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This web site is dedicated to the eradication of irrational thinking.
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)



4/25/25

Coral bleaching reaches worst level ever recorded ...

84%


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4/23/25

Whenever I run out of news stories, it's time for ...

FAMOUS QUOTES

author: Benjamin Franklin (founding father)

"The way to see by faith,
is to shut the eye of reason.
"



4/21/25

New study finds suprising support for medical cannabis as a ...

cancer fighter


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4/20/25

Republicans shut down the foreign DISinformation office

Money quote:

"Leading Republicans have long accused
the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office
of silencing conservative voices.
"

It's pretty obvious why Republicans shut it down ...
it made it more difficult for their Russian allies to spread lies.


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4/19/25

Trump attempts to gain control over the media by ...

defunding PBS and NPR

Soon, the only news allowed will be Fox "news"
Orwell's book "1984" wasn't science fiction ...

it was prediction


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4/18/25

The guy in the middle is president Viktor Orban of Hungary



Orban followed in the Fascist footsteps of Jinping and Putin ...

and Trump is right behind

The dominoes are falling


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4/17/25

After 100 days of Trump's inhuman second term,
common sense might dictate that
MAGA would be falling apart, but instead ...

the cult is gaining strength fast

Knowing about Hitler and how he took over Germany
has not stopped the same thing from happening here.
Our government has fallen and now the people are submitting.

"Divide-and-Conquer" has been working powerfully ever since
humans first transitioned from hunter-gatherers into living in societies;
and it works just as well on modern, educated humans
as it did on barbaric, illiterate humans.

So while logic might lead us to believe the solution is education,
reality proves that education is only a minor factor.
The Oligarchs are beating us with ...

psychology


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4/16/25

As Trump approaches the completion of his takeover of America,
some Americans refuse to "bend the knee and kiss the ring."
Here is one of them ...

Leigh McGowan (aka "politics girl") issues a call-to-arms (4:48)


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4/15/25

Thom Hartmann makes it crystal clear that ...

a dictatorship is coming


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4/13/25

Whenever I run out of news stories, it's time for ...

FAMOUS QUOTES

author: William Harwood (photographer)

"The difference between faith and insanity
is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion
that is incompatible with the evidence,
whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion
that is incompatible with the evidence.
"



4/12/25

2 years ago, the big corporations cried that they had to increase egg prices due to bird flu ...

In reality, it was the best thing that ever happened to them - profits increased 718%!!!

UPDATE 4/10/25 (~2 years later)

So after raking in more money than God, were they satisfied?
you decide ...

Egg prices reach record high!

insatiable greed is after all ... insatiable.


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4/11/25

Asteroid with a slight chance of striking Earth in 2032
has now been downgraded to very unlikely, but ...

it still has a chance of hitting the moon


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4/10/25

This is a bonobo.
Along with chimpanzees,
they are our closest biological relatives.



Bonobo language is the closest to human of any animal

Bonobos and chimpanzees (closely related) are emotional opposites.
They somewhat remind me of Democrats and Replicans.
Can you guess which ones are most like the chimpanzee?


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4/9/25

Trump regime plans huge tariffs
that will transfer gigantic sums of wealth ...

upward from Middle America to the rich

America is being pillaged from within ...
and we did this to ourselves.


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4/7/25

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol
(attempted to takeover the government)



South Korea shows America how to defeat Fascist Dictator Wannabes ...

Yoon is out!

Finally, one country shows the world how to do it.
One domino did not fall.
Now we are all anxiously waiting to see ...
what happens to the rest of the dominoes.


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4/6/25

Marathons are GREAT for your cardiovascular health ...

not so much for your brain

It seems like the trope "Everything in moderation" is generally ... true.


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4/5/25

First, Mexico gets it's first female president,
and second, bullfights will no longer be ...

to the death

Baby steps, but unlike the U.S. ...
at least they're headed in the right direction.


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4/4/25

Brain aging accelerates dramatically at about age ...

44


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4/3/25

TikTok still raking in big American bucks ...

with Trump's support

This story makes it crystal clear (even for the slow ones)
that America is no longer a land ruled by laws ...

but by a king


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4/2/25

Senator Adam Schiff (CA) explains how Republicans plan on ...

privatizing social security (6:40)


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4/1/25

There is no other word for this story than simply ... "cruel"

health and human services are being shut down

America voted for this and now the bill is coming due.


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3/31/25

Here is a great example, showing how the richest of the rich ...

are taking control of America


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3/30/25

A psychiatrist explains why Evangelical Christians fall for ...

Donald Trump (6:28)


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3/29/25

Stock ownership by the rich has reached a record high ...

the wealthiest 10% now own 94% of all stocks

Let's break that down:
Imagine 100 pies are available and 100 people come to get them.
People line up based on their wealth, richest first.

The first person in line (the "1%") demands and receives - 56 pies.
His employee uses a wheelbarrow to load them into the back of the Rolls before departing.

The next 9 people (representing the remainder of the top 10%)
demand and receive - 38 pies (or about 4 pies apiece).
They are able to stack and carry them to their Mercedes before driving off.

Then the next 40 wealthiest people (in the 50-90 percentile) receive 5 pies;
which means that each person will get one SLICE of pie (~1/8 pie).
They put the slice in the wife's purse and leave.

Finally, the last 50 people approach and are told that only 1 pie remains.
Being hungry, they gladly accept the sliver of a slice (1/50th of a pie)
and then quickly eat it before … the Rolls returns.


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3/28/25

Anonymous@YourAnonCentral posted this on X:

"Don't be afraid to call things by what they are.
MAGA is a terrorist organization,
ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing,
Elon Musk is an oligarch,
and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead.
This is not an administration, this is a regime ...

and your country is occupied.
"


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3/27/25

Legalizing marijuana may not have been such a good idea afterall ...

studies show a significant heart disease increase


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3/26/25

This should give you a good idea of how the Magat mind functions ...




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