TheEncogitationer

Jake:

I agree but the takeover with ridiculous pretexts is a bad precedent.

Agreed. Trump is at least as schizoid and hysterical about drugs as every previous Administration since Wilson and it’s Harrison Act.

On one hand, Trump accuses Venezuela of being the source of Fentanyl, when the actual source is China via Mexico.

Then he blows up…[Read more]

Jake:

Well, Maduros and Chavez before him ran shithole regimes that enslaved their own people, so it’s hard to sympathize with them. Whether American boots on the ground or Venezuelans rising up themselves (my choice) is the better option is another story.

Trump is deluded if he thinks oil will pay for his operation, since the companies won’t…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: Everyday life……

Trying to force dogs and cats to go vegan is a good way to get the SPCA and Animal Control turned on a pet owner, and rightly so. And Child Protective Services will also turn on parents who try to make their youngsters go vegan, again, rightly so.

Here, virtue signaling with food is not only playing with you…[Read more]

Jake,

In Professional Life: A survey found 80% of Jewish doctors in Canada have faced antisemitism at work since October 7, with some expressing they no longer feel they belong in Canada.

Maybe Canadians will try curing their ills with a poultice of Maple Syrup and Back Bacon with Moulson Golden as anesthetic. Can’t run a single-payer health…[Read more]

Robert,

So just say that you never read anything I’ve ever said without saying that you’ve never read anything I’ve ever said… And use a lot more words to do it too. 🙄

I haven’t voted since 2004, so I have no responsibility for the multiple messes of The Little Bush Boy, Barach Hussein “The One” Obama, Uncle Joe “Movin’ Kinda Slow at the…[Read more]

Jake,

With all that’s going on, I forgot to tell you that in spite of everything going on, I hope Hannukah finds you peaceful.

🕎

And to everyone, Happy Holidays!

🌲

Robert,

I think stupid college kids and lefty professors are way less dangerous to democracy or Jews than the Christian national right/MAGA/Neofascists by 1000x . What is “woke” but kids rebelling against their parents. People who at least care about the disenfranchised.

It is possible to walk and chew gum at the same time…away from both of…[Read more]

Simon,

But you’re talking from the position of your armchair, off the top of your head, with no evidence.

The burden of proof rests with those who assert that there was a Garden of Eden/Golden Age/Noble Savagery.

Also, we know there is both intra-species and inter-species violence in the Animal Kingdom and the Primate Order of which Humans a…[Read more]

Robert:

Oh, this real first-rate smooth brain chatter, LOL. The left “awakened the far right’s latent Jew hate”. That’s brilliant.

So where is Jake wrong here? He’s just saying that one hand washes the other, especially when both are embarked on the same ugly goal.

The left isn’t looking for that final solution to the Jesus killers, the rejec…

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Simon,

No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy? Sounds great. It’s true that people died very young though.

Did you read what I just said? There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.

However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too c…[Read more]

Reg:

Arizona senator who thinks mankind came from monkeys has a say in childhood education.

Senator Farnsworth didn’t say he thought mankind came from monkeys, but rather that the Theory of Evolution said so. He is doing a good impersonation of a monkey by flinging poop, though.

Also, Mitzi Epstein got it wrong when she said that “Evolution…[Read more]

Simon,

You’re talking about life in the Garden of Eden. I think it must have been both terrifying and beautiful.

I’m saying there was no Garden of Eden or “Golden Age” or “Noble Savagery”, whether terrifying, beautiful, or otherwise.

Simon:

It did, and any political violence is deplorable. Even if he was aggressively anti-liberal, he had the right idea in debating people.

You are correct and I certainly wasn’t supporting that as an option. Just pointing out that all ways of dealing with opposing viewpoints have outcomes that are hard to pin down.

Simon:

All the more reason to look after them and try and heal them.

Come to think of it, you’re right here. I suppose that’s where the role of medicine man/shaman came from.

Still, the earliest known writing wasn’t around during hunter/gatherer times, so any medical wisdom they had would have spread by oral tradition, with the Telephone…[Read more]