Apr 08
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Our choices for President of the United States are a woman who makes up stories to show how experienced she is, a white guy who is sufficiently out of touch with reality that it doesn’t matter whether he makes up stories, and a black guy who knows somebody who is a racist.
Which one would you rather answered the Red Phone at 3 AM?
In closing: Japanese school uniforms; you have no rights on an airplane, not even human rights; 4 things we should do to improve American disaster management, 2 of which would cost no taxpayer dollars and 2 of which should not cost any more in taxes than we are now paying; you call that a sex scandal?; and the Solar System’s long lost cousin.
Why is it a “little loopy” (the Trevor Bothwell link)to consider the possibility that the U.S. government is behind the creation and/or dissemination of the AIDS virus? While I am not advocating that particular conspiracy theory, it isn’t good analysis to dismiss allegation with character assassination instead of evidence. I should think that the Tuskegee experiments and the foolhardy experiments conducted with radiation would be enough to suggest that public vigilance is warranted, always and in every aspect of governmental operation.
Thanks for taking that comment out of context. Funny how I’m accused of ‘character assassination’ when I was essentially defending the man’s character in that paragraph.
But since you mention it, I didn’t say the government wasn’t ‘behind the creation/dissemination of the AIDS virus’ (though I’d maintain that’s highly unlikely); I implied it’s a bit of a stretch (i.e. the ‘loopy’ comment) to think the government not only created it, but created it for the express intent of wiping out blacks.
I maintain that it is “slightly loopy” to assume anything, or to make or dismiss assertions without evidence. Evidence abounds that humans act selfishly or negligently. To dismiss ANY argument without investigation or evidence by associating an assertion with mental illness is not in itself rational.