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Obiwannosi comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Oh noes!!!

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

Apparently repaired ...

COME ON PEOPLE!!! While I am sure .

Lt-JW comments on Feb 21, 2020:

@Bay0Wulf I agree. Maybe we can ask admin to address this as it's becoming really annoying

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

I put in a message to Admin ... we’ll see ...

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Lt-JW comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Thumbs up for noticing it - see what I did there?! ;)

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

So it got fixed ... Sometimes that happens ... Kind of like when you sit in a mikes long line of traffic only ti find that “there’s nothing there” when suddenly you’re back to 65 mph ...

[pbs.org] Can California figure out a way to house its growing homeless population?

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Hiya Dudley! Seems the reaction and reply buttons are broken ... so ...👍 That was going to be my answer as well. Stop it from “growing” ... Stop “helping” ... exacerbating ... the situation. People who put out birdseed EXPECT to see Birds You ALWAYS Get More of Whatever You Feed.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

@EAL_Flt1979 I dunno ... i got no e-mail/message from you ...

This pisses me right off, my dad was an amputee and I had my legs,pelvis and balls smashed , and had...

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Personal ... Both feet crushed, both ankles shattered, pelvis broken in three places, lower back (sacral area) broken in 2 places, right arm shattered (upper and lower) right elbow crushed, massive radial nerve tearout in right arm, ribs, front of face (upper and lower jaw) ... original ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

@BikerPetehall70 Sleeping in a 74’ Chevelle. Employee went over a 12” curb and hit a brick wall head on at 65+. Back seat had newly filled full sized Oxyacetylene Rig and portable Gasoline Powered ARC Welding Unit. Transmission came through floor and ended up going through my seat. I was found inside the door (by mistake) ... and, yeah ... I’m still here ...

COME ON PEOPLE!!! While I am sure .

drptree comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Just ignore them. Something wrong with them. Do as I do. I blow past all stupid sht so I can check out the real news.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

Not easy to “Blow Past” ... first they might post something worthwhile ... even by mistake ... (even a blind squirrel finds a nut ...) ... but when I get to the bottom of the page after scrolling down, “See More” often puts me on ANOTHER Page of the same crap. See, you’re here for “real news” but, actually, this is supposed to be a Forum ... a Discussion ... a Community. News should be here since its obviously part of many conversations but this isn’t a “news’ site. There are other places for that.

This pisses me right off, my dad was an amputee and I had my legs,pelvis and balls smashed , and had...

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Personal ... Both feet crushed, both ankles shattered, pelvis broken in three places, lower back (sacral area) broken in 2 places, right arm shattered (upper and lower) right elbow crushed, massive radial nerve tearout in right arm, ribs, front of face (upper and lower jaw) ... original ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 21, 2020:

@BikerPetehall70 That ... unfortunate ... I dunno how I’d feel about damage to my “Lucky Charms” ... without the experience, its hard to imagine but ... without meaning to be a dick ... a lot of strangely amusing commentary goes through my mind ... On the other hand, that’s pretty much how I got through my problems ... an odd and grim sense of humor.

The Democratic Candidates

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 20, 2020:

No ... none of them pretend to wear hardhats ... no “labor” required ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 20, 2020:

@Obiwannosi Uhm Bernie’s Soft in the Head ... I can’t say how hard his cranium is ...

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Naomi comments on Feb 20, 2020:

https://www.governmentevents.co.uk/event/protecting-nhs-workforce-increasing-safety-staff-2020-conference/ The NHS has no time to waste on identity politics. End of story.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 20, 2020:

Ah!!! Finally the core of your argument. “I like the NHS and I don’t care what you think or are concerned about.” Why didn’t you just say so?

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Hanno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

That is a bit misleading... The refusal is about abusive behaviour that is either the verbal or physical violence. You can be a nazi skinhead wearing I love Hitler shirt and as long as you comply and not bully or harass anyone, they will treat you. Stating that people are being de-platform ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 20, 2020:

@Naomi Hum ... its a New Rule Change ... your friend’s 25 years of “experience” haven’t “experienced” this yet. Personally, though its here in the USA ... My mother has been and remains a Registered Nurse since she was 25 ... that’s 59 years. My mother and sister owned and operated a Home Health Care & Visiting Nurse Service with some 175 “Field Personnel” (which means a lot of home bound, mostly elderly, injured or sick clients) ... I was a Senior Advising VP on legal matters and technology (unpaid ... it was my Mom’s business) 4 of my aunts are or were RNs My younger brother is a highly regarded Medical Doctor (Diagnostician) for 30 years (we regularly discuss cases, laws, legal situations to this day) And ... I spent the better part of 4 years living in various hospitals as they tried to reconstruct me after being in a car wreck as a passenger ... I’m going to guess my “experience” outweighs even your nurse friends. I don’t address the “Free” / “Not Free” aspect of your responses ... I addressed the Problems Created by Poorly Thought Out ... or Knee Jerk ... or Feel Good “Rule” Changes. I’ve not only seen dozens in the Medical Industry, but also had to gain a complete understanding of them so as to guide my Mother’s company through the minefields that were created. You can scoff and say its just Watson being a jerk but ... if he’s correct and those “Changes” have indeed been made, You may very well find that the “Laugh” is on You. You think that this is some minor little thing ... of little to no importance ... but I have seen repeatedly “little things” like this turn into Absolutely Real Horror Shows ... Especially and Specifically in the Medical Industry.

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Naomi comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Hello. Don't know what Paul Joseph Watson is playing at. He is a naughty boy. 😂

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 19, 2020:

@Naomi Please read the addition to the above ... He’s a contrarian ... okay ... take it with a tablespoon of salt ... Does this extension to the “Rule” exist or not? Its a simple question of a Fact Existing or Not. If it exists, it does, in Fact, open the Door to Being Abused. Think on it ... someone with incipient Dementia ... they say the most horrific things to their wives, husbands, children, friends ... to their Visiting Health Care people ... do they mean it? Most people ... people who “know” them ... know they don’t “mean it” but what about a Health Care Professional who never met Mr. or Mrs. Jones?

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Kravman2 comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I think the key to this one is how the instructions are applied. There are some absolute dregs of society going into hospitals etc for treatment, some drug or alcohol fuelled and some just unpleasant and offensive. I managed a unit in the Health service over 40 years ago and even then my instructors...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 19, 2020:

@Naomi I’m not saying they should give up NHS ... although you’d think this “free” thing was just in the UK but in the USA if you get to an Emergency Room you get taken care of regardless of ... anything (that’s the Law here) This isn’t about “Free” or “Not Free”. This is about whether allowing subjective aspects ... relative considerations ... is a “Good Idea” or not.

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Naomi comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Hello. Don't know what Paul Joseph Watson is playing at. He is a naughty boy. 😂

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 19, 2020:

I think you’re being deliberately obtuse ... which is a bit unusual for you. Think of the ramifications of “extending” this “Rule” ... all of them are bad ... PJW is exaggerating ... yes ... The problem with “exaggerating” is that it Does Not Change the fact that there’s Something There to exaggerate to begin with ... Here ... I’ll make it personal to you ... you go in because you’ve got a “womanly” complaint ... something is going on “down there” and you’re concerned. You wait in an exam room to be seen and in comes a “trans” thing who tells you to hike up your dress and drop your knickers and ... you’re looking at ... what? A female transiting to male? A male transiting to female? What do you do? If you hesitate either way you’re Displaying Discrimination ... according to this “Rule” can this person then walk out and check you off as discriminating? What happens with your medical problem after that? Can the entire rest of the facility ignore you because you “Discriminate”?

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Hanno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

That is a bit misleading... The refusal is about abusive behaviour that is either the verbal or physical violence. You can be a nazi skinhead wearing I love Hitler shirt and as long as you comply and not bully or harass anyone, they will treat you. Stating that people are being de-platform ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 19, 2020:

Actually, I am looking for more on this Rule ... an actual reading. However, injecting subjective reasoning into the Rule Structure is wrong or dangerous. “Medical professionals simply have no time to waste on identity politics” Yes. Lets say thats true. A bomb blows up ... ambulances are offloading dozens of victims ... the attendants are black or muslim ... some of the victims are skinheads (assume Racists) ... in the triage aspect of sorting for care ... who’s to blame the attendants for sorting those Racist Skinheads to the back of the line ... even IF their injuries are more life threatening?

