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Rationalists are those, whose thinking is strictly guided by the laws of logic.
Rationalists only accept as true, that which has been proven to be true,
through the application of the scientific method.




Neo's Daily Blog
(politics, religion, and science)



3/20/24

* THIS WILL BE THE LAST POST UNTIL I RETURN IN APPROXIMATELY 3 WEEKS *

Global Warming is killing humpback whales
at DOUBLE the rate that whaling killed them in the 20th century.
We curtailed whaling, but sadly for the whales ...

the Oligarchs refuse to stop global warming


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3/19/24

Opposites attract and same charges repel each other?

Not so fast ...

it depends on the conditions


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3/18/24

This is fascist Andre Ventura (the "Trump" of Portugal);
and he is following the same political path as Hitler did.



Their "Trump" is now in a position to begin the takeover of government by the Far Right

My summary of the article on Andre Ventura (1 page)

And the dominoes just keep on falling


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3/17/24

In order to lock up his reelection,
Modi, Prime Minister of India,
uses the time-tested-and-proven fascist tactic
of attacking the religious minority ...

in this case Muslims


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3/15/24

In February 2024, for the ninth consecutive month ...

world temperature records have fallen


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3/14/24

Republicans are fighting against heat protection for construction workers

Cruel doesn't even begin to describe today's Republican party.
Perhaps "inhuman" is a more accurate term.


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3/13/24

On "Super Tuesday" Trump rolled to an easy victory in the Republican primaries.
Here is a lesson from America's past about dealing with a large number of ...

brainwashed, moronic followers

With all the advances in literacy, education, and IQ,
one might think that this would no longer be a problem.
The fact that it still is, points us in another direction
in the hunt for finding a solution.
The answer lies not only in education,
but even more importantly in ...

psychology


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3/11/24

Chris Hedges and Gretchen Morgenson
discuss private equity firms ...

and how they are cannibalizing Americans (43:07)


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3/10/24

Democrats put a cap on credit card penalties.
If/when Trump returns to power ...

that will be one of the first things he "fixes"


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3/9/24

Liberty University in Virginia is an ultra-conservative Christian school
that has been fined $14 million dollars for ...

failing to fight crime

Jesus would be so proud!


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3/7/24

One of the major goals of Republicans
(who fight only for the rich) ...

is the dissolution of Obama's CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)

Quote from the article:

"the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a broader legal challenge to the agency's funding
that some conservative critics and financial industry officials hope
will lead to the dissolution of the agency.
"


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3/6/24

Robert Reich tells 6 stories that pinpoint, when and how ...

America lost the battle to the Oligarchs (32:59)


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3/5/24

Researchers discover the mechanism
that led to our human ancestors ...

losing their tails


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3/4/24

Big Oil is fighting back against investors who ...

want them to stop destroying the planet

For rational people, it seems insane
that anyone would be against fighting to save the planet.
For conservative people, they have been trained - not to care.
The Big Boys will sacrifice as many humans as necessary to increase profits.
To call this insanity ... would be an understatement.


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3/3/24

Megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs told his congregation
that God wants them to vote for ...

Steve Garvey (retired baseball player)


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3/2/24

Study reveals the main reason behind
the needless diarrhea deaths of 500,000 children a year ...

and it was quite a surprise


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3/1/24

Christian nationalism's support is strongest in ...

rural, conservative states

To add specificity to the article:
Conservatives are mostly found in the rural areas of ALL states
versus the much more densely populated cities.

The best way to see this is to find a voting map of ... counties (not states).
Then you can see that the Blue State - Red State dichotomy is a misnomer.
A good example is California; a notoriously "Blue" state.
But because of its population, it contains more conservatives than anywhere else,
and these conservatives can be found in the same place they are found nationwide ...

Out in the sticks
(where everyone knows your name and where you live)


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2/29/24

Stacking the courts. Poland shows the U.S. what is in store for us ...

after Trump's reign


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2/27/24

Now that corporations dictate medical decisions to the medical professionals,
patients are being sacrificed for profits. Here is another way they do that ...

increased staffing ratios

Money quote:
"The problem ... is a hospital industry
that's been intentionally understaffing their units for years,
in order to cut costs and boost profits.
"


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2/25/24

Why the "Big Boys" promote tipping to pay their employees ...

and the history behind it (Robert Reich)


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2/24/24

Here's an article pushing the theory ...

that an object's mass approaches infinity as it approaches the speed of light

Here is the comment I left:

"Quote from the article 'Einstein's theory of special relativity shows that
as an object with mass gets closer to the speed of light,
the mass starts to increase as it nears the speed of light'.
"

Here was my reply

The neutrino travels closer to the speed of light than any known object with mass

yet the neutrino has less mass than any object in the universe

If anything, that would be an argument for the opposite conclusion:
that mass decreases as speed increases
(photons are massless and travel at C).

Should anyone reply
(doubtful, since they don't have any evidence),
I would ask them to explain how the neutrino,
travelling just below the speed of light
suddenly jumps briefly to infinite mass,
and then when|if it reaches C ... falls instantly to zero mass.


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2/23/24

Greece legalizes same-sex marriage
and becomes the latest country
to creep into the 21st century ...

against strong religious opposition

The Ghost-Worshiping community
is still doing everything they can
to hold civilization back
so that they can hang onto power.


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2/21/24

When were American Indians
(the true, non-immigrant Americans)
granted American citizenship?

1924

So America is called the world's oldest Democracy;
yet, this "Democracy" didn't allow women to vote (~50%)
didn't allow African-Americans to vote (another 6% for males)
and didn't allow true Americans to vote
(% unknown since we murdered millions of them before stealing all their land).

So in conclusion, less than half the people could vote
and yet some still considered America to be a Democracy?

That is a level of dishonesty that would make even Trump Republicans envious.


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