The public would like the 2020 riots to be investigated. [rasmussenreports.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Considering the extensive involvement of white nationalists in starting the looting, probably not a bad idea (i.e. umbrella man). Also, the rioting consisted mostly of police rioting and major civil rights abuse.

Over the years I've seen some not-very-thoughtful things said about Bill Gates, but with respect to ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Why is it that the obscenely rich are incapable of getting past their lust for money? I'll give Gates a centilla of credit for listening to his ex-wife and trying (but failing) to significantly help Humanity. The perversity of the wealthy hurts society in ways that are badly underreported. The CIA should have a lottery to annually dispatch 3 or more from this class, influenced by their wretchedness.

Gets me in a Halloween Mood

racocn8 comments on Jul 30, 2021:

That pumpkin needs to have the seeds scraped out...

Great cartoon!!!??

racocn8 comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Giving credence to a mean-spirited delusion is far from ennobling. The sentiment of being rid of such assholes is wholly understandable, but the implication that their delusion could be true would give pause. Only 144,000 are supposed to disappear out of 2.3 billion. That is all of 0.006% of the believers.

A real-life Dr. Evil!

racocn8 comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Once again, life imitates art...

Biden offers $100 to anyone who gets the COVID vaccine. [cnbc.com] Updated with new link

racocn8 comments on Jul 29, 2021:

404, and I think it was $100.

Can Mo Really be That Stupid?

racocn8 comments on Jul 29, 2021:

All those people should be ejected from their offices and banned from public service. That's the Constitution.

🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣😵😂

racocn8 comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Fished out of the garbage disposal, no doubt. They're nice and thoroughly rinsed...

Fox News has a strict COVID-19 policy that includes the kind of vaccine passport Tucker Carlson, ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

That figures.

Lowlife and scumbag piece of dogshit.

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

"Shit" doesn't cover it.

For those who don't like reading articles. Here is a brief.

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

Does anyone need further proof of white male fragility?

Bezos didn't really go to space. He was just Prime shipping your mom's new dildo.

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

What, a black feather that looks like a scorch mark? And the phallic resemblance? What a joke!!! Oh well... Thrusters on full...

Conservatives should be executed. That is all.

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

We already know that they would do the same to us.

Straight from the thesaurus

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

Is: "and Republicans." Should be: "otherwise known as Republicans."

Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from Twitter over false COVID posts.

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

I complained about WildGreens. I finally blocked her. Hopefully no one takes her despicable lies seriously (except her fellow racist conservatives).

There is a rumor going around that the universe is nearly 14 billion years old and they figure this ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 20, 2021:

When an observer looks into the far reaches of the Universe, the observer is looking back in time, with nothing that is older than 14 billion years ago. Nothing is beyond that. What one sees is the remnants of the Big Bang. The current physics models suggest that time itself developed along with other dimensions. If one considers time to be a dimension, it is as if one is at the north pole and is asked what is north of that.

If a god existed, why would it matter?

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Does belief in a god have a positive effect on people? Are they better for it?? What aspect is improved? Or....

8 months in prison for the 1st insurrectionist to be sentenced.

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

How 'bout we drop them off the Washington Monument?

It's not fair! [babylonbee.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Except that China is eating our lunch, though they allow a goodly amount of capitalism. Russian communism scarcely existed without the perversion of fascist autocracy. Has communism really been deployed anywhere for a sustained period of time?

I am passionate about helping people

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Passing out window-pane?

Your atheism

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

I hated wasting time on non-factual content, the difference in character being highlighted by going to school and learning about real things. Eric Hoffer's The True Believer and Twain's Letters from the Earth helped. I read the NT and spotted the evolution of the synoptic gospels, looking every bit like the various forms of genetic mutation I had learned about.

"Progressives cannot and should not be satisfied with the policies of the Biden presidency.

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

After all, look at how many bills Bernie has gotten passed. (Oh yeah, none.)