What Happens When You Have “Government Run Health Care”?

Kravman2 comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I think the key to this one is how the instructions are applied. There are some absolute dregs of society going into hospitals etc for treatment, some drug or alcohol fuelled and some just unpleasant and offensive. I managed a unit in the Health service over 40 years ago and even then my instructors...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 19, 2020:

@Naomi I don’t know what the “absolutely free” aspect of Health Care has to do with this conversation. The moment a Muslim refuses to treat a Jew ... or Jew refuses to treat a Muslim ... based on “assumed guilt” ... “assumed discrimination” ... and, I’m sure you can think of dozens of similar “conflicts” ... NO Amount of “Free” Anything will fix the problem. “Why didn’t you restart the patient’s heart, Abdul”? Abdul points out the Star of David on the man’s neck chain, “Because clearly he’s a Racist Jew ...” “Oh ... well, I suppose if he’s a Racist ...”

Politics U.

TimTuolomne comments on Feb 17, 2020:

By Obama's logic, then Bush is responsible for Obama's self-claimed successes.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 18, 2020:

He had “successes”? What were they? He didn’t “fix” any of the broken things and went on to break more stuff and deliberately cause havoc and chaos ...

Just want to let you know that we're tweaking the design of several pages but may be returning ...

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 17, 2020:

I’m stressing ... STRESSING!!! I tell you!!! You could alleviate that stress by sending a bottle of Lagavulin 16yo to the following address ... Actually I think you’re doing fine to date ... no idea what the changes will bring ... I still have NO CLUE what to do with these “coins” they ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 18, 2020:

@SpikeTalon Really? There’s a place to buy stuff? Not that I need stuff but hey ... can always use another coffee mug.

Join the Los Angeles Intellectual Dark Web Meetup Group! [discord.

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Intellectuals ... in Los Angeles ...!!! Who’d’a thunkit? “Intellectual Humility” and “Charitable Attitude towards Others’ Views” ... I’ll be as charitable as I can be and say that’s pretty seriously Libertarian if not outright Liberal-Speak. LA is a long reach for me and this ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

@808scotty Sorry ... “Classic Liberals” not the “Liberals” of today ... or maybe I meant ... anyway, I wasn’t attempting to smear Libertarians

VOX .

Xtra comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Vox is fake news.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

@Xtra I gave up on NYT years ago ...

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

@Josf-Kelley Uhm ... okay, that was simply weird. I’ll get back to you in a few days ... or so ...

What book did you finish that deserved a celebration?

JoanAbernethy comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Gulag Archipelago.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

It seems to me I read that in the late 70s or early 80s but it was long and horrifying. Like most non fiction, I read a couple chapters and then go read junk so my mind can process the information.

What book did you finish that deserved a celebration?

SpikeTalon comments on Feb 16, 2020:

The DaVinci Code.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

Uh ... there’s 2 other books to that y’know ...?

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

@Josf-Kelley Okay ... I’ve had enough of this for awhile. You’ve presented enough information and references that I will have to cogitate on it for a few days (that’s the way my mind works) at the moment I’m not in “agreement” but accept your various inputs as valid. I would note that your own writing is more ... persuasive ... than your cut & paste materials are (after all, if a fool looks long enough they can find something some other fool wrote to support any form of logic or discourse ... not meant as a personal reference) I did like your use of Abigail ... always liked her input. I continue to have a problem with the “terms” of “Common Law” and “Morality” but will work to see if I can find a way to clarify them to myself though “Morality” has long eluded me. I suppose my main problem with the term “Common Law” is that I have rarely ever seen anywhere that it was applied with any consistency which ... in my view ... makes it rather “Uncommon” though I understand that you, and all those others before you, are speaking more of a nebulous theory than a solid reality.

Russian TV. With Mikhaila Peterson. "Like Father, Like Daughter?" [youtu.be]

dmatic comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Very interesting interview. Both interviewee and interviewer were interesting. Thanks. The free market just another form of totalitarianism? Hmmmm.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

What do you expect from a Russian? After what they’re still trying to work themselves out of, they’re likely to see ghosts behind every corner ... and are right to do so. On the other hand, the “Free Market” isn’t exactly “Free” the chains that are there simply aren’t as noticable.

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

@Josf-Kelley So ... your basis for “Common Law” is it should involve “Trial by Jury” of one’s “peers” (if, indeed, such a thing can be constructed) That it is based on a “morality” that predates the written language (which is pretty tenuous) That one of the earliest known examples of it is the Saxons’ application of it (though I would wonder what the Britons thought of it being “Common” ) (Though I must admit that I kept thinking of Old Nordic/Germanic examples that were pretty close to “Common Law” during this entire discussion ... but, unfortunately, it seemed that was a Law they were applying to and among themselves and not to the people they were conquering ... so I question how “Common” it was) Trial by Jury does indeed seem the “Fairest” and most reasonable form of arriving at a Judgement though there abound many cases where this was found to be faulty so again, I wonder about it being “Common” It seems that the “Common” aspect of the Law is basically found being applied in a court or hearing and is not exactly something that is easily “followed” in day to day practice except as it relies on one’s “morality” ... i believe I already questioned that ... (who then determines “morality”? Take a Christian, a Buddhist and an Islamist and tell me who’s version of “morality” do we use?) Interestingly, you end by referencing my personal favorite “Law”. Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You ... I believe this “Rule” and try to follow it the best I might ... with a Major Caveat. Howsoever Others Do Unto You Accept That Is How THEY Prefer To Be Done Unto ... That is, if someone strikes you, you are almost REQUIRED to bash their brains in because, apparently, that is THEIR Version of “Morality”.

What book did you finish that deserved a celebration?

Andrewwho comments on Feb 16, 2020:

The Neuroscience of Intelligence Richard J Haier

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 17, 2020:

Found it on archive.org ... seems interesting but obscure

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

@Josf-Kelley Well, those were less tedious especially that period note in reference to the Magna Carta (nice bit there). “ entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law.” “The solution is the law of the land, the common law, the power of law commanded by people who are expressly not members of the government...” Common Law? That does seem to be a recurring theme of yours. Please define this term. Further, or, more importantly, please tell me of any time in the history of Mankind that such a thought process actually held sway ... was the way things were “done” ... was the Actual and Full Description of the “Law” being followed ... being applied. I understand the concept pretty well and the closest I can come to it is some sort of “Soft Anarchy”. I think in a room of 10-100-1000 people you would not get more than perhaps 10% that could agree on what “Common Law” should be ... never mind, is. Nebuchadnezzar, Hammurabi and, of course, the People known as Jews, in their time tried to create “Just Laws” even to inscribing them in detail in stone ... but they were not “Common” The Magna Carta and The Constitution of the United States (and Amendments thereto) do not bestow any “Rights”. In fact, they simply “guarantee” that those in Authority will not violate the Rights as bestowed by Nature ... by God ... but when has “Nature” ever respected a “Common Law”? When have Lions ever lay down with Sheep? The people who wrote the Constitution and Early Amendments were giving us a goal, written as perfectly as possible, to strive for. They weren’t describing the situation at hand any more than the Magna Carta did. These documents are the best attempts of mankind to “Write in Stone” the epitome of Just and Reasonable Life ... Law. The authors knew they had not achieved these levels and were unlikely to do so in their lifetimes. They likely knew this attempt at reaching these levels would carry far in the unseen future. You can find these thoughts and concerns expressed by all of them in hundreds of places in the Federalist Letters. They knew that what they were attempting was impossible in any time they could recognize but tgey did their best to set a “Gold Standard” meanwhile, Life and Reality ... Corruption and Greed and Hubris waited outside their doors ... and remains so today ... yet, from that day to this, there are those who continue to struggle to find the Path to that Gold Standard. Then, there are people like you seem to be who will pick at every seam, every loose thread, making it worse while, like children in the back seat of a car, plaintively ask; “Are we...

