[quote=JW]Hate to break it to you but everything higher than an amphibian has a vestigial reptile brain. It is the seat of all emotion and autonomic functions of the body.

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Good post. But why do you even bother responding to him? Nothing rational you say will get through his filters and only results in degrading asinine insults.

pafret wrote:
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"A Credibility Trap is when the managerial functions of a society have been sufficiently compromised by corruption so that the leadership cannot reform, or even honestly address, the problems of that system without implicating a broad swath of the powerful, including themselves"

eagleye13 wrote:
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Gee, let me guess why this article appears in "Caribbean News Now" and not the NY Times. I guess this information is not deemed "newsworthy".

We don't need a term limit law, we just refuse to re-elect anyone and term limits are imposed, letting all prospective candidates know that no serious and EFFECTIVE campaign finance/lobbying rules ( with no wiggle room ) will equal a one term gig.[/quote]
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The problem is that the American public continues to re-elect it House members at about a 95% rate, and Senators at about a 90% rate. So in theory, what you say makes sense, but in practice, the American public seems to stick with the constituent, right or wrong. Voters re-elect politicians while under indictment, or conviction for corruption charges. https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php

4 indicted N.Y. pols win reelection - POLITICO
Grimm, Scarborough, Sampson and Libous are under federal ... They may have won their ... also faces trial in 2015 following an indictment in July on ...
www.politico.compolitico.com/story/2014/11/4-indicted-ny-pols-win-reel...

Michael Grimm, Under Indictment, Wins Re-Election in Staten ...
www.wsj.comhttps://wsj.com/articles/michael-grimm-under-indictment-w...

This list includes American politicians at the state and local levels who have been convicted of crimes they committed in office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_state_and_local_pol...

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I don't see this as a GOP Vs Dem issue. Both parties are beholding to various constituencies that contribute into their campaign coffers, and or hire them on after they leave office as lobbyists, or give them jobs in hight corporate positions.

Unless and until we get serious ethics reforms and term limits, you can be assured that the interests of the American public will be a distant second to that of our political elite.

At the risk of being redundant (a previous post):

“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists — or ever existed, or ever will exist — is a kleptocracy, meaning ‘rule by thieves.’ Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce. If the taxpayer/voters won’t willingly fork over to end poverty, then maybe they’ll cough up to fight drugs or terrorism. Conflicting ideologies, as presently constituted, are nothing more than a cover for what’s really going on, like the colors of competing gangs.” — Author L. Neil Smith

Alber wrote:
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Good points. No easy answers. While I agree with you on the issue of the Kurds, we should be using diplomatic means, not military force in Syria. I do not believe that the US should continue to be the world's policeman, nor can we afford it. We cannot solve our own problems in this country, let alone fooling around with the sovereignty of another nation.

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Then we must agree to disagree on this subject.

Here are a few of the latest news flashes from Europe and Asia. In Germany, the world leader in green energy, electricity prices have now reached a level triple those paid in the United States. Imagine the anger here if middle-class Americans saw a tripling of their utility bills each month.

In Britain, to comply with renewable energy requirements, power stations are burning hundreds of millions of pounds of wood pellets (pellets imported from the U.S.). Environmental experts confirm that burning wood is much worse for the environment than burning natural gas or even coal.

Australia, another "green energy" leader, saw its electricity prices skyrocket this past winter. According to an analysis by the Institute for Energy Research, power costs surged unbelievably -- from $100 per megawatt hour to $10,000 per megawatt hour. This was because of heavy dependence on an unreliable renewable energy program. The government had to reopen one of its shuttered natural-gas plants to keep prices from further exploding.

Sweden announced a decade ago that it was all-in on green energy, and the government launched a wind-power program. Embarrassingly, Swedish politicians now have had to acknowledge the program has become so expensive and inefficient that the government will phase out the subsidies lavished on the industry.

https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2017/03/14/europes-lesson-teaches-us-dont-go-green-n2298455

Is this the comment you expect to hear from one of our nation's top law enforcement personnel? Is it relevant that Andrew McCabe's wife, Dr. Jill McCabe was a Virginia state senate candidate in 2015, and received $675,000 from longtime Clinton family friend, Virginia Gov. Terry MAuliffe?

