Unseen

When talking to conservatives about crime and extra attention given to black by cops, they’ll defend the practice pointing out that “the bulk of violent crime is black on black.” I typically reply that I thought conservative believed that people are individually responsible for their actions. I go on to say that if they want to suppress crime by…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer: Where are the huddled masses from far shores (or even just North of us) wanting access to our system, money in hand to pay for ridiculously high premiums, deductibles, and copays, and wanting the most expensive health care system in the civilized world with among the worst outcomes?

Where are they?

You know, those gorgeous Hubble Telescope images of nebulae, supernovae, etc., are all LIES!

Space is mostly black and white. NASA adds the color.

_Robert_ So long as you know I wasn’t siding with  the Bunker types, I was saying we tend to go right to racism, which is a gross oversimplification. And when I say “we,” I mean the “we we, which often includes me” not the “we means you we” which is more often what  is used.

Jake, if you think I was saying there’s no racists among the Trumpists, reread me. I’m sayin that they are racists is an oversimplification.

I forgot to mention that there’s a lot of extreme federalist small government people in the bunch as well.

jakelafort wrote:

I like what ya had to say, Unseen, but i think the MAGA/nostalgia period for many is not just pre civil rights but antebellum America where uppity blacks got what they had coming to them. If Trump promised to repudiate the emancipation proclamation and reinstate slavery we would see some real hootenanny celebration from the hard…

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You know, we aren’t talking enough about the causes of the Trumpist movement. He didn’t create it, he awakened it and gave it permission to reveal itself.

Many of the Trumpists are late middle-aged “boomers” or even older. The younger ones got their values from their parents. Others come from military service and value discipline and order.

It’s…[Read more]

Many people, once they fall into a conspiracy theory, are intellectually trapped. They believe it because they want to believe it, and so it becomes very difficult to dissuade them with facts. For example, if you appear to disprove that the election was rigged, their response won’t be to change their mind, but rather to start asking how the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

GA Congreswoman Says She Plans to File Articles of Impeachment Against Biden

The House is held by the Dems. That will grab headlines but not much more. I suspect a few Republicans will help vote it down.

This conservative pundit thinks Biden stands a good chance of becoming one of the most popular presidents in history, especially if the GOP’s internal schism doesn’t get healed. He could become the FDR of the 21st Century. And he can do it by being…[Read more]

Ivy, whatever happens, Trump is in very deep doo doo. He could very well end up in the New York prison system. Yes, it’s unlikely he’d end up in the general population. Probably something like solitary confinement with benefits, but the correction system does have an obligation to protect its inmates, and Trump would quickly be toast in the…[Read more]

Ivy wrote:

Is it just me? Or is this whole impeachment thing too little too late… Just like their lousy $600 stimulus check. The damage has already been done. Donald impeachment 2.0 should have been done right the first time. Will there ever be any real accountability for ALL of the people who were complicit to his crimes? Sadly probably n…

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Davis wrote:

Unseen I had said the article is only half serious. Having said that, it is half serious so you might not want to just discard everything in it just because you don’t like it.

My reply was intended as tongue-in-cheek as well. I thought my over the top opening line would signal as much. I actually love dogs as well as cats, and were I…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

No I was not. We don’t normally hire for profit commercial firms to fight wars. Material sourcing is from the commercial sector as it would be with healthcare. We essentially have a socialized  military (Blackwater was an unfortunate exception) and conservatives are fine with that.

I was thinking of corporations falling all ov…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#item-start US costs are pathetic… Provide our citizenry universal healthcare, make it a profit-free zone, you know, like the military…(If one still wants to buy private insurance, fine, do it.) Then maybe the next generation will inh…

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Davis, that slanderous article about cats was full of shit. The fact is, experts are arriving at the conclusion that DOGS are, I’ll use their words, “social parasites.” who have domesticated man to their advantage.

One of America’s best science journalists, Stephen Budiansky, wrote about this genomic research in a cover article for The Atlantic m…[Read more]

As long as I can remember, I’ve found cats totally fascinating. If I’m in the room with one, if it’s awake and active, I can hardly take my eyes off it. Dogs…ho hum.

Her untimely death was sad but hardly as traumatic as when I lost my first dog (the worst moment of my life).

Then I sincerely hope your parents are still alive.

Cats are far more linguistically complex than dogs. Dogs have around 10 distinct woofs barks, yowls, and yelps, but with cats their meows, yowls, growls, clicks, chirps, chatters, cackles, etc., add up to nearly 100.

Wild cats don’t meow once they assume maturity. Domestic cats meow because being around people has taught them that it…[Read more]