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

@Josf-Kelley Well, I do not seek to “speak for you” ... I would be interested ... maybe ... to see or hear what perhaps you believe would be better. These long cut & paste borrowings are long, tedious and not really any sort of answer and much less a solution. I note that pretty much everything you post is by way of complaint ir argument “against” but none offer any sort of solution or remedy. Interesting no? Who would ever have thought it was so easy to complain about things without offering viable solutions?

VOX .

Xtra comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Vox is fake news.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

@Xtra Okay, they “Explain” the “Fake News”. Still, how does one understand ... logically refute ... “Fake News” if one doesn’t understand what that “Fake News” is based on ... where these people get their “mindset” from? “Know one’s enemy...” “Gain as much knowledge as possible about the Field of Battle before you engage ...” (that’s a paraphrase). It’s important to understand how your opponent thinks ... and why ... even if it makes you gag to gain that information. When I was much younger I made a point to regularly read Cosmopolitan because all the females I was interested in read Cosmopolitan ... it was pretty weird. From my point of view, it was pretty nonsensical. On the other hand, I had several girlfriends over an extended period of time ...

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

@Josf-Kelley Yup ... but you went seriously astray. Looking over several of your ... long, extended responses to various topics ... I find that I am somewhat of a loss between the sections you write and the sections you ... borrow. Regardless, you seem to have focussed largely in your readings and studies on the negative aspects that were used and adopted in the Founding of the Nation. In fact, there are many more instances than the few you tend to revolve around that, in looking back with a jaundiced eye, could be thrown into your arguments. I admit those problems were there in an enormous multitude and many were poorly dealt with (in aftersight) and concede that they echo and cast shadows throughout Our History and Our Government through to present times. I think you fail completely to look at the situation and reality of what was trying to be done in any form of Contextuality. Lacking in Context, much of what was created can be seen as flawed and good argument for looking at those flaws can be made. I am no fan of Hamilton or, in fact, many of the “Founders” individually. I am however a pretty big fan of what they knocked and cobbled together while working under a situation of extreme duress. “We, the People, In Order to Create a More Perfect Union ...” They knew there were many imperfections ... many problems ... that it was, in fact, not “Perfect”. It was then, and remains today, Superlative when compared with ANY Other Form of “Created Government”. ESPECIALLY if one looks upon it in context of what had existed prior to that time.

SoFMag: DHS reports on border wall construction progress. [sofmag.com]

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Strategic Building is the key phrase. A lot of people point out ... say ... the problem will simply push further down the line or will buy ladders or ... However, the further people have to go to get to the “ends” of the wall, the more obvious they become and dragging around 30+ feet of ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

@timon_phocas Yup ... exactly so ... I meant to include that but sometimes my responses are already longer than I intended

VOX .

Josf-Kelley comments on Feb 16, 2020:

"The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe. Without a union, Amar says, “each nation-state might well raise an army, ostensibly to protect itself against Indians or Europeans, but ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

I was pretty much with you until the bit about “Fear of Mob Rule ...” at which point you went a bit seriously astray. Your depiction of the Whiskey Rebellion is very short sighted and not well thought out. I especially take exception to your labeling General George Washington a “dictator”.

VOX .

Xtra comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Vox is fake news.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 16, 2020:

Not really “fake” ... hyper partisan and very LibLeft. Calling sources of information on how a very large percentage “thinks” fake is a bad idea. Its more important to see What, Why and How they come to “think” this crap than to dismiss it all as “fake news”. “Fake News” is a better epithet for the likes Rachel MadCow, MSNBC and CNN...

The Democrats forced this idea once before .

KCSantiago comments on Feb 14, 2020:

This sounds a lot like the housing act that forced banks to make loans to high risk people and created the "housing bubble" that burst back around 2008 and set the stage for Bush's bank bailouts. Basically ground work for massive money grabs in the future.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 14, 2020:

@KCSantiago Yup. My only point really was that the Banks and AIG weren’t exactly at fault. After all, the stuff ... garbage though they knew it to be ... was “Guaranteed”. THAT was “Our Fault” ... through the People WE Elect ... AIG was crass and thoughtless but legally “in the right”. Over the years the Government has created “programs” that touched on my various businesses. Programs that I thought were idiotic, stupid, somewhat insane BUT I looked over the programs to see how I could exploit them for “the good of my business” and used them for everything they were worth. I told people how stupid the programs were but used them. Sometimes it felt hypocritical but ... my competition was using them and would’ve killed my business if I didn’t as well. I’m not saying it was “right” ... it was simply required. Some people get upset when they consider that Trump is now a Republican when he was a Democrat for decades ... Except he was neither ... he was a businessman in a City that REQUIRED he wear a “Specific Brand” ... I knew way back then that the “Brand” he was wearing was as permanent as a “Lick and Stick Tattoo” Sometimes you look at the nonsense coming out of the Government, shrug your shoulders, and play the cards they deal you.

Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities

iThink comments on Feb 14, 2020:

I'll believe it when I see it. Ain't gonna happen. First thing the swamp will do is run to an activist judge who will put an injunction against any such directive from Trump/POTUS. Then the "case" will be slow walked and delayed until well after Trump is out of office. This scenario is just ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 14, 2020:

Yup ... I’m sure you’re right ... Funny thing is that there’s getting to be fewer of those judges around lately The Activist Appeals Courts seem to be diminishing as well. The Supreme Court is also getting a bit disturbed by pissant “Judges” trying to throw down “Nationwide” injunctions too ... Perhaps it would go faster and smoother if we used the “Clinton Solution” on a bunch of those judges ... but, of course, the “Clinton Solution” is a Conspiracy Theory ... its not THEIR Fault that so many people they don’t like are simply “unlucky”.

Federalist: combat veterans tell Buttigieg to stop bragging about being a fobbit.

KCSantiago comments on Feb 14, 2020:

What?! A democrat is lying about their experience?! Next thing ya know we will learn Hillary never flew into Bosnia under sniper fire, and John Kerry's Purple Hearts were not for real wounds. Makes one wonder if O-bomb-a really was not legally eligible to be president.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 14, 2020:

DARN!!! There’s those Fully Answered Questions AGAIN!!! What do you mean we NEVER addressed them?

The Democrats forced this idea once before .

KCSantiago comments on Feb 14, 2020:

This sounds a lot like the housing act that forced banks to make loans to high risk people and created the "housing bubble" that burst back around 2008 and set the stage for Bush's bank bailouts. Basically ground work for massive money grabs in the future.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 14, 2020:

Please see my reply above ... its too long already ... But ... This is Not That ... This is the Democrats trying to tell Companies (Banks) that they have to hire a Purple Haired Gender Confused Brown/Black/Arab with MS13 Facial Tattoos to be the next choice for their Customer Service Rep.

The Democrats forced this idea once before .

RobBlair comments on Feb 14, 2020:

This is why I was so angry at my congressman who voted for TARP after the housing bubble. The Federal "rescue" of our financial systems allowed us to ignore the foundational rot of our institutions. This was further reinforced by the Dodd-Frank Act (both Dodd and Frank should have been relegated ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 14, 2020:

I think this issue is completely different ... this is trying to tell Companies ... Banks ... WHO they Must Hire Predicated on “Feel Good Wokeness” rather than on ANY Metric of Merit. (Personally, I wouldn’t care if the person was a Blue Green, Polysexual, Necrophilliac, Trans Species, Null Gender ... IF they were Excellent at the Job ... yeah, a bit of exaggeration there) As to the Housing Bubble & TARP & ... Well, while the Federal “rescue” of the banking system infuriated me, it wasn’t because of the “rescue” it was because of how We had been put into that position to begin with. Why? What happened? Banks were hit with a “requirement” to make “bad loans” ... there wasn’t a “Legal Stick” being used, there was a “Commerce Stick” being applied. Simply put, Banks need Government Approval to expand. They were told, quite simply, that those “Approvals” would NOT be forthcoming IF THEY REFUSED to make these “Bad Loans”. HOWEVER, as if THAT wasn’t bad enough, those Cretins “made a deal” with Taxpayer Funds ... money they had NO Right to Jeopardise ... to Gamble ... with. They blithely said that THEY Would GUARANTEE Those Loans. They basically put the Federal Government on the hook for when John or Jane Doe realized that they had NO Way to Service ... never mind Pay Back ... the debt. That Uncle Sam would dig up the difference. (His Cousins Fannie and Freddie were up to their ... in this) Uncle Sam was put into a No Win Situation because We Simply Could Not Default. Many Banks looked at the “Guarantee’, at the stick, and shrugged their shoulders and did what anyone in their right mind would do ... they played by the “rules”, they held their noses, and approved loans that they KNEW were worthless and ... then they packaged up all that garbage paper and SOLD it at a discount to an “Insurance Company” (AIG) who “bought” it based on the fact the garbage was “Guaranteed” ... WHO got the biggest single payout when everything went into the toilet? AIG Because, what they had was “Guaranteed”. That really WASN’T the Banks’ fault ... The FAULT belongs to Fannie and Freddie and Barney Frank and Whatshisname Dodd (ie. The Democrats) FYI ... Although its being done much more quietly ... this is STILL Happening TODAY ... Notice that Fanny and Freddie are STILL “Alive and Well” but NOW they are some sort of Government Entity Bank ... How does that happen? Talk to the Democrats who continue to protect it.

American Exceptionalism: Delusion and Illusion

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Um yet another “historian” who uses cherrypicked information and sources as well as carefully cherrypicked data points and sources. Much of what he cites is UN Tripe ... (take one, Child Mortality Rates ... in the USA a child is considered “born” the moment they are parted from the mother ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

@Naomi Obviously that depends on the information being clarified. Recently there has been a bit of a scuffle about Christopher Columbus and what happened ... who did I check with? Christopher Columbus in his own words with his own journals. The same applies to information pertaining to the “Creation of Mankind” ... who did I check with? The in depth descriptions of the Sumerians. What were they thinking when the USA was being “Founded”? The actual writings and letters of those people. How did the Europeans get a foothold on the continent of North America? There are hundreds of first hand accounts and several detailed histories told to Europeans by the Natives. Communism, Socialism? Lenin, Trotsky, Tolstoy, Marx ... many others. When looking at more recent materials ... dozens ... hundreds ... of accounts have to be sifted through and weighed for merit and compared against “known” materials and information. When I was a child (10 - 12 & up) in school I took on teachers regularly for the inaccuracy of tge material they were teaching for the fallacy of what they were passing off as knowledge ... my information source? The Reference Section of the Local or School Library ... The information ... true, accurate and verifiable ... is there if you have eyes ... desire ... to see it. Libraries still have Reference Sections ... many even have fichette copies of newspapers going back 100+ years.

28th amendment Please Read, and forward.

KCSantiago comments on Feb 13, 2020:

We also need prosecution of those who commit their crimes on any level. Penalties need to be very severe as well, and when treason is proven old school is the best, public hanging. SOunds a bit savage, but when they commit their crimes, up to and including treason they are sever enough crimes to ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

Actually my attitude is that these people need to be punished in relation to their position. That is, the more “Important” they have made themselves ... the more important their position is ... the more rigorously they should be punished once they are convicted. One “for instance” ... Charles Rangel ... he was WRITING and Creating Tax Laws and CHEATING at the same time and, his excuse? He didn’t know it was against the rules ... his case? WHAT “Case”?!? I don’t think it ever went to court ...

American Exceptionalism: Delusion and Illusion

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Um yet another “historian” who uses cherrypicked information and sources as well as carefully cherrypicked data points and sources. Much of what he cites is UN Tripe ... (take one, Child Mortality Rates ... in the USA a child is considered “born” the moment they are parted from the mother ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

@Naomi I suppose it depends on what you consider “insightful” and how you weight such “insight”. As to “stats” you are correct in a limited sort of way. You can get a pretty good handle on “stats” (which are almost always “tweaked” for content and results) by spending the time to go over many ... many sources ... This guy is using some sort of amalgamation of “new” history combined with “not so new” history to press his points. The problem is that both versions of history are rewrites ... false and falsely weighted. One of the reasons I spend so much time reading original reports and journals from the time periods involved is due to their clarity ... not that they don’t have their own biases but these can be looked at through the 20/20 lens of more information that comes from the time periods closely related ... People like this guy are simply regurgitating a version of history that is to his liking ... a version of statistics that are to his liking ... I could’ve “researched” his entire article in about a half hour using currently available “infotainment” ... so how do you consider that his “insight” is of any actual value? Through the use of Critical Thinking it took less than 2 minutes to see the lack of research and the pushing of “preferred propaganda” in the guy’s piece. Of course, the statement he made about being “on this continent ... for 14,000 years before that ...” is a Pretty HUGE Flag that SOMEONE is Speaking with a Forked Tongue ... I mean, had I been reading that and considering it credible, that sentence would have been an “AW CRAP!!!” moment as it turns everything else into High Probability of Horse Manure ...

Could other Western governments like Canada & UK finally wake up to this threat?

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Well ... I dunno how it is that people are “only just realizing” ... Seriously, I’ve known for years and its not like I’m some hotshot “insider”. Intel, MicroSoft and Apple might not have admitted it “out loud” but they’ve had the capability, have been doing it or have done it ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

Just something further to digest on the subject ... this guy tapdances quite well ... if nit very convincingly https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPczYamcruo

So .

timon_phocas comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Car thieves muggers, and rapists get less time than this. A friend of mine was raped, murdered and stuffed into a well by someone just released from prison after seven years for second degree murder. The sentence recommendation was not for justice, it was revenge for being associated with Trump....

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

Exactly ... The concept that they do this sort of thing and somehow justify it is ... Worse, is their total willingness to “overlook” stuff done by “people on their side” (Hillary for example)

The nanny state is at it again.

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Well, while I think its foolishness, I think there’s something to be said for a rule like that. Not safety ... no ... but this stands out; “is her intention to amend the bill to merely mandate minimum staffing levels at gas stations.” New Jersey has LOTS of young (and not so young) people ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

@SpikeTalon I’m not saying people shouldn’t be “allowed” ... simply that, as a politician, look how many jobs she could claim to have “created”. Kind of a no-cost “win” for a politician. (Not that I support it but ...) What actually puzzles me is how EVERY “Service Station” virtually disappeared overnight ... as if not ONE Single Businessman stopped to consider that there actually is a pretty large percentage of people (market) that would happily pay a bit more to NOT have to do it themselves.

Do You really know who you are?

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 12, 2020:

Tripping ... That seems to be a pretty relevant word in this post. I’m at a bit of a loss as to how “scientific” fits in.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 13, 2020:

@jra_the_wise Uhmmm ... when I was much younger ... still in High School ... I was literally tripping and formed a much more coherent thought process about what you’re trying to say ... It was ... interesting ... revealing ... but it wasn’t very well attached to “reality”. You don’t actually understand DNA all that well from your description of what you think it does.

The 1619 Project. "The Truth Can Change How We See the World."[twitter.com] [youtu.be]

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 11, 2020:

The Times spews crap and says that its “Truth”. 1619 is Propaganda Wishtory created for Mental Midgits and Deliberate Retards.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 11, 2020:

@ddu11 Really? A “waist” of time? Do you know ANY History? Have you ever spent any time on the subject? Have you ever read the New York Times? Are you professionally an idiot or were you brought up that way?

The Talking Parrot Head of the “Justice Democrats” goes off the rails?

johnlondon comments on Feb 11, 2020:

How does miss 88 IQ know all this????????

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 11, 2020:

Its on the script she’s been given and from her coaching ... she just still gets stuff a bit mixed up ...

So reads the headline: How Feral Pigs Took Over the U.

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Yeah ... pigs are no joke. When I was a kid we had a couple ... they started out as cute little piglets ... but they got big ugly and mean quickly enough. I was happy enough when my Dad announced we were going to kill and butcher them. Since then I’ve killed a good few wild or feral pigs. I ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 9, 2020:

@KCSantiago Yes ... I’ve had to deal with a few critters due to their endangering my family ... bears are only supposed to be taken by license but I considered the concept of a couple of them chasing around my 80+ Mom to be all the “License” required.

