I heard the Beck show yesterday. Beck's religious beliefs (as silly as they seem to me) have nothing to do with his ability to judge others for holding irrational, demonstrably false beliefs about events in the physical world. Medina refused to say that she'd fire somone on her staff who was Truthe...

Ok, I wasn't convinced a new thread was really worth this, so I hope this isn't too far off topic - I mean, hey it has Beck in the title right? I was searching for info on Debra Medina last night and ran into a Ron Paul forum (didn't know that existed). www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=230995 ...

Oh jeez, my son thinks Jim Carrey would be a good Foamfollower. (Don't worry, I'll ground him...)

Actually, I still think the best Covenant would be Russell Crowe, but Hugh Laurie is definitely number two for me.

See that's what I initially suspected - that the daycare providers are taking a hand out and complaining about it. But it's not the daycare provider that's being subsidized - it's the parents. The provider just wants their money for the service they provided. Why should they be punished because uncl...

I support the concept of unions, but only in the context of pure, free organization and assembly. This is atrocious: stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/02/11/forced-unionization/?test=latestnews Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that she owned her own ...

Another important factor that neither of us has really accounted for is where power fits in, situations where female preference has little or no impact. Rape during war, slavery and other situations, the killing off of competetive males, aristocrats or chiefs with choice of a woman, or multiple wom...

Oh yes, parsing [sp?] occurs, both for the pattern and difference recognition hardwired aspects. But the place the lines are drawn...maybe better: the categories they are placed under, are conditioned/environmental. Ok, I can dig that. To me, this is the same as saying in/out group psychology is ha...

Richard Dawkins has a very good (in my opinion) take on this set out (I think) in the Ancestor's Tale. The point is that our brain is wired to find distinctions and groupings (ingroups and outgroups, if you like) and especially group opposites (black/white, hot/cold etc) as it does tend to help mak...

If you can explain how something can be objectively good or bad, I'm listening. How is that possible? Well, in the case of the circle: A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area. So, if you ...

Avatar wrote:Government is f*cked up, and people are stupid and fickle.

Nailed that one.

And, how does it compare to the section 109 pollutants of the CAA that are the non-threshold variety? This means there is no safe level above zero. I would like to see this third hand smoke compared with other natural pollutants of which there is currently no way to filter. I certainly don't mean to...

Am I the only one offended that the tea party movement was hijacked by big government conservatives? I don't pay attention to any of it anymore. I won't forget Fox news and their marginalization of Dr Paul and anyone else that wasn't a religious, big war government, tradition worshipper. And to thin...

Essentially, yes...I think there are a couple other instincts, but not many. And I agree we are 'pack-like' to some extent, but not born with a preference for a particular pack [like race, for example]. I'll be interested in what you have to say. Well, I actually couldn't find anything that just co...

I don't think this is innate either...I think it's learned/cultural. Are you saying ingroup/outgroup sociology is learned/cultural? One has to wonder where the line between that and genetic adaptation lies. I think it's instinctive and I think it has everything to do with a genetic imperative to ev...

I may be out on a limb, but considering in-group/out-group instincts, perhaps racism is nothing more than the dying whimper of our innate resistance to racial homogenization. I don't think this is innate either...I think it's learned/cultural. Are you saying ingroup/outgroup sociology is learned/cu...

I may be out on a limb, but considering in-group/out-group instincts, perhaps racism is nothing more than the dying whimper of our innate resistance to racial homogenization.

Poor americans are rich. They have houses, TV's, Cars, Game stations, appliances..it goes on. Yeah, you've got a point there. When I talk about the poor, I'm talking about the 40% of our population that lives below the global poverty line. No cars, no tv, hell, they're living in squatter shacks bui...

I have personally been involved in one such case like this with my youngest. His gun was 'see-through' plastic, with a bright green cylinder, black plastic grips and red tip - I think it was two bucks at the dollar general store. He wasn't even in school - he was skating in front of the school, in ...

Very interesting. I was able to download the PDF from the link and have been reviewing it. Thanks!

As a non-Republican/non-Democrat, I'd have to say this argument is pretty much the reason I keep a well-stocked bomb shelter and so many weapons. This is pure blame-gamery. The Dems couldn't get the bill passed with a super-majority, and now that they no longer can get it passed without Republican ...