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"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." 1. The scariest thing about the U.S. federal government is that over the last 75 years, it has spent almost $10 trillion to build an estimated 70,000 nuclear bombs. This is enough destructive power to completely annihilate all of human civilization. The fact that these nightmare weapons, these hateful bombs even exist is absolutely terrifying, an ever present looming shadow over all of us. 2. Many of these nuclear bombs are mounted to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) which can fly around the world to deliver an insanely powerful and deadly nuclear explosion. America and Russia have these ICBMs aimed at each other, locked and loaded, and ready to launch within minutes' notice. 3. "ICBMs actually increase the threat of nuclear war because they basically require an itchy trigger finger . To survive an attack, ICBMs must be launched within seconds, minutes at most, leaving little time to verify a

The Supreme Court has actually ruled that it is literally not the police's obligation to protect people from violent criminals. The video you're watching above is a true story. Here's the Wiki article on it .

This story about all the sexual harassment allegations surrounding Bill O'Reilly just keeps getting worse and worse. Michael Panter's post today about this is just, wow: https://www.facebook.com/michaelpanter/posts/10155995603775312 (BTW O'Reilly is suing him for saying this.) The level of support and coverup for this behavior from the very top of Fox News Corporation! SMH And after Roger Ailes last year. I don't know how anyone can even watch that network anymore. Who cares if they help (R)'s get elected and you're an (R)? What good is that if they are this corrupt? Fox News is clearly rotten to the roots just like Hollywood. Cut them out and get your news from better people. And O'Reilly's response to all this is just classic O'Reilly. Time to pull out this old meme I made about him in 2011. It's sadly never been more appropriate: http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/11/youre-proving-me-wrong.html #libertarian #gop #foxn

On The Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal, Amy Swearer writes : "There is a time and place to address genuine concerns about the left’s war on manhood, the horrible lack of due process for college students accused of sexual misconduct, and the unfortunate but very true fact that sometimes lives are ruined over false allegations. Whatever that time is, and wherever that place may be, it is not when a person is telling you she was a victim of assault. That will never be the right time or place to raise those concerns. When someone confides in you about an event so life-altering and full of heart-rending pain, you do one thing. Only one thing. You listen." "she" "Whatever that time is, and wherever that place may be, it is not when a person is telling you *she* was a victim of assault." I know men who have been sexually assaulted. Yet Amy continues to gender the victims of sexual assault as female- just like the meme she discusses. But mo

With a Republican sitting in the Oval Office! Four American soldiers died in an ambush fighting in Nigeria's civil war on October 4, 2017. Most Americans didn't even know the U.S. military was in Nigeria, including top U.S. Senators! "The war is now morphing. It's going to places we haven't heard of before..." "I didn’t know there was 1,000 troops in Niger. This is an endless war without boundaries and no limitation on time and geography. You’ve got to tell us more and he [McCain] is right to say that." Does that sound like something John McCain would call Ron Paul a wacko bird for saying, or something Lindsey Graham and John McCain would say?? Well it's Lindsey Graham and John McCain who said that this Sunday. Not even for partisan points. Not like it's a Democrat in the White House. What do you do when even the staunchest war hawks are war weary ? It gives me hope. #BringAmericaHome #antiwar #libertarian #wackobird

Someone I knew from knocking on doors for libertarian-leaning political candidates years ago challenged me on some of my recent thoughts about the #MeToo meme that was re-posted by millions this week. She wrote: "What is the actual problem of conflating the two, or just including the two as options, in a Facebook post though? As a practical matter, many women who are rape victims may not want to publicly say it but the fact that the meme had harassment as an option maybe allowed them to be freer with their experience. It's not like this is a Congressional law we're talking about where language needs to be precise and not vague... this is a meme." I wrote back: Sorry I wrote you a book. There's a lot to unpack here. So you're saying someone who might be too embarrassed, as sad as that is, to say they were raped, might feel emboldened to speak up about their experience to their group of friends under the cover of the meme's ambiguity? Wow. That

First of all, let's get this out of the way first. What was wrong with what Trump said? All the news headlines are clipping off the statement to make it sound dismissive and insensitive: "He knew what he signed up for." Well this is deceptive editing, because what he said was : "He knew what he signed up for... but when it happens, it hurts anyway." If you idiots keep doing this shit, you're going to get Trump reelected in a landslide. This is why so many conservatives love Trump for slamming the media all the time. You guys are all dishonest as hell. There are plenty of actually terrible things about Donald Trump that you can criticize him for without deceptive editing. I'm still trying to figure out what is so horrible about what Trump said. Does Rep. Wilson know what the military does? Yes, the soldier did know he was signing up to fight in wars. Do all these Democrats who are acting appalled today know what happens in wars? S

I think there are a couple big dangers worth pointing out about the #MeToo meme. For one, it may have blown sexual assault out of proportion by conflating it with sexual harassment. This is because of how the meme was formulated: So that when someone posts it, they could mean a range of things from being horrifically raped to someone just being very rude to them. But with sexual assault featuring prominently in this meme, packaging the two all together like that risks painting an inaccurate picture of the world. ...in a campaign that is purported to make us more aware of how things really are out there. But because of this meme, is the world looking like it might be a lot worse than it really is? When I brought this concern up in a discussion, a friend of mine said something I agree with 100%: "I think it's the prerogative of anybody who has been raped to be as vague as they choose." But right before he said that, he said this: " I don't

Well so are you. Everything's weird. Except the things that aren't. Because we understand them. Because they're on our map of the world. And you would want things to be weird. Instead of all exactly like your map. Because then you would be living in a map. Instead of reality. It would be weird if nothing was weird. Very weird. Often we're delighted by something weird. Though of course not always. So long as it's harmless to others. So long as it's not threatening. So long as it doesn't stand in the way, Of you being weird your own way, Let it be weird. And don't make anyone suffer over it. You're weird too. You're so weird. Everything is so weird. Weird doesn't even look like a real word anymore. Weird.

Bill Maher makes an excellent case against gun control. Of course that's not what he meant to do, but he unwittingly makes the point very well: "If it was a Muslim it’d be about the ban. If it was a Mexican it’d be about the wall. And I feel like, when it’s a white guy it’s like, ‘We don’t know how this happened.’ I feel like it doesn’t get to be an isolated incident if you’re a minority. It’s always — this guy was from a broken home, his father was a criminal. That would be a big deal on Fox News, I feel like." Right. And liberals oppose the ban! And liberals oppose the wall! So liberals should oppose gun control in the same way and for the same reasons. Not all Muslims are terrorists, and not all terrorists are Muslims. So the ban just unfairly harasses an entire category of people for isolated incidents. Not all Mexican immigrants are rapists, Mr. President, and not all rapists are Mexican immigrants. So a wall just unfairly harasses an entire category of

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. -Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Every time someone carries out a terrorist attack in America using a gun, these shameless political opportunists and their fake-lamenting, virtue-signaling public of political fetishists brazenly climb onto the pile of dead bodies to start harassing other Americans who peacefully own guns and calling for the curtailment of gun ownership in this country. There is nothing at all like a comparable reaction to the constant carnage on America's highways, with thirty and forty thousand people dying every year in automobile accidents: a 9-11 terrorist attack worth of human lives lost every month. We fundamentally reordered our society and planet over 9-11, but can't be bothered to stop the automobile deaths. We've just written those people off as the cost of doing business. Because the lives lost in a terrorist attack like Las V