Can Civilization Survive What’s Coming?

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

While CO2, methane and soot could be reduced, the primary problem is reproduction and those already present. No one has a plan for that, so catastrophe is inevitable. We'll take most of the species with us.

Liberated Evangelicals: [theconversation.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Christian values aren't entirely invalid and where they extol love for one's neighbor and other constructive issues, they are at odds with the pure hate embraced by the white racist republicans.

Bring it back clean

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

(Can't you tell...?)

“I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Consider being the one-eyed king in the land of the blind. You have sight the others will never see.

[zerohedge.

racocn8 comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Before he was elected we knew Trump was a serial rapist, a bigot, a crook, an incompetent business man, a fraudster, and a foreign agent for a hostile foreign power. Killing half a million by politicizing a pandemic was easier than mounting a coup.

Rut row... Some panties are going to get wadded up over this... [texaspolitics.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

Obviously not.

Is the universe a fractal: [knowridge.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

Certainly many natural aspects resemble fractals, or vice versa. That a mathematical formula could allow predictions of behavior is the essence of physics. The question is whether nature has some intrinsic aspect tied to the formulas, or does the art simply imitate life?

Not ordering from that Chinese restaurant again

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

Road kill for dinner again???

Disappointed

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

The myriad of senseless mass murders committed by Christians horrifies me.

This one looks ok.

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

I hope she isn't anorexic.

[healthfeedback.org] Anti vaxxers are dangerous

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

In particular, they are racist. The effect of anti-vax lies results disproportionately in the deaths of non-whites who are more susceptible and have been the victims of government programs in the past. That racism matches the racism which has become the primary intent of so-called Conservatism.

Are adult male violence and MGM, male genital mutilation or circumcision, correlated?

racocn8 comments on Jul 18, 2021:

no

What do you do when some one admits they are COVID-unvaccinated and at a bar unmasked?

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

This is the problem with people who consume the public commons with no regard for their fellow citizens. You can either look the other way or leave. It shouldn't be that way, but where greed can be reined in, justice and fairness can prevail.

Opinion: What America really thinks of the Equality Act Despite Americans’ desire to expand ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Women's rights should not be infringed on by trans biological males. If a XY wants to present as a woman, fine. That person should not be able to compete against XX's in athletics for money or scholarships. If that door is opened, it should be scrupulously monitored to detect abuse and rescinded ASAP if it occurs. Plainly, Trans activism has deep pockets (Trans billionaire) that have swayed public opinion among those SJW's that can be bought.

Suppression of information, even misinformation, is a bad idea.

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Tons of information are routinely suppressed. If misinformation became the target of suppression, so much the better. People are not competent (sufficiently rational and dispassionate) to openly discuss why disinformation is wrong. People embrace their lies with an iron grip.

For What It's Worth: [religionnews.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Hopefully it is wrong.

The Delta Variant of Covid?

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Delta is a mutated Covid 19. Covid 19 has many dozens of mutated versions, but most of these have been out-competed by the more effectively spreading mutations, i.e. Delta. So far, the vaccines confer immunity that is effective against Delta and the other variants. While the vaccines were developed to act against the original Covid 19 spike protein, the immune system develops receptors to attach to various parts of the spike protein. Thus, mutations in the spike protein reduce the effectiveness of the immune response, but enough immunity remains to quickly recognize incoming virus and mount a defense. New vaccines can be developed against the variants, but as long as the virus is mutating, it is a moving target.

The nerve of some people

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Peeping Toms are the worst...

(Not just a mega-Karen, a MAGA-Karen!) 'Drop all Charges against my VESSEL': MAGA rioter delivers...

racocn8 comments on Jul 17, 2021:

This person seems mentally ill, but is that really a valid consideration given that most Trump supporters have some kind of emotional problem?

