I have not checked out the authenticity of this meme, but I hope it’s real.

FWIW, I have noticed that there are bloggers hired by the Fortune 500 to make points similar to this one.

To whomever wrote this:  Well played. 

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Yes, but keep in mind that Twain’s memorable quote applies to people of self-respect, not to fresh human garbage who succeed by preying off rotting human garbage.

That the GOP has brought the U.S. Congress to this level must never be forgotten.

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Here’s a conversation on the Chinese spy balloon.  Readers, can you help me understand this?
Reader #1:  China could collect valuable information that could not be detected by satellites. For example, spying from within the earth’s atmosphere might offer more exact resolution. Perhaps heat detection of certain buildings might permit reliable data on the number of inhabitants. Or there may be other information available at the balloon’s level and speed of which laypeople like us have no knowledge. It seem ridiculous to believe that China would launch that thing as a symbol or strategic move.
Reader #2: A government satellite has some pretty good resolution that isn’t really going to get any better from a conspicuous balloon floating by and the number of inhabitants of a building at a random moment of time as guesstimated from heat signatures isn’t really all that valuable compared to just pointing a satellite at the location and just observing who goes in and out of it. Also, satellites already have infrared capabilities.
Me: So, is there any way we as common Americans can learn what actually happened here? As someone who knows essentially nothing about the subject, I’ll accept the idea that a balloon at 60K feet isn’t going to provide much more precise information than a satellite, regardless of what it’s looking for specifically. So what was it doing there?
What did Xi Jinping reply when Biden/our Pentagon asked him that?
What did he say when we told him we were going to shoot it down?
Is there some reason we can’t have answers here?
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There are dozens of ways that atheists articulate their positions, as just as believers assert theirs.

Though I’m energized by all of these, I have to say that I’m particularly impressed with this guy’s idea, as it’s one that I’ve held from the time I was a very young kid.  The concept that a loving God who could easily send me, because of I found no evidence to believe in Him, to an eternity of torture, is a concept that only an idiot could accept.

 

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Most of us have seen this before, but we need to ask ourselves:

Why do we think it’s any different today?

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Trump and his family picked this country clean, and the damage is far from contained.

Among other things, he’s started a war within the Republican party to see who can be the most ruthless, hateful bastard of a human being.

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From ABC News: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls diversity efforts ‘illegal,’ tells state agencies to stop. Diversity efforts in hiring “proactively encourage discrimination,” a memo said.

Hiring policies that attempt to build racial diversity are looked upon highly by those of us who would like to live in a more just, fair, and inclusive country.  Conversely, this concept has always been an object of hatred of those in the south, who liked their home better when it was part of the Confederacy.

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In reference to my recent post: What EV Are, and Are Not, in Our Future, a reader notes:

You need a Microlino – right? I say no… if you care not about your body. But someday, we might have little choice…

Little choice?  You mean the radical left commies are going to force us all to drive cars the size of upright pianos?

Does that seem likely in a world where international corporations, and their corrupt influences in our lawmaking, determine our future?

Something I notice about the pic here, that perhaps the reader missed: it’s an artist’s rendering.  The car itself doesn’t even exist, and probably never will.

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Here’s an excerpt from the thank-you letter I just received from the oft-mentioned charitable organization I support in Venezuela, call the Turimiquire Foundation.  I thought readers would be interested in what these folks are accomplishing down there.

An astounding 96+ cents on every dollar donated translates into direct action on behalf of those most in need.

 

Thank you for your generosity! We are excited to share with you below some of the accomplishments that your contribution helped to make possible….

2022 ACHIEVEMENTS: (more…)

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“When your education limits your imagination, it’s called indoctrination.”

Of course, but why on Earth does education reduce one’s imagination? Having a better understanding of how the world works should enhance one’s creative capacities.

This is the typical sour grapes messaging that we see so frequently from the anti-intellectual crowd.

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