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The Bush administration engineered the housing/credit bubble in order to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Otherwise they would have had to raise taxes, raise the interest rates and re-institute the draft. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were brought on board four years later, with Democratic demands of comprehensive oversight and regulation, which the Republicans, as usual, refused.

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OK, Chevy. Have it your way: the Clinton administration may have engineered the credit bubble to mitigate the damage of the dotcom bubble, but the Bush administration reverse-engineered it to finance their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On a side note, I'm getting tired of listening to conservatives blame the victims of foreclosure for the crimes of those who deregulated the financial industry for private profit. It's sort of like referring to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima. The Democrats have been tacking to starboard to stay in the race, given the racist foundations of the …

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Right. But at least the liberals and progressives who support him will enjoy the moral victory of watching him lose the general election. As for Clinton's - and the Democrats' - support of the Iraq War resolution: the congressional Democrats lined up along party lines in opposition to the Persian Gulf resolution fifteen years ago, and they got plastered in the following two elections. According to some progressives they should have committed political suicide in 2002 and voted against the IWR. The progressives are as much of a drag on the Democratic party as the fundamentalists are on the Republican party, …

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"The answer is so very simple, but you and your type will not understand. White America does not care about race. We aren�t voting for Obama...because he is black. " "...a glimmer of what America is really like."

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Only monarchies have succession crises. If the US truly had the "government of laws, not of men" that it says, right on the label, that it has in its republic, it would be a matter of no great consequence which individual happened to fill any particular office in our republic at any given time. We only have a succession problem because we have let the presidency become a quadrennially elected monarchy. We don't at all like to admit that we have abandoned the republic we gave ourselves in the Constitution. Because of this, we will never be able to reform …

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Wait. You're saying that Barack Hussein O'Bama (Happy St Pat's Day, Chicago), an African-American candidate for the presidency, can now be credibly connected to the Democratic Socialists of America (good organization, by the way, I've still got an expired membership card somewhere in my wallet), in addition to his association with Jeremiah Wright (with whose "radical" rhetoric I completely agree), and yet you seem to expect him to win the nomination and defeat John McCain in the general election? You are either completely insane, or naively deluded, or suffer from a political death wish. The Republicans, I can assure you, are …

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On second thought, maybe the Democrats don't have a death wish after all. Maybe they'd rather have the Republicans muck out their own stables. But if that's true, then it's a dangerous game they're playing, because whatever happens the Republicans will always blame the liberals for the catastrophic consequences the conservatives create, with the right wing extremists calling for a revolution from above (fascism and warfare) while the left wing extremists invoke the necessity of inciting a revolution from below (communism and civil war).

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Fascism and communism are two sides of the same coin, and the name of that coin is capitalism. Every other form of government is an amalgym of communism (on the left) and fascism (on the right), national socialism or international socialism, privately owned enterprise or state owned enterprise, warfare or revolution. In other words, political conflict, like the religious conflict which preceded it, is just another excuse to dispose of the people rendered socially useless by the transition from feudalism to industrialism.

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The tragedy is that the Russians and the Chinese and the Japanese had less than a century to modernize their societies, or face colonial conquest, while the Europeans had more than five centuries to accomplish the same results, through colonial conquest.

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A Gallup poll in seventeenth century London once proclaimed: "Peasants mourn passage of Idyllic, Bucolic and Pastoral Age. Demand return to Famine, Pestilence, Ignorance and Oppression by King and Clergy. Enlightened Aristocracy predicts that Industrial Revolution and Colonial Imperialism will produce Utopic Material Paradise for middle-class Europeans whose descendants survive transition to Modern Democratic Age."

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Surely you don't mean to compare African-Americans, a group of Americans whose ancestors emigrated from Africa, to Swedish-Americans, a group of Americans whose ancestors emigrated from Sweden.To be consistent, you need to compare countries to countries and continents to continents (apples to apples and oranges to oranges). Either way, I'm sure you'll find proportionately more Swedish-Americans than, say, Moroccan-Americans employed in the media. In other words, if Swedish-Americans represent x percent of the population and Moroccan-Americans represent y percent of the population, then you can be reasonably certain that Swedish-Americans and Moroccan-Americans represent w and z percent, respectively, of the population …

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There's a reason for instituting a policy of proportional minority representation among the members of the media, aside from eliciting the usual racist complaints from conservatives concerning politically correct displays of aberrant behavior. If we can see members of minority groups who are intelligent, compassionate, talented and professionally capable (like journalists, newscasters, film directors--in short, us), then we become less likely to relegate them to the margins of social irrelevance (drug dealers, addicts, gangbangers, unwed mothers, welfare recipients--in short, them). In fact, the boundary between us and them begins to erode to the extent that many of us may feel motivated …

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Wtf,Wth... You don't complain about all those disproportionately positive representations of white, or male, or straight, or Christian, or conservative images which constantly reinforce our predisposition to include and tolerate the social dominance of whites, or males, or straights, or Christians or conservatives. It's only when non-whites, or women, or queers, or atheists and moslems, or liberals and socialists and anarchists are included among the ranks of social acceptance and political consensus that you begin the question the wisdom of liberal tolerance, and condemn blacks for their violence, women for their support for abortion, queers for their refusal to procreate, atheists …

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Technically, legalized assault, kidnapping and forced servitude can easily be construed as emigration, as people like Wolf and whattheheck, with tongues firmly planted in their chubby cheeks, will gleefully confirm. Why else would they equate affirmative action to reverse discrimination?

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The media is the message. Presently, the message is white, middle-class, male, straight, Christian and conservative, complaining about gangbangers, femianazis, AIDS, Islamofascists and the liberal drive-by media.

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Aggregate Primary Vote Totals (To Date): > 600,000: Obama > 400,000: Clinton < 300,000: McCain < 200,000: Huckleberry While the two leading Democratic candidates have more than a million votes between them, the two leading Republican candidates have less than half as many votes between them. What this implies is that the Republicans, whose crossover votes contribute to the popularity of Democratic candidates, would prefer to run either of their candidates against Obama., for obvious reasons. Think about it. McCain and Huckabee... ...Wrapped in the Flag and Dragging a Cross.

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Unfortunately, Wolf, it's obvious that you hope that exactly the opposite happens. The only truthful statement in your previous comment was the fifth sentence ("Fine with me.").

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What makes you a coprophiliac is your compulsive submission to authority and your obsessive attempts to enforce the submission of your subordinates to your will.

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Of course, if a State cannot secede from the Union, then the state cannot expel a State from the Union. Hence, all States are entitled to military protection from the state, regardless of the State's respective participation in the state's military maladministration. Therefore, the preferable members of the military are, as always, the people who believe the lies of their leaders to invade and occupy a country which never threatened their state. Namely, high school graduates, prison parolees, campus conservatives, and the sons and daughters of the patriotic parents who unequivocally accept the lies of their leadership. Would you require the …

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It's a quaint bit of sophistry to refer to "gun owners" as if they all are, by definition, upstanding law-abiding citizens, and their "criminal" counter-parts are all, again, by definition, evil cold-blooded sociopaths, when in fact all of them, the citizens and the sociopaths, are gun "owners". Ownership doesn't necessarily confer respectability upon the owner, as any criminal gun owner's crimes have shown. Making more guns more easily available simply compounds the problem. Restricting the ownership of guns will also restrict the commission of gun-related crimes. But then, restricting the ownership of anything in this country is pretty much a "capital" …

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To say that law-abiding citizens occasionally "outshine the police" is hardly a compliment, even in that moral den of iniquity which calls itself the Canadian Federation. Comparing citizens of the United States to Canadian citizens is an insult to the civil sensibilities of American moral values.

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You bozos have yet to invade another country for no other reason than to acquire unrestrained access to its social and natural resources. Well, I guess that confiscating the land and resources of its native inhabitants counts for something, but even there you followed the American model, even though you failed to follow through with the requisite genocidal extermination. If only you had more available firepower...

