The few illegal immigrants I've met have a better work ethic than most of the Americans I know. Seeing as how they are preparing/picking/packaging much of the food I eat, it's in my own best interest to keep them healthy.
-Dave Walton On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:45 PM, LarryT<l02tur...@comcast.net> wrote: > I have converted to think your illustration in the use of "Junk Science" is > what caused the govt to start putting Flouride into our water system. > Without enough long term studies to see what a reduced level of cavities > will really cost us is now making people question Flouride as being a > vehicle to increase aluminum retention in the brain - which is turn is > thought to be responsible for Alzheimers Disease. > > Rumor has it that anytime someone wanted to conduct a long-term study in the > US, the lawyers for the govt shut them down. Evidently the liability of > flouride causing a health crisis is more than the govt wants to get involved > with. > > BTW, a certain Sen Heller, (R, Nv) tried to include an amendment that would > exclude illegal aliens from the obama health care free-for-all was defeated > along party lines just before the bill was passed in the House last week. > Seems the dems do not want any means of testing for a persons citizenship > status to depend on their being approved for tax-payer supported health > care. That's estimated to be between 10 and 12 million people here > illegally without any plans for getting rid of them. on the contrary, if > illegal aliens can get free health care there won't be anything to stop > millions more pouring across the border - along with terrorist, pedophiles & > criminals of all sorts with all sorts of diseases to be covered by a > virtually free health care plan with no "pre-existing condition" clause. > > We've got quite a government working *for* us, don't we? > > Hmm.... wonder if I can find any mention of providing free health care for > the population anywhere in the US Constitution? > > LarryT > > Read the Constitution - It's Interesting! > http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Hurst" <jabbahur...@gmail.com> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:52 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] We're all gonna dieeeeeeee..... > > >> i get more and more convinced everyday that EVERYTHING is just political. >> All decisions are made in this simple algorithm: >> >> A causes B >> B is bad >> A is bad >> C is a replacement for B >> C is good >> >> This logic is horrible on many, many levels. mostly it is no logic at >> all, >> but that isn't my subject here. there are two things no one ever cares to >> talk about: >> >> externalities >> co-dependencies (i probably have the word wrong for this) >> >> an externality is something that is created and put upon you as a side >> effect of something else. like in my subdivision now the old biddies are >> trying to kill off the snakes. these snakes have never hurt anyone as far >> as anyone knows, but they are big and snakelike. the old biddies are >> frightened from them. what do you think is going to happen to the rat >> population if they succeed? get rid of DDT, hundreds of millions will die >> from malaria. get rid of R12, send global warming through the roof. every >> answer that is about prohobition of any sort works on the bad logic above. >> and if you try to point this out to anyone making the argument, they will >> shout you down. >> >> what is called scientific research is nothing but regression analysis. >> econometrics. it works under a limited set of circumstance, but it mostly >> doesn't work. it's basically about drawing a graph. like, say you want >> to >> know the relationship between fat intake and heart disease. to simplify >> this model, say the only fat anyone in the usa eats is butter. so you see >> how many sticks of butter a lot of people eat and whether they get heart >> attacks. you discover that dudes who eat 10 sticks of butter a day are >> dropping dead left and right from heart attacks. you also discover that >> dudes who are eating 1 stick of butter a year seem to never get heart >> attacks. so you make a graph and shows you how heart attacks and butter >> correlate. and you call it "science". and anyone who disagrees gets >> shouted down. and you start giving everyone margarine instead and every >> doctor and government organization and school and whomever tells you to >> eat >> margarine to save your heart. after all, it is science. >> >> amazingly, everyone starts to live the scientific wisdom of the food >> pyramid, only they are now dropping dead faster and from more things than >> ever before. so now those with a vested interest in selling that >> margarine >> need to make ptolemaic adjustments to preserve the gospel "truth proven by >> science." only thing is that this isn't any science, but bullshit and the >> gospels are all just so much politics. in the end it's just an orwellian >> world and the government tells you who oceania has always been at war with >> and you need to sit down and shut up or someone will hurt you. and all >> discussion of politics, education, medicine, economics, society, race, et >> a >> all just becomes pontificated bullshit and shit down and shut up. only >> the >> ramifications get more and more serious every day as the sit down and shut >> up technology increases, so much so that the 20th century can be viewed >> really as just one wholesale bloodbath over bullshit. >> >> and if anyone of you are interested, i'll explain why the correlation >> between teh hearts attacks and the sticks of butter are no science at all. >> >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Rich Thomas < >> richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: >> >>> Crank up your AC now, before you kill the planet. Those 140s with bad AC >>> will be rising in price since it won't matta no mo. "BLOWS ICE COLD" >>> will >>> be a BAD thing. >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901817_pf.html >>> >>> Algore is comin ta gitcha. 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