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I remain appreciative of your efforts, but it's already pretty well established that facts and evidence don't inform BC's worldview. Someone like that is de facto unreasonable. It's a ****** effort. See above. I used to wonder how, given BC's dismissal of evidence, he could be any good at his...

Re: Trump Says McCain is No War Hero Please explain. My perception is very different.

Be very careful with this. Remember those who choose what is 'newsworthy' have agendas themselves.

Um, no. This continent is the best - more freedom (actually), better politicians (0 is greater than negative), but probably cedes the best beaches category. But hey, according the bottom map, it's way bigger than Europe and we all know bigger is better...

Re: Trump Says "I'll win the Latino Vote!" The dude's at the top of the pack! http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/donald-trump-leads-gop-field-poll-120106.html

Globalisation and corporatism, folks. WTO Rules Against Country-of-Origin Labeling on Meat in U.S. I guess they're already well underway with working with Congress on their solution. I personally haven't (and won't) read this whole thing (it's 50 pages), but this does probably provide...

Take a look at this: http://www.isidewith.com/ This is one of those 'Who do I really agree with?' quizzes, although it's one of the better ones I've played with. Best of all you can leave things blank when want (for those I don't know/care questions). According to the quiz, I agree more with...

Before this thread, the words 'Ariana' and 'Grande' never met back to back in front of my eyes. It won't take me five years to forget that they did here.

I highly recommend reading the book. Each chapter is one some sort of 'interesting' statistic (of which this topic is only one of) and is written in a pretty entertaining way (others include swimming pool versus firearm fatalities, and something to do with what teachers and sumo wrestlers have...

Even if the worst of all that were true, we'd be higher than Hong Kong (let's not forget about this). There's plenty to criticize and improve (see D-rock's post), but let's be realistic. That said, there is something I can unequivically get behind that is all American: NASA. Through NASA...

Re: Donald Trump - Hypocrite Supreme To be fair, she did this time: Donald Trump is an interesting (and frightening, don't get me wrong)...let's say phenomenon. Unlike most of the candidates in this election, he doesn't have a billionaire backer whom you'd really be voting for when you vote...

In the spirit of recycling, I wanted to bring this topic back up (yes, this thread's over a year old, but no less relevent - if you haven't read it yet, read the OP) as we have ever more candidates as President of the United States. As you're pondering which candidate you may or may not...

I have to say I find these rankings suspect. Mainly because they exclude something I feel is rather important: Hong Kong tying for first is a little bit of a red flag, although perhaps without that (imo) important criteria above, perhaps it's true.

And here you've brought up the natural solution to my ****** false dilemma: education. I'm doing an electrical engineering degree in Germany at the moment and while I'm not terribly happy with how the actual classroom part of my course works (a topic for another time, perhaps), I am mightily...

I don't know what the board rules are to plagerizing, but I'd stay on the safe side if I were you and start quoting/citing these article C&P jobs.

Well, this conversation went down pretty quickly... Pro-tip: making negative, generalized blanket statements about entire peoples, areas, continents etc, will earn you nothing but derision and your voice quickly dismissed. Have a problem with US foreign policy? Guess what - a lot of us...

This is factually incorrect - it's incorrect to lump the single parents with the same-sex couples and also incorrect to say ******** of same-sex couples suffer adverse effects (other than societal stigmas, which aren't insignificant). Research shows **** fare the same under two parents...

To steal DP_LOVER's schtick: "I respect people's choices..." then proceed to disrepect them several times. What is 'anti-human' supposed to mean? DP's got you there. Just say you don't like gays and admit you have no compelling reason for that. At least that's an honest position.

Yes, it's a provocative question. There's surely a much better title for this, but I can't think of one at the moment, so let me explain my question - this is getting the the heart of the social contact, welfare, healthcare, etc. Society. The big difference between what should be, and what is...

I disagree with the bold part. I'd trade in a hundred of him for one reasonable conservative. I mean that honestly and earnestly - we need more of them here. It does me no good to argue in an echo chamber. But it does me equally no good to argue with unreasonable folk who don't let silly things...

I think my biggest problem with this position now is that these same passionate people often raise but the briefest eyebrows as the rest of their fundamental civil rights go down the drain (ironic, considering one of the functions and common argument for the 2nd Amendment - and yet what has it...

Careful; what you mean to say (and an intellectually honest person in disagreement with you would know you mean to say) is free at the point of use, paid for by taxes. We all know there's no such thing as 'free'. Don't let the blind complimenting the blind on their good looks phase you; just...

Re: Is Donald Trump Really Running For President This Time Or Being A Chickenshit Again Afraid To Ru Donald Trump bump terrifies GOP :1orglaugh I introduced a few friends over here to Trump via his announcement speech and it's been a running joke since. I've also assured them that he couldn't...

I got a wisdom tooth removed in Manchester for a whopping 16 quid. Back in the States I saw a dentist at all maybe every five years. To answer your question: an incredible campaign of misinformation that instilled upon far too many US citizens a few notions: 1) The richest country in the world...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/26/kennedy-gay-marriage/29331105/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/26/whats-in-the-same-sex-marriage-ruling/ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/ If you aren't...

I would say this is semantics. According to some studies, it's likely that we don't. But pragmatically, this isn't meaningful. Exactly. This I could repeat endlessly, and in a way I have - see my signature. It comes from Carl Sagan's The Demon-haunted World which I think is a must-read...

