I'm against all that stuff. It's all wasteful. I'm just highlighting this part now because it's being discussed. The point of medicine shouldn't be to spend more to bring in more.

The IRS investigation went well and had a proper outcome, unless you have your own agenda.

Only if people like you get their way. The governemnt has checks and balances, not so in the private sector. I can't vote comcast out and I probably don't have another option.

Sure, because that's how Common Carrier works...

Educate yourself and stop listening to Rush.

Yes, thank you for confirming my suspicions. You have no imagination and project your own moral failing onto others.

This is a great post. This American Life has a cautionary tale about this sort of thing: http://www.thisamericanlife.or....

Basically, the world will change and your daughter will change. Your daughters "virtual instance" of you will also change. If the you of today keeps showing up to stomp all over those changes and you try to impose your will from beyond the grave, it can be damaging.

The most important things to leave, IMHO, are notes of love and compassion. You want your daughter to know that you love her and did everything in your power to give her a good life. In your position, that involves handing that off to someone else, probably your wife, and trusting her. You just need to make sure that the love you feel is always there to comfort your daughter. Don't sully it with expectations and demands.

Yes, our contention is that our whole system is broken and puts sales people, advertisers, and hr drones over research and development. You say, but it's not as bad in Pharma. We're still not impressed.

You should look at the things people build in prison. There is no shortage of ingenuity. There is a shortage of time and opportunity. A basic income would open the world for alot of people.

This is the basic difference between conservatives and progressives. Conservatives have now imagination and their primary drive is to hoard. The basic income they imagine is a bunk in barracks style room, a bowl of gruel, and a nondescript jumpsuit (probably orange). They imagine "those" basic income people will lay in a stupor, wallowing in what has been given them, sleeping, and raping, and contributing nothing.

You don't have to look beyond America's prisons to see the fallacy in this train of thought.

Progressives imagine people with a basic income that allows them to cover their own basic needs and spend their time creating, gardening, helping their neighbors, decorating things, and eventually building businesses or small trading operations.

Compare how much oil can burn on a train to how much the minimum volume of oil will be if there is a pipeline rupture. Hint, They can't just shut it off, they have to wait for the line to empty.

The pipeline just shifts the accidents from small scale and more often to large scale and less often. There is no accident prevention magic bullet.

I'm just fishing in this troll hole...

Christians object to all sorts of things. You can't lump them all together. That's my point. Muslims are just as fractured.

Your standing in an airport security line because of money'ed interests who want to sell security theater. That left hand thing is a holdover from less clean times. Your basically rubbing shit on them in their eyes, since that's your wiping hand. It's rude in their culture. I doubt you would be killed.

Fun Fact, I'm catholic.

Wow, I'm sorry your parents raised such a hate filled person.
Westboro is full of hate, but they aren't terrorists. They stay within the constraints of the law and tolerence of them is a good canary for our democracy.

The fact that you think you can "politely" ask someone to "take a flying fuck at a rolling donut" tells me how far you are from being a true follower of christ, whether you mis-identify yourself as a christian or not. Your brand of christianity is well short of ISIS's brand of muslim, but left to your own devices, I'm sure you'd get there.

Do christians listen to other christians who condemn? Look at the history of slavery in the south. Did it end because the menonites and some catholics told the other christians it was wrong?