Here She Goes Again. AOC Talks About Her Favorite Economist Milton Keynes. [twitter.com]

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Keynes, John Maynard ... Maybe “Milton Keynes” IS her “favorite” economist. #1. We all know she doesn’t live in anything like a “real world” ... maybe her idol is Humpty Dumpty ... #2. Most of us know AOC is being finger fed her entire thought process by an Ultra Left Organization....

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 9, 2020:

@mccarthy I never noticed that Hillary “ran” ... She either limped and hobbled or ... she was Carried Forward by her adoring minions.

OAN.

Facci comments on Feb 7, 2020:

I believe we're overlooking the obvious. Mike Pence is the best Republican Party nominee for 2024 should he want it. I hope that he will. I can't imagine that he would want to subject himself to 8 more years of that gauntlet, but he would be the perfect Conservative and calming influence on this ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 7, 2020:

I don’t think so. Pence is solid and I think he’s reliable as well but ... I don’t think he’s got the willingness to fight the fight. I expect the next four years to somehow be more brutal politically than these past few but Trump can handle it. After DJ Trump, i expect to see acts of total desperation from the Swamp ... the DemLeft ... I’m not sure Pence is well suited to that struggle.

I “speculated” about the nature of this virus back on 23JAN using the scant information ...

timon_phocas comments on Feb 3, 2020:

The Corona virus is the source of the common cold. It mutates so easily it's not worth making a vaccine for. It's entirely logical to assume it mutated into its current form.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 3, 2020:

You’re right in that “coronaviruses” as a family are quite common ... there are several of them. Currently there are versions working their way through the poultry and pig production systems ... largely fatal but only transferable within the species they are found in. “The Coronavirus” is what they are calling this particular version of the coronavirus in humans for reasons I have not figured out. However, the format of this particular version is an extremely rare format among viruses ... one indicating some sort of “gene splicing” (outside manipulation). Is it impossible that the virus mutated into this format? No ... its not impossible but its very implausible. What I would point out is that this has suddenly sprung from a city that has not one but TWO Ultra High Level Biohazard Facilities. One, definitely engaged in “weaponizing” Bio Materials. One, which has been very reluctantly “approved” by the CDC/WHO authorities due to its repeated failures in the Security End of things. I am not fond of coincidences and this situation has more than a few coincidences involved for me to see it as being probably “natural”.

I “speculated” about the nature of this virus back on 23JAN using the scant information ...

DougL2451 comments on Feb 3, 2020:

I tried to fact check this.. went to https://www.biorxiv.org/search/Coronavirus the latest 5 papers containing "coronavirus" are dated; 2 on Feb 1 2 on Jan 31 5th Jan 21 None reference anything about laboratory origin of this virus. Am I missing something? Also the following banner now pops ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 3, 2020:

Maybe this part of the piece I posted? “The coverage of this paper by Zero Hedge led to a firestorm of denials by governments, health authorities and the CIA-controlled media, not surprisingly. Any suggestion that the coronavirus was engineered as a bioweapon had to be immediately eliminated. ”

"Permits for activities like fishing and hunting at least make sense — after all, nobody benefits ...

RCGibb comments on Feb 3, 2020:

Fishing and hunting licenses are inexpensive for the most part, but I think provide funds to promote and help those recreational choices. I live in Missouri and fishing licenses support management of state parks that concentrate on trout fishing, and provide management funds to monitor/provide ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 3, 2020:

Well written. Especially your description in the first paragraph as you are correct in all major aspects. The fee structure for licensing does indeed pay for Game and Wildlife Protection and Enforcement. The structure of the licensing is done in a manner to hold the “harvest” in check so as to prevent over (or under) hunting or “taking” as well as protecting those who are too young, too small or otherwise unsuitable. A simple example in the northeastern US is the licensing of Bear and Turkey ... Bear permits are given out quite sparingly as Bear are only beginning to return to the area and population is slow to grow (though there are sufficient to become pests as they are rather larger than raccoons in my 80+ year old Mom’s garbage). Turkey permits are available but they are very expensive considering the results of cleaning and cooking (fantastic taste but today’s chickens are a better yield) Permits and Licensing has been done everywhere there are Game Animals sufficient to support hunting or fishing for the past 100-200 years or more.

Prager U. "More AOC" [twitter.com]

Bay0Wulf comments on Feb 2, 2020:

I’d really like to know who’s coaching her ... She gotten to where she at least sounds like shes put some thought into the stuff she says but when you watch her you can see her trying to remember what she’s talking abou.

Bay0Wulf replies on Feb 2, 2020:

@pbuck0145 That’s who it was ... the reason she was “elected” to begin with. I’m pretty sure that they went separate ways within a year of her getting elected ... Okay ... I went back and rewatched it ... I watched it when it first came out ... Soooo ... maybe. Chakrabatti was offed but maybe the rest of the plan is rolling forward. Maybe they’ve “developed” her acting skills because she’s much smoother now ... a lot less off script bumbling around.

Scientists In Britain May Have Just "Accidentally" Found A Cure For Cancer [zerohedge.com]

pbuck0145 comments on Jan 26, 2020:

As I stated earlier, "that's odd" is generally a more appropriate than "Eureka" as a response to a scientific discovery.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 26, 2020:

Exactly right. Many important discoveries are due to something turning out ... or reacting ... differently than they expect. Penicillan is one such case.

For People who want Some Facts as to the Coronavirus .

DerekHow comments on Jan 26, 2020:

Only time will tell how this manifests. There sure is a lot of hype on it.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 26, 2020:

Well ... when you consider the numbers so far it would appear you’re right but it was “nothing” and its spreading quickly ... deaths aren’t as high yet percentagewise but it remains to be seen how many of the infected ... which is a quickly growing number ... end up dead. The Spanish Flu in 2 years infected some 500 million and killed 50 to 100 million of those ... between 10 and 20% ... it was the first known H1N1 virus. Then there’s this ... - It incubates for 14 days ... often without symptoms ... but is apparently communicable during incubation. - It is easily transferred among human by various means. - There are concerns that it may be mutating along the way. - It comes out of Wuhan China where they’re trying to say it might have come from animals although there are TWO Biohazard Labs in that city that “investigate” or possibly work to “weaponize” Biological Agents. (Was this something that “escaped” due to Internationally Recognized Poor Security Habits?) - Then too is the concept that the UN ... Among others that have been saying for years or decades that there is “too large” a human population by about 40%. Lastly, as anyone familiar with how infectious microbiologicals work might know, this has every possibility of being a prime killer disease. It spreads quickly often without notice, it stays hidden for a long time even while infectious, it spreads easily, it kills the host slowly. Whether this is natural or manmade, it is almost a “perfect” virus from the point of view of a virus.

A Piece of GREAT NEWS (Potentially) .

Gray_Wolf comments on Jan 24, 2020:

Unfortunately there will never be a cure for cancer.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 24, 2020:

Interesting remark ... I’d be interested what you’re basing that statement on. I don’t expect “cancer” to be “cured” as in eradicated like smallpox, measles or polio but this seems like it has the potential to kill cancerous outbreaks before they can really get started. You might be right but I doubt it. Cancer is not a disease ... it is a “mechanism” a totally natural one by the way ... these T-cells are not a “cure” ... they are a “mechanism” ... also totally natural. Mechanisms can, and often do, act to cancel each other out ...

A Piece of GREAT NEWS (Potentially) .

timon_phocas comments on Jan 24, 2020:

There's many a slip twixt bowl and lip. I've seen many excited prognostications about the end of cancers. None have worked. We'll see.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 24, 2020:

I point out that its something to “keep an eye on” to help prevent it from being “disappeared”. I would further point out that Trump’s new “Right to Try” might make things like this more likely to stick around. I would further point out that this is not a “drug” ... its more of a “transfusion” where one could simply donate to someone else that T-cell. It might be very difficult for Big Pharma to cut themselves “in” on the action.

Puerto Rico .