I keep trying to justify manchin's presence in the senate, his fundraising trip to texas to meet ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Seemingly, a totally ethics-devoid and tone-deaf mercenary

How many of us feel about lost furbabies

racocn8 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

I lost my dog last year and, while I feel deep loss and regret, I also have a lot of conflict because she behaved very badly a bunch of times (biting me and attacking other dogs).

The superior race lmao

racocn8 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

What, Wrangler or Jordache?

William Regnery II, Reclusive Millionaire Who Financed American Fascists, Dead At 80 | HuffPost

racocn8 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

There should be bounties for people like that.

I see no difference between Chinese expansionism today and Japanese expansionism in 1931.

racocn8 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

You're probably right.

Listen to the puppy

racocn8 comments on Jul 16, 2021:

And those who continue to support him.

Given the fact that the vast majority of people being hospitalized in wards or ICU's with Covid 19 ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 15, 2021:

Capital thinking...

Sometimes there are just no words.

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Plainly the level of corruption should require an external (FBI) investigation.

The news seems to be reporting that Biden is refusing to end or limit the filibuster.

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

I suspect Biden is merely the good cop to Trump's bad cop. Biden was good out of the gate, but Garland is another GOP stooge and Biden trying to turn the page on Trumpism won't work. Biden needs to recruit more talent to advise him. Grinding to a standstill in less that 6 months will hand the country over to fascism.

Stop the negative spinners.

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

The fascists have latched onto public health safety measures as a culture war meme and running with it. Because they can and because they know it frustrates those who are sane.

Americans sharply divided over vaccination mandates. [politico.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

We should continue to offer outreach to everyone. But maybe the vaccine that would have gone to red districts should be sent overseas. Strictly speaking, mandatory vaccination does have precedent.

Social conservatism cannot become healthy until America cleans out skeletons of its clandestine ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

So you think communism is a good idea or you work for the GRU at a troll-farm?

What is the motivation behind the Republican anti-vax propaganda? [alternet.org]

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Its agitprop. Keep the base riled and engaged.

Horney toad by my greenhouse taking a stroll this morning.

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

So cool; like a baby dinosaur...

This is the height of insanity at the hands of the GOP

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

This is the GOP fully turning its back on science. Next stop, the Dark Ages.

A GOP Conspiracy Theorist Running for Senate is Now a Target of Conspiracists | Beth Stoneburner | ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Speaking of eating their own young...

The way it really is

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

At least until the pitchforks and guillotines are rolled out.

I hope George gets his wish

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

C'mon George, you know today's scripts always have plot twists that delay justice, sometimes forever. Trump can NEVER suffer as he deserves from shitting on the US.

Disney

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

The real horror of Disney princesses is the depraved mindset they instill in the millions of young girls that watch them. A major amount of the misery experienced by the boomers and thereafter can be traced to the entitled megalomania and materialism represented in these "role models".

My latest blog entry is about the fact the there have always been Big Lies.

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Has everyone forgotten how Birtherism helped put Trump in the White House?

If your view of anything related to any life form can’t be traced back to evolutionary ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Herd animals benefit from trending toward a colony organization (like ants, bees, termines). That develops the behavior of allegiance. Within humans that have the capacity for abstract thought, allegiance mixes with superstitious behavior, and voila, religion. Religion may provide some survival advantage as the colony organization is reinforced with religious ritual and beliefs.

The author's thesis is that we are all saddled with enough lies to screw up our sense of what is ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

"Our churches, synagogues, and mosques lie to us. "...So we make up preposterous stories about magic people in the sky and then immediately say that we cannot question those stories, that “faith” in them is more important than knowledge of what is real. Why? Because they will not stand up to scrutiny...." The belief in the big lie is entirely in keeping with the dynamics described by Eric Hoffer in The True Believer. What is not so clear is how the main stream media distort reality in their presentation of the news, mostly by omission and by ridiculously stories that create needless anxiety and prevent meaningful engagement of the public with their government. The character of our media suggests the public is being ruthlessly controlled in what they are allowed to see or think.

