Sarion posted:

This site is like dozens of these emails all put together: http://the53.tumblr.com/

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[things that never happened]

This guy blows my mind. His entire life could have been a thousand times better under more liberal policies. There is no reason for anyone to owe $230,000 in medical bills, ever. The people who benefit from his hard work sit on top of trillions of dollars, and he thinks its totally reasonable to pay several years of his salary just for chemotherapy. Chemotherapy that was not created by private drug companies, but by government research.

Also, over 33% of his income taken by taxes? There's no reason for a married couple making $90K to pay more than 9% of their income in Federal Income Taxes. That assumes only standard exemptions and deductions. Even with FICA and State Income taxes it wouldn't come close to exceeding 33%. I can understand people being confused by various political issues. But people should at least have a good handle of their own personal situation.

Boondock Saint posted:

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Coelacanthian posted:

Got roped into a global warming debate on FB and my friend posted a link to this;

http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

Defenestration posted:

On the other hand he was being ridiculously dishonest by saying that knowing 5 people extrapolates to thousands nationwide

Herman Merman posted:

No, that is how random sampling works. If he "knows" 5000 people, say, and 5 of them are welfare abusers, that does extrapolate to a few hundred thousand nationwide. Of course that would not be a real unbiased random sample in any statistically meaningful sense, but hey.

Gus Hobbleton posted:

So in other words, that's not how random sampling works at all?

Armyman25 posted:

Cutting soda out of your diet isn't a bad plan either way.

Sarion posted:

You are right however, that they use it to intentionally lead people to believe that half the country pays absolutely no tax. Which is crazy, but I still see people say it all the time. You also get the whole "flat tax is great because everyone should have skin in the game". Apparently FICA, sales, State income, and property taxes isn't enough skin.

Shasta Orange Soda posted:

Just a few minutes ago, I bought what I initially thought was a king size Milky Way (made by Mars), and it turned out to actually be two bars, advertised as "2 To Go" on the package. The health info on the side calls each bar a single serving, and each is noticeably smaller than a regular Milky Way.

CCrew posted:

He told me he'd have a conversation with his brother (Who has a masters in economics), and let me know how he sees the situation. This was the response:

babies havin rabies posted:

A flat tax means eliminating progressive taxation in favor of one income tax rate, for example everybody would be taxed 10% of their income. This appeals to people because it seems "more fair", but in reality it is a regressive tax due to the marginal utility of money.

babies havin rabies posted:

This sales tax would have to be a ridiculous amount to be effective, something like 25-30%.

babies havin rabies posted:

Isn't there quite a bit of difference between a point-of-sales tax and a value-added tax from the consumer's perspective? On second though, maybe there isn't when you consider most of those costs would be pushed directly onto the consumer in either case.

Strudel Man posted:

Thirteen percent of respondents think the Star of David is associated with Islam.

miscellaneous14 posted:

His response was something to the likes of "most recordings of temperatures rising in the US, Russia, and Western Europe are made in heat sinks like parking lots or behind buildings. My point of linking this was to illustrate how global climate changed is often erroneously based on local results".

Guilty Spork posted:

I have relatives who are into old timey values.

Rodnik's friend posted:

his Fuel-less generator isn't made up. Nor the fact that he DID in fact pull energy out of the Ionosphere WITHOUT using power. Like I said, provide proof his fuel-less generator was "made up" as well as him not pulling energy out of the ionosphere. You seem so sure without any proof of what you say. Especially when history, the American Energy Association and his own documented information proves you to be in the wrong. This make you the "Conspiracy theorist".

Sword of Chomsky posted:

I agree with this, but the biggest counter example happens to be a pretty big one. Steam power was discovered in Roman times, and was never realized as a source of work. it was just a novelty. it wasn't until the 1700's that it was re-discovered as a way to do work.

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7) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to
cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

XyloJW posted:

America and every other country in the world.

HootTheOwl posted:

It's a proper noun

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VitalSigns posted:

an industrial byproduct that arguably isn't even food at all since it just wrecks your arteries and provides no energy or nutrition.

VitalSigns posted:

Do they?

I thought the whole issue with trans fats was that we can't metabolize those fatty acids so they accumulate in our arteries and cause problems.

Sure they're found in foods but I'm not sure they're actually food themselves.
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https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000786.htm

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/trans-fat posted:

WHO’s recommendation for adults is to limit consumption of trans fat to less than 1% of total energy intake, which is less than 2.2 g per day for a 2000-calorie diet.

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Credit for any accuracies above to my Professors who continue to educate me:

Dilbert Guy (
@ScottAdamsSays
)
Robert Barnes (
@barnes_law
)
Mike Benz (
@MikeBenzCyber
)
CC:
@elonmusk
> thanks for buying X

Guavanaut posted:

That's probably more energy efficient than trying to recycle most of those small plastic items, but it's still bad.