MaskedRiderChris comments on Jan 23, 2020:

I'm surprised that the Democrats haven't jumped on this and tried to spin it as President Trump's fault, somehow, considering what is happening right now. *starts counting down* Remember how he was declaring their local government to be corrupt? Well...is this not evidence of that?

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 23, 2020:

Maybe they recognise that they have enough sh-t on their plate already. I think they are trying to COMPLETELY ignore it.

Puerto Rico .

David42 comments on Jan 23, 2020:

Democrats were and are, playing politics with peoples lives.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 23, 2020:

Its been their playbook since LBJ ... maybe before as well but on that I can’t speak from direct knowledge. Its driven me crazy watching people I know to be normally intelligent and thoughtful fall for their outrageous con decade after decade. Not to say the republicans were any better. Even today there are RINOs When I was younger I fully engaged in Politics ... but I decided it was useless after LBJ and Nixon ... It took me decades to reengage ... a couple years before Obama ... actually on 9-11 ... out of self defense. I was completely anti Obama though he did a couple minor things that I begrudgingly acknowledged ... But I see Politics as being no different now than it was ... maybe somewhat more hopeful but ... Democrats, RINOs and, Worst of All, the “Deep State” (ie “Bureaucrats” ) haven’t changed a bit.

Based Poland.

Dmwils comments on Jan 23, 2020:

So even Muslims use Muslims to defeat their enemies and we continue to be ignorant enough to keep opening the door for them.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 23, 2020:

Ummm ... “Muslims use Muslims...” (read that Islam uses Muslims...) Nothing has changed in 1400 years on that scene ... Its no surprise so why does the Western World continue to pretend it is?

Schiff .

Rosary_Trace comments on Jan 21, 2020:

The point is, did Trump violate federal laws. If he didn’t commit a crime, then the impeachment is frivolous. I seriously doubt he’ll be removed.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 22, 2020:

@Rosary_Trace Ah ... dyslexia strikes again. ... I guess I somehow read “Trump did” rather than “did Trump” ... Never mind ...!

Hoover/GordonChang: China moves to dominate the Mediterranean. [hoover.org]

Facci comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Thank you for that deep insight.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 22, 2020:

@Facci There are a few I’ve blocked completely and permanently but I try reason first for a few times around. Heck even I sometimes react before I’ve finished my first pot of coffee for the day and it comes out a bit irrational. Thankfully the edit function works ... except when i can’t get at it.

Schiff .

RobBlair comments on Jan 21, 2020:

I think Schiff is the Russian asset. He sure seems to know all about how the Russians operate and he's given them plenty of support by destroying the credibility of our government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_5mct8WArc

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 22, 2020:

Schiff has been lying since Day One ... Oh ... this is about as related to Trump and Russia and Ukraine and Firing Comey and ... Schiff has been saying he has “proof” since Day One and, in all that time has NEVER produced ANY “proof” of ANY of his allegations. Yes, there seems to be many reasons to believe he is a “Russian” asset but, I think most people miss the point. Schiff (and buddies) are animals of the LEFT. The LEFT will do ANYTHING in their desire/attempt to Destroy Our Nation so that They can Rebuild It in THEIR Own Image. Russia and China are important only as far as those are the closest approximation to THEIR Ideal available.

Schiff .

Rosary_Trace comments on Jan 21, 2020:

The point is, did Trump violate federal laws. If he didn’t commit a crime, then the impeachment is frivolous. I seriously doubt he’ll be removed.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 22, 2020:

I’ve yet to see where this is true ... at least as related to anything brought forward by the Democrats in this impeachment process. Actually, I can’t say I’ve seen any proof of “breaking” Federal Laws on Trump’s part. Perhaps a few “rules” ... ? If you perhaps list a couple I could respond better but your first sentence is pretty much a blanket statement used by people who have no “specifics” and usually no valid argument.

Hoover/GordonChang: China moves to dominate the Mediterranean. [hoover.org]

Facci comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Thank you for that deep insight.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 22, 2020:

@Facci Free and open discourse often results in people taking opposite views ... sometimes by mistake. Sometimes people honestly ... or deliberately ... misunderstand a post or comment and go off on strange tangents. Sometimes when that happens people shrug and let it slide. I consider that to be a mistake since it seems to beget a feeling of “entitlement” in those displaying such behavior. While there is no particular reason to be “rude” or “crass”, its been my experience that people who resort to that behavior do so because its the way they see things ... think. I try to “correct” that type of behavior by use of similar mannerisms. I believe in the Golden Rule; “Treat Others in the Manner You Would Wish to be Treated” (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you) BUT that means I have to assume that people are treating myself or others in the manner THEY Themselves wish to be treated ... and try to Treat them as they wish.

Hoover/GordonChang: China moves to dominate the Mediterranean. [hoover.org]

Facci comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Thank you for that deep insight.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 21, 2020:

@David42 Well, you could go “Piss Up a Rope” ... Acknowledging that someone has brought to the table something that was perhaps overlooked (“deep insight” ) is often considered complimentary in nature.

“New Axis of Evil”?

Facci comments on Jan 17, 2020:

None of them have the ability to generate wealth without the American market. Two of the countries are failed satellites of the others. They would do much better doing business with us instead of orchestrating their own demise.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 17, 2020:

Agreed ... That doesn’t mean that they can’t hurt or damage others in the meantime ... NKorea and Iran are basically bit players to China but they make for good pit bulls. China has gotten its fingers and nose into large parts of Africa, South America and a bit into Europe which might sustain them longer than I’d wish. The problem is, China, Russia and Iran think of themselves as “Big Fish” (Bullies, Thugs) and they’ve gotten their butts pretty well kicked by Reagan and now by Trump. Those types tend to Slink away and lick their wounds and murmur plots between themselves. All too often they talk themselves into believing stupid things and acting ... stupidly ... on them.

China Embraces Freedom "China’s recent moves to impose its control not only over its own ...

Bay0Wulf comments on Dec 4, 2019:

“There’s much to admire about Chinese culture ...” Their “Culture” ... Yes. Their “People” ... Yes. Their “Goverment” over the last 70+ years? ... No.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 17, 2020:

@shj648 So? Governments come and go ... almost always go ... Governments always try to pretend that THEY are what “created” the good. Interestingly the Culture and Legends (aka Historical Stories) always seem to reemerge ... Maybe not this time but ... so far ... it seems to hold true. Look at the Chinese movies ... almost all the popular ones are “Tales of Yore” ... Heroes and Legends ... and Culture.

“New Axis of Evil”?

pbuck0145 comments on Jan 17, 2020:

I am hoping for a "Persian Spring", which will lead to a truly democratic secular country in Iran.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 17, 2020:

Maybe? It could be truly great. Unfortunately the Greatness of Persia was long before the Destructive Influence of Islam. Unfortunately there is the overwhelming problem of deliberate ignorance on the greatest part of the population. Not “deliberate ignorance” like in the USA where people CHOOSE to be ignorant, but in the Middle East ... especially Iran ... especially the Islamic Culture ... the People have been KEPT deliberately ignorant. I forget where, but it says in the Qu’ran that men should only be taught enough to be able to read the Qu’ran as ANYTHING more is simply a “distraction” from the Greatness of Allah (forgive my paraphrasing of the statement and thought process) of course, women should not receive ANY “education” as their job is bearing of children and obedience to their husbands ... Much of the Middle East has adopted the same thought process. Its not that the People are Stupid. Its tragically that they are Untaught.

WOMEN .

pbuck0145 comments on Jan 17, 2020:

Humanity could survive and thrive if only 1% of humans were male.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 17, 2020:

Yes ... and if only .001% were male ... I’m not sure what your point there is. Do you think that a 99 to 1 male/female ratio would end well? If you only considered the competition of 99 men over each woman ... you’d be looking at a level of Physical and Social upheaval and havoc I guarantee you haven’t even contemplated. You’re more intelligent than to make such foolish statements ... at least tgats the impression I’ve gotten over several of your posts and responses ...

