Does Science Argue for or against God?:

Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn't be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greatest threat to the idea of Intelligent Design or is science its greatest advocate? Best-selling author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas, poses this intriguing question and comes up with a very unexpected and challenging answer.

How moral is it for the self appointed elite to deliberately keep the "peasants" ignorant so they can be more easily manipulated, even if it is supposed to be fore the benefit of the country?

See Say reading had already been tested and found to be a failure among hearing students (It was invented to teach the deaf, who have a hard time learning to read with phonics) when it was forced into the government schools.

For that matter, we had a 98% literacy rate before the passage of the first compulsory attendance law (which has been falling ever since), and the system our schools were patterned after was designed to produce obedient soldiers, not literacy.

Government schools are not broken at all. They are functioning exactly as they were designed; producing a large population of people who are so incapable of thinking for themselves they can be easily confused as to which bathroom they should use! And if they can be indoctrinated to become mindless consumers, so much the better!

What to do with California?

Is California worthy of the United States? "Oh, but remember: despite the genuinely good people of that "Golden State," there are those there whose noses are turned upward at those of "flyover country" who just are not good enough for them. But then, what can you do with those squares who believe in real justice?"

I was born in Southern California. Spent 30 years there. I've lived here in Nevada now for 18 years. I would love to kick California out of the real United States...as long as they take Vegas with them!

Vegas has been totally corrupted with the California Anti-American ideas, and as a result, our elections here often go way left. Vegas (and a tiny bit of Reno) are the only places Nevada that are to the left. The entire rest of the state is very conservative. But, then, northern California is conservative, too.

So I purpose that Southern California from just north of San Francisco down and Vegas be made into a new state, minimum, country would be better (they don't like the Founders Ideas as put forth in the Constitution? Fine. Make your own. But don't force me to live under it, or financially support your stupidity). We Northern Nevadans will join with Northern California and make a new state. Culturally, economically, and politically this makes much more sense than the current divisions.

Just give enough warning my 2 brothers still in Ca can move out :-)

Gun control

I have yet to see a proposal that would take guns away from criminals. Only from law abiding citizens.

There is no evidence that fewer guns means less crimes. Quite the opposite, actually. Criminals are evil, not stupid. They choose other ways to prosper if the potential victims can shoot back.

Example: Australia confiscated all the guns and the gun violence fell 50% (ummm, if ALL the guns were removed, shouldn't gun violence have dropped 100%?) but over all violence skyrocketed. Personally, I'd rather be shot than beat to death by a baseball bat.

Switzerland has 8 billion people, and all adults are required to serve 2 years in the military ("Trained to shoot guns of all types") When they leave the service, they have the option of taking their gun (equal to an AR15) with them. They have some 2 billion guns, or, 1 gun for every 4 citizens. They also have the lowest violent crime rate in the world.

Even if we could wave a magic wand and remove all the guns from our country today, tomorrow thousands would be pouring over the border. Heck, we can't keep 200 pound men out. What makes anyone think we can keep guns out?

If you remove the cities with the toughest gun control laws from the stats, America has the lowest gun violence rate in the world. And yes, these shooting happen all over the world (except in Switzerland). Americans are just too myopic to pay any attention to anyone else.

And the protesters from this weekend are in two camps:

1. Stupid kids being manipulated by the media and self-appointed elite. They obviously don't even know what they are talking about.
2. Those who are doing the manipulating because they think they are part of the elite and will benefit if we are disarmed.

Fact:

1. 18 kids died in school shootings this past month.
2. Somewhere between 270-330 teens died texting and driving in the same amount of time. Where are the "Apple is killing our children" and "Ford is guilty of murder" signs? Oh wait, that wouldn't push the elite's agenda. Got it. 
3. Why aren't we talking about 650 murders in Chicago in the last year? or 290 killed in New York? That's an average of 78 per month in just these two cities. Two cities, by the way, with the toughest gun control laws in the nation. Is it because the victims were blacks killed by blacks? No, actually, I don't think race has anything to do with it.  These cities have already bought into the politically correct ideas of "guns bad" and so they are no longer of interest to the media and elites. Who cares about the results as long as they have the right laws? Who cares about the common man cowering defenseless in his living room? He's not important. Their power is.
4. What about the 3000 children who had their arms and legs ripped off, or their bodies dissolved in acid, or major arteries cut so they would bleed to death in the last DAY? That's 90,000 in the last month. Of course since their bodies are disposed of off camera (often sold to the highest bidder for medicines, and makeup even), no one cares. 

"Until you show our kids that its' wrong to kill children in the womb, they won't quit killing them in the classroom."

And the fact remains that all shooters are young men from broken homes, raised without a man in the house, seeing a psychiatrist and taking psycho-tropic drugs. These are the issues that need to be addressed. Even if we made it impossible for these disturbed individuals to get guns, they would just build bombs or drive cars into crowds. We need to address the causes of this type of thinking.