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I was being sarcastic, Dudley. The wingnuts on this thread would have us believe that all gun owners can be conveniently classified into law-abiding citizens and the criminals who prey upon them. The reality is more complicated than their Manichean categorization: parents who kill themselves or their children or their spouses to prevent spousal custody of the children, lovers' disputes, workers who kill their supervisors or their coworkers to avenge their unemployment or humiliation on the job, children who kill their childhood antagonists, or accidentally kill themselves (what's the point of locking up your pistols when the purpose, to begin with, …

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Oh, right. Gun lovers are the victims of "simple" bigotry. My liberal heart bleeds for you, bro.

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One-tenth of one percent? No shit, Sherlock. If a hundred million weapons are "privately owned", then one hundred thousand of them are "misused", according to your statistic. That's (at least) a hundred thousand people who are killed or injured, just so you can feed your heroic fantasies of authoritarian retribution. Making handguns illegal will reduce the number of handguns in circulation, and thereby reduce the number of handgun-related crimes. Making education and health care more available to more people will reduce the number of people who are desperate enough to reach for their "privately owned" pistols, and possibly prevent you from …

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Scholar Invents Fan To Answer His Critics By Richard Morin Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 1, 2003; Page C01 Mary Rosh thinks the world of John R. Lott Jr., the controversial American Enterprise Institute scholar whose book "More Guns, Less Crime" caused such a stir a few years ago. In postings on Web sites in this country and abroad, Rosh has tirelessly defended Lott against his harshest critics. He is a meticulous researcher, she's repeatedly told those who say otherwise. He's not driven by the ideology of the left or the right. Rosh has even summoned memories of the classes …

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Lott said that he frequently has used the name "Mary Rosh" to defend himself in online debates. The name is an amalgam of the first two letters of his four sons' first names. In a posting to the Web site maintained by Tim Lambert, an Australian professor who has relentlessly attacked Lott's guns studies, "Mary Rosh" claims to be a former student of Lott at the University of Pennsylvania, where the economist taught between 1991 and 1995. "I had him for a PhD level empirical methods class when he taught at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania back in …

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Who Is John Lott and Why is He Claiming That More Guns Mean Less Crime? John Lott John R. Lott Jr. is (was--1998-99, ed.) the John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and an avid proponent of Chicago School theories on law and economics. He is also the author of a controversial new study purporting to show that allowing individuals to carry concealed handguns reduces crime. Lott shares a common heritage with former Judge Robert Bork and other prominent members of the Chicago School - the espousal of extreme points of view on the issues of crime, …

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ON SCHOOL VIOLENCE In the wake of the March 1998 schoolyard ambush of children by children in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Lott voiced his strong support for arming teachers and other school personnel against gun-toting juveniles. Lott argues, "Allowing teachers and other law-abiding adults to carry concealed handguns in schools would not only make it easier to stop shootings in progress, it could also help deter shootings from ever occurring." ---"The Real Lesson of the School Shootings," The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 1998.

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ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION An abstract of one of Lott's studies details his findings that "increases in the percent of minority police officers increase crime rates" and that "racial and gender changes in the composition of police forces resulted in at least 2,000 more murders" in cities he studied. --"Does a Helping Hand Put Others At Risk? Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime," Abstract listing by Social Science Research Network Electronic Library, July 25, 1997.

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ON CRIME Lott argues that wealthy criminals should be able to purchase legal representation that will allow them to escape conviction despite their guilt. Lott writes, "Preventing wealthy people from influencing the opinion of the court in their favor will lead to expected punishments that are too large for the wealthy...." Furthermore, Lott argues that "allowing wealthy people to do what on first glance may seem like 'subverting' the legal system can be efficient." Lott contends that a certain amount of crime is actually good for society. In Lott's view, the benefit of a crime to a criminal can outweigh the …

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ON AVIATION SAFETY Lott refers to Federal Aviation Administration inspectors as "busybody bureaucrats looking over [the] shoulders" of the airline industry. He also scolds Ralph Nader � whom he labels a "proregulation fearmonger" � for wanting the flying public to travel in "bomb-resistant planes." ---"The Regulatory Quest for Safety at Any Cost" [A Book Review of Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety by Ralph Nader], Regulation, Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter 1994: 80-81.

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ON THE ENVIRONMENT Lott labels global warming, ozone depletion, and the need for wetlands preservation "environmental myths." He dismisses any idea that the toxic chemical dioxin might represent a hazard to human health, despite the fact that the substance is rated as a "probable human carcinogen" by the Environmental Protection Agency. Lott states that "the worst thing people can expect from dioxin is a bad rash." He goes on to deride the federal Superfund program to clean up toxic waste dumps as "infamous and amazingly costly." Lott further urges Americans to "stop worrying so much about the environment," characterizing health and …

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ON SMOKING Lott says that any government regulation of indoor air quality � even smoking � is unwarranted. According to Lott, "The question of allowing smoking in a restaurant is no different than the question whether the restaurant provides music or other amenities." He also opposes regulation of smoking on airplanes with the rationale, "To force airlines to ban smoking on all flights thus makes smokers worse off by a greater amount than it benefits non-smokers." ---"Regulating Indoor Air Quality: The Economist's View," coauthored with Robert G. Hansen, The EPA Journal, Vol. 19, no. 4 (October-December, 1993): 30-31.

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In conclusion, Lott believes that teachers should go to school armed, that putting minority police officers on the beat causes murder rates to increase, that some crime is good for society, that FAA safety inspectors are "busybody bureaucrats," that dioxin and ozone depletion present no appreciable risk to humans or the environment, and that there should be no regulation of smoking in restaurants or on airplanes. Lott has a long and well-documented track record of zealously advocating an extreme anti-consumer, anti-public safety ideology. His view that arming the populace with concealed handguns will reduce crime is just one more extreme view …

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Canada's Gun Control Laws Overview Prohibited Firearm: Fully automatic military assault weapons, semi-automatics which can be converted to automatics, along with a few other selected models not suitable for hunting or target shooting, short-barreled handguns, sawed-off shotguns and large capacity magazines. In most cases, the previous owners of these weapons were grandfathered when the prohibitions went into effect, in lieu of financial compensation. Licensing Requirements: Under the Firearms Act, all firearm owners will require a license to possess or acquire by the year 2001 (renewable every five years). Standard safety checks will be performed to ensure that the individual does not …

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Storage Requirements: Firearms must be stored unloaded, with the ammunition separate. For handguns and other restricted weapons, the firearms must be stored in a locked container, unloaded and made inoperable (trigger locked), with the ammunition stored separately. Training Requirements: All license applicants must take the Canadian Firearms Safety Course and/or pass the test for the course, or show by some other approved means that they know about firearms laws and safety practices. Penalties: * mandatory 4 years for serious offenses with a firearm * mandatory 1 year for a stolen weapon * criminal sanctions for non-compliance with license or registration but …

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Enforcing prohibition orders: On average there are 17, 500 prohibition orders issued per year for people considered to be a risk to themselves or to public safety. Licencing and registration provide the information needed to enforce them . Taking preventative action: Public inquests have repeatedly recommended licensing and registration to help reduce the risk of dangerous people having access to guns. These include the inquests into: the suicide of Jonathan Yeo who killed Nina de Villiers and Karen Marquis, the murder of Brian Smith, the murder of the Kassonde children, the Vernon Massacre, and the murder of Arlene May. Fully integrated …

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Providing critical information for police investigations: The firearms most often recovered in crime are rifles and shotguns, which were not previously registered. Registration will assist in criminal investigations by allowing firearms to be traced back to their original owner. It will also allow police to prove legal ownership of firearms, assisting in prosecuting gun theft and illegal possession. Licensing gun owners is essential to keeping guns away from individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others. To obtain a license an individual must be screened for a variety of risk factors. Registration is needed to control the illegal gun trade …

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Most countries license gun owners and register all guns: Canada's new law merely brings us into line with other industrialized countries and the 1997 resolution of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Licensing and registration will discourage casual gun ownership: According to a 1991 Angus Reid survey, half the firearms in Canadian households have not been used in the past year. Many are unwanted, unneeded or even forgotten. The requirements for registration are reasonable given the risks associated with guns. To register a firearm, the applicant must first have a licence (or FAC that is still valid). For …

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About the Firearms Act Why do we need this law? Information is the lifeblood of policing and information about who owns guns and the guns that they own is one more tool to support crime prevention, investigations and prosecution. The new law required firearm owners to obtain a license (renewable every 5 years) by January 1, 2001 and to register their firearms (one-time only) by January 1, 2003. Licensing provides information on gun owners while registration will supply details on the firearms they own. This system is comparable to driver�s licenses and car registration. How will the new law help fight …

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Helping curb the illegal gun trade: Under the old system, an individual could buy as many guns as he or she wanted over a five year period, with little or no accountability because only handguns and restricted weapons were registered. These loopholes created a huge potential for illegal trading. Combined, registration and licensing will help enforce the requirement that guns only be sold to licensed individuals because it will be possible to trace them back to their owner. Already we have seen impressive results – In May 2000, the firearm registry played a pivotal role in uncovering what is alleged to …

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The "tree of Liberty" is rarely "watered" with the "blood of tyrants". It's usually the people who follow the "patriots" or the "tyrants" who place themselves at risk. But the people who suffer and sacrifice the most are the bystanders who are always caught in the crossfire. The Patriots and the Tyrants usually retire to their palatial estates to write nostalgic, self-serving metaphors which glorify their own homicidal leadership. One man's patriot is another man's tyrant.

