TheEncogitationer

Reg,

One good thing: You won’t find the police departments of Battle Creek or Hamatramck, Michigan paying for a similar event with their Sha’ria enforcers. Most Muslims have a strong cultural aversion to dogs.

Unseen,

No one is claiming it’s more than it is or was ever intended to be. As for ripping off future generations, that’s a bug not a feature. The mens rea you seem to be implying simply isn’t there.

When the American Association of Retired Pharts and Congresscritters in thrall to them endorse the system complete with the “bug,” there is the m…[Read more]

Reg,

World of Woo: RFK Jr.’s refusal to ‘give advice’ on vaccines is dangerous advice.

As strange as this sounds, he’s actually making sense, since he is not a Doctor and what medical pronouncements he has given are absurd. (I’ll even add his pronouncements against food coloring, because somewhere, somebody is going to use something reall…[Read more]

Reg,

A shaggy dog story from Ken Ham, the man behind the plan for the lark with the ark in the park.

Was Ken Ham trying to train police dogs to be like “Son of Sam”‘s dog and detect the Antichrist? The story is evidently a paywalled revelation.

I’m sure Ken Ham wouldn’t want dogs to be like George Carlin’s dog who ignores the TV and does what…[Read more]

Robert,

If Social Security is so good, why do people have also private investments for their retirement? And do caring societies rip off future generations for the sake of the present?

And since you don’t understand what a Ponzi Scheme is, here is the definition. Clearly not all businesses meet that definition:

Ponzi…[Read more]

Robert,

Progressive God FDR and his Brains Trust were the ones who designed Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, where those who benfited depended upon a stream of new workers entering the workforce and taxed to pay into the system. They never reckoned on many people aging beyond 65 or on people having fewer children in response to increased wages…[Read more]

Unseen,

You didn’t even read what I just wrote. Sorry, I’m not providing fuel and raw materials for a Strawman factory.

Unseen,

Also, you could nationalize the wealth of every Billionaire and Millionaire in the nation to pay the National Debt, and as long as Washington keeps spending, it would be all for naught… not to mention the last time anyone would do it, because no one would ever want to accumulate any wealth.

Unseen,

The biggest parts of the National Debt come from the enticements of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, plus interest on the National Debt. DOGE never even wanted to touch these, but to get rid of the National Debt, there is no avoiding these multiple “Third Rails.”

Fellow Unbelievers,

A new interview with Richard Dawkins on his new book, along with his thoughts on Postmiodernism, Transgenderism and the sexual binary, and questions from the audience.

I thought it went too soft on G.K. Chesterton’s alleged false binary of Theism vs. believing in everything. And…[Read more]

Unseen,

If the people want something bad enough, they will get it by using the tools of the constitutional republic or by rising up against the government.

So Argumentum Ad Bacculum (Appeal to Force) eh? Just like all the Antifa and Left Coast Secessionists? Why is this always proposed by the very people with the fewest guns to carry out their…[Read more]

Robert,

At least those things help to equalize wealth imbalances. The government acts like a heat-sink absorbing each knee-jerk crisis as investors panic.

So you think government bailing out AIG and American auto manufacturers and Raytheon help the poor? Please tell that to the old Occupy crowd before they cannabalize you.

Why do you even…[Read more]

Unseen,

And yet, in a democracy what the people want the people should get. Otherwise the demos (people) goes away leaving just the kratos (rule).

What if the People wanted to punish Atheism with death?
Or, more to the point, what if the People demanded that no one earn more wealth than anyone else?

Again, why the United States is not a…[Read more]

Unseen,

I’m well aware of all of the arguments about disincentives and creating dependencies when it comes to taxation. I haven’t been living under a rock. I’m also aware of the “rising tide floats all boats” which can also be used in favor of taxing the rich, who would benefit from a society made more stable by reducing poverty with all of th…

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Unseen,

We embed this fallacy in our national, state, and local government’s various constitutions. I have taught logic. Verbal fallacies, unlike formal fallacies, do not imply false conclusions with necessity. They are inconclusive.

The very definition of any Fallacy, verbal or formal, is that the conclusion does not necessarily follow from t…[Read more]

Reg,

That was one of my first thoughts today when I heard the rambling speech he made. I also thought about what the family of the WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi must be thinking. Of course Trump would not mention that. He does not care about what happened him. Or maybe he really does like MBS too much to mention it.

The Saudis are brutal…[Read more]

Unseen,

But I don’t think the people want the government to spend less, since that would likely mean abandoning or severly adulterating some very popular programs which benefit not only individuals but society at large.

Argument From Popularity Fallacy. The fact that people might want government largess doesn’t make it good them or for an e…[Read more]

Robert,

Someone older than the young’uns obviously taught them well or they are still in the blank slate phase.

That picture would make the young Woke Ivy Leaguers and their Professors go MAGA, as would Trump’s cozying up to the Saudis. I wonder what survivors of 9/11 have to say about all this?

Unseen,

If government spent less and every Citizen, regardless of income, were taxed less, Citizens would have more money to both spend on foreign goods or to invest in domestic companies producing goods and services. And Citizens would gain either way.

Again, not Trickle-Down, not Trickle-Up, but Big Splash.

Robert,

I do have hope that when slimy gen z and boomers die off, they will take most of the racism and religious- inspired hatred with them.

That’s just a step away from Antifa wanting to accelerate the process. I believe you once said you were 45, clearly within the Gen-X timeline.

Are you sure you want to add intergenerational conflict to…[Read more]