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Religious freedom in most of the middle east is slightly ahead of what Europe had 600 years ago... maybe in a few centuries they'll get on board with the disestablishment of state religion.

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| 1 day 2 hours 16 minutes ago | CH

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My Religion is True, Yours a Mistake!

This theocrat's pretense to being a scholar is farcical.

If he understood physics, chemistry, biology, natural history, and human history, he would realize that supposing the existence of a god is not necessary for explaining anything, and hence one cannot be certain of his existence, let alone his existence in the form described by any particular human institution.

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| 2 days 5 hours 13 minutes ago | CH

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This preacher is going to burn in hell !

Irrational beliefs lead to irrational behavior.
It's perfectly reasonable to advocate against some beliefs.

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| 2 days 14 hours 57 minutes ago | CH

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Tea Party Patriots laugh at Lost Daughter And Grandchild

Fox news fans are retards.

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| 3 days 16 hours 3 minutes ago | CH

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This preacher is going to burn in hell !

Sounded OK (for a theist) until the clumsy speciesist nomenclature.

The teleology is not to "Become more human", but to improve ourselves.

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| 3 days 16 hours 30 minutes ago | CH

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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip

Two people together can get things done a lot more efficiently than one person living alone. The vast majority of the cost of the household is unaffected by the number of people living there -- rent, heating and cooling (aka 80% of the electric bill), and internet access.

It's no additional labor to cook for 2 than to cook for 1 -- just throw twice as much in the pot. Likewise for the labor of grocery shopping to find the best products at the lowest prices. Doing dishes for two people instead of one is considerably less than twice as much work.

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| 3 days 19 hours 29 minutes ago | CH

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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip

My $70 Target bike is 15 months old and has approximately 1500 miles on it with no maintenance whatsoever (except inflating tires with a hand pump). It still works adequately. I ride it rain or shine. Can usually avoid the most torrential rains by staying late. Torrential rains in the morning are quite rare. Protecting it from thieves requires a lock that is nearly as expensive as the bike itself.

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| 3 days 19 hours 46 minutes ago | CH

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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip

If you eat out lunch and dinner, you're looking at $15 a day for food. If you cook it, it really depends where you get your groceries. It's a matter of capital and time. If you're cooking, you need a car to efficiently ferry groceries from bigbox stores that are typically built several miles from residential areas, or else pay a 50% premium (on average) to get groceries from closer small-scale inefficient stores. If you do have access to the bigbox stores, you can feed yourself on like $7 a day (not counting the increase to your electric bill from cooking things at home, which empirically seems to be ~ $15/month). People who are really poor -- too poor to afford cars -- get exploited by those overpriced little stores on every corner. All the stores with really low prices are out by the highway several miles from downtown or anywhere that people live. Wal-Mart etc have reasons for building that way: The land's cheaper, resupply is easier, and there's less shoplifting if you're out of walking distance from anywhere that bums can live.

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| 4 days 17 hours 41 minutes ago | CH

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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip

Paying more than $8 per person per meal is a waste of money IMO.

"Mandatory gratuity" is an oxymoron. Call it a "service fee".

In japan, there are NO tips, AND the restaurants are better / more efficient.

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| 1 week 1 day ago | CH

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Olbermann: On Hannity Being Busted By TDS

Why should she apologize for some nutty supporter that godwinizes the issue?

Prohibiting congressmembers from using their official websites to promote certain political activities is an outdated rule from times when postage to hordes of people cost orders of magnitude more than a website costs now, adjusted for inflation.

Bachmann is a nut (and a jingoistic scrooge of breathtaking ignorance) for other reasons. Stick to the issues instead of this lame gotcha shit.

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| 1 week 5 days ago | CH

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Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover

The only economies of scale that continue to gain efficiency from having more than 6 billion customers are those where the cost of R&D dominates. Most products where the cost of R&D dominates are rather bourgeois, not what most people in poor countries need to stop being malnourished to the point of mental retardation.

The problem isn't present population - it's growth. For every increase in population, new infrastructure has to be built -- roads, schools, houses, markets, water treatment plants etc. When a country already cannot provide basic infrastructure for its current population, growth only makes their financial situation worse. When the average age is 15, there aren't enough adults around to teach or feed the noobs, and this further impoverishes the society. Vast tracts of virgin rainforest are razed to produce new farmland and new settlements -- this is a problem. Earth has enough people on it; population growth must stop.

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| 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH

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Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover

Actually access to cheap contraception and abortion is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty everywhere on earth.

Same resources divided among more people = poverty.

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| 2 weeks 4 days ago | CH

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Felicia Day Explains Colliding Galaxies

Science journalism is being dumbed down and exaggerating every possible conflict/hazard, same as every other form of journalism.

If it bleeds, it leads.

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| 3 weeks 3 days ago | CH

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Chappelle's Show - Fuck It

same stuff as Ecclesiastes 4:4.

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| 3 weeks 3 days ago | CH

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Amateur Video World Trade Center - 9.11.01

All those firemen trying to go up the stairs while everyone else was going down just slowed down the evacuation. It was worse than useless. What a waste.

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| 3 weeks 5 days ago | CH

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Fake? Mom feeds family of 6 on $4 a week

Add the time you spend setting it up, and the money for the extra gasoline.

Coupons are a heck of a time sink but ultimately a zero-sum game. I'd rather go to a store that had low prices without rebates or coupons. Coupons are the most common system of charging different prices to different people for the exact same thing (and one of the few legal ways to do it).

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| 3 weeks 6 days ago | CH

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ACORN (Blog Entry by jwray)

Yeah, of course that's the real reason, but the overt pretext is a ridiculous exaggeration of #1 and #2.

McCain made up a few more lies to slander ACORN. He blamed ACORN for the subprime mortgage crisis. That couldn't be further from the truth, considering ACORN counseled poor people on how to avoid predatory lending and obtain cheap housing (and THAT operation of ACORN in particular is the one that got federal funding).

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| 4 weeks 1 day ago | CH

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