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Firearms are the second leading cause of traumatic death related to a consumer product in the United States and are the second most frequent cause of death overall for Americans ages 15 to 24. Since 1960, more than a million Americans have died in firearm suicides, homicides, and unintentional injuries. Public health research has shown that firearms violence is directly related to firearms availability and density. What separates America from other Western, industrialized nations is not our overall rate of violence, but our rates of lethal violence�which can be directly traced to gun availability. In 2004 alone, 29,569 Americans died by …

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So, according to your "illiberal" logic, not only should we not license gun owners and register their firearms, but we should also abolish auto licensing and registration. Suicide in Japan is a culturally accepted practice, regrettably, and almost completely irrelevant to the issue of gun ownership, and like homicide would be much higher if firearms were as endemic to the Japanese as they are to Americans. Novus, if you could think for yourself you'd be dangerous.

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Right, Doo-, er, Novus. Thirty thousand Japanese suicides per year for the last ten years, and not one American manufactured pistol to profit from their loss. No wonder Smith and Wesson went bankrupt.. But don't despair. We still have high hopes for our junior Japanese partners. After all, they've only just begun to understand that suicide can be painless. Scrap your traditional corporate policy of lifetime employment and wait for the returns on your investment to roll right in. Another twenty years of American sponsored corporate productivity and they, too, can dispose of their surplus population with American ingenuity. It's not …

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Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: And we'll throw them on the streets and sell 'em the guns to kill each other.

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Please. Spare me your tortured rationalizations with respect to the fundamental causes of suicide and homicide. Healthy, employed, educated people, with strong social ties to family and community, don't kill themselves or their relatives or their neighbors. Even the chronically unemployed and uneducated victims of pathologically dysfunctional families and neighborhoods are less inclined to kill themselves or anyone else than those with easy access to firearms, which is why the highest rates of homicide and suicide occur among the ranks of white, rural Southern males. Farmers who lose their farms, bankrupt ranchers, loggers and small, family businessmen, who lack the education …

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I'm full of crap? I can't believe any of you idiots are actually arguing that throwing more guns into an already socially volatile environment will do anything other than increase the rate of injury or death among the people who possess firearms. Even the hunters occasionally kill or maim each other, as our Fearless VP has so dramatically demonstrated for us. You survey your selective "facts" and conclude that we live in a culture of "suicide" when in fact it's just another hyper-competitive shooting gallery, populated by people who would rather kill or die than surrender their "superior" status and the …

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Foolish me. I was under the naive impression that protracted unemployment, chronic ill health, inadequate education, mortgage foreclosure, business failure, spousal and child abuse, racial discrimination (including the playful deposition of symbolic representations of mob rule), to name just a few, all contribute to the collective apprehension of a progressively paranoid population. Making more guns available to the general public is tantamount to throwing gasoline on a smoldering fire. Criminals steal their weapons from an increasingly larger pool of legal owners, or they buy them from disreputable dealers who fail to register their entire inventory. The unemployed and divorced seek to …

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Guns have killed more people during the last century than all the "knives, bats and fists" combined throughout the preceding nineteen centuries. Stop trying to obfuscate the issue with your selective reliance on misleading statistics (check out the previous citation to Disraeli). Your cute reference to "prepubescent" children "dying...from unintentional firearms deaths" doesn't factor in the thousands of children dying from intentional gang-related deaths, which are typically the result of a pandemic spike in the ownership of guns. According to your logic, the solution to urban gang-related homicide, which occurs primarily among the gang members themselves, is to provide them with …

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As a matter of fact, it would be more reasonable to assume that tens of thousands of children have died over the last thirty years after you factor in gang-related intentional firearms deaths, which you carefully avoided by restricting your data to children under fourteen and unintentional deaths. Knowing your distaste for liberal exaggeration, I gave you the conservative benefit of the doubt and limited my estimate accordingly. As for Lott's conclusion that between "108,000 and 2,500,000 times a gun was used defensively to stop a violent crime or attack a year in the US", well, that's a huge interval clustered …

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New Harvard University Study Shows Direct Link Between Gun Availability And Gun Death Among Children Most Comprehensive Study Ever Conducted on Impact of Gun Availability Sends Simple Message: IT'S THE GUNS, STUPID Louisiana Among Top Five in Nation in Gun Ownership�Louisiana Children More Likely to Die by Firearms Than Children in Low Gun Ownership States WASHINGTON, DC�A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that children, five to 14 years old, are dying at dramatically higher rates in states with more guns. The article, "Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, Suicide, and Homicide among 5-14 Year Olds," …

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The five states with the highest levels of gun ownership were: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and West Virginia. The five states with the lowest levels of gun ownership were: Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Delaware. Matthew Miller, MD, MPH, ScD, associate director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at HSPH and lead author of the study, states, "In states with more guns, more children are dying. They are dying in suicides, in homicides, and in unintentional shootings. This finding is completely contrary to the notion that guns are protecting our children." The Violence Policy Center is a national …

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Harvard Injury Control Research Center Guns and homicide (literature review). We performed a review of the academic literature on the effects of gun availability on homicide rates. Major Findings: A broad array of evidence indicates that gun availability is a risk factor for homicide, both in the United States and across high-income countries. Case-control studies, ecological time-series and cross-sectional studies indicate that in homes, cities, states and regions in the US, where there are more guns, both men and women are at higher risk for homicide, particularly firearm homicide. Publication: Hepburn, Lisa; Hemenway, David. "Firearm Availability and Homicide: A Review of …

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Harvard Injury Control Research Center Guns and suicide (literature review). We performed reviews of the academic literature on the effects of gun availability on suicide rates. Major Findings: The preponderance of current evidence indicates that gun availability is a risk factor for youth suicide in the United States. The evidence that gun availability increases the suicide rates of adults is credible, but is currently less compelling. Most of the disaggregate findings of particular studies (e.g. handguns are more of a risk factor than long guns, guns stored unlocked pose a greater risk than guns stored locked) are suggestive but not yet …

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Gun availability and state suicide rates, 1981-2001 (time series analysis) Using survey data on rates of household gun ownership, we examined the association between gun availability and suicide over time, 1981-2001. Major Findings: Changes in the levels of household firearm gun ownership was significantly associated with changes in both firearm suicide and overall suicide, for men, women and children, even after controlling for region, unemployment, alcohol consumption and poverty. There was no relationship between changes in gun ownership and changes in non-firearm suicide. Publication: Miller, Matthew; Azrael, Deborah; Hepburn, Lisa; Hemenway, David; Lippman, Steven. "The Association between Changes in Household Firearm …

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Why, that's mighty neighborly of you, Pilgrim. Twenty-four per cent? Between the Brits and the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland, Ireland's been awash with firearms for at least the last century. But most of those weapons were hidden and cached in Ireland and used by the IRA in Northern Ireland. Now that British military and Irish paramilitary operations are terminated or reduced, some significant share of those weapons are being circulated among the public. There's your 24% increase in the murder rate right there. Peace breaks out in Northern Ireland and all hell breaks loose in Ireland. That's one …

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"If you ban handguns from law abiding hands, then what next?" Good grief, Goofus. It's like, I say that 9+7=16 and you say no, dummy, it's 10, and then you accuse me of using a base ten number system. If you ban handguns from general circulation, then you reduce the number of weapons available to the criminals. No one's talking about "uninventing" the pistol; we're talking about drastically reducing the production and distribution of pistols. Legitimate manufacturers churn out millions of them every year. If you think some cottage industry of criminal craftsman can pick up the slack, then you're wrong. …

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"It is estimated that only about 8% of all defensive gun uses (DGU) resulted in an injury or the attacker, so for every DGU seen in the news, there are more than ten more DGUs you will most likely never see in the media." Of course, you meant "of the attacker" rather than "or the attacker". Your sympathy for offensive gun users (OGU) is commendable. But of those estimates of defensive gun uses, how many respondents actually admitted that they were injured or disarmed by their attackers? The ones who were killed weren't capable of responding to the poll, but the …

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"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Canada anymore."

