Category Archives: Philosophy, Ethics and Logic

A Very Good Point

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I’ve lived across the street from a minister for 20 years. He has always seemed to me to be a true Christian and a good man. He walks the walk. I asked him a question once. I told him I was having a debate with my conservative friends. All of them believed that the ends justify the means. I said I thought that the ends NOT justifying the means was one of the central points a just about every religion. Did he agree? He said, “Yes, but I would reword what your said. I would say, If you think you must do something wrong to do God’s will, then you have lost faith in God.”

Mic drop

The Release of the Epstein Files

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You will never see the whole set of documents and evidence the government has collected from the Epstein investigations. That’s my prediction. The news media has portrayed Trumps apparent change-of-heart on the matter as Trump knowing he couldn’t win. I don’t believe it. I think this whole time they were stalling, there was a plan 2, and I’ll bet it involved editing Trump and Republican mega donors out of those documents as much as possible. I don’t know much about how Trump’s hand picked from his personal attorneys DOJ handles documents or even how the normal DOJ would handle those files. But by carefully moving key people out of certain roles and replacing them with loyalists, I think you might get it done.
First Trump comes out all for it, then Mike Johnson, the suddenly all the Republicans? I smell a fix.

Update: Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

A Belated Birthday Wish

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I was reading an article on socialism in America when I saw a name I recognized, and I noticed that November 5th was the 170th birthday of Eugene V. Debbs. A perennial candidate for president on the American Socialist Party ticket back in the 1910’s and 1920’s. So who was he?

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Scary stuff that socialism. I learned about Debbs from Kurt Vonnegut.

Eugene V. Debs at Wikipedia

Quotes from Debbs

End Presidential Pardons

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This power has been abused by almost every president, but no one has abused it like Donald Trump. He has openly pardoned fraudsters who have promised him loyalty or donations. And now, this…

Trump pardons Giuliani, others who allegedly tried to overturn 2020 election

Do not forget that these people concocted a plot to overthrow the 2020 election. That was an act of treason. They wanted to usurp the will of the people and install a man who did not win the election.

That isn’t democracy.

We Borrowed $20 Billion+ and Gave it to Argentina

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But Trump won’t release the SNAP emergency fund that helps feed poor American families.

Trump threatens to withhold SNAP funding until shutdown ends

Never forget who this man is. He has sent men accused of no crime other than entering our country illegally to violent foreign prisons with no hope of release. He has blown up 15 boats in the Caribbean killing all but three of the occupants. With no evidence that they were committing any crimes. (We know that because all three survivors were repatriated, no charged with a crime.) That is quite literally murder by the way. He has created his own masked goon squad of violent storm troopers who regularly grab people off the street without a warrant of due process and have attacked peaceful protestors on multiple occasions. Even shooting at a pastor who was praying. He fomented a riot and insurrection at the capitol, He has openly taken bribes. He has pardoned a record number of criminals who have either given him money or pledged support for him. He has used lawsuits and illegal means to intimidate the press and silence them. He has used the Justice Department to pursue his enemies.

And people we know put him there and gave him this power. Sweet Jesus, what happened to our country.

No Kings in America

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I could not attend Saturday’s “No Kings” protest, but I was there in June and I support the movement. Let this gentleman from, of all places, Alabama, explain why…

Now, if you are still not sure which side is the “right” side. Look at Trump’s response to the protest.

Donald Trump Posts Bizarre AI Video of Himself in a ‘King Trump’ Fighter Jet Bombing NYC Protestors With Streams of Fecal Matter

Veeery presidential, no?

The War to Defend Free Speech

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“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,”

Donald J. Trump

No. It totally is free speech. and, it is the most protected form of free speech, political speech. Lord knows I heard that from enough right wingers. They were arguing that it was wrong to “de-platform” right wing pundits just because they were lying about vaccines, elections, mass shootings and such. Lies should be protected they inferred since not everything those pundits were saying was a lie.

I never followed that “logic”. But what Jimmy Kimmel said was not a lie. It was an opinion/observation, and it was true. I’m sure those right wingers who were clutching their pearls a few years ago will defend Mr. Kimmel. Right?

Yeah, sure.

Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’

“If you don’t believe in freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you don’t believe in freedom of speech at all.”

Noam Chomsky

The Damage RFK Jr. is Doing to America

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may take decades to repair, if it can be repaired.

