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Comment Re:Bar joke (Score 1) 83

If Obama is not a native-born citizen (at least one US parent or born in US) and he's not naturalized or here on a valid visa, then he's an illegal alien. I've never even heard a suggestion that he's naturalized or here on a visa.

Given that it was YEARS from the time his citizenship was first challenged until valid-looking papers were provided, there's good reason to believe those papers are forgeries.

I'm making no claims with regard to whether he is legally qualified to be president, I'm just pointing out that it looks suspicious.

Comment Re:Floating Sovereign Nation (Score 1) 441

With his libertarian-no regulation ideas, no doubt his floating nation will simply discharge raw sewage directly into the ocean.

There are 2 answers to this. One is, it won't happen because no multi-millionaire wants to live in the middle of a sewer. The other is, if he's far enough off shore, so what? Who's hurt? It might even encourage beneficial ocean life.

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 441

If you're rich, you can buy the services of a chemist to manufacture HGH, or buy the services of a chemical engineer to build a machine that produces HGH. Or you can sail your yacht to a place where it's legal, and hide it onboard. Or buy it on the black market. Or create a company that legitimately manufactures the stuff, and siphon off some of it for personal use. Or get some from a buddy who owns a plant that manufactures it. Or slip your doctor a few extra large greenbacks. Or if you're really smart and persistent, learn how to make it yourself.

Why the hell do you care? How is he hurting you?

Comment Re:Won't work (Score 2) 441

A nation implies a government with standing at the UN plus a military.

Sorry, just wrong. There's nothing about being a nation that requires that the UN recognize it. And one of the Central American or northern South American countries has no military, just a police force. Apparently, its neighbors aren't evil enough to consider it worth invading.

Comment Re:Running? (Score 2) 441

Welfare: inefficient government-run money stealing program that discourages the creation of goods.

Building codes: Are you aware that in one of Boston's tonier regions, vinyl window frames are illegal? Residents must use wood. Not all aspects of building codes are good.

Minimum wage: If you're 5 years old and want to buy a comic book, you probably can't do anything that anyone is willing to pay you minimum wage for. But you might find a neighbor willing to pay you $2 an hour to pull weeds from a garden, and you might even be worth that much. Why deny the child the ability to earn a comic book? Why deny him the training that may help him to be more successful later in life?
It's also well established that the effect of minimum wages in the United States especially hurts young Negros. Minimum wage laws are racist.

Weapons: weapons laws in the U.S. are capricious at best. Limitations of the caliber and firing mechanisms on firearms are silly. Laws on garrottes, brass knuckles, and knives vary by state and in some cases by city.

Comment Re:I am a scientist in real life (IAAS?) (Score 1) 441

The average life expectancy for a white male aged 40 in the United States is an additional 38.6 years. This guy looks to be in good health and is actively maintaining his health. That gives him an excellent chance of getting well past his mid-eighties, even without the heroic measures that his wealth makes available to him.

Comment Re:Wish he would create Galt's Gulch (Score 1) 441

Poor people are poor for a reason. I've seen people who are poor because they have nothing to offer. In that case, his life would not be helped by a poor person. That also applies to those who can work but refuse to do so.

Just to fill out the list of reasons that people can be poor, there are those that are spendthrifts, and those that have had so much stolen from them that they can't recover.

Comment Re:Hahahahahahahahaha LOL (Score 1) 441

The evidence for HGH causing cancer is scanty. Far more likely is HGH encouraging the growth of cancer cells, since what HGH does is encourage the growth of those cells ready to grow. HGH is highest in youth, but youth is not when cancer is most prevalent.

There's lots of accumulated cell damage in old age, and in old age the mechanisms for removing damaged cells are weaker. HGH may make it more likely that a bad cell reproduces out of control.

Comment Re:Hahahahahahahahaha LOL (Score 1) 441

The cure for most cancers is toxic, involving killing cancer cells more effectively than healthy cells. The other widely used successful treatment is surgery. There are nontoxic cures in some cases, including selective immune enhancement. Rarely, some cancers are cured by removing the irritant causing the cancer and/or general health improvements.

Comment Re:Nothing can go Wrong Here (Score 1) 441

The most fundamental right, upon which all other rights are based, is the right to life.

From the right to life derives the right to activities to maintain life. From the right to life derives the right to voluntarily trade for the goods (tools, food, clothing, real estate, etc.) necessary to maintain life. From the right to life derives the right to voluntarily trade for the goods that make life worth living, and real estate is also among those goods.

In such manner (with considerably more detail required) is the right to land ownership demonstrated. It is not just "convenient", it is a necessary component of the right to life most places on earth.

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Social Contract, on the other hand, is a problem to discuss. First, it's not a contract, which (among its other properties) is a voluntary agreement, and there's nothing voluntary about something imposed on a person at birth. Second, the "social contract" isn't the same everywhere, and the social contract of North Korea requires the murder of Christians. --- Too often, "social contract" is a verbal fog that sneaks in hidden restrictions against the life of an insufficiently careful thinker.

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