Very clever...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2021:

Self-referencing statements are the basis of many paradoxes.

"My parents came to Britain as refugees from Poland.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2021:

title: Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Tunnels https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hamas-killed-160-palestinian-children-to-build-terror-tunnels

Should people without faith reach out to people with faith to make them faithless?

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2021:

Yes. While it is best to rely on education, most who believe myths also believe hate propaganda against non-believers. That culture of hatred should be openly opposed.

Truer words

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2021:

You can't shame the shameless.

Ahhh, the wonders of religious right.

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

What would we do with all that popcorn we've stored up?

I don't see how anyone can argue against this assertion.

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

Women are not terrorists dedicated to Jihad.

I would have thought choirboy more appropriate? But it would still be a freaking miracle...

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

And that's it isn't it? Sometime forgiveness isn't an option.

How much time you think it will takes before religions disappear from the earh?

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

Don't hold your breath...

So, Jesus is a Dick?

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

And all that shit is an illusion, including his dick.

I agree.

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

This was a cursory market test. They haven't really started yet.

F and, A+, too! Good on you, Teacher! 😂

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

An elephant with a hand is not an elephant.

When someone tells me "You are so going to hell" I hand them one of these...

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

Being orange is surely a coincidence. And yet it sure seems like Trump has a whole deck of them. Hopefully he runs out soon.

That's her for sure

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2021:

I'm certain that's a slur against Neanderthals.

Black Man Charged With Murder After Shooting White Burglar In Oklahoma

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2021:

Straight up rank racism.

Police sergeant in Connecticut fired for excessive force after video shows he pepper-sprayed ...

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2021:

This is perfect example of why qualified immunity must end. At least make it possible for a judge to revoke it if so petitioned.

Coleus collection moved outside. Lots of re-potting needed here!

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2021:

Very nice!!!

Saw this late Thursday night on FB...had to share with you folk!

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

Just imagine what it's taken to make a Cheney respectable... er, quasi-respectable, or less than an ass, or, oh, just forget it...

"Hey, ...my eyes are here!"

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

Yikes. (not necessarily in a good way)

Not sure how this analysis makes any sense MAGA pastor: Facebook banning Donald Trump is exactly...

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

When you're insane and your audience is insane, you don't have to make sense.

I believe we are coming to an end of the Tweety Era.

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

Yesterday, please.

"As the Arabs see the Jews" His Majesty King Abdullah, The American Magazine November, 1947

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

The Palestinians and Israels deserve each other. It must be love; a match made in heaven. Obviously God and Allah approve. They told me so.

Time to seek some answers from Dr. Fauci et al. [nicholaswade.medium.com]

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

What other right wingnut conspiracies do you embrace?

Good day everyone! 😅 so, I got a question hihi 😅 - Is it okay for you to relocate to this ...

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

As long as it's not near a rising sea level.

The BBC sums up the Israeli-Palestine conflict well [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

The Palestinians and the Israelis deserve each other.

A glimpse of the future for all the beautiful young people covered in ink.

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

Does he bite the heads off chickens too?

Richard Dawkins: It’s “Wise and Sensible” to Abort Fetuses with Down Syndrome | Hemant Mehta |...

racocn8 comments on May 13, 2021:

Dawkins' reference to the new religion of Wokeism is spot on, and this is a perfect example. The dishonest response of the author is proof. Screw these litmus tests.

Yesterday ( Wednesday) Morning while I was on the bus going to do my usual every second Wednesday ...

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

Religion causes parents to become incompetent.

Wow, this is spot on!!!

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

They may not be able to feel shame, but we will always be ashamed of them.

We are so upside down

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

Biblical Jesus provides the sentiment that its easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter Heaven. So the broken clock gets one right, so the Christians ignore it the most. That's it. Those who are given power by society must be held to a higher, or much higher standard (Completely the opposite of what we have). Enact penalties for betrayal that include corporal punishment. That seems to be the one feature that gets the attention of wealthy psychopath republicans. The CIA or whoever should simply 'take out' two of the top multimillionaires every year as a simple discouragement against amassing obscene wealth.

Texas is a big state

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

isn't genetics fascinating?

I put this up as a response in another topic, but I thought it deserved a post of its own.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

Corporal punishment sends the wrong message. If punishment is to be meted out, violence should never be involved. We see how often police misuse their guns with terrible consequences. Too many members of the general population would abuse the chance to wield corporal punishment.