Fck science

racocn8 comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Future Darwin Award candidates.

Leftest Moron

racocn8 comments on Jul 13, 2021:

"In 2014, The New York Post and The New York Times reported that Sharpton had accumulated over $4.5 million in unpaid state and federal taxes on his personal assets and for-profit businesses..." "Sharpton has also paid down a significant amount of his debt since 2014, as USA TODAY reported. He paid off his personal taxes but still owed $700,000 in 2019 for his companies." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/22/fact-check-claim-overstates-how-much-taxes-al-sharpton-owed/7195590002/

We're number one we're number one, we're number one, Dammit! Barjo brought it to my attention ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 13, 2021:

The GOP has fully embraced the Anti-Vax meme and now they and some innocents will pay the ultimate price. They've had a year of outreach. We should encourage the MAGA's to hold tightly packed rallies and to visit their relatives, but perhaps they'll do an adequate job on their own.

Anti-vaxer nurse dies of covid. Meme fact checked below. [theadvocate.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 13, 2021:

How could a nurse come to be so wholly ignorant? Or, was it that she was more misinformed by Fox? Or maybe she was a Christian or an anti-vaxxer from before Covid? She cut her own life short and won the Darwin award. We should have the humility to recognize our respect for science is a matter of luck (and some discipline) and thus have used our opportunity to avoid the same fate.

Eric Metaxas: If Christians Ran the Country, We’d “Make It Safe” for Others | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Should anyone ever trust a Christian once?

It's really that simple

racocn8 comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Ah, but your atheism may as well be all that because from a believer's view, you repudiate his values. Atheists are regarded as being at the same level as child molesters. Even Muslims are more highly regarded. It is entirely fair to disparage religionists given that their belief in bullshit is a repudiation of a sane persons reverence for Truth, honesty and integrity.

I posted elsewhere that still wearing my Covid mask keeps old men from hitting on me, and this ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 13, 2021:

When he didn't leave after your comment, that was your signal to pick-up and find another seat. By continuing to stay seated with the creep, you validated his aggression.

Tip for a Home Another Tip: When out of fly spray, use hairspray and a vacuum cleaner.

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Be very careful the the fly made it to the filter. When vacuuming flies, my experience is they often get stuck in the hose and come flying out as soon as the vacuum stops.

Towards Equaility? [truthout.org]

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Positive steps if they ever become functional.

Constitutional expert shares a strange law from the 1800s that might be used to help prosecute Trump...

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

The problem is trying to find a prosecutor with real balls and a trial protocol that won't allow MAGA jurors to subvert it.

I like the part in this article where it says once the vaccines are approved for standard FDA use ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

We should not feel guilt as Covid plows through them.

Wakey wakey

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

It looks bad, but would that even do anything?

He Gets me so fucking mad

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

The real tragedy is that the insurrectionists weren't shot dead on approach to the Capitol. Being guilty of sedition, wrecking and soiling the Capitol, they will have evaded justice.

Yeah, throw the book at him.

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

The cross is just swastika-lite.

If only more companies did this

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

While it is offensive that minimum wage is not enough to live on, it is also egregious that founders rake in 5 million, or 100 million, or a billion. That is psychopathic greed and misanthropy.

As an unabashed athiest.

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Perhaps God is also restricted by the Prime Directive?

maybe those anti-vax folks are right and all the people who have died from this bug are just faking ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

I knew it! I knew it! (not)

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger Says Insane Republican Party Is Crashing And Burning

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

Not shedding any tears. The Republicans have obstructed Democrat initiative out of spite and nothing more. They embraced Putin's plan to destroy democracy hoping they could get money and power for themselves in the process. Democrats would be wise to root out the traitors in their midst, as well as the seditionists and wackos.