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That's a clever quote, KK. First, you express your grievance from the "soap box", and then you ratify it at the "ballot box". And if that doesn't work, you break the law and vindicate the injustice at the "jury box". And if that doesn't work, you reach for the "cartridge box". Who did you have in mind, other than that hypothetical liberal majority that wants to confiscate your handguns? That quotation, by the way, is attributed to Larry McDonald, former congressman from Georgia, past president of the John Birch Society, who died after his flight (KAL007) was shot down by Soviet …

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Neither of your citations refer to the links included. "Maybe those links above would work better"...if they actually worked.

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The cavalry shipped out to Iraq, dickhead.

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Dr. Gregory D. Foster Background: Gregory D. Foster is Professor of Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., where he previously has served as George C. Marshall Professor and J. Carlton Ward Distinguished Professor and Director of Research. He also is Executive Director of the Defense Environmental Forum, a joint venture between the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations & Environment) and the President of the National Defense University. During his tenure at the Industrial College, he has served as director of the Elements of National Power course, the Values, Ethics, and Leadership …

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Doctors pay high medical insurance premiums because they or their colleagues occasionally commit medical malpractice. Someone fails to perform a necessary test, usually because the health insurance provider won't cover the entire cost of the procedure, or prescribes a poorly tested medication, and a patient is crippled for life, or dead. That you would sympathize with the people who commit the malpractice, and against the people who suffer it, betrays your typical preference for the upper middle-class professional over the working-class laborer. I suppose in your fantasyland of a perfect free-market economy we should all just shut up and be grateful …

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What the fuck, WTF. It was a "nonexistent problem" because it was prevented from becoming a problem, before all those greedy, liberal lawyers could march up the courthouse steps and sue the crap out of all those innocent, conservative corporations for ignoring it. Nobody gets elected for preventing a problem. People get elected for creating the problem and then reacting to it, like priests who create the guilt and then absolve the sinners for feeling guilty about committing their crimes. It's usually more dramatic to convict the criminal than prevent the crime. Cheaper, too, unless we regard the value of life …

Posted to Two Degrees From Devastation

Some of the rednecks' favorite atrocities were the result of global warming, or have we all already forgotten that the desertification of the northern, mainly Arab, regions of Sudan forced the migration of those rendered homeless into a genocidal competition with their southern African countrymen? The rednecks love to condemn the liberals for their pc lack of sensitivity to the Darfur genocide, but continue to conveniently ignore its ultimate cause.

Posted to Two Degrees From Devastation

"First of all, the military aid to Israel has to stop. This coming year [2007??] it will amount to $2.4 billion. Products from the settlements, and official representatives of the Israeli government should be boycotted. AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee], which works against the interests of my country, should be replaced by more moderate Jewish organizations." Yonatan Shapira

Posted to An Israeli Refuseniks Good Fight

Q: How many Israelis does it take to change a light bulb? A: Just one. Twenty thousand IDF soldiers to defend two hundred thousand Israeli settlers to build two hundred settlements containing eleven hundred light bulbs per settlement.

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"First of all, the military aid to Israel has to stop. This coming year [2007??] it will amount to $2.4 billion." Yonatan Shapira "....the combined economic and miltary US aid to Israel is over 5 billion annually..." blondemike

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Slavery and the Jim Crow racist laws which resulted from the "industrial" abolition of slavery made racism a regional institution in the South. The willingness of Northern corporate owners to import and hire non-union black workers to break the industrial unions and their strikes for better working conditions made racism a national institution. You and Whatthefuck apparently believe that you bear no responsibility for the repressive racism of your "racial" predecessors, but you're willing to enjoy the generational benefits of racist preferential discrimination in housing, education, and employment which two hundred years of white male supremacy have conferred upon you. Most …

Posted to Slavery and the State of Denial

Heterosexuality became the norm because the population was under constant threat of extinction. Today the threat is overpopulation, hence the proactive normative alternatives to heterosexuality. Of course, you rightwing think tank knuckleheads would rather react to the problem (than proactively prevent it) with wars, revolutions, famines, epidemics and ecological disasters. After all, it's the American way.

Posted to Bisexual Healing

So now you're saying that the nasty French and British socialists started the war, and the innocent nazis were victims of Jewish-inspired socialist oppression. Dickhead.

Posted to Bisexual Healing

Damn, Chicago. I wish you wouldn't interrupt me when I'm in the process of insulting the Fascist from Oakland. The thing about military Keynesianism is that it acts as an economic stabilizer which attempts to prevent capitalist over-expansion or collapse. When the economy expands (aggregate supply exceeds aggregate demand), prices drop, factories are closed and workers are laid off. Excess productive capacity and surplus labor are redirected into the military economy which produce destructive, domestically non-competitive products that are directed against national competitors. When the economy contracts (aggregate demand exceeds aggregate supply), prices rise, factories are re-opened and workers are recalled. …

Posted to Bisexual Healing

I didn't realize the Arabs were a "race", so how does being "anti-Arab" suddenly become racist? Perhaps anti-Arabic sentiments could be construed as anti-Semitism, with Israeli bigots characterized as "self-hating Semites". It's very confusing. It's strange that you would admit the existence of racism in Haifa but deny its existence in Oakland.

Posted to For Israel's Sake

It may be different in the deep South? You think? A rare admission from someone who blames the victims of American racism for the racism they must constantly endure. How did you determine that many more blacks than whites in Oakland are racists? So now according to your American anthropologist, Carlton Coon, and your wife, there currently exist four races: Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and the Jews. The problem with subdividing the human race into fictitious subsets is that it becomes impossible to stop. In fact, it's difficult to justify racism without the pseudo-scientific conceptual framework of "races".

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But that's the point, isn't it. You can't justify racism without the "authoritative" citation of racists who arbitrarilly define the limits of "race", any more than you can justify sexism without the authoritative citation of sexists who arbitrarilly define the roles and limitations of gender. The great majority of any ethnic group will usually regard themselves as a separate ethnic group. How did you determine that the majority of Jews regard themselves as a separate race? I suppose you rely upon the authority of your Jewish wife for that astounding conclusion, just as you seem to rely upon your own considerable …

Posted to For Israel's Sake

If you believe that the "great majority" of Jews regard themselves as a separate race then you obviously don't know too many Jews. Every ethnic group that ever existed considers itself the "chosen people". So what? Racism, by definition, is the belief that some defined group of people is superior to all other groups, and the motivating factor is the justifying definition of race. Sexists do define gender roles, just as racists define racial roles. The dominant group will always attempt to define the cultural values ("objective reality") of the dominated.

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No, Mike, there's only one human race, period. Anything more than that is just another racist, sexist attempt to re-establish a dominant "scientific" authority to justify the domination of the dominated.

Posted to For Israel's Sake

Libertarian? Empirical objectivist? Anarcho-capitalist? Hell, Mike, you can call yourself the Queen of England if you want. Your adolescent references to "hebes, coons and beaners", along with your racist defense of race, tell me all I need to know about your apparent infatuation with fascism. The only significant question is the following: are you in fact a fascist, or do you just play the role on the internet?

