Is America worth fighting for?
by
freak80
on 14 May 2012
32 comments, latest
12 years ago
John Lennon famously imagined a world with "nothing to kill or die for." I guess the solution was simple: make a country like the USA no longer worth fighting ...
Mayans...
by
freak80
on 10 May 2012
15 comments, latest
12 years ago
Lugar defeated with help of Banks
by
freak80
on 9 May 2012
2 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/e
Those "Chain-Link & Rottweiler" Neighborhoods...
by
freak80
on 11 Apr 2012
41 comments, latest
12 years ago
Anyone here on Patnet know what kind of neighborhoods I'm talking about? How much would you pay to live in such an area? By the looks of the Bay ...
It's already been a very record-breaking hot year
by
freak80
on 9 Apr 2012
2 comments, latest
12 years ago
From Yahoo! news and AP: http://news.yahoo.com/already- Here in upstate NY we didn't even have a real winter this year. And then we had over a week in the 70s ...
What it will take to get off fossil fuels.
by
freak80
on 28 Mar 2012
52 comments, latest
12 years ago
The following website shows what it would take to get off of fossil fuels with current technology: http://www.withouthotair.com/ The analysis is for Great Britain, but a similar analysis could ...
Do Facts Even Matter?
by
freak80
on 25 Mar 2012
70 comments, latest
12 years ago
I can't help but wonder if the following statement is true: "In religion and politics, facts don't matter. People believe what they WANT to believe, IN SPITE of the ...
Does China RE Bubble extend to US West Coast?
by
freak80
on 19 Mar 2012
4 comments, latest
12 years ago
It's pretty common knowledge that there's a huge RE bubble in China's coastal cities. Does that bubble extend to the west coast of North America? I've heard that "Asian" ...
Human Genome shows Christianity is False
by
freak80
on 19 Mar 2012
22 comments, latest
12 years ago
The human genome shows that there was no Adam and Eve: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/ Of course, biology showed Christianity was false back in 1859. It's just that my parents didn't get ...
The Opiate(s) of the Masses?
by
freak80
on 16 Mar 2012
17 comments, latest
12 years ago
One mass has religion as their opiate. The other mass has sex, drugs, & rock n' roll as their opiate. -Republicans get their power from fear that someone will ...
Anyone Else Getting Market Acrophobia?
by
freak80
on 15 Mar 2012
71 comments, latest
12 years ago
Stocks are almost back up to where they were during the frothy days of 2007. There are still plenty of "Black Swans" around: European headline risk, China real estate, ...
Atheism's Best Friend?
by
freak80
on 12 Mar 2012
47 comments, latest
7 years ago
As we all know, Protestant Liberalism has done a lot of work refuting historic Christianity. Shouldn't atheists support Protestant Liberalism, then? After all, what better way to get rid ...
De-skilling your job
by
freak80
on 2 Mar 2012
1 comment, latest
12 years ago
Deskilling: the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semiskilled or unskilled workers. This results in cost ...
Would a Large Majority Support These Policies?
by
freak80
on 29 Feb 2012
10 comments, latest
12 years ago
Obviously there's a lot of bitterness and division in the USA. That's probably always been true and might always be true. Nonetheless, for the sake of practicality, would a ...
Santorum on JFK speech about separation of church and state
by
freak80
on 27 Feb 2012
1 comment, latest
12 years ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Will this guy get the Republican nomination? #politics
Iran's Female Ninjas
by
freak80
on 17 Feb 2012
24 comments, latest
12 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/i How's that for cultural diversity? Maybe Islam isn't so patriarchal after all? Maybe this should go in the "Humor" section.
a New New Deal Coalition?
by
freak80
on 17 Feb 2012
6 comments, latest
12 years ago
As we all know, we Americans are bitterly divided on cultural issues. It's almost like we are two nations. One side sees the universe as a purposeful creation of ...
Identity Politics is a Distraction from Our Real Problems
by
freak80
on 10 Feb 2012
4 comments, latest
12 years ago
Don't we just love identity politics. While our whole country is going to the crapper, we fight based on our identities. "I am conservative", "I am liberal", "I am ...
Christianity is Self-Refuting
by
freak80
on 6 Feb 2012
55 comments, latest
12 years ago
Christianity is self-refuting: Will the "true" Christianity please stand up? According to some counts, there are 38,000 different denominations. If the Bible is a clear Word of God(tm), then ...
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