WAGGING THE DOG?

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

Hamas need not have started firing rockets from Gaza, and this provided the largest escalation. But, yes, the evicting of Palestinians could have been arranged by Netanyahu. However, even this could have been Israel's periodic punishment for refusing peace. Does it matter? How much sympathy should one have for combatants that use their own children as human shields? How about the Kurds, the Syrians, the Yemenis, the Afghanis, the Nigerian famine victims, and all the pandemic victims like the Indians? Many others are far more deserving of attention. ...but not as exciting as explosions and rockets being launched...

Letters From An American 05/11/2021

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

I totally salute any effort to dissuade the Republicans from their insanity. And yet, where are her complaints against the Republican fealty to Putin? Republicans had no objection to Trump working with Putin to get elected, nor with his numerous criminal and immoral acts, nor with his sedition.

Don't wake the fishies.

racocn8 comments on May 12, 2021:

He looks like he's asleep, it's a shame that he won't keep, but it's summer and we're runnin' outa ice... (Poor Jud)

I didn't realize the charismatic Bibles were larger now I know why they have all these extra rules.

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

None of the above. Anyone who could read should discern that.

Woman gets 6 doses of COVID-19 vaccine at once The woman was mistakenly injected with an entire ...

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

I'd be surprised if anything major happened.

State of the Plate 2021: High tech--or the human spirit? • Hightower Lowdown

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

Another answer to this is do what used to be policy. Only allow companies to occupy a minority stake in the market for that industry. Companies that exceed that must be split or otherwise broken up.

Live video of man hitting on teen girl offers a glimpse of what young women experience daily - ...

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

I see at least as much misandry as creepiness. But shhhh, it's a secret.

How callous and stupid can some people be?

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

You were certainly gracious to warn him after his insult. Sometimes justice happens...

Well earned I'd say...

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

That's an insult to dogs. Graham may well be Trump's bitch. As they are both rabid, mad, and frothing at the mouth, it's wisest to put them to sleep, for everyone's protection of course...

Conspiracist: The Unvaccinated Are Being Treated Just Like Jews in the Holocaust | Beth Stoneburner ...

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

If Christians view their treatment as comparable to how they treated the Jews in the Holocaust... 1) It's good they admit the Holocaust happened; 2) As they now support Fascism to maintain their White Supremacy, they certainly deserve whatever imagined slight they feel; 3) They deserve so much more, and maybe when the next pandemic hits, they'll get it.

It takes a bit to get there but hey, the man does seem to have a point. [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

Not only did the woman not have a point, but resorting to violence would be chargeable offense under normal circumstances.

That's the source of problems today

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

Certain White people want to keep their perspective of white superiority and domination. Without the domination by casual police murders, the fantasy of superiority evaporates.

The Real heroes

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

The top one was only possible because the President arranged to sabotage the protection Congress is supposed to have. If the National Guard and Capitol Police had been allowed to do their job, we'd have a lot of dead traitors. And that would be a very good thing.

The answer to this seem obvious to me, but maybe I'm missing something. What are your thoughts?

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

If the man doesn't want the child but the woman insists on having it, then yes, the fathers obligation should be much reduced (90%?). The father still has some responsibility for not using birth control. The woman may have simply used the man to get impregnated. Mothers have critical social responsibilities that when violated, deserve severe consequences.

“Agnostics” who don’t understand Atheism.

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

1) The claim that atheists state no god exists is an evangelical lie told so often it is recorded in some dictionaries. This is a fondly embraced lie the evangelicals use to rationalize their other hate-speech against related groups. 2) Another lie that Christians love to tell is how they were atheists growing up, and then magically found Jesus. This is where they also get to tell the first lie, which proves they are lying because if they had been atheists, they would know the correct definition. Examples of this are C.S. Lewis and Francis Collins. 3) A huge amount of weird physics leave lots of questions hanging. While the existence of a god could give an answer, such an answer is meaningless; one may as well say an alien or a unicorn did it. That being said, what is known with high confidence is that the Judeo-Christian god does not exist. That particular entity suffers from extremely good arguments based on science and cultural anthropology (1. science: humans evolved, ergo no original sin to be forgiven or sacrificed for; 2. Biblical content is badly lacking moral validity or competence and readily traceable to prior texts)

IsraeliCruelty [twitter.

