Alan C.

A Bernie Sanders presidency would probably bring down the system faster than that of any other candidate. My advice is to get your finances in order and stay healthy.

Survey says: 35% of Americans would expatriate

It just means that you shouldn't blindly believe what you're told without asking questions or insisting to be shown evidence. When people tell me things that sound implausible, I ask them, "How do you know?" Also see: Baloney Detection

They call it socialism in Venezuela. You can call it whatever you want, but if it lacks private property and free exchange then it's doomed.

College pays Chelsea Clinton $65K for an hour of her time

Former Rep. Mel Reynolds Indicted on Charges for Failing to File Tax Returns These are exactly the type of lowlife scumbags that are attracted to political power. This is Jesse Jackson Jr. (son of Jesse Jackson the race baiter and shakedown charlatan). Jacksons Spent Tens Of Thousands On TVs, Furs, Elk Heads, More

Judge orders Brady Center to pay ammo dealer’s legal fees after dismissing lawsuit

Value can be guaged through voluntary association, patronage, and profit and loss. If you have to threaten violence then you're not providing value. Before people can engage in political discussion, they have to eat first. Without the ability to leech off of others, groups such as left-liberals in the U.S. would likely extinguish themselves.

parasite - a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others. What's wrong with using the term? There are millions of people in the U.S. who are parasites in that they consume what others produce while producing little to nothing, themselves. I'm not referring to people who are bedridden, confined to a wheel chair, paralyzed, brain damaged, or something similar which impedes their ability to function. I'm talking about people who are able-bodied and in control of their mental faculties. Some of them sit at home all day, watching TV and playing games. Some work for the State, causing grief and misery for others.

Obese Americans now outnumber those who are merely overweight, study says

The problem that anti-propertarians have with private property is that they have none of their own, and they're envious of others, so they resort to mental gymnastics to justify expropriating from others what they, themselves, contributed nothing to produce.

Robot grocery store gives high-tech upgrade to food shopping

Judge says Kleiner Perkins should get $276K from Ellen Pao This is good. These people are nothing but bloodsuckers. Ellen Pao is married to Buddy Fletcher, a former hedge fund manager whose company went bankrupt. He was investigated and accused of fraud. Apparently, he spent investors' money on personal projects, among other things. He also has a history of filing discimination lawsuits and managed to squeeze $1.26M out of somebody in an arbitration.

Why don't you own a phone? You can buy a T-Mobile flip phone for $30 and a pay-as-you-go plan. That's what I do. Even if you never want to talk to anybody, it's a prudent measure in the event of an emergency.

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The average American woman is now the same weight as the average 1960s man

I consider it a bad thing. Stasi-like snitch brigades and authoritarian, wannabe hall monitors foster antagonism and anti-social behavior. My roommate was born and raised in China, and she told me that the government used to encourage people to spy on and snitch on each other for things like hording food, growing your own food, trading on the black market, and for raising chickens. The result was a climate of mistrust, shunning, reclusion, and vindictiveness. The snitchers probably think that they're being heroic, but they're nothing but apple-polishers for the State. Markets solve shortages while the State exacerbates them. I've been listening to Peter Schiff's podcast over the years, and his single best quote was (paraphrasing), "Where ever you find an obstacle between people and prosperity, you find a government."

Thanks for clarifying. I asked because sometimes people define Darwinism as 'monkeys changing into humans.' According to The Free Dictionary, Darwinism is defined as, "A theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms have developed from other species, primarily through natural selection." That's essentially correct. As populations of organisms expand over time, they fill niches as variances in offspring produce adaptations to thresholds in the environment. Examples include varying skin tones, coarseness of hides, thicker coats of fur, thicker layers of blubber, longer limbs, honed acuity of senses, resilience to changes in temperature, ability to digest organisms which past generations could not, etc. Darwinism is true because that's what the evidence tells us. Intelligent Design commits the Watchmaker Fallacy (a false analogy) by asserting that purposeful design in complex, manmade things implies a purposeful desinger in complex, natural things.

Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s remember him opposite Roger Moore as Scaramanga from The Man With the Golden Gun.

California water wasters beware: #DroughtShaming on the rise

We don't only see fully formed species appearing suddenly in the fossil record. There are millions of transitional fossils. Every organism is a potential transition. Why one would expect to see fossils appearing in sequence like cells in a movie reel defies reason. Who says that mutations are harmful to organisms? When organisms reproduce, they don't create exact copies. If an organism produces offspring with a slightly lighter or darker fleshtone, or slightly longer or shorter limbs, how is that harmful? The human eye didn't form from 'entirely random processes.' Can we bury that canard already? The formation of the eye is well understood, so it's not hard to imagine how it formed.

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What is Darwinism?

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