absolutely ruthless. How many creatures are eaten alive every day?

Should one have empathy for someone who stubs a toe? It…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
When Government defunds Harvard and the rest of Ivy League Academia, it is not so much exercising speech of it’s own. Rather the Government is forbidding forced speech, which results when taxpayers are forced to support these institutions promoting Antisemitism, as well promoting as the Critical R…

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Instead of the myopic view, how about if we examine the accomplishments of Harvard Medical School alone, and gauge that against the alleviation of guilty conscience by the entitled Harvard students and staff with their flawed but inconsequential support of Palestinians.

https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery

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Enco, yes. The local library is here is all of that. You get a good whiff of urine as you approach gateway to literary wonders. Those who have just about given up on life have all but moved in.

I also practically lived in the library at my university when I was working on my grad degree. Thankfully I did have a home to go to when I left.

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jakelafort wrote:
Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need can be discovered 🙂

Reminds me of something one of my favorite authors would say.

Yes, the god of the gaps steps in when they bring out the arguments from complexity, incredulity, and ignorance.

It tells us something, that the domicile of the gods went from the top of the mountain, then up into the clouds, them out into space and then finally some unknown supernatural realm.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End —In Memory of the Pope, 4/20 On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome, A holy puff drifted through sacred air. The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan— As incense mixed with something… dank and rare. JD approached, with scripture in his coat, Hillbilly psalms…

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Well shucks, the pope is dead, right after welcoming JD Vance. Here he was featuring baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh. Not wrapped well enough to protect a baby from his army of pedophiles that he shuffled around the world. Or maybe he just admires the tenacity and faith of the death cult. Hard to say. If there was a hell, surely cuddles would not…[Read more]

I’m so glad the Whitehouse eradicated all the anti-christian bias. Morons.

jakelafort wrote:
Enco, It aint that bad. Living among theists who posit every form of mythology from the ahistorical scapegoating of Israel mythology to the good place/bad place for immortals decided by a guy with a white beard who is watching us every second along with the endless homilies and worthless religious prattle ya just roll with the…

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Unseen wrote:
@Enco When someone enters America, they are subject to American law just like a citizen. If a tourist gets a speeding ticket, he has the due process right to show up in court and dispute it, just like a native citizen. The only basis Trump has for denying anyone due process is his claim that he can use war powers, and all of the…

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I don’t even think the cybertruck is legal in Europe/UK. If that stupid thing runs into you, you are screwed.

Yeah, we are in Gestapo-type territory already. They are shot-gunning the deportation process.

Also, all the deregulations will have some not-so-good consequences. Let’s see what halting food testing and inspection does to our food exports, not to mention our health. Oh, and I read they are not pursuing cyber-crimes. Digital “assets” are already…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Well, the Judge is just as presumptuous as Trump if he thinks the U.S. justice system applies to El Salvador. And if anyone wants poster boys against Trump, they’ve picked some shitty ones with members of Hamas, MS-13, and Tren de Aragua.

The Trump organization admitted the deportation was an admin mistake and t…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
How does a citizen justify paying a parking ticket, alimony or obeying any court order? We have our example, right?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-acted-contempt-court-turning-deportation-flights/story?id=120870498

Ah…the courts, they are rigged by extreme leftist communists you know.

Can I use that next…[Read more]