This is a stand alone because it so precisely sums up every complaint I have had about the "experts" for the past decade. They always imply the "science is settled" and you should just shut up and believe what the experts say.
As a scientist, I have been crushed to hear the stupidity...that you are not supposed to question. My most concerning moment came when they started to dictate masks. I looked up the studies for using masks for viruses...and they all said they were useless...especially for lay people who wouldn't use/fit them properly. I then went back to those studies a few weeks later and they had been taken down...WTF. And not because the data was found to be faulty, but for political reasons.
Fooled one time is a lesson, fooled twice is a choice...never again.
Congratulations to @steve-allen. Two of three of your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists. This is a first!
Whats the most regrettable purchase do you ever remember making ?
What movie scene in what movie shocked you the most?
Congratulations to @NJFLA and @SGKusmertz. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists.
@NJFLA What’s something that instantly tests your willpower?
@SGKusmertz Which of your character traits do you hope to pass on to your next generation?
Congratulations to @IMP85. Your Huli Huli recipe was chosen for tonight’s Sunday Suppers. After a fierce showdown between Imp amd @Arius-Trychus, the sugar won this round. I got the entries down to two and Mark chose the winner. Oh, and it was delicious. Sorry @Arius-Trychus, sweet always talks louder for Mark.
@Imp85, please keep an eye out for an email from a Gutter Team Member.
Thank you to everyone who shared recipes and helped keep my temporary “toaster oven, bbq, and crockpot era” alive. Here’s hoping to the kitchen face look flies by fast.
More craziness on The Five today: ‘Christian Nationalism’ - I guess I haven’t heard that before - used seriously, anyway. Whaaaat? The Chicago burning cross, Jessica,is one more thing you just blah blahed away. Tiresome and arrogant.
Dems are just so damn desperate. Scary.
Iran - Historically Predictible
ROBERT DUCHEMIN SR
JUN 18
For several years I have spoken and written about how the CIA was the direct cause of the problems between the United States and Iran. Although Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, improved the lifestyles and education of the Iranian people to a level not seen anywhere in the Middle East outside of Israel, he favored the British nobles over his own people economically. In doing so, he substantially limited their freedom.
When the people protested against all profits from gasoline and groceries being handed over to the British Nobles, the Shah responded with a deaf ear. In an effort to win their freedom, the people turned to the United States. Many of them had become employed by US companies and many had spent time in the United States.
The USA, however, sided with the British Nobles. The USA did so based on faulty advice from its primary intelligence service, the CIA. As a result, the Iranian people grouped the USA and all of its companies that had ...
From: The Federalist Papers
This cartoon says exactly what a lot of the so-called smart people in our culture do not want to admit.
Science does not lead away from God. At the end of science is God, period.
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
That pretty much sums it up.
A little science can make someone arrogant. A little knowledge can make a person think they have outgrown faith, outgrown God, and outgrown the people who still believe there is a Creator behind all of this.
But that is not wisdom. That is pride.
The deeper you go into real science, the harder it becomes to believe any of this is an accident.
The universe is too ordered, too precise, too mathematical, too perfectly balanced, and too full of mystery to be brushed off as nothing more than random chance.
Look at physics. Look at biology. Look at the fine tuning of the universe.
Look at the complexity of life. Look at consciousness, ...
