Who's the bigger offender: Conservatives or Liberals?

I always have to follow the links backward to figure out what the hell you're dribbling about.There was no embarrassment. You made a reference that I didn't recognize and I asked you to clarify. You still haven't done so.You also lied about it, calling it an "offhand remark" when, in fact, it was the entirety of your post Message 343. I'm sure you can't. In fact, I am ignorant about many substantive things. Everybody is.Y'know what I do when I'm ignorant about something? I ASK!And intelligent, honest posters ANSWER. They don't call a simple question a "hissy fit".

What does that have to do with what I said? Isn't a black swan event by definition unpredictable? So how can you predict it?It's the same as saying, "Some things just can't be explained - so here's the explanation." I don't see myself as a liberal.But liberal or conservative has nothing to do with believing there will be some sort of catastrophic event in the future. Religious nuts are more likely to believe in apocalyptic nonsense but I think it's mostly coincidence that they also believe in conservative nonsense. They're just more susceptible to nonsense in general.

I have a history of Nazi Germany that contains a photograph from the 1920s-30s of a group of protesters. One of them is holding up a sign that says (in German), "There will come a day of reckoning."It did.There are days of reckoning every day. Germany had several of them. Everybody has them.The day of reckoning comes, the reckoning happens and then we move on.I know you're wishing and hoping for the end of the world - but I think humanity is in for some days of reckoning that are much worse than that. And we may survive them.

The final fallback value is what you can DO in exchange for food. You can help somebody grow food, for example - which is how civilization began.

When I was a lowly chemistry student, the university used to have a Science Fair every second year. One of my buddies was explaining the instrument room, which was labelled "Quincy's Lab", which will give you some idea of the time frame.My demonstration was three stills: reflux, simple distillation and fractional distillation. Almost every member of the public who came through asked me where they could get the glassware.

Flaming Moe!

As somebody else has already suggested, in a famine, alcohol is likely to be a valuable commodity. Believing Jesus exists has nothing to do with it. The 'faithful' are as fond of alcohol as anybody else.

Burg = city, berg = mountain.

There used to be a little bar (seating capacity 20) a couple of blocks away (handy for walking home). Some friends of mine talked the bartender into making us pitchers of zombies.

Somebody's gotta do it. How do you think we (sorta) got rid of segregation?Even if we don't agree about what's appropriate and what's not, it's important to express the opinion.

That's the problem. Debt is sometimes necessary to get the money to do what needs to be done. You don't save up your pennies until you have enough to pay cash for a house. You borrow the money so you can have shelter now.Conservatives only care about what "helps them earn money in the long run" (except that they often have a very short view of "the long run"). They don't care much about what needs to be done now. They don't want government to do much at all.Edited by ringo, : Missing DQ.

Insisting that everybody is wrong but you is not a sign of respect.

We don't dogpile you specifically. We dogpile stupidity in general. I'm not offended (and I'm not in the United States). I don't even pretend to "understand finance" but it's pretty clear that you don't. I disagree. I think soybeans are more valuable than gold. You've already demonstrated many times in the context of gods that you don't care about reality.ABE:And by the way, AGAIN you completely ignored what I said in the post you supposedly replied to. Stop using me as a diving board into the cesspool of your mind.Edited by ringo, : No reason given.

That's like saying the cocaine keeps you from heroin. I'd even accept paying taxes if social progress was made.

I just started re-reading that the other day. Back in the 70's, the construction unions in Saskatchewan (my dad was a member) kept demanding wage parity with Alberta because "otherwise, our members will move to Alberta for higher wages." Finally, they got their wage parity - and almost immediately the Alberta unions demanded an increase because "the cost of living is higher in Alberts."