The Marquis de Sade once mused, “What are all the agonies of everyone on Earth, compared to a single one of my pleasures?” That’s the level of criminal psychosis required to be the type of person Chomsky is discussing here. …
Category: Sustainability
Poverty in the U.S. Is Intractable
Gary Tulie writes: The UN issued a report criticising the US for allowing some of its citizens to live in such abject poverty that they had to live with open sewers in rural Alabama. When I searched for similar in …
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The U.S. Could Be Smart (Rather than Tough) on Crime, But We Don’t Want To Be
Long-term 2GreenEnergy supporter Garry Tulie writes: If tough on crime works, how come the US has a massively higher prison population than the EU, and still has way higher levels of violent crime!
What’s Required to Implement a Wealth Tax?
At left we see what could be accomplished with a wealth tax. Getting there is going to be a b****, however, given the current state of corruption in the United States and around the world. The wealthy and powerful, who …
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Civil Rights
The meme hear sounds good; it almost rolls off the tongue. But it’s untrue. Equal rights means, to take an example, that white people no longer have the right to ban people of color from their country clubs and tony …
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Americans Don’t Want a Hateful Society
A friend took this pic during her morning walk in Santa Monica, CA. Yes, you’re more likely to see this in California, than, say, Kansas, but it’s a statement shared by the majority of Americans. After this race-baiting sociopath leaves …
Lawn Improvement
I hate to reprint memes that have egregious grammatical errors in them; here we have “less lawns” where it should be “fewer lawns,” because a lawn is a discrete object. Having said that, what a great point. There are few …
The United States Is Doing “Very Well?”
I just received an invitation to comment on the following: The United States is doing VERY WELL, thanks to President Trump’s STRONG leadership. We cannot trust the left-wing media to report the TRUTH, which is why President Trump is counting on …
Tagged with: 11+% unemployment, 22 million children living in poverty, 70000+ children locked in cages at our southern border, destruction of the postal system, environment being irreparably damaged, laughingstock of the planet, mass evictions/new homeless, president whose lies now exceed 21000, rampant racist violence, the world's most dismal failure in addressing pandemic
Evangelicals’ Version of Christianity
Let me take a stab. Keep in mind that Evangelicals are Christians in an extremely narrow and perverted sense of the word. These people’s behavior has nothing whatsoever to do with the life and teachings of Christ; rather, it’s defined …
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What Does It Mean To Make America Great Again?
I’m certainly not the first to ask what precisely is meant by the phrase “make America great again.” If a typical Trump supporter were to answer that question honestly, he’d probably say things like white-dominated, Christian, heterosexual, militarily aggressive, deregulated, …
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