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

And when the Palestinians celebrated after 9/11 happened? What would that be? (The fire came from a tree outside the mosque.)

Mind-boggling magnets could unlock plentiful power [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2021:

I seem to recall seeing one design where the center was spherical. I'd say that developing the superconducting tape is a winner, if only because it is the first step in a semi-mature technology. We know that much more can be developed and refined.

Late Night with Seth Meyers Republicans Are Purging Anyone Who Won't Embrace Trump's Election Lies:...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

The Republicans disregarded how Putin helped Trump gain office for years before the election lie. Indeed, I've yet to hear ANY Republican admit how Trump cheated, even though the intelligence services, Senate report and Mueller all gave details of Russia's involvement. Why? Because they know how thoroughly the corruption runs in their party.

Joy Calls Tucker Carlson, Ron Johnson The Absolute Worst For Spreading COVID Disinformation | MSNBC...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Their patriotism is highly questionable, if it even exists. They only have loyalty to power and money, and could care less about the country and its citizens.

State of the Plate 2021: High tech--or the human spirit? • Hightower Lowdown

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Certainly a lot of monopolies rely on the Patent Office. Patent Office policies could be reshaped fairly quickly, including firing corrupt deadwood. Issues that come to mind: patenting living organisms, techniques developed at taxpayer expense, term of patents, the ability to renew patents by making small changes. Full disclosure: I have some animus against the PTO for allowing Lawrence Livermore to steal my preliminary patent which LL then rushed through a totally bogus and illegitimate patent covering a couple dozen claims which had zero embodiment (completely speculative and untested hypotheses). Shame on the PTO and major shame on Lawrence Livermore hacks.

If you are wondering why so many people believe in The Big Lie concerning the 2020 election, let me ...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Mary was 13? So God is a pedophile? Now it all makes sense...

It is shameful that both US parties bankroll Israeli brutality against Palestinians.

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Last I saw, it was Gaza that was bombing Israel... but I'm sure Israel will even the score shortly. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/israeli-police-and-palestinians-clash-at-jerusalem-holy-site-486540 As for bankrolling Israel, Israel helps the military-industrial complex test out their latest equipment and tactics. What has Saudi Arabia done for the US lately? (Much less the Palestinians)

Federal judge shoots down Lin Wood's latest objection to being forced to take a mental health exam...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Trump is the one who should be getting tested.

Tips For Writing Exceptionally Good Essay Here are a few essay writing tips that will assist you ...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Not bad advice if taken. Note how the content appears to have been badly edited and then not reviewed. What's amazing is that neither the editor nor the author reviewed it. What a mess!!!

WATCH: Intense scene unfolds in Houston neighborhood as armed man confronts roaming tiger ...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

Hopefully they shoot the owner first.

'It makes us look like idiots': Arizona Republican admits he was wrong to support 'ridiculous' vote ...

racocn8 comments on May 10, 2021:

"look like" ???

If the election wasn't "stolen", why are Democrats so vehemently opposed to the audits?

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2021:

The premise is false: Democrats don't oppose audits conducted openly by competent unbiased entities. Apparently you were asleep while sixty-some legal challenges were thrown out by judges because they lacked merit. The article is so full of partisan lies and silliness, that no one could take it seriously, unless they were fully brainwashed in their partisan bubble. Yes, let's see the bamboo fibers in the ballots imported from China.

Happy Mother’s Day everyone!

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2021:

A nice sentiment, but gestation is nothing like 3-D printing.

Semi-capitalist, pseudo-capitalist increasingly-fascist truth-denying Republicans vs ...

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2021:

You've completely neglected the religious angle, which is essential to understanding the Republican philosophy. Christianity turns people into absolutists wherein disagreement is intolerable, and non-believers are evil and guided by Satan. Only a small percent will even consider the truth if they allow themselves to hear it. Theirs is a slavish, juvenile mentality requiring absolute obedience, like the murderous boys in Lord of the Flies. They are unfit to participate in this democracy and have committed themselves to its destruction. Good luck negotiating with that.

A Dose of Tao

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2021:

Which non-existence of this universe are you contemplating?

Religion is the worship of Man Prove Me Wrong

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

One perspective will say yes and another no. What would be the objective?