Tony Heller. "Climate Change. Fake Data and Real Superstition." [youtu.be]

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Oh ... you Climate Deniers are SO Predictable ... SO Gullible!!! You keep trotting out Facts like they have ANY Relevance ... WE Don’t NEED No Stinkin’ “Facts”!!! As Papa Joe said; WE Choose TRUTH over FACTS!!!

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 13, 2020:

@refractor Uh ... you DO know that I was lampooning those morons (?) I was one of the “Original” Climate Freaks ... in the late 60s and early 70s but ... I was TWELVE!!! By the time I was 15 I understood it was all a scam ...

Speaking of trolls, I found this interesting. [rollingstone.com]

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Russia ... What would you do if you went to bed a Bull Mastiff and woke up a 2 pound mini Yorkshire Terrier? Sure, the Russians might seek to co-opt us ... pervert us to ... what? Communism? AOC, Fauxahontas and Bernie are more extreme Communists than they are any more ... their Communist ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 11, 2020:

@ScottforKing Oh yeah ... well pieces of Radio Moscow (was that its name?) ... honestly it didn’t hold my attention ... The question though, is what’s the point? We have POLITICIANS Right Here Right Now who are WORSE!!! Are we really supposed to be afraid of “RUSSIAN Influence” at this point? Pick ANY Democrat and Listen to them for a few minutes ...

I find this to be quite interesting .

MaskedRiderChris comments on Jan 11, 2020:

That's my adopted home state for you! One of the reasons I love Texas and am not going back to New England if I can help it.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 11, 2020:

There’s lots to like about New England ... if you leave out most of the Urban People, Liberals, Connecticut and Rhode Island ... and most of the governments ... and ... I have a LOT of family up there busily expanding the White, Conservative population, creating Decorated Military Heroes and enjoying life ... and snowmobiling ... And ... lately ... starting with an 80+ year old ... investigating the “fun” of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes ... I didn’t say they were completely sane ...

Here is a nice song that explains the differenced between Canadians and Americans. [youtu.be]

RobBlair comments on Jan 10, 2020:

We've got Trump you Trudeau but we all really know You need that stronger beer all the more eh?

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 11, 2020:

@BikerPetehall70 I’m well past ... very well past ... 25 and i was never really a “competitor” ... I take quality over quantity ... 21 single malts in stock and counting ... over 60+ bottles of beer ... a couple are made in the USA but mostly European / Abbey Ales ... cause I’m picky. I don’t always want something but when I do, it has to be the “right” something ...

This is Pretty Good .

JobyOneKenobi comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Sounds good to me. I had always heard that there was more than one way to skin a cat.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 11, 2020:

@Dmwils Yeah ... but his “plays” have real teeth ...

I find this to be quite interesting .

JobyOneKenobi comments on Jan 11, 2020:

It's an awakening. Hopefully it's not too little too late. People that have immigrated to the U.S. in the past have needed to be here and were willing to do what was necessary to be accepted. That's the way it should work. We shouldn't have to change anything so someone will want to be here. It is ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 11, 2020:

Yes ... Well ... “Refugees” and “Refugee Status” is not synonymous with Immigration. They are ... or are supposed to be ... Temporary Guests. Although this is rarely the case ... as an example, Haitian Refugees from the hurricane were still in the USA over 10 years later and fought to be allowed to remain. I don’t expect “Refugees” to integrate into Our Society because they ARE expected to eventually return to wherever they came from. On the other hand, I expect a GUEST to act accordingly and do what they can to avoid Pissing Off the Host OR becoming an undue Burden on them.

Here is a nice song that explains the differenced between Canadians and Americans. [youtu.be]

RobBlair comments on Jan 10, 2020:

We've got Trump you Trudeau but we all really know You need that stronger beer all the more eh?

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 10, 2020:

@BikerPetehall70 Well ... i suppose someone’s gotta drink that weird “hard” tea stuff ...

Here is a nice song that explains the differenced between Canadians and Americans. [youtu.be]

Facci comments on Jan 10, 2020:

Name a Canadian beer stronger than a Sam Adam's Utopia.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 10, 2020:

Generally. There are exceptions to everything. Import Beer from EVERYWHERE to the USA is generally made weaker (dumbed down) ...

A video featuring little Greta Thunberg's evil twin sister, reason. [youtube.com]

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Unfortunately this video presentation will never work ... never reach a fraction of the people that Thunberg’s junk will. Why? It does not contain the Desperate Breathless Hysteria needed to Prove its Immediate Pending Catastrophe aspect.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 10, 2020:

@PamelaSteele In a time where there are some 325+ million people in the USA (say 25% use “media” daily ... 75m) and this is only the USA ... not to mention the wider English Speaking audience ... You consider stats of .5 million viewers ... 15k “likes” ... to be good? You’re talking stats that are preceded with a decimal point ... and zeros ... I wonder what Thundberg’s overall stats are? Its not that I don’t think these are GREAT Things ... this video ... Prager ... others ... BUT don’t kid yourself, these are reaching a relatively infinitesimal amount of minds. Their “promotion” and “advertising” (hype) is simply “better” (gets better results)

A video featuring little Greta Thunberg's evil twin sister, reason. [youtube.com]

pbuck0145 comments on Jan 8, 2020:

A great video. This does not entirely refute the anthropogenic global warning hypothesis. As Hitchens said, "We don't have another planet upon which to run the experiment." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj6WechLhw

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 9, 2020:

@pbuck0145 What are the “favorable odds” that anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 is an “actual item of concern” to begin with? With this question, there is much more to work with than “a coin toss”. Further, what are the “favorable odds” that homo sapiens as a species have any tangible (measurable) impact on the quantity (greater or lesser) or results of said CO2? Again, there is much more to work with than a “coin toss”. In fact, Pascal’s using a coin toss as an argument is a form of circular logic resulting in a null set as an answer. In any “coin toss”, what is the chance of a “head” or a “tail”? 50% Every toss thereafter has a chance of 50% ... nothing more and nothing less. Statistically, over 10, 100, 1000 tosses in the end, you will end up with an even split ... a 50/50 split. Pascal was not a scientist which is why offering his philosophy in this matter is of no consequence.

A video featuring little Greta Thunberg's evil twin sister, reason. [youtube.com]

pbuck0145 comments on Jan 8, 2020:

A great video. This does not entirely refute the anthropogenic global warning hypothesis. As Hitchens said, "We don't have another planet upon which to run the experiment." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj6WechLhw

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 8, 2020:

Interesting ... I’m pretty sure I heard Mars and the disappearance of its ice cap mentioned ... Which is happening concurrently with Earth. I would offer the suggestion that Hitchens is an “Author and Journalist” and NOT a “Scientist” ...

The host has some difficult questions about the rising anti semitism in the UK and the USA.

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 5, 2020:

I don’t know about the U.K. but, it seems to me that in the USA, there is a strong undercurrent of racism in certain Black communities. Its racism in general though that rarely gets mentioned. You have Farrakhan, Sharpeton ... to name a couple ... who loudly and long rant on about people who ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 6, 2020:

@ScottforKing I think I said “need only to ...” I’m pretty sure I didn’t indicate that I thought they would. Maybe with a shotgun against their heads ...

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ClanMcLean comments on Jan 5, 2020:

If this is true, could these people be charged with treason? If possible, it should be done. Maybe it would deter the Dems from further action against the U.S.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 6, 2020:

@Naomi A small piece of Kerry’s history ... Was sent to Vietnam ... performed poorly ... came back and like Jane Fonda protested the war in ways very close to treason ... ran for President using his time in Vietnam as a highlight ... somehow got a bunch of his “original” group together to support him ... they refused to support him ...

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ClanMcLean comments on Jan 5, 2020:

If this is true, could these people be charged with treason? If possible, it should be done. Maybe it would deter the Dems from further action against the U.S.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 5, 2020:

I don’t think I would go so far as to limit it to Democrats ... there’s lots of RINOs and Deep State Actors out there doing similar things. Actions have consequences ... or so it is said. It is time these people learned about the Consequences.

The host has some difficult questions about the rising anti semitism in the UK and the USA.