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"Most Jews are like most other people..." This is true, Mike. Most people of any ethnic or "racial" group are like most other people, despite your insistent efforts to categorize them as "hebes, coons and beaners". "...an overwhelming percentage of hypercritical, loudmouthed mediocrities." And you're the loudest hypocritical mediocrity of them all. Prior to the French Revolution, the only book in most European homes was the Bible. The ancient Hebrews were no more or less barbaric than their barbarian neighbors, including the Greeks and the Romans. The "chosen people myth" is a universal attribute of all distinct social cultures, including your …

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Sorry, Mike, but you don't know what you're talking about. The Greeks were as irrational as any other tribe of the time. The Pythagorians tried to assassanite anyone who revealed the existence of what turned out to be irrational numbers, rather than admit that their "rational" universe was a fraud. The Greek military was more vicious and blood-thirsty than their opponents, which was why they ruled the "civilized" world until the Romans, even more barbaric than the Greeks, defeated them. Your half-assed dialectic between "rationalism and mysticism" is just another figment of Nietsche's nihilist imagination which the Nazis exploited to justify …

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Now he's got his Jewish "wife" and Jewish "friends" calling Jews "kikes". What's next? His latino and colored "friends" are waiting in the wings, ready to transubstantiate his racist beliefs into objective facts.

Posted to For Israel's Sake

He denies the existence of racism (unless it's the racism of blacks for whites), he denies the existence of anti-Semitism (unless it's the anti-Semitism of Jews for the Palestinians), he denies the existence of god (unless it's the god of nature and libertarian free trade, which he worships), and now he denies the existence of mental illness (unless it's the mental illness of the people who disagree with him).

Posted to For Israel's Sake

Well, he certainly wants people to believe that he's a fascist, which isn't quite the same as being a fascist.

Posted to Reclaiming What Makes Us Human

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Posted to Reclaiming What Makes Us Human

There's only one race, blindmoke, and that's the human race. Any other classification is just another ignorant attempt to assert the fictitious superiority of one group of people over another. And don't bother citing the authority of Cornelius "Cracker" Coon, the Great White Hope of American anthropologists. People who constantly cite "authorities" are generally obsessed with their own absence of "authority". You're a disgrace to atheists throughout the world.

Posted to Obamas Base: Broader Than Black

Young, unemployed, violent gangbangers typically do not have the opportunity to work hard and pay taxes, let alone get married, buy a house and raise a family. The Irish, Italian and Appalachian ganbangers who terrorized the neighborhoods I grew up in typically got drafted. The military was the People's University which directed their violent adolescent alienation at "foreign" enemies, and afterwards allowed the survivors to get a job, get married, buy a house and raise a family. At the time, military service was the only "affirmative action" available to them. Naturally, instead of making affirmative action available to all the children …

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Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British eugenics advocate and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man. Life and work Originally from Great Britain, in 1958 Pearson founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." He recruited Hans Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, Ernest Cox of the Ku Klux Klan, and Dr. Wilhelm Kesserow, a former SS officer. He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977. Pearson was brought to the United States …

Posted to Obamas Base: Broader Than Black

Your "revisionism" has reduced the Jewish holocaust to the pedestrian status of ordinary casualties of war, and thereby you deny that it ever occurred, implying that anti-Semitism doesn't exist. therefore it's OK to be anti-Semitic. You've done the same thing with racism, with the added twist that as you deny the existence of racism you simultaneously advocate the existence of race and the consequent superiority of one race over all the others. According to your logic, if racism and anti-Semitism do not exist, then it's excusable and "natural" to express racist and anti-Semitic invective at the slightest personal or political provocation. …

Posted to Obamas Base: Broader Than Black

Kuya's got the right idea. We're all people of color. If you doubt that, then stick your hand up against the monitor and then compare the color of your skin to the cultural ideal. (In your case, Mike, you would be well-advised to release your cock before you perform the experiment.) In other words, we're all colored people. As for the derivation of "politically correct", I was under the impression that PC stood for "patriotically correct". What it might have meant a hundred years ago is completely irrelevant. Nowadays, you can't separate the wingnuts from the flags they've wrapped around their …

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There's only one race, Mike, and that's the human race. The regional variations to which you refer are barely relevant and, with time (and a judicious application of miscegenation), they will become completely irrelevant. Even the albinos are colored. In other words, there's no such thing as the "white" race. But then, by then the dominant racist controversy will be resurrected along the lines of genetically modified humans and their unmodified counterparts, or among the divergent strains of modification. After all, after eliminating all of our natural predators, how else are humans expected to evolve?

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The Rise and Fall of UNESCO Man by Kenan Malik The question of what constitutes human nature is usually understood in terms of the nature-nurture debate. Through the nature-nurture prism, we can survey the past century and see dramatic shifts in the dominant ways we have conceived of humanness - crudely from a prewar racialised concept of human nature, to a postwar largely cultural view of humanness, to the contemporary rehabilitation of Darwinian Man. These swings of the nature-nurture pendulum we often think of almost as paradigm shifts in the Kuhnian sense. There is, however, another way of understanding this historical …

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The UNESCO statements, however, were not simply about race. They also pulled together a number of themes about human nature that had become highly influential in social and cultural anthropology - particularly through the work of figures such as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict - and in behaviourist psychology; themes which laid the basis for postwar antiracism and the liberal consensus. One such theme was the belief that humans are post-evolutionary. Whereas the Ubermensch of racial science was entirely moulded by the laws of nature, UNESCO Man was a cultural being: biology played little role in his make-up. Linked to …

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Humans do not make culture; culture makes humans. An individual cannot escape the force of destiny imposed by his culture and history. Culture, like race, appears as a transcendent category outside of our immediate consciousness but which is transmitted from generation to generation. Racial science expressed a mechanistic view of humanness, one in which human history flowed inevitably according to the laws of nature. UNESCO Man embodied an idealist view, in which humans were not rooted in their nature, and in which human history and culture are reified. What united the two was a common view of human beings, not as …

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Second, and linked to this, is a failure to address the question of human subjectivity. Naturalistic theories take it as axiomatic that human nature should be understood in the same terms as rest of nature. But such an approach inevitably precludes the understanding of subjectivity. Natural organisms are objects. Humans uniquely are object and subject. Understanding humans in the same way as the rest of nature inevitably means understanding humans as if we were simply objects. Another way of putting this is that humans are ontologically distinct from the rest of nature. A purely naturalistic account of human nature, therefore, cannot …

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Judging all the members of a given category, based on your experience of the actions of some of them, is prejudicial. If your wife is mugged at gunpoint by several armed black gangbangers, then you would be justified in concluding that all armed gangbangers are violent and dangerous people, and ought to be avoided or confronted for their crimes. You would not be justified in concluding that most colored folk are inherently less intelligent than their lighter-skinned counter-parts. Prejudicial conclusions are simply unfounded conclusions which we accept uncritically and then search for the evidence to support them.

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"Its all that Nazi propaganda you have been spouting. Its rotted your brain." Texas, you employed a reductio ad Hitlerum argument (alternatively referred to as argumentum ad Nazium) and therefore, by virtue of Godwin's Law, you automatically lose the debate. If it's any consolation, the person who coined the phrase, and thereby made Mike's forensic victory possible, was Leo Strauss, the father of neoconservatism.

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But you were right about The Bell Curve; the data was indeed skewed. First of all, the authors falsely assumed that since intelligence is heritable, that therefore it must be determined, for the most part, by genetic inheritance. And then they decided to weight the data to eliminate any non-genetic, or cultural determinants. In short, they decided to ignore the influence of education (among other intervening environmental variables, such as health, nutrition, cognitive stimulation, parental intervention, etc.) on the development of intelligence. Subsequent analysis has shown that ignoring the influence of education on intelligence will significantly overstate the correlation between intelligence …

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Mike, "the idea that some races are inherently inferior to others is the definition of racism." But then, like the holocaust, you've already demonstrated your willingness to deny the existence of racism. Doofus.