Opinion – An infectious disease has invaded America’s public health agencies

President Trump promised to let RFK Jr. “go wild” on health and medicine. He has, alas, kept that promise. The result is that HHS agencies — once the envy of the world — and their counterparts in some states can no longer be relied upon to collect and disseminate accurate data, sponsor first-rate research, or implement policies to keep us healthy.

This is in addition to the massive cuts in scientific research across the board. We are handing China the future.

UPDATE: Today former CDC Director Susan Monarez testified before Congress as the the real reason she was fired.

“To be clear, he said there was no science or data, but that he still expected you to change the schedule?” Sen. Cassidy asked.

“Correct,” Monarez said.

Former CDC director tells Senate committee ‘true reason’ she was fired

Another Whack Job Heads a Government Department

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When Reagan was elected, he was largely put in place by moneyed interests that wanted to buy up public land and the mineral extraction leasing of those lands. He installed a special little toad of a human to head up the Department of the Interior named James Watt. Watt was a lunatic who believed that it didn’t matter if we destroyed the planet because Jesus was coming in a few years anyway. I was reminded of him by the idiot in this story. When I was in high school my Physics teacher told me that we would have nuclear fusion figured out in 10 years of less. That was almost 50 years ago. When I was in college my Physics professor told me we would have nuclear fusion figured out in the next decade. That was 40 years ago. I don’t think the track record on predicting fusion is reliable.

US energy chief tells BBC nuclear fusion will soon power the world

R.F.K. Jr. is a Fraud

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Because Donald Trump is a fraud, his staff consists of the most fawning of sycophants and the nutjobs who appeal to his special interest groups, like Anti-vaxers. R.F.K. Jr. is the latter. A Hunter Biden-esqe creep who made a lot of money fighting for small causes. First, the environment, then anti-vaccination. This week after the administration’s pick to head the CDC (really, the CDCC) quit over RFK’s insanity, and over 1,000 current and former employee’s signed and open letter demanding his resignation. He appeared on Capitol hill today and got slapped around a bit by Democratic, and a few Republican senators.

A Different RFK Jr. Just Appeared Before Congress

Vaccine expert who is a frequent critic of RFK Jr. is blocked from participating in FDA advisory committee

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

How about the rest of the Republican party?

Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so

That is insane.
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The Word is Hypocrite. Spelled H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E

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Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say

Looks like MAGA is okay with gun control after all. ‘Cause rights are for “some” people. Like freedom of speech, it’s best used by the “right” people. By the way, this is the same group who have politicians that argue mentally ill people can’t be banned from owning guns. #noshame

Seems they used to believe in states rights as well. Meaning, just the “right” states can have rights.
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CDC to be Led by Someone with No Medical Credentials or Background

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Because , of course. Trump’s army of “Simpletons” continues it’s destruction of the Federal Government. The War on Science marches on.

CDC gets new acting director as leadership turmoil leaves agency reeling

And the people driving it?

Ohio kindergarten vaccination rates drop 4.5% in five years, health officials warn

Interesting Crime Spree

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The President of the United States is not supposed to profit from the Presidency. My Republican friends who are always on the lookout for anything equating to a Democrat doing something like this seem to be VERY quiet about this President. After listening to them bleat about Whitewater during the Clinton era (a land deal the Clinton’s lost $40,000 on) and their belief that somehow Joe Biden (long reputed to be one of the most honest members of Congress) was crooked, it seems MORE that a bit hypocritical to ignore all this. But, there it is…

Smartphones and Kids

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The rise in teen suicide, juvenile crime and child anxiety can be traced (at least in part) to the use of smartphones. I have heard child psychiatrists acquaint giving a smartphone to a child with giving them a heroin needle. So why would a loving parent get one for their kid? The answer, of course, is peer pressure, and a contest of wills between parent and child.
‘My Fellow Parents Have Betrayed Me’ How it feels when your allies in the fight for a phone-free childhood buy one for their fifth-grader.

The answer, must be legislation. Give parents a break and allow kids to only have “dumb phones” until eighth grade. Only if we do this as a culture, do we have a chance at saving out kids. Ohio just passed and is implementing a “no phones” in school policy. We will see how that works. If behavior and academics improve, then I see no reason to not implement a kid smart phone ban.