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 5, 2020:

I don’t know about the U.K. but, it seems to me that in the USA, there is a strong undercurrent of racism in certain Black communities. Its racism in general though that rarely gets mentioned. You have Farrakhan, Sharpeton ... to name a couple ... who loudly and long rant on about people who ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 5, 2020:

@ScottforKing It might be nice if we could give the world a Coke and a smile and teach it to sing in harmony too ... Meanwhile ... back at Reality Ranch ...

The host has some difficult questions about the rising anti semitism in the UK and the USA.

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 5, 2020:

I don’t know about the U.K. but, it seems to me that in the USA, there is a strong undercurrent of racism in certain Black communities. Its racism in general though that rarely gets mentioned. You have Farrakhan, Sharpeton ... to name a couple ... who loudly and long rant on about people who ...

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 5, 2020:

@Naomi Blacks deciding that “they” are the “real” Jews ... that they are the “real” Israelites ... need only to spend a couple hours with some actual history books ... or archeological descriptions ... to realize how much garbage that idea is. As to the source you’re citing ... I wouldn’t believe Vox if it said that; “the sky is generally considered to be up”. I read their stuff once in awhile but usually to see what new nutjob thought processes the Left is about to start spewing ...

It might come as no surprise that I am no “fan” of the Obamas .

timon_phocas comments on Jan 5, 2020:

Barrak O is absolutely dependent on whatever script is in front of him. Remember that gaffe where he referred to the Navy "corpseman?"

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 5, 2020:

Yes but it’s still a bit funny. I’d’ve liked to have been a “fly on the wall” that night ...

Prager U.

Marcoullier comments on Jan 4, 2020:

The question is, would teenagers be interested in what Prager U videos teach? They do a good job of explaining a specific topic. They do have a Prager U club for teens. I don't know how popular it is.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 5, 2020:

I know some younger people who are but a lot of the “going to look” is due to being known as “only” five minutes or so ... They wind up with fragments but sometimes enough fragments creates a relatively complete picture.

I challenge anyone to tell me that the pictures shown at this link are not amazing representations ...

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 2, 2020:

Some of them (most) certainly are. Most are excellent studies of illusion and physics. I get the illusion aspect of floating, broken buildings but I wonder what the “message” is.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@ScottforKing Yes ... I’m an Architecture Enthusiast ... except for stuff I consider junk ... like Soviet Construction generally, like the Bauhaus Movement, like I’m not actually impressed by big glass cubes. One of my more profitable careers was an Independent Architectural Door and Hardware Consultant in the Greater NY Metro Area (YAY!!!) and then a couple jets screwed my entire career path ...

I challenge anyone to tell me that the pictures shown at this link are not amazing representations ...

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 2, 2020:

Some of them (most) certainly are. Most are excellent studies of illusion and physics. I get the illusion aspect of floating, broken buildings but I wonder what the “message” is.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@ScottforKing Please note that I am NOT “telling you” that they aren’t great representations ... some of them are exceedingly cool ... just some of them to me are “Why?”

I challenge anyone to tell me that the pictures shown at this link are not amazing representations ...

Bay0Wulf comments on Jan 2, 2020:

Some of them (most) certainly are. Most are excellent studies of illusion and physics. I get the illusion aspect of floating, broken buildings but I wonder what the “message” is.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 2, 2020:

@ScottforKing You sound like a good friend of mine (an actual trained artist) ... we used to go to the museums in NYC and look at “art” ... then we’d get to the modern “art” ... Me: What the f*k izzat supposed to be? Him: Well it says different things to different people ... I think maybe it’s ... Me: I have NEVER done THAT many drugs Him: So come up with your own interpretation ... Me: Nope ... don’t want to ... let’s go to the Guggenheim so I can look at the architecture ...

What IS the Islamic Brotherhood?

Serg97 comments on Jan 1, 2020:

This is information that street level law enforcement has been aware of since the 1980's!! Will the rest of government ever catch up, before it is to late??????

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 1, 2020:

But ... they’re a “Religion of Peace” ... which is horseshit. They are using Our Constitution and Legal System Against us by pretending to be a “religion” any time it can be used to their advantage.

What IS the Islamic Brotherhood?

lukewarm comments on Jan 1, 2020:

They have been around for centuries and are all talk and no action. it is a good thing that populations die off and new ones arise. people change. that is the purpose of global immigration. they are not smart enough to take over the world. Hitler thought the same thing but did not know what he was...

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 1, 2020:

Centuries? Did you watch the piece? The “Islamic Brotherhood” hasn’t been around ONE Century. Islam has been around some 1400 and, at times, has held power over massive amounts of territory. You don’t give them enough “credit”. This is a “new” form of Jihaad. They’ve done a lot of undermining in a short time.

What IS the Islamic Brotherhood?

purdyday comments on Jan 1, 2020:

It is astounding that these people continue to talk quite openly, about their goals for the West. How our blood will run in our own streets and in the meantime, they train an internal army within our prisons and it's just allowed ti continue?

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 1, 2020:

Yes ... How Odd ... Or Not ... They were “Best Buddies” with the NAZI’s and the Communists back in the day. Guess who taught them how to “be” terrorists ...

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Obiwannosi comments on Jan 1, 2020:

My niece moved back to the states a few years ago after living for ten years in China. She noted how drastically China had changed, and that oppression and control were fast becoming the norm.

Bay0Wulf replies on Jan 1, 2020:

All I can say is that what this guy refers to as “China’s Golden Years” must have lasted no more than about 20 years. My relationship with my Chinese Escapee Girlfriend (US Citizen, 1989) lasted about 10 years. Since she had escaped at 16, her memories were clear and my curiosity was endless and talk8ng about it for her was cathartic. Her father was an educator who got swept up by Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” and was killed in the street by a mob in front of his home, in front of her. As a fatherless female child, she essentially became a “non-person” to the point where she was unable to enter school until about 6th grade due to her government sanctioned change of “status”. I’m still in regular touch with her and several of our friends ... they weren’t impressed with that “Golden Age” the guy refers to.

I think this photo should be self explanatory.

Naomi comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Hello. So, the photo proves that it is not true that almost all the mass shooters are white. What else is the proof telling about mass shooting in American society in your opinion? Why are the media generating the notion that almost all the mass shooters are white? Peculiar, no?

Bay0Wulf replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@2peros Yes. Thank you. I agree but ... it is not “network” that. I know of and only sometimes “cable”.

I think this photo should be self explanatory.

JobyOneKenobi comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Looks like a melting pot to me.

Bay0Wulf replies on Dec 31, 2019:

I dunno ... out of a bit more than 90 photos ... 65 are Black (more than 2/3rds) ... which, as far as I am aware are still a relatively small percentage of the population. This isn’t a “social comment” about Blacks being harassed more ... or suspected more ... or oppressed more ... this is a situation where a picture is truly worth a thousand words. On a Personal / Political level, I lay an important part of this at Obama’s feet.

I think this photo should be self explanatory.

Naomi comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Hello. So, the photo proves that it is not true that almost all the mass shooters are white. What else is the proof telling about mass shooting in American society in your opinion? Why are the media generating the notion that almost all the mass shooters are white? Peculiar, no?

Bay0Wulf replies on Dec 31, 2019:

@Naomi Well ... FOX is more “right” but it’s been drifting “left” for quite some time. FOX has some “News Shows” that are pretty “right” but it also has some seriously left loonies with “News Shows”. Personally I’d like to see at least a couple networks put NEWS back in the line-up ... not “News Commentary” but straight NEWS. I’d really like to see some “Fair, Balanced ... Just the Facts Ma-am ... JUST the FACTS.

I think this photo should be self explanatory.

Naomi comments on Dec 31, 2019:

Hello. So, the photo proves that it is not true that almost all the mass shooters are white. What else is the proof telling about mass shooting in American society in your opinion? Why are the media generating the notion that almost all the mass shooters are white? Peculiar, no?

Bay0Wulf replies on Dec 31, 2019:

That, if you actually read the statistics ... it’s not all that prevalent either. It remains an aggravation and conundrum to me that the greatest percentage of the killings/murder in the USA is Black on Black (with Hispanic on Hispanic being significant as well) but all the media ever reports on seems to be Whites in any context.