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Comment Re:There is a definition (Score 1) 24

Interesting. You accuse me of shifting the topic (for all I narrowed in on it), accuse me of ignorance, and, for the trifecta. . .attempt to shift the topic to sports.
You, sir, are more Gruber than Jonathan Gruber.

Comment It's actually worse than that (Score 1) 49

You're still coloring within the idiotic lines that the health care is some sort of natural right or entitlement, and that a leap of idiocy like the ACA, or Single Prayer, is somehow worthwhile, or even existentially attainable in at a non-disastrous level.
Until we grasp that, at the federal level, we really only want to pursue multi-state and international issues, we are assured of staggering from disaster to disaster until SMOD take us.

Comment Re:There is a definition (Score 1) 24

What part of the Declaration of Independence and 1787 Constitution are you not grasping? In truth, I think it's the part where the individual, not the state, is the starting point for analysis.
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Journal Journal: Just how much lying is acceptable in support of "Higher Truth"? 49

On Thursday, footage surfaced of Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist and chief architect of Obamacare, discussing the issue at the heart of the latest ACA court cases: whether subsidies are only available for state-run insurance exchanges or can also be paid as part of a federal exchange.
During a January 2012 lecture Gruber said, "I think what's impor

Comment Re:What's your point? (Score 1) 29

encouraging hatred towards systems that you don't understand

Alternately, I understand them all too well. I'm not a tremendous scholar of Islam, either, having only read about half the Qur'an, but I understand the dynamics of how a subset of adherents have used it for nefarious purposes. What I encourage in both cases is careful thought, so that people understand that socialism, like a baby bottle given a child long past the time to graduate to sold food, helps lock people into dependencies that stunt their human growth. But, perhaps coincidentally, empower the 1% that get to manage the bureaucracy.

If every system goes down the same pathway then you certainly have not given any reason to support your cause over any other.

I'd suggest that they all tend toward the same outcome, but where the U.S. Constitution was a rounder wheel was its careful structure of feedback loops.
I think the feedback loops supported getting rid of chattel slavery in the 19th century, and may help us to get beyond the 20th century entitlement slavery besetting us.

Comment Re:There is a definition (Score 1) 24

when the books are written we will recognize him as the most conservative president to date in our country

Let us be non-partisan and agree that the books will show him to have been the most systematically deceptive President in history, and a discredit to the ideals (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) that inform our Constitution.

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Journal Journal: Mars, Ho! Chapter Thirty Five

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Destiny woke me up about seven thirty; I'd been the one up early the day before because of that engine. "Wake up, sleepyhead, or you won't have time for breakfast." She'd already made coffee had the robots make chicken cheese omelets. God but I love that woman, meeting her was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. Of course, were it not for the monsters I'd never have met her. You take the wonderful with the insanely horrible, I gues

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