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Racism Resurgent: How Media Let The Bell Curve's Pseudo-Science Define the Agenda on Race By Jim Naureckas When the New Republic devoted almost an entire issue (10/31/94) to a debate with the authors of The Bell Curve, editor Andrew Sullivan justified the decision by writing, "The notion that there might be resilient ethnic differences in intelligence is not, we believe, an inherently racist belief." In fact, the idea that some races are inherently inferior to others is the definition of racism. What the New Republic was saying - along with other media outlets that prominently and respectfully considered the thesis of …

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Pioneers of Eugenics As well they might. Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far righi in American politics." The fund's mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that "genetically unfit" individuals or races are a threat to society. The Pioneer Fund was set up in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper, a millionaire who advocated sending blacks back to Africa. The foundation's charter set forth the group's missions …

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Lynn has received at least $325,000 from the Pioneer Fund (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94). He frequently publishes in eugenicist journals like Mankind Quarterly - published by Roger Pearson and co-edited by Lynn himself - and Personality and Individual Differences, edited by Pioneer grantee Hans Eysenck. Among Lynn's writings cited in The Bell Curve are "The Intelligence of the Mongoloids" and "Positive Correlations Between Head Size and IQ." Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." Here's a sample of Lynn's thinking on such differences: "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of …

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That sort of circular argument abounds in The Bell Curve. Although sociologist Jane Mercer has shown that supposed racial differences in IQ vanish if one controls for a variety of socio-economic variables, the authors reject her method because their theories assume that low IQ causes people to be poor, rather than poverty causing low IQs. Similarly, even though IQ tests show that average scores are rising - by as much as 15 points since World War II - "real" IQs must be falling, since low IQ women are having more babies. Giants in the Profession Another person whose advice Murray and …

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"More Brain Or More Penis" Rushton (who's gotten more than $770,000 from Pioneer) has transformed the Victorian science of cranial measurement into a sexual fetish--measuring not only head and brain size, but also the size of breasts, buttocks and genitals. "It's a trade-off: More brain or more penis. You can't have everything," he told Rolling Stone's Adam Miller (10/20/94), explaining his philosophy of evolution. Rushton was reprimanded by his school, the University of Western Ontario, for accosting people in a local shopping mall and asking them how big their penises were and how far they could ejaculate. "A zoologist doesn't need …

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The Bell Curve also fits in well with some current political agendas. The immigration issue has been seized upon by the U.S. right wing, as it has by the far right in other countries. Much of Murray and Herrnstein's book is devoted to suggesting that "Latino and black immigrants are...putting some downward pressure on the distribution of intelligence." The connection between the book and the anti-immigrant movement is, once again, the Pioneer Fund; the fund has always feared immigrants, although its concerns have shifted from Poles and Italians to blacks and Latinos. The leading anti-immigration group in the U.S. is the …

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"I knew Dr. Roger Pearson quite well about thirty years ago and he published a first-rate anthropology textbook." Posted by blondemike on Mar 5, 2007 at 12:40 PM Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British eugenics advocate and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man. Life and work Originally from Great Britain, in 1958 Pearson founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." He recruited Hans G�nther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, Ernest Cox of the Ku Klux Klan, …

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Posted to Thirty More Years

As LB once remarked, Mike, you've been baiting so many people for such a long time on these threads that if anyone can be called a "master baiter", it would have to be you. And why would it "please" you to publicly wipe anyone's "stinky butt", let alone Scorp the Corpse (a corporate coprophiliac), who will only get pissed and tell us again, for the third time, that he once knocked off the heels of his combat boots to qualify for advanced combat training. Wipe your own butt, and spare us the gruesome, graphic detail. Everyone here seems to assume that …

Posted to Baracks Black Dilemma

Robert Conquest? The anti-communist from the Hoover Institute who relies on fascist sources to inflate the Ukrainian famine casualties (the Ukrainian holocaust) in order to minimize the Jewish holocaust? Good grief, Goober. You and Mike are soulmates after all. So many sockpuppets... So little time...

Posted to Baracks Black Dilemma

Well, excuse me for interrupting your private debate with Mike, but this is a public board, even if the two of you are determined to publicly embarass yourselves in the process. Feel free to enlighten us lesser intellects. What exactly is it that we don't understand?

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corpse \'korps\ n slang [ME corps, fr. MF, fr. L corpus] : a corporate coprophiliac (commonly ascribed to Peter Watts, from his Rifters trilogy). You nasty people need to stop persecuting the (S)corps. I mean, it's vicious. You hit him with a flower. You do it every hour. Oh, baby, your'e so vicious.

Posted to In You More Than Yourself

The ability to acquire any specific language, or any specific combination of specific languages, is a learned skill. These specific abilities to acquire specific languages are universally hard-wired. Chomsky may be disputed for specific aspects of his linguistic theory, but the theory in general, that language is a hard-wired human acquisition, is generally accepted by all linguists. On the other hand, specific languages, such as English, do tend to reinforce certain basic cognitive perceptions of our environment. Sentences are almost invariably led by single capitalized letters, and followed by a multiple train of noncapitalized letters, interspersed with proper nouns and names …

Posted to Spoils of War

That Israel is being used, willingly or otherwise, to further US interests is a much more credible premise than its controversial counterpart: that the US is being used to further Israel's interests. That all parties concerned, the US, Israel and the Middle East in general, are drifting regressively to their respective fundamentalist roots in response to the unresolved crises of modernism is also apparent. It's also possible that American foreign policy is specifically intended to disrupt the production of petroleum in order to forestall the advent of peak production and the economic dislocations which are sure to ensue from a protracted …

Posted to Spoils of War

If not for the two Gulf wars, and the sanctions imposed on Iraqi petroleum production, world oil production may well have peaked ten years ago, with world-wide catastrophic economic consequences. American foreign policy, for at least the last ten years, has been employed to fuel sectarian conflicts in the Middle East -- Israelis against the Palestinians, the Sunnis (in Iraq and Saudi Arabia), the Shia (in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria) and the Kurds (in Iraq and Turkey) against each other. I don't agree with the strategy, but evidently the people who construct the policy apparently believe no other viable alternative …

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...stinky ass... ...diarrhea breath... ...WHIGGER... ...shabbas goy ass... ...Your wife�s hooker job... ...pathetic pieces of statist-collectivist shit... ...it�s a turd... ...Portnoy poo panties... ...tsunami of excrement... ...there were no gas chambers, no mass extermination program, no conspiracy to exterminate European Jewry and nowhere near six million Jews died, probaly 1-2 million at most from all causes... ...Anne Frank['s]... �diary� is a fraud... ...This is a nuanced subject and an emotionalistic little shit lumps in his panties liberal like you can�t grasp this intellectually... ...you�re whore wife is now wearing an orange jump[suit], just like you�re ugly Mama did for the same …

Posted to A Dark Night in Iceland

...black brother crap... Africa is a total failure since independence. Colonialism will be returning and everyone will be better off. Posted by blondemike on Dec 21, 2006 at 11:39 AM What "toon" are you talking about? Are you trying to spell "coon"? Posted by blondemike on Dec 26, 2006 at 11:03 AM ...Black To The Future bullcrap... Posted by blondemike on Dec 26, 2006 at 2:32 PM ...they want to take Afro names, speak ebonics and dress like buffoons... Shoot up, shoot out and drop out. Thank god you all had all those good hearted Jewish people like my wife getting …

Posted to A View on Pelosi from a World Away

i noticed on an earlier posting you referred to the diaspora.....wonder where that comes from ? same people who got you the civil rights fraud, did all your free legal work and taught you how to use finger bowls and not fart loudly at lbj's signing ceremonies......ever wonder why every group has leapfrogged over your peepul ? why when whitey was celebrating the moon landing, rev abernathy was leading the mule train at cape canaveral ? my ancestors were virginia gentlemen and they treated their slaves real well, it was like a socialist state, they fed, clothed, educated (well tried to) …

Posted to A View on Pelosi from a World Away

Ordo, what is this black nationalist anti-white rap ? We have heard this inevitability of history line before and you will notice that the great expositor of same, the Soviet Bloc, has long self-destructed. Ergo, with people of color nonsense. Ever take a look at the African continent ? No, that�s not the wave of the future. Redhorse, my remarks have been aimed at a portion of the black population, the lumpen, criminal degenerate Mo Fo culture, not all blacks. As you well know. So what does your When will you stop beating your wife type questions have to do with …

