Thomas Paine

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Sunday Book Club: Country of Lords.

There’s always going to be unequal outcomes as long as there is such a thing as causality and different actions have different results.

If all of humanity lives in caves and one person decides to move out and live either on the top of the hill or in the valley below, every choice…[Read more]

Reg:

A new poll of Canadians and Americans on evolution and creationism.

This article is unreadable. Which number do we accept for which country? Which country has the number in parentheses?

Did an AI write this article?

Reg an Jake:

Jean Meslier, my favorite priest

French Economist Frederick Bastiat would have told Jean Meslier that if every peasant could have personal plots to raise food and/or shops to sell desired goods and ply desired skills and trade them with each other and others abroad, they wouldn’t be in thrall to either priests or lords.

Reg;

According to the wiki page, the fishing lure originated in Pennsylvania. But Southerners use the term Wooly-Booger for any excessively hirsuted person, animal, or thing.

“Booger,” by itself, was popularized on radio by WKRP’s Johnny Fever, over objections of Mr. Carlton. Between Dr. Johnny Fever and Crow T. Robot and diffusion of radio…[Read more]

Wooly bugger is an artificial fly used in fly fishing. I think it mainly imitates a minnor or some acquatic creature and is effective for both trout and salmon.

In college a history professor challenged the class to identify an atheist who was kicking around 1700. He was more than a little surprised when i raised hand and told him about Meslier. Had read about him in one of Will and Ariel Durant’s books.

Ya know it just goes to show ya we are not created equal. Far from it. As much as i drone on in…[Read more]

Reg:

FFRF calls out Pentagon for sidelining ‘atheists in foxholes’ as military chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Pete Hegseth’s Christian ideology.

I wonder if Kegs-Breath understands that sidelining soldiers for non-belief, as well as through anti-vax orders and side effects of unneeded Testosterone therapy, are the last things neede…[Read more]

I had heard of ‘wooly buggers’ before, up near Helen, in northern GA. Is it a Southern term? I often walk along the banks of the Chattahoochee and see fishermen there too. Never heard the term in Ireland in relation to fly-fishing for trout. Not my scene but big with some locals and tourists.

Anyway….I hope Loomer gets herself further…[Read more]

Reg;

That’s Wooly-Boogers, not Wooly-Burgers, though I wouldn’t want wooly fungus or hair on my burger either.

Reg:

Schumer falsely claimed America’s founders called the country “God’s noble experiment”.

A God wouldn’t need an “experiment,” since He would know the results in advance and could change the results anyway.

Of course, Chuck Schumer was the one who put the cheese on his grilling raw burgers before they were done. Please, Chuck, leave that to…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Have a great week everyone!

“Heaven and Hell are not future destinations; they’re descriptions of social conditions. If the causes of suffering are earthly, then so are the remedies.”  – RTFF.

PopeBeanie:

Where does this guy get that the U.S. Postal Service is not a Government Agency?

The U.S. Postal Service and the power to establish post roads were explicitly set up in the U.S. Constitution, it’s postal rates are approved by Congress, it’s Postmaster is approved by the U.S Government. And after it got cheaper competition from…[Read more]

Well ok then, thanks for y’all being candid.

Now back to our regular programming, the Trump Show, Episode Fudging with Elections.

Pope,

I don’t know how you got impression others are not worried or bothered by the Maggot trajectory.

I was singularly unimpressed by Scaramucci. Ethnic NY Italian section is really cool. But in terms of offering a reasoned basis for optimism in ANYTHING he said. No siree. Sir nope. Great Depression. Civil War. Ok. So what? Challenges are so…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

I’ve been expecting American politics and authoritarinist success to keep getting worse, and they have. I don’t get why others here don’t seem to be as worried or bothered by it. So I hope it’s because I’m wrong.

We’re all concerned. It’s just that Authoritarianism comes in many flavors and from many directions and nowadays everythin…[Read more]

I’ve been expecting American politics and authoritarinist success to keep getting worse, and they have. I don’t get why others here don’t seem to be as worried or bothered by it. So I hope it’s because I’m wrong. In any case, I ran into a more optimistic view that includes a more optimistic prediction, and it reminds me that we’ve survived similar…[Read more]

That Abby video critiquing her performance on Rogan is hilarious. She is such an incredibly transparent liar. Funniest part is around 4.15 in which Abby has to look down to conjure vagina.

Reg:

I don’t know if the Israeli license tag with the number 66-666-66 was helpful to the Israeli cause, it might get Candace Owens and Carrie Prejean Boller snarling. 👹 But it was damn funny. 😁

At least now, we know where Abby Martin gets her psycotropics as well as reinforcement for her deranged worldview. Joe Rogan evidently forgot that NewsR…[Read more]

Jake:

I forgot to add that not only is Abby Martin dipping into her own prescriptions, but, of course, she’s not even a Doctor, nor does she even play on on TV. (Though she might want to play Mengele in drag.)

Re: Cousin marriages, This doesn’t come from any particular tribe, but from Tribalism.

This comes from a time when the rustling in the…[Read more]