There will be an armed revolution against the Federal Government. Katrina Virus.

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:33:00 -0400

Controllah writes, "What American military members have you had contact with to have this impression? During the 2011 debt ceiling debacle, the entire military had a forecast pay of $0 for their next paycheck on their leave and earnings statements. This occurred for at least a week, while the Congress was "debating". There was not one news story that I'm aware of that even hinted of discord among the ranks.

"I think

Are the New Testament gospels history? Where's the proof?

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:40:00 -0400

Thanatos writes, "Many other people have followers who believe they hold supernatural powers, often despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This persists even in an age where everything is documented.

"I will feel very sorry for Christians if we ever develop a way to observe the past. I suspect Jesus would turn out to be even less powerful than David Copperfield or Warren Jeffs, but hopefully also much less evil than the latter."

Immortality Could Soon Be Reality

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:31:00 -0400

Minorwork writes, "Saying death is programmed is ad libbing for Nature, giving it more credit than it deserves. Reproduction is its own end and that alone is our heritage. If Death is to be extended further into the future it surely will not be from but a self directed evolutionary path. Self-directed evolution is IMO the proper understanding of eugenics. Forced evolution is an abomination. The self-directed part MUST be in the hands of the female alone. Forcing her to abort or birth,

von Neumann machine

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:06:00 -0400

Yarn writes, "Regarding us not being smart enough to create machines as smart as us; I can't agree. People can be highly specialized. It isn't about 1 person paralyzed by the complexity of the whole; it is about lots of people chipping away at their own little esoteric fractions of the frontier with the path to the frontier already smoothly paved and cleared by their predecessors. You don't need an IQ of 300 to work on some highly specific specialized problem and make progress on it.

The Secrets Behind Our Cotton: Modern Slavery

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:57:00 -0400

SoylentGreen writes, "Modern times , modern practices. Slavery is no longer economically practical. It costs far to much to keep slaves running a farm when one man with a tractor can do the job of a hundred slaves.

"In the past slavery benefited everyone because it was a necessity of a large population. Today you are correct, slavery benefits no one because machines are far more practical.

"John Locke was

The Dead Zone: Detroit Becomes Urban Wasteland

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:38:00 -0400

Hensatri writes, "The US is littered with the impoverished and mostly abandoned remains of railroad and mining towns that dried up when their main means of production faded. Fortunately most of them were small towns as their business required much smaller bodies of employment, a rail station of coalmine doesn't employ thousands or tens of thousands in one town, however manufacturing does, so your left with dried up mining town syndrome, in a metropolis sized community."

Steve Keen Explains Why Austerity Is Pseudo-Economics

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:52:00 -0400

Zeebadee writes, "For all of your fancy theories, there's never any mention of actually paying down any debt. When do your theories predict that our national debt will actually go down? You say austerity is bad, doesn't that imply that spending is good? Where are we getting the money to spend? We're borrowing it. Austerity means we borrow less, and that's bad. So the logical conclusion is to borrow and spend more. Then why not simply borrow ALL of it, and cut out taxes altogether?"

New Hampshire: Live Free or Die!

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:43:00 -0400

Controllah writes, "The answer to your question as to how much government is too much is relative to what period of time you are talking about. It is clear from situations like the Civil War and WWII that a reduction in civil liberties may be necessary to preserve the integrity of the Union. But during more peaceful times, we expect to increase our liberties as far as peace will allow. The trick is in the timing of the change of this ratio of govt powers to civil liberties. It is a given

Death Penalty Politics: From Ariel Castro To Jodi Arias To Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:26:00 -0400

Crimethinker writes, "Let's not have mob rule... let's not have people who watched a news story for a few minutes decide punishment. Better yet, let's not shift national media and political attention to one dude and get up to more productive things.

"I get the idea that folks like Nancy Grace would like to adopt a Hunger Games system of punishment, where we pit serial killers and child rapists against each other and mercifully kill the victor."

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