She was bored....

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

Where are the saws and scalpels?

So it seems Mir-a-Lago is trending on Twitter because people are hoping that out of control Chinese ...

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

I would pay real money to dominate him.

Ala carte:

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

Heck, we've had that for centuries...

So, what is the context here then???

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

I don't remember that one. Great comeback!!! So, what, we're supposed to worship a god that causes evil? Willingly, or under duress? How could we ever be sure?

Rebel HQ Police Officer Tortures Man With Taser [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

The officer is a psychopath who belongs in a mental hospital. The officer sought the confrontation with the objective of using his taser (or worse). Another asshole like Gutierrez that maced the Army lieutenant.

& yes, this is (the supposed) "good" book...

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

Either way, what fun!!!!

Anyone who believes in conspiracy theories has never been a project manager.

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

it's Know-Nothings 2.0

30 Times People Spotted Terrible Architecture, And Just Had To Share It With The World | DeMilked

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

They forgot Frank Gehry who had never produced anything that didn't look like a trash heap.

Ernest Angley, the 99-Year-Old Abusive Bigoted Gay Televangelist, is Dead | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

Hallelujah!!!!

The Young Turks Tucker Carlson's DANGEROUS Vaccine Lies [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on May 8, 2021:

Carlson is a traitor to the American people. His propaganda has the effect of obstructing herd immunity and thus raising the death toll well into the future. It is a race to the bottom.

A “Poison Pill” in HR 1: While HR1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to ...

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2021:

Hardly a poison pill. It just means the Green Party wouldn't get any of that money. It's more like it shouldn't be given out at all. Gore would have won handily but for Nader in 2000, and Hillary in 2016, and see what that got us. Yeah, we should be so grateful to the Green Party for giving us W Bush and Trump. Thanks too much. And by the way, Stein is also a Putin puppet.

Happy birthday, Johannes Brahms.

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2021:

You should hear the Irish piano music that Beethovan. It's wonderful stuff but it never, ever gets played. I bought a Vox Box records when I was in college.

Hello all, my wife and I were vaccinated here in Portugal on Monday with the Astra-Zenaca version, ...

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2021:

If it were a headache or cramping as from IBS, then you could suspect a placebo effect. I had classic chills, muscle ache, and fatigue for four hours the next day. I pretty much never feel like that, so unless I happened to have caught a flu bug I previously had, it was the vaccine (Pfizer).

Controversial quote by famous novelist and right wing activist Ayn Rand on the rights of Native ...

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2021:

So besides being a pseudo-intellectual, she was also an racist. There's a surprise, not.

Sick whiny fuckers, I'm too mad to post this under silly.

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2021:

They are desperate to have their big lie validated. It's the old argument by authority fallacy. How sad to never be able to tell the truth to oneself out loud.

Sweet and Subtle. I wonder who has ideas for the female counterpart.

racocn8 comments on May 7, 2021:

1 Cherry jelly roll croissant to go please. Oh, add some whip cream to the center...

Hehehehehehehehe

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

They should be much smaller and shaped like a mushroom...

Mapping Police Violence

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Pretty effed up. Good graphic. I wonder what percent that is of all gunshot fatalities? The total for 2020 was 14,851. That makes police killings 2.3% That almost makes it seem OK, but really, just shows that guns are the problem. Uuugh. Oops. Actually it should be 352/14.851 * 365/125 = 6.7% . So about 1/15 gunshot murders are from police.

Roswell UFO crash: What is the truth behind the 'flying saucer' incident?

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Below is a link to a New Yorker review article entitled: How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously. That a mainstream media entity would cover a subject that has been taboo for decades serves to condition the public for... what? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously I like how it ends, paraphrasing: "I spoke with a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who said that about a decade ago, during combat, he had an extended encounter with a U.F.O., one that registered on two of his plane’s sensors. For all the usual reasons, he had never officially reported the sighting, but every once in a while he’d bring a close friend into his confidence over a beer..." "The object he’d encountered was about forty feet long, disobeyed the principles of aerodynamics as he understood them, and looked exactly like a giant Tic Tac. “When Commander Fravor’s story came out in the New York Times, all my buddies had a jaw-drop moment. Even my old boss called me up and said, ‘I read about the Nimitz, and I wanted to say I’m so sorry I called you an idiot.’ ” https://agnostic.com/group/LikelyUFOLore

Taxonomy is a very subjective business, perhaps the most subjective in all science.