Is it relevant that both McCabe's were staunch Hillary Clinton supporters, and that “(Andrew) McCabe was one of the few people who backed Comey’s decision not to refer Hillary Clinton to the Justice Department for indictment,” a FBI source said of the July 2016 decision not to refer Clinton for criminal charges for violating email and document safeguards for classified and Top Secret national security intelligence.

Is this how justice is now practiced in the United States these days?
http://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbis-own-political-terror-plot-deputy-director-and-fbi-brass-secretly-conspired-to-wage-coup-against-flynn-trump-2/

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The subject of the post was to focus your attention on the media's spin that the Wikileaks revelations harm national security, rather than the unlawful and illegal intrusions of personal privacy that Americans are entitled to under our constitution.

The fact that you missed this point, and are not outraged and upset with such gross government misconduct ...... you finish the sentence.

“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists — or ever existed, or ever will exist — is a kleptocracy, meaning ‘rule by thieves.’ Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce. If the taxpayer/voters won’t willingly fork over to end poverty, then maybe they’ll cough up to fight drugs or terrorism. Conflicting ideologies, as presently constituted, are nothing more than a cover for what’s really going on, like the colors of competing gangs.” — Author L. Neil Smith

Here are two quotes from a ZeroHedge article that discusses the "cozy" relationship between $60 Billion Monsanto and their controversial herbicide, Roundup, and the EPA, the "watchdog" government agency that is supposed to protect the public from dangerous chemical products.

"Newly unsealed court documents released earlier today seemingly reveal a startling effort on the part of both Monsanto and the EPA to work in concert to kill and/or discredit independent, albeit inconvenient, cancer research conducted by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer."

"And that's where Jess Rowland, the EPA's Deputy Division Director for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and chair of the Agency's Cancer Assessment Review Committee, comes in to assure you that he's fully exploiting his role as the "chair of the CARC" to kill any potentially damaging research..."if I can kill this I should get a medal."

Read the full article here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-14/court-docs-prove-monsanto-collusion-epa-kill-cancer-study-admits-cant-say-roundup-do

Organic Anyone???????

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That makes two of us!

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I think you may be a bit hard on the CBO. Yes, they were off on the Obamacare estimates. In fact, way off. But that does not lessen the need for some type of critical financial analysis on any type of new government plan. (Irrespective of the fact that most government plans probably should not be implemented in the first place).

You tell me what the stock market will be a year from now, based upon all the analytical data that you want to utilize. Let's see how accurate that prediction turns out to be.

The two takeaways that I got from the CBO report are as follows:

1. 14 million more people will be uninsured by 2018. ( Probably correct. Young people will voluntarily choose to defer purchasing insurance because A) there is no penalty, and B) If they find they need it because, say, they contract cancer 10 years from now, the 30% surcharge penalty is peanuts when they saved 10 years of premiums).

2) The legislation would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion over the next decade, with the largest savings coming from reductions in Medicaid outlays and the reduction of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. Also, less people electing coverage means less federal subsidies.

Obamacare was bad Healthcare policy. Ryancare is bad Healthcare policy. Repeal Obamacare effective 6 months from now, and put the burden on both parties to work together and get it right. Hold open hearings with the public and healthcare professionals. Don't have pharmaceutical and insurance lobbyist groups write legislation behind closed doors which is how Obamacare and Ryancare were created.

There are plenty of good ideas out there to reduce the cost of healthcare, allow price discovery, and to put the consumer in charge of his or her healthcare. The biggest impediment to good healthcare policy is corporate greed and political corruption that feed each other.

[quote=Sons of Liberty]This pretty lady will probably wind up dead for speaking out.
https://www.teaparty.org/watch-dem-congresswoman-just-confirmed-americas-worst-nightmare-trump-right-223480/


We need more people like her in government. She has principles and stands by her convictions even when it it is not the mainstream view in Washington.