I still have a couple of FB friends whose posts support the oil companies and the burning of fossil fuels because, well, it’s big business and employs thousands and thousands of people in the U.S. They also from time to time denigrate renewable energy.
But consider this:
The evolution of technology has brought to civilization dramatic changes that were, at the time of their development, unimaginable changes.
Category: Politics
Good Luck, Joe
A local TV station, whose Facebook page I follow, posted a link to a story about President Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, paying respects to fallen Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. The post featured a photo of the two.
These are some of the comments and the names of the commenters (in case you want to shame them):
Circular Reasoning And Flash Cards For Logical Fallacies, Really?
I took a course in Logic in college as part of the Philosophy curriculum. Several years later I encountered, for the first time, someone steeped in the New World Order and Zionism conspiracy theories. He gave me a copy of a magazine article describing said theories and how Jews controlled Hollywood and TV. It was, to say the least anti-Semitic. I was flabbergasted.
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Stop, Please!
Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
He never met Kanye West.
From the time he grabbed the mic away from Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMA Awards, he showed the world he only cares about one person: Kanye West. He’s been, if you could call it, “world-famous” for more than 15 minutes. A sad commentary on the insatiable need-to-know cultural media junkies.
They Just Don’t Get It
It is just so infuriating to see large groups of people defying lawful orders for social distancing and group size limitations to scream their constitutional rights are being stripped away. That they’re living in tyranny. That their religious freedoms are being trampled on, or that their state’s orders are taking away their right to get a haircut.
And let’s not mention that some of them are trying to force entry into their state capital buildings carrying assault weapons and wearing bulletproof vests but not masks. That some of them are waving Nazi and Confederate flags. That some of them are holding signs attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates or vaccines in general. That somebody was holding a sign with the words found over the entrance to Auschwitz: “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” (work makes you free). This is so offensive on so many levels I don’t know where to begin, so I won’t.
How To Go Out Of Business
Here’s some sound business advice from Donald Trump whose companies have filed for bankruptcy six times and presided over numerous business failures,
“The post office, if they raised the price of a package by approximately four times, it would be a whole new ballgame,”
The post office should raise the price of the packages to the companies. Not to the people, to the companies. If they did that, it would be a whole different story.”
You don’t have to have an MBA to realize how IGNORANT this is.
Package delivery is the USPS’s cash cow. If it raised its prices fourfold, nobody would use it.
True, some online vendors such as Amazon Prime offer free shipping, but they’d be damned if they gonna eat the added costs.
Life Before Liberty
In the Declaration of Independence, there is a passage that reads,
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”
Notice that life comes before liberty.
Recently there has been large protests at some state Capital buildings demanding their governors lift the stay-at-home rules. One such took place in Lansing, Michigan where protesters blocked the access to a hospital with their cars. Hospital staff had to go out on the street and beg the protesters to move.
Supermarket Chain More Prepared Than Trump
Did you know that H-E-B, a San Antonio based supermarket chain, has had a pandemic and influenza plan since 2005, when it first took note of the H5N1 threat. The chain put that plan in effect in 2009 when the H1N1 swine flu hit. The company started looking at what was happening in Wuhan, China, in January and began instituting plans to keep its supply chains functioning, its shelves stocked and its employees safe. “We’re here to take care of our partners, take care of our customers, take care of our community,” said Justen Noakes, HEB’s director of emergency preparedness.
Sliced Bread, My Ass
A Facebook friend of mine, who rarely posts anything political, did just that to get a reaction from her friends. It was something about Trump. One of the comments was: Donald Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread.” Really?
I have a long rebuttal in Documents that I wrote to counter any comments from Trumokins. I copied and pasted this in the thread. It starts out,
“Donald Trump is the worse thing to happen to this country since the Civil War.”
It then goes on to list a lot of the the crap Trump has done or said. I later realized that I wrote it over a year ago. So I brought it up to date. It goes:
Donald Trump is the worse thing to happen to this country since the Civil War.
Round and Round We Go…
One of my college textbooks in Logic described how a defense attorney got his client off by using an invalid argument. An invalid argument is a formal fallacy. I won’t go into the details of how this works or what makes an argument invalid, but the lawyer pulled a good one on the jury.
This has a term. It’s called sophistry, a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone, and the jury fell for it.