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SCRYER1973
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2 months ago
How The Democrats Caused The Financial Crisis: Starring Bill Clinton's HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo And Barack Obama; With Special Guest Appearances By Bill Clinton And Jimmy Carter
The Democrats caused this crisis by forcing the banks to make affirmative action loans. "Liberalism is a mental disorder."
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Peter Schiff, Wall Street CEO, Takes on The NO-Answers 'Occupy' Protesters
Peter Schiff, CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. went to Zuccotti Park and took on Occupy Wall Street protesters. 10-26-...
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SCRYER1973
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7 months ago
Thom Hartmann: To be a follower of Ayn Rand - is it necessary to be an atheist?
Eric Sapp, American Values Network joins Thom Hartmann. There's an inherent contradiction emerging within today's Republican Party. For decades now...
@RealLiveDebates: Say it brother!
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SCRYER1973
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8 months ago
Lets talk about Healthcare.
I tried to stay out of it. I really did.
@MrThahey: By "government monopoloy" I specifically mean the Federal McCarran-Ferguson Act. It prohibits interstate competition between health insurance companies. The cost of an out-of-state insurer to enter another state market is often high so individuals have little choice about what coverage...
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Lets talk about Healthcare.
I tried to stay out of it. I really did.
@MrThahey: Essentially, government is a gun. Any government endeavor uses force as a means to achieve its ends. Tax rates in Sweden are commonly cited as among the highest in the world behind Hungary, France, Germany and Belgium. Payroll, corporate and individiual taxes are considerably higher th...
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Lets talk about Healthcare.
I tried to stay out of it. I really did.
@endauthority: It is in my own self-interest to contribute to the protection of individual rights.
Communism is sacrificing the individual to the group. Without private property man's means of survival is cut off. He is forced to sacrifice to the state for the good of the whole. He who prea...
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Lets talk about Healthcare.
I tried to stay out of it. I really did.
@Tammylita: Oxygen isn't a scarce resource.
If you want to bring health insurance costs down then remove the gov't safety net and force insurance companies to compete. Gov't interventions have made a monopoly out of the health insurance market.
Rights are not guarantees to a commodity. Th...
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Lets talk about Healthcare.
I tried to stay out of it. I really did.
@endauthority: Individual rights are valued if life is valued. To negate individual rights is the same as denying the individual's right to his own life. The opposite and more popular view is that the individual has a moral duty to sacrifice his life for the good of the group. Duty is a misnomer;...
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God, Morality and Gratuitous Football Metaphors.
Response to Epydemic2020 on Christian morality. Am I SERIOUSLY incapable of making a video under twenty minutes, now? Is this what it's come to?
Objectivity applies only to minds. Values are arrived at through an objective process of logic and reason. Only rational beings can hold the concept of value which further reduces to life as their base. Without life as the base no values are possible.
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: Not every citizen with advanced warning can flee. Some may be forced by circumstances to stay and fight or surrender and die. In any case the violation of the moral standard rests on the aggressing government. Governments that arbitrarily murder its citizens have no moral right t...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: In addition, your personal support of taxation isn't a factor in this matter. The government will take from your income regardless of your support. No moral virtue is involved where no choices exist.
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: 1)"Nobody is taking from me." 2)"I choose to remain in this country, so I am allowing the government to take my money." Both are contradictory statements. You state the former doesn’t deny the action because no action was taken but then you proceed to blame the individual for the...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: It is not a stretch. Taxation is a violation of property rights. Individuals have a right to keep what they earn through their productivity. Humans, by our nature, have to be free to produce and trade. The moral principle of the right to life is the same in either case.
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: Driving is a privilege, not a right. ALL of the other examples you list are failures of government interventions and do not happen in a free market.
The U.S. is like an obese diabetic facing a foot amputation as a direct result of his excessive diet and lack of exercise. B...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: Your position also sanctions the initiation of force against the individual. When force becomes the standard in a society then the focus shifts from who can be the best producer, creator, or inventor to who can be the best pickpocket, thief, and destroyer. Such a society eventua...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: I'm not going anywhere. :-)
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: I am not a Conservative. Conservatives want to take this country back on the ground of tradition. They believe god is the source of rights; that faith is superior to reason. Their position is not unlike the Left's mystical faith in society. Conservatives herald themselves as the ...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: Your position begs the question. If a dictator decides to kill citizens then according to you his actions are moral. Moral by what standard?
To be more complete one could say: 1) "Nobody is killing me. 2) I choose to remain in this country, so I am allowing the government to ...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: If there is no objective truth, fact, or reality in ethics then what will you do if you promote political freedom on the grounds that you "feel" it is good and later find yourself facing down an aggressive thug who announces he feels quite differently?
Taking from others won't ...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Universal healthcare/Christian nation....
Just a quick random thought, but why is the same people who are agianst the public option or universal healthcare, are usually the same people who ...
@eyeswideopen82: Individual rights are moral principles that define a person's freedom of action in a social context. They are not the right to an object but the right to take the actions necessary to produce or earn that object. No one has the right to vote away a person's life or the materia...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: It's the equivalent of hazarding a guess without any recourse to an objective standard. Language would not be a useful tool of cognition if its words failed to retain the distinguishing characteristics of its concepts. Every individual's conceptual development would remain in a chaot...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: A=A is an axiomatic concept. It is a refutation that nothing exists. Existence refers to every entity, attribute, action, event or phenomenon (including consciousness) that exists, has ever existed or will ever exist. It is implicit in all knowledge. It has to be accepted even when ...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: Wild children never exposed to language pass a critical window period in brain development when they can no longer acquire language beyond simple sentences. Language is taught. Helen Keller knew water only perceptually when drinking it. She had not yet developed language as a way of ...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: Empiricists deny the mind by positing only direct perception of objects are real without any reference to concepts. Rationalists deny existence by claiming that only the mind is real; that knowledge is deduced from concepts inside the mind. Both schools of thought are a barrier to und...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: In other words, language is a function of indeterminate approximations. Imagine a sadist writing “water” in Helen Keller’s palm, then placing her hand under water, on a dog’s mane, over stones and grass all interchangeably and then telling her that water is called water today but mil...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: A is A refers to the fact that whatever exists has identity.
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@joyclean: Language derives from sensory experience. Consider the struggle Anne Sullivan faced while teaching concepts to Helen Keller using only her sense of touch.
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@l1a2b: Rand identified existence as such. Existence and consciousness can be studied but they cannot be proven because they are irreducible primaries. Reason IS the only way to understand reality. If reason doesn't correspond to reality then the Law of Identity doesn't apply either which mean...
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SCRYER1973
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1 year ago
Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery
http://www.ted.com In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that under...
@funicula83: In a Capitalist society, no individual may initiate force against anyone. It was the agrarian south in the U.S. that practiced the old feudal-slave system of Europe. It was the Capitalist industrial north that wiped it out. A country's freedom corresponds to the degree its governme...
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Ayn Rand
Brief clip of Ayn Rand.
Full 30 minutes can be seen here, though you may need to register:
@l1a2b: To exist is to possess a specific nature with specific attributes which distinguishes it from the nothing of non-existence. The only way one can perceive existence is by a direct causal link from an object to the sensory organs. Light bouncing off an object and hitting the retinas, com...
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Twilight Zone A little peace and quiet part 3
1985 Twilight Zone series
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SCRYER1973 said:
I saw the original broadcast of this episode in 1985. The ICBM above the city with the airburst in suspended animation horrified me. In grade school we frequently talked about the possibility of nuclear war. This episode captures the pervasive fear of the 1980s cold war era.