Re: ****tewart Retiring From The Daily Show I know these are older posts, but as the thread's been revived (kudos to knowone for recycling), I thought I might lay down some facts to counter Ace's myopia. You guys remember that study from a few years back that showed Fox News viewers to be...

So I know one or two of you are one-issue voters when it comes to guns, so before you continue thinking you'd never pull the lever for a blue candidate: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/417180805/bernie-sanders-walks-a-fine-line-on-***-control

I'm not exactly sure I understand you here; of course we can study the human mind, and have been doing so probably since people figured out they have one. Modern science has made all sorts of breakthroughs in detecting brain activity for different thoughts/responses/etc and there will likely...

And here we touch on falsifiability, which is another take on this whole question, albeit one few find satisfying: if something is not falsifiable, that something is meaningless true or false. Taking Bertrand Russel's teapot as an example, say there's a teapot orbiting around the earth. Someone...

Fixed that for you. And this, by the way, is textbook willfull ignorance. Who has made it a business profiting off that student debt? Who has created the environment where employment and work experience are hard to come by? Egotistical politicians. Next question. As I explained to BC...

Science: http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20141029joyce.html http://phys.org/news/2015-03-chemists-riddle-life-began-earth.html http://www.science20.com/news_articles/origin_of_life_chemistry_of_seabed_hot_vents_provide_a_clue-155135 Logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor...

Hey georges, remember this thread from years ago where I showed you don't have any idea what you're talking about? Well, you still don't. I hear there are some African countries that still pretty much run on Darwinian natural selection. Maybe they would be more to your liking. And to your...

...so let's compare apples with pineapples instead? This is the favored American cop-out (and I say this as an American): we are different, and therefore uncomparable. Nevermind that you can say this about most countries. Though it's ironic that that sentiment would pop up in a thread about...

I don't want to jump too far onto the bandwagon, but there's one particularly glaring use of faulty logic I need to point out: I'm always surprised in today's age of rapid scientific advancement that people still result to god of gaps arguments. It's a logical fallacy. Logical and scientific...

If I'm not mistaken, this is due to NAFTA, namely the investor-state dispute settlement. So in this case, it is just Mexico and Canada - but the same thing exists (probably on steroids) in the TPP with 11 other countries. And this is the standard result of a investor-state dispute settlement...

Welcome to the Politics & Religion section. I'm afraid it's a bit of a crapshoot at the moment and hardly worth your time...but I'm glad you posted, because I haven't seen you before and now that I have, you've got a new fan. In today's age of porn saturation, I don't do the second-glance 'wow!'...

+1 and then some. Spot on Jagger. Spot fucking on. I don't know if it's possible with the vBulletin platform, but I've been thinking of requesting from mods to allow BC and Mariah to only post in one thread. It can be titled the 'BC and Mariah Thread'. There they could hash out all their...

I've seen this already in Sweden. I've not staked a position on the minimum wage topic because I feel it's something one really needs an economics education to weigh in on (and I don't have that). One can come up with all sorts of thought experiments on it such as the most common one I see...

I just found out that both my Rep and the Senator I wanted to keep for his work the Senate Intelligence Comittee both voted for the TPA, aka Fast Track. While I see legitimate reasons for the TPA, its current conjunction with the TPP means this is a red line for me and I'll be voting for a clean...

Of course she doesn't. It's pandering pure and simple. Clinton is the epitome of establishment politics. Take a look at this: Wall Street Republicans' dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016 So in other words, "everybody's worst nightmare" when spoken by a Wall Street lawyer means a Rand Paul versus...

There's a thread from a while back where I'm arguing with georges about this (you know, the usual facts versus empty rhetoric argument); there I posted several links to statistics showing the Millennial generation as statistically 'better' (more volunteering, less crime, etc) than the last...

That is the only chance of change there is. It only has zero chance if it's not voted for. So how to give it a chance? Vote for it. Do you know what you have in return for your votes? Our government as it is today. A Congress with borderline single-digit approval ratings. Our involvement in...

No, I am not - what the GOP did is completely irrelevent to the logical statement at hand. Don't tell me that because you've given me a choice between red or blue and I've chosen purple that I've chosen red or blue. This does not follow (and which one would it be, anyway? How have you decided...

This is literally and logically false, and this thinking will never improve the politics of this country. Never. As sure as death and taxes, never. I don't even know why you'd bother voting or debating when thinking like this, considering your '2 legitimate choices' are almost always...

No, you will not be ******. If you're voting for evil, that's your choice - own it. Understand that the system is the way it is because of that choice (and the very similar ones being made by millions of others). Or - and this is out there, I know - don't vote for evil, lesser or otherwise...

On just about any candidate already one can type the name into Google News and pop up dozens of articles, but I thought this particular one on Sanders is very relevant, especially to those on the right who think 'socialist' is a bad word and immediately = anti-business: What Kind of Mayor Was...

I for one will be wanking feverishly to hazmat suit porn.

Good news, everyone. Winner of the Repeal 1 piece of US legislation, the Patriot Act, has...well, partly expired. The bad news? The 'partly' is pretty small: Zombie Patriot Act Will Keep U.S. Spying—Even if the Original Dies And of course, it looks like we're getting the Diet Patriot Act soon...

Huh. Consider my Pavlov remark rescinded. The Republican party certainly hasn't done itself any favors to this stereotype with women over the years. That is to say, I'm very aware of stupid statements made by Republicans, and with our shoddy media that stuff tends to stick around (for better or...