Posted to A View on Pelosi from a World Away

I take it that you are the lowlife who attacked me on the Randzapper blog. When I briefly posted my comments on holocaust revisionism on the Barnes site you raised no objection or gave any semblance of an argument. Your whole approach is Hey,isn't this outrageous that someone could doubt this holy truth. Several folks have and the uniform response in many countries is to imprison them. Here they can't quite do that yet so smears are the only "argument" of the traditional defenders of the holohoax. Sometime check out the video of the Michael Shermer-Mark Webb debate and you can …

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Michael Hardesty said... randzapper doesn't even use a pseudonym. And I had several people use my computer to respond to your silly stuff. So your wrong again. And unlike the coward randzapper people had the ability to respond to me or my friends, something that doesn't exist on the zapper's site. Quite a difference, Barnes. If you read A Person's review you can see he debunked the essence of it from reading the first 31 pages. Why waste more time like I did in reading the rest of the book ? Far from being "inane" A Person's comments are quite lucid …

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Michael Hardesty said... I'm part of a writing team, moron. When I write from here at work, there are lots of like minded people around. It's a collective computer, doesn't belong to any one person. And don't we know that you are the little coward behind "randzapper" Danny boy ! Frankly I won't be seeing you, after reading A Person I realize I never have to take you & the Nyquist-Ryan axis seriously. 12/12/2006 08:47:00 AM Daniel Barnes said... No, I know nothing about the Randzapper. He sure knows you tho...;-) 12/12/2006 09:42:00 AM Anonymous said... Jumpin' Jesus on a Pogo-Cross! …

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Posted to A View on Pelosi from a World Away

White guys claiming to be persecuted by colored folk.

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Right, Tex. There's nothing like an expensive, beautiful phallic symbol to get you all hard and horny, just like your hero.

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Hey, Tex. If it's a "steal" at 300 grand, does that make it rape? And how about that stick shift? Jerk it around a few times and you can make the engine roar.

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

All the more reason to read his exciting narratives once again.

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Hey, Tex. Is that a pistol in your pocket, or have you been dreaming of driving that car again? Never mind. Just curious. What's even more curious is your nasty little habit of lifting entire articles off the web and passing them off as your own. The case in question is your selective quotation of a Wikipedia rough draft on the coup d'etat in Chile. Unfortunately you failed to include the quotation marks which might have informed your audience that the opinion expressed was not your own. On the other hand, you did manage to include a pair of extraneous quotes …

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Good grief. The Goober has gone and quoted himself again. That's definitely symptomatic of a terminal mental dysfunction, probably a premature manifestation of Alzheimer's. No, Dumbo, wealth is not created. It's stolen from the people who are forced to create it with half-assed appeals to patriotic self-interest, who themselves stole it from the people who originally possessed it. It's stolen by the people who kidnapped the people who produced it for them. It's a chain of theft, murder and dispossession that's older than the Bible itself, that glorifies the crimes they commit to survive in a world ruled by brute self-interest, …

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Don't piss him off, LB. He'll stop taking the meds and create another sock puppet.. MH speaking through BM speaking through HJ is more than we can tolerate as it is. But, wait! He's got another hand, two feet and a periodically rampant penis, which means... LB, say it ain't so! Not YOU!!!!!!

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Excuse me, but I'm trying to resolve an existential crisis here, and you keep interrupting the process. Give me second to suspend my disbelief. There. That's better.

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Well, shet mah mouth. So, tell me. If we're all sock puppets, does that mean there's a Master Puppeteer somewhere out there in Puppetland, the universal set of all puppet sets? Including the empty puppet set and the universal puppet set itself?

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And, finally, if he slips the sock on his cock, does that make him a peckerhead?

Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Ad hominem "gobbledegook"? Oy vey, LB, don't you mean "wordsalad"? If you review the threads on this site, you'll discover that the Hawaiian Jerk began posting his racist, antisemitic, anticommunist left-baiting rants almost immediately after Aryan Mike discontinued his own, which indicates that he very probably was banned from the site at that time. Unless The Jerk appears again, we can be reasonably certain that he also has been banned fron the site. His rants were even more racist and antisemitic than Mike's. Michael Hardesty used to write for Z magazine. His rhetorical attacks on racism, sexism and Zionism on conservative …

Posted to Chávez Consolidates Power

Scorp, I scoped him out several years ago, on an earlier thread (11-10-04), when he was passing himself off as, of all people, Michael Hardesty. Check it out. Don't take this the wrong way, but he is smarter than all of us. He's certainly smarter than I am. On second thought, he's probably just as smart as you are. No more. No less.

Posted to Chávez Consolidates Power

Hardesty, you're full of shit, as usual. Jefferson fathered six children with Hennings. His will explicitly stipulated that after his death his children would be freed, and they were. I'm sure you can cite all sorts of bullshit references from the Enterprise Institute or the Heritage Foundation to confound the facts, but the fact is that Jefferson's support for equality extended beyond the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, income, intelligence, religuous or cultural affiliation or political ideology, because Jefferson believed in the one social attribute which surpassed and inspired all of the above, and that's our shared humanity. Not the accidental …

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Sorry. I should have said "...provocatively racist, anti-semitic remarks". Stop shilling for the settlers and get a life. And since when did Jefferson's alleged miscegenation suddenly become a source of shame for him, except in the fevered imagination of his racist auditors. I can easilly entertain the plausible presumption that he regarded it as a source of pride. It's only the rednecks who bridle at the possibility that the sacred white paternity of their founding fathers might conceivably be mixed with "colored" blood.

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And it's nothing but racist to draw inviduous attention to the sociopathology of one race and ignore the causal context of the endemic sociopathology which reinforces it.

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You call that anal surgery? Looks like oral masturbation for the double-jointed.

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You bet, good buddy. "Ergo" to you, too.

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Sweet dreams, sweetheart.

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Check it out.

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Race is not issue in much of Latin America as it is here. Except for a few all white countries like Argentina, Uruguay and Chile the population is much more mixed than in North America. There is no black power or white power movements in those countries. Chavez is trying to overcome US isolation but he has to be careful about overdoing the black brother crap. Latins and blacks here can�t stand each other. Africa is a total failure since independence. Colonialism will be returning and everyone will be better off. United States Posted by blondemike on Dec 21, 2006 at …

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Ordo, look turkey, I don�t who the hell you are and could care less. I�ve already covered this ground ad infinitum with Redhorse and Chessfrog among others. The Africans have plenty of blood on their own hands, they have killed five milllion of each other in the Congo alone in the last few years. Almost every state in Africa is a catalogue of horrors. The rest of your blather is hard to make out except for the childish insults. Africa is dying out and the only hope is that next time it can be repopulated with intelligent, sentient beings. The CPUSA …

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get off it, redhorse, blacks make up a far higher percentage proportionally of all welfare cases than any other group, this is statistically proven and for an empirical test go into any welfare office in any us urban area. it�s not the conservatives that are screwing us but the big liberal multinationals that have destroyed american industry by hiring too many incompetent blacks and females. the disastrous liberal integration policies since 1954 have turned our country into a third world hellhole. the warren court decisions like miranda freeing millions of black and latino criminals have destroyed our urban areas. crackhead blacks …

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redhorse, what�s a �toon� ? isn�t that japanese kiddie porn ? you don�t mean �coon� do you ? that has multiple meanings. when i was a teen in florida we had a legal coon hunting season. United States Posted by hawaii jack on Dec 29, 2006 at 12:52 PM you plugging that lying black left bullshit about sally hennings ? all the black leftists in this nation aren�t fit to lick the sweat off jefferson�s balls. you did a pedophile number on your kids ? goddamn, your disgusting. if i�m a toon (undefined) is it ok to call you a coon …

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still trying to free willie, major ? United States Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 2, 2007 at 7:42 PM zzzzzzzzzzz United States Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 3, 2007 at 6:10 PM redhorse, you�re old lady said you never went three times.......like she and I did. major, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz United States Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 3, 2007 at 7:51 PM BORING. BORING. BORING. Major, the most uninteresting and boring thing since you�re we dding night. United States Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 4, 2007 at 1:43 PM

