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New Science Uprising Episode Counters the “I Suck” Principle David Klinghoffer | @d_klinghoffer June 24, 2019 Materialists share a tendency to want to degrade human beings and our place in the cosmos. In a sane world — maybe it’s out there somewhere in the multiverse — there would be a psychiatric diagnosis for this.As celebrity “Science Guy” Bill Nye has put it, “I’m a speck on a speck orbiting a speck among other specks among still other specks in the middle of specklessness. I suck.” The fourth episode of Science Uprising is out now, and it addresses the poisonous “I...

The three socialist nations, that liberals like to cite as being the ones that should be emulated, are dying because the men are quitting society and going off to do their own thing. It's a nice rebuttal to the liberal claim.

Tupac’s childhood was awash in criminals. His godfather was convicted of murdering a schoolteacher during a robbery in 1968. His stepfather Mutulu Shakur spent four years at large on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Mutulu was ultimately convicted of robbing an armored truck and subsequently killing two police officers and a Brinks guard. Shakur had regular run-ins with both criminals and Law Enforcement. He once wounded a pair of intoxicated off-duty police officers out celebrating with their wives. Both parties exchanged gunfire, but, as the cops were both drunk and in possession of stolen firearms, all charges were...

A sign on an upside-down dumpster spelled the end of Pearl Pai’s long romance with plastics recycling. For years, Pai and her family generated almost no trash. She carefully washed, sorted and bagged hard-to-recycle items and drove them two towns over from her home in Berkeley, California, to the area’s best recycling center. But on a gray morning in late May, when she pulled up with a bag of flimsy plastic clamshell-style containers, yogurt tubs and meat trays, the sign informed her that, “due to poor market conditions”, these items would no longer be accepted for recycling. This is a...

If “global warming,” already twice re-branded as “climate change” and now “climate catastrophe,” were a genuine phenomenon, those promoting the scare would not need to hype naturally-recurring cyclical phenomena as evidence of irreversible change. Yet, over and over again, we hear that, for example, drought in California is permanent – until last year’s record rains……or that “the end of snow” is at hand. This photo of a dog sled team going through some meltwater on ice in Greenland has made headlines….but it’s just a snapshot of one place, with summer approaching. Nothing really all that unusual is going on.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's husband unleashed another attack on President Trump on Friday, blasting his "incompetence" and calling on him to resign after, at the last minute, he backed away from strikes on Iran. "Resign. If you didn’t know this until it was almost too late, you’re even more of an idiot than people think you are," Conway tweeted. "Do the country and the world a favor. Go back to real estate, where the worst you can do is kill banks." [snip]

Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's purported "top climate change expert" and the agency's highest paid employee, John C. Beale, was arrested and convicted of fraud. Turns out that while at EPA, Beale pretended to also work for the CIA and for years had wasted his official employment time while loafing around his house in his underwear. Taxpayers are mad about Beale's theft of their money, and "climate change" advocates are humiliated, because Beale's purported knowledge and expertise about this made-up subject was also similarly made up. Beale was an expert at lying; that is it. I am...

Full header: The only way to counter Ocasio-Cortez’s use of ‘concentration camp’ to describe holding faculties for illegals" Facts and details don’t matter to demagogues and their followers, which is why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again succeeded in garnering attention to herself and support from progressive media with an outrageously ignorant and offensive assertion. In a bizarre Instagram post with the words on her tee shirt appearing in mirror image, she called the detention facilities holding border violators while their cases are adjudicated “concentration camps.”

Planned obsolescence, or built-in obsolescence, in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete (that is, unfashionable or no longer functional) after a certain period of time. No company will admit they have this policy, but we can observe this from a products’ average failure rate and the company’s sincerity in fixing it by making available parts required to fix it. This is why I am a huge fan of Japanese products and also Apple. Products are not merely hardware, Apple on the other...

Salutes FReeper folks. Been out of the forum since 2017 ...until watching last night's Trump rally in Florida. Scripture tells us not to trust in man or our leaders, who are mere mortals, but I have to admit it was refreshing to see someone like Trump taking center stage to speak so naturally and with such ease, what's weighing heavy in all of us who still believe in The Constitutional Republic... For a rich guy, this man has got the perfect mix of charisma, class, simplicity, straighforwardness and stick-to-it-iveness, to be able to single handedly and animately motivate any free...

New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”? David Klinghoffer | @d_klinghoffer June 17, 2019 Two remarkable advances in science together sealed the doom of any materialist evolutionary theory. They are the development of computer software, and the discovery that digital code lies at the foundation of life. That’s the theme of the new third episode of Science Uprising, “DNA: The Programmer.” You’d have to be pretty insensitive to watch these six minutes through to the end without getting goosebumps, even if the information argument developed by Douglas Axe, Stephen Meyer, and other design theorists is already familiar to you: VIDEO:...