Conservative Writer Celebrates Genocide at Catholic-Run Residential Schools | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

From the article, the Conservative wrote: "...the certain fact that souls were saved by the missionaries, the enduring belief of Christians that the Gospel is true and must be spread, is paramount; everything else is secondary." So spreading Christianity excuses mass murder. (yet again) (Free speech may be about the competition of ideas, but when old ideas have been fully discredited, can't we be more active about suppressing them?)

[twitter.com] Incompetence or greed ?. Taken your pick

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

Johnson is another Putin mole. So incompetence and greed both.

Scientific study.

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

What's green, a mile long and has an asshole at each end? (St. Patrick's Day parade)

That's a good damn deal!

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

My Vic 20 had 5 kilobytes of RAM.

Been called that by a few here , I'm proud of it

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

In other words, the opposite of deplorable.

We need to explore all the moons of our gas giants to look for life.. [space.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 11, 2021:

Do we have the competence to encounter life without it destroying us, or us destroying it?

At first glance...

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

That might be regarded as Black Art Magic, as is employed in the Square-Circle production illusion.

So, can I go now???

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

In my Nucleic Acids class the prof thought it would be fun to give a quiz on that weeks subject before he had presented the material. The quiz related to thermodynamics. I had one class (Ivy League UP) on molecular immunology. It was 4 units and had no exams, no papers or in-class work products, and everyone got A's. It did have a large reading list, and class discussions. Developmental Embryology at UO had a lab where each student was provided with a fetus to dissect. Where they came from? Nobody asked.

A 7-point-plan to reinstate Donald Trump as president 'in days, not years' was handed out at CPAC

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Intentionally immersing oneself in delusion may not qualify as the most serious type of psychopathy, but psychopathic it remains. As always, Eric Hoffer's True Believers feel relief at replacing old musty fantasies with novel, related ones, but they remain fantasies, and always subject to the disruption of cognitive dissonance. Then comes humiliation, self-loathing and martyr complex. Sucks to be them.

Brilliant!!!!!!! [msn.

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

While it is an interesting theory, they don't seem to have any evidence it is true yet. (the theory that covid is being spread asymptomatically by those who are vaccinated). However, for that to be true, the claim is that a vaccinated person can have a sufficiently active case of covid that they can spread it, but without being hospitalized and perhaps not even symptomatic. That seems unlikely. Vaccinated people with immunity are likely to mount a defense too quickly to allow the virus to attain the capacity to spread. Hard to say... The problem is that the Republicans have hyper-politicized the subject (flooded the media with bullshit). It is extremely hard to distinguish factual truths because of the dysinformation. If only justice could prevail against the irresponsible. Nah...

Nothing like a rotten egg...

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

I saw one poster of a topless model where they airbrushed out the nipples. Seriously??!!!

If they call for a covid booster shot, will you get it? I will get it if offered.

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

If the recommendation seems appropriate. I'm inclined to think that the pandemic will have subsided enough to where it won't be necessary. I'm not anti-vax, but I do believe that more benefit would be derived by sending it to countries where the un-vaccinated percent is much higher, and Covid is more active.

Around 500 so far, some are already pleading guilty rather than face a public trial.

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

The only problem is that if the Republicans continue in their plan to replace democracy with fascism, the majority will have no recourse except insurrection.

if U still believe that - humans built the pyramids - this short yet concise video should - ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Sorry but no. The building of the pyramids by the Egyptians is well established as well as obvious. Don't expect anything like enlightenment if you bury yourself in lies. (but I preach to the deaf)

Sen. Ron Johnson holds press conference on side effects from COVID-19 vaccine [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Yeah, there's a reliable source...

Just so you know...

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Don't you just hate wedgies?

Kodak my only best friend 😉💗

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Does the bow tie mean something?

Why Toyota's reversal on Republican financial support matters

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Will they stop advertising on Fox? Toyota is indifferent or even hostile to US democracy and, with luck, anti-fascist consumers will vote with their pocketbooks.

"Stupid is as stupid does?" [rawstory.com]

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Sometimes you CAN fix stupid.