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Race is not issue in much of Latin America as it is here. Except for a few all white countries like Argentina, Uruguay and Chile the population is much more mixed than in North America. There is no black power or white power movements in those countries. Chavez is trying to overcome US isolation but he has to be careful about overdoing the black brother crap. Latins and blacks here can�t stand each other. Africa is a total failure since independence. Colonialism will be returning and everyone will be better off. Posted by blondemike on Dec 21, 2006 at 11:39 AM …

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Ordo, look turkey, I don�t who the hell you are and could care less. I�ve already covered this ground ad infinitum with Redhorse and Chessfrog among others. The Africans have plenty of blood on their own hands, they have killed five milllion of each other in the Congo alone in the last few years. Almost every state in Africa is a catalogue of horrors. The rest of your blather is hard to make out except for the childish insults. Africa is dying out and the only hope is that next time it can be repopulated with intelligent, sentient beings. The CPUSA …

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get off it, redhorse, blacks make up a far higher percentage proportionally of all welfare cases than any other group, this is statistically proven and for an empirical test go into any welfare office in any us urban area. it�s not the conservatives that are screwing us but the big liberal multinationals that have destroyed american industry by hiring too many incompetent blacks and females. the disastrous liberal integration policies since 1954 have turned our country into a third world hellhole. the warren court decisions like miranda freeing millions of black and latino criminals have destroyed our urban areas. crackhead blacks …

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redhorse, what�s a �toon� ? isn�t that japanese kiddie porn ? you don�t mean �coon� do you ? that has multiple meanings. when i was a teen in florida we had a legal ,b>coon hunting season. Posted by hawaii jack on Dec 29, 2006 at 12:52 PM you plugging that lying black left bullshit about sally hennings ? all the black leftists in this nation aren�t fit to lick the sweat off jefferson�s balls. you did a pedophile number on your kids ? goddamn, your disgusting. if i�m a toon (undefined) is it ok to call you a coon ? as …

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still trying to free willie, major ? Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 2, 2007 at 7:42 PM zzzzzzzzzzz Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 3, 2007 at 6:10 PM redhorse, you�re old lady said you never went three times.......like she and I did. major, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 3, 2007 at 7:51 PM BORING. BORING. BORING. Major, the most uninteresting and boring thing since you�re wedding night. Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 4, 2007 at 1:43 PM

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Yikes. All you overburdened, underpaid, over-educated remnants of a recessive meritorious gentry make my poor, proletarian heart swell with sorrow. Time to break out the violins and play a mournful dirge to your shattered dreams of unrequited affluence.

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Not quite. It's more like feeling entitled to the income to which you've become accustomed. If you need further instruction, consult any one of Suze Orman's televised lectures. Anne Richards once compared George Bush to someone who was born on third base and thinks he hit a home run. Lots of other people got him to the plate, including the people who struck out. I don't own a million dollar dump in Oakland. My highest valued asset is a ten year old Toyota that's slowly rusting out around me. But if you need to know the primary reason why Reagan and …

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Hey, what can I say? I'm having another bad day at work, what with the recently passed referendum on secondhand smoke, and the holidays are typically depressing to begin with. I doubt that the rich even know that we exist, or care, much less waste their precious laughter at our trivial disagreements. And, Mike, you should know better than anyone else that the majority of the traffic on the net is just an excuse for people to vent their anger and frustration. You've done it so often yourself. I'm sorry your old lady got mugged. I hope she's well and the …

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The ultra-rich are the people who get their butts kissed by people like you and me. "Good morning, Sir (or Madam). How may we kiss your ass today? And thank you for the tip." A nation of waiters put out for their customers. Put out, output, productivity. It's a gratifying experience all around, as all of us are simultaneously waiters and customers. And the "wealth" we create, well, figure it out for yourself.

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Stop it, Mike. I'm sorry your wife was attacked, and you might be surprised to discover that most of the rest of us feel the same. I can only imagine how I might feel if I almost lost someone whom I loved as much as you obviously love your wife. I can do more than that, and tell you that I felt powerless and angry and guilty that I could do nothing to protect her. Give yourself a break, for a change.

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He's no more pathetic than you or anyone else, including that dickhead who says he knocked off the heels on his combat boots to qualify for military service. When you feel powerless to protect the people you most love you gladly invoke the scorn of everyone else if only to ignore your own inability to respond to the situation.

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Have it your way, Mike. You're not helping anyone by generating the animosity of your friends. But if you'd rather be feared than respected then knock yourself out.

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Yeah, Jackass. All dem colored criminals jes terarizing you in yo million dollar dump in Oahu. You might want to consider the cost of contructing a few mass crematoria. Nothing sinister. All those executions, you'll just need to remove the dead bodies more efficiently. Your good buddy Mike will be happy to rationalize your doubts for you, but you don't sound like someone who harbors too many of them.

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Fuck off, Jackoff.

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Right, "pally". Which spot did you hope to "rub"?

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Get some help, Mike. Your Jekyll and Hyde routine is wearing thin.

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Well, so far you've managed to reinforce the stereotypical caricature of a racist, antisemitic fascist. Mud city? Shitcago? Greatest cesspool in the land? It's as if you're inviting us to draw the obvious conclusion that you're, well, a racist, antisemitic fascist. You know, someone who believes the white majority is being persecuted and oppressed by the black and Jewish minorities.

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Aryan Mike and the Hawaiian Jerk are the same person. Mike discontinued his comments on Thursday, the 28th, which coincidentally is the same date that Jack initiated his own. Now Jack is gone, too, indicating that the two of them have been banned from the site. Interestingly, Hardesty used to be a contributing writer for Z magazine.

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Another computer, another ISP and you're good to go. Right, Mike? Er, Jack? Whoever you happen to be at any given momemt.

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Well said. It's a mistake, in my opinion, to place science in opposition to religion, when it's really an evolved extension ot it, a more rational religion which makes all of us acolytes at the altar of an Almighty Method, an Invisible Hand which determines the destiny of each and every one of us, if only a sufficiently complex model can be constructed to account for a manageably infinite variety of variables. Religion was invented to promote solidarity and social cohesion for a civilization whose members are made constantly conscious of their individual mortality, and promised the relative immortality of the …

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There's nothing natural about the universe we inhabit, from the alphabet we use to construct our thoughts to the computers we use to communicate them. Very few of us would survive in a natural universe. In fact, most of us exist in a supernatural universe, and we are, therefore, the supernatural beings who exist within it. Your failure to recognize this obvious phenomenon makes me, for example, an invisible supernatural being. QED

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There's nothing "natural" about civilization. As I understand it, it evolved over the millenia to secure our ancestors from the constant threat of extinction from their "natural" predators (all those horns and claws and fangs which were combined to communicate the symbolic presence of a demon). As such, we are naturally inclined to perceive the universe from a supernatural perspective, one which reflects a special imperative to dominate nature. As our consciousness evolved, so did the precision of the language we used to explain our environment. We no longer bury our dead to limit our exposure to predatory scavengers. Many of …

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I don't want to get hung up on the semantics of nature, other than to observe that many natural scientists are themselves prone to invoke the supernatural when confronted with the implications of their experiments. Oppenheimer's comparison of the human race to the god of destruction comes to mind, or Newton's persistent efforts to transmute lead into gold, presumably the reason why he was placed in charge of the Royal Mint. His conception of gravity, for that matter, invoked the miraculous phenomenon of action at a distance, and much of the research of modern physics (curved space, gravity waves) is an …

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Our civilization is suffused with the supernatural spirit of the living and the dead. Just because you choose to ignore their presence doesn't mean they don't exist. You're reading these words on a monitor which was produced by thousands of people, from the people who acquired the raw materials to the people who manufactured the component parts to those who assembled them and shipped the finished product to your doorstep. I'm sure you reject the labor theory of spiritual investment, but the spirit of the people who produced that monitor is right there in front of you, running an electrical current …

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You're missing the trees for the leaves, Mike. I'm not sure of the situation in the Pacific Southwest, but out here in th