Ask Amy: Dad is horrified to learn there’s a gun in the house [More] If I were the daughter I'd be demanding a paternity test, because he sounds more like Confounded Cuck. And are Amy's exploding hollow points anything like Patricia Eddington's heat-seeking bullets that cook deer? In an indoor situation, she instructs readers that her "research" concludes a responsible concern for controlled penetration equates with "yet another (likely unsafe) gun owner in this country"? As for 11 states banning them, does she mean "armor piercing" rounds? Because all I'm seeing are San Francisco and New Jersey, And the latter...

Simultaneous heat waves scorched land areas all over the Northern Hemisphere last summer, killing hundreds and hospitalizing thousands while intensifying destructive and deadly wildfires. A study published this week in the journal Earth’s Future concludes that this heat wave epidemic “would not have occurred without human-induced climate change.” The alarming part? There are signs record-setting heat waves are beginning anew this summer — signaling, perhaps, that these exceptional and widespread heat spells are now the norm. In the past few days, blistering, abnormal heat has afflicted several parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including major population centers. New Delhi, India’s capital,...

President Donald Trump revealed his design this week for a new Air Force One, showing off a set of drawings in the Oval Office that replace the Kennedy-era light blue paint job with a more masculine red, white and black. The current livery is dominated by blue, the color of the Democratic Party. Trump’s re-do has splashes of Republican red. The result resembles the color scheme of Trump’s personal Boeing 757, which 2016 campaign crowds called ‘Trump Force One.’ ‘We had different choices, here,’ Trump told ABC News, saying that he had come up with the design concepts himself. Artists’...

A Conservative ‘Twitter’? Too Likely to Be a Conservative ‘Cwitter’ By Tom Gilson Published on June 13, 2019 • More and more conservatives are saying, Let’s build our own social media platforms, to combat censorship on the existing ones. Whether that’s feasible, I don’t know. But let’s suppose that happened and it worked. Would it be good? I doubt it.Here’s why. Imagine a conservative Twitter alternative. Call it Cwitter for short. Who would use it? And who would still use the original Twitter? The answer is obvious. People on the right would talk to each other on Cwitter, but hardly anyone...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest direct evidence of people smoking marijuana from a 2,500-year-old graveyard in western China.In a complex of lofty tombs in the Pamir Mountains - a region near the borders of modern China, Pakistan and Tajikistan - excavators found 10 wooden bowls and several stones containing burnt residue of the cannabis plant. Scientists believe heated stones were used to burn the marijuana and people then inhaled the smoke as part of a burial ritual."It's the earliest strong evidence of people getting high" on marijuana, said Mark Merlin, a botanist at the University of Hawaii....

Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial David Klinghoffer | @d_klinghoffer June 10, 2019 “We are robots made out of meat, which is what I’m going to try to convince you of today.” So says evolutionist Jerry Coyne in the second episode of the counterprogramming video series Science Uprising. Coyne, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris serve as the foils for the episode, up against neuroscientists Jeffrey Schwartz and Michael Egnor.The question: Does the organ of the brain house the personality, the intellect, totally so that the “inescapable I” of the subjective self is reducible to three pounds of flesh? So say...

Hey Freepers, I have Breaking News on the left and Front Page News on the right. I used to follow activism but since the days of Walter Reed and then Trump Rallys, just not seeing much content, which is WRONG! "Articles", all the time. I've only been out here since '98, so looking for more advanced set ups. Some people find and post to articles that are days old. I have no idea how they find older relevant content. Feel like I'm not getting the most our of my account settings. Interested in how you all do it. Maybe a...

Never let it be said that anti-Semitism plagues only one political group, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio so stupidly tried to claim this week. Anti-Jewish bigotry, whether casual or vicious, knows no party loyalty. Take, for example, the D.C. Dyke March. It has banned Jewish and Israeli symbols from its festivities this week in the nation’s capital, according to the Forward. The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities who feel excluded from the more mainstream Pride parade,” the Forward reports. “The march will also ban ‘nationalist symbols,’ including...

First Lady Melania Trump channeled her inner British Royal on Wednesday as she sat with Queen Elizabeth II for a ceremony commemorating D-Day. For the day in Portsmouth, England, Mrs. Trump paid homage to the famed London-based Irish milliner Philip Treacy — the man behind most of all of the British Royal Family’s hats and fascinators — wearing one of his creations from his Spring/Summer 2019 collection. Think of this hat as the little, British cousin to her iconic custom-made, American-esque Hervé Pierre hat that she donned just a couple of days ago to meet the Queen.