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Are lies alive? (They spread by infecting their hosts, living as a parasite until they use the hosts body to reproduce...)

After all, it's just a harmless story, no?

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Even if God were inspiring the writing of this nonsense, wouldn't a wise all-knowing entity know enough to clearly distinguish what happened from all the other virgin-birth myths? The absence of clarity is the proof of human authorship.

Random stuff ...

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Rural pizza delivery? She's wearing gloves to protect her fingers... En Garde in one move...

Meow Trek.

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Feline high where few pussy's have gone before.

Moscow Mitch is up to his usual crap.

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

Once again, the government has been so deeply infiltrated with Russian puppets that the press give traitors like McConnell a pass. We are so screwed.

Roswell UFO crash: What is the truth behind the 'flying saucer' incident?

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

""If Marcel (the rancher) was standalone, then there would be some real problems here, but he is not. There are many credible witnesses — men who achieved high military rank, men and women who were prominent in their communities...The point is that Marcel was backed up by other high-ranking officers and many civilians who were part of the case." One repeating detail in the testimony described a red-haired officer who intimidated with physical threats anyone who told their story. Threats and intimidation became standard procedure for Air Force and other military in dealing with UFO observers.

Lying Christian Pastor: It’s “Scientifically Impossible to Be an Atheist” | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

It is well known that Christians have sought to redefine atheism as someone who makes the claim that no god exists, a position that they CAN attack. Sadly, that phony definition has spread to the point of being a dictionary entry. Francis Collins, the evangelical hack given title over the Human Genome Project notoriously said he used to be an atheist, citing the phony definition. Again, a Christian claiming they used to be an atheist is a common whopper they tell to each other. Collins, supposedly a bright guy, still says he started as a god-denying atheist. Anyone with that level of acuity should know the actual meaning of atheism if they ever truly considered it. As an evangelical, Collins feels no shame in lying to further his cult, and that's why evangelicals who support Trump(Putin) cannot be shamed. Their degenerate immorality poses an imminent existential threat to our country (fascism and ecological collapse).

A bunch of Bronze-age goat herders???

racocn8 comments on May 6, 2021:

That seems like a non-sequitur fallacy.

8 extremely rare 'millisecond pulsars' discovered inside globular clusters These "cosmic clocks" ...

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

Assuming that these pulsars have a solid surface, I'd be curious to know the velocity at that surface. If the radius is 50 miles and rotating once every 10 milliseconds, the surface is traveling at 31,400 miles per second, or about 17% of the speed of light. Pretty fast...

Poll: United States the biggest threat to democracies globally; bigger threat than China ...

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

With Trump's presidency, the mask slipped off for a while. The whole world knows that the Republicans are straight-up Nazi wannabes and will instantly sell their souls for a well-marketed kick in the teeth (in short, idiots). As long as the Republicans exist, the United States will remain a psychopathic threat to the rest of the world.

Christians worry me.

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

Don't worry. Christians have developed work-around's so that they can cheat, molest and murder to their hearts content. And they do...

Holy Mother of God.

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

This clearly demonstrates a big part of what is wrong with democracy. While anyone can run for office, those that do are completely unqualified.

My new pastime

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

Looks like Boeing designed it.

Family of woman shot by cop during Capitol riot says it was murder

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

She was already brain dead. In the worst case, it was a mercy killing. Every one of those people was a traitor, and shame on the capitol police and DC for not having the cops and Nat'l Guard armed to the teeth. Shame on DC for granting the permit at all and not yanking it after other the demonstrations before Jan 6 turned violent. Palms were greased and many were complicit.

I meant to post this on April 30th but forgot.

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

My high lottery number kept me from serving. I met a classmate and he had all sorts of shrapnel left inside. Horrible.

Isn't it ironic...

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

Many former Mexicans support the racist white nationalist because he helped seat anti-abortion justices on SCOTUS. (religion stupefies)

Yup that's accurate

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

What convince? All that just helps them identify with him. And you're giving Putin way too much credit.

No shit no progress from them

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

The Right doesn't want a future, they want Armageddon.

Japanese Doritos.

racocn8 comments on May 5, 2021:

Mmmm.... salty...