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    Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

    Yes, not true at all, on both counts: the Batista dictatorship was not "right-wing" - unless a corrupt unionist populist demagogue is somehow supposed to be "right-wing" - and, as a matter of fact, the pre-Batista and Batista Cuba had the best collection of medical professionals in the Western...
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    When does Atheism Become a Belief System

    I guess in your classification I would be an "Agnostic 2nd Degree". I do not believe either in gods or their non-existence, empirical evidence pending. At the same time I am generally sympathetic with the religious mindset ( as long as it means voluntary self-imposed constraints, not another...
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    Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

    I will. I have absolutely no problem speaking ill of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Trotsky, Robespierre... - all of them very dead. Castro is a pygmy in comparison (a small island, limited opportunities), but still - burn in Hell, "comrade".
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    Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

    What does it mean, exactly? You know of course that the Socialist (!) government that came after Franco was busy privatizing what he had nationalized, as a minimal tribute to economic sanity? As the man said, the next world war will not be fought over resources or ideology, it will be fought...
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    Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

    Fidel Castro, B.I.H.
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    Bernie Spends $575K on Vacation Home - Can Socialists Do That?

    What the... I disagree with this guy on approximately everything, but how he spends his own money is his business, not ours. And being a socialist means having faith in the benign role of government in the areas of social life where - in my humble, very capitalist opinion - it should have none...
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    Is climate change in your top 5 areas of concern?

    Frankly, I don't care if you take me seriously. But no, ecological systems are not "well understood". ( I am a biologist, by the way, although pulling rank is not a good argument). Here we have a classical orgy of politically charged charlatanism. An enormously complex and barely studied system...
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    Is climate change in your top 5 areas of concern?

    So, your counter-argument consists of two statements: (1) I am an idiot (possible, but hard to verify) (2) A Swedish scientist (whose name you have brutally misspelled) had described the greenhouse effect. So? Nobody is saying that there's no greenhouse effect. The problem is, it is not the...
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    Is climate change in your top 5 areas of concern?

    Nonsense. No, really - literally - nonsense. Imagine the Earth a few thousand years ago -it could barely sustain a bunch of scattered nomadic tribes. Fifty, maybe a hundred thousand humans - tops. Now we are pushing 7.5 BILLION, and it is abundantly clear that wherever (real) poverty persists...
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    Why did the GOP pick Trump in the beginning?

    Oh, really? Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush just had a spontaneous urge to jump in at some point, no party apparatus backing whatsoever?
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    Why did the GOP pick Trump in the beginning?

    Nobody invited Trump. He had hijacked the party capitalizing on the power of celebrity, psychopathic self-assurance and shameless populist pandering. He clearly has nothing in common with either the religious conservatives, or the Club for Growth types, or the old school "decency above all"...
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    Trump-Clinton spar over economic plans

    I don't know about "plans" - so far we had speeches kinda-sorta about economics. To distill: Both Trump and Clinton pledge to (a) spend, spend, spend (the national debt is not an issue anymore, apparently), and (b) time-travel to the 1960s via starting idiotic trade wars. Once again, I am...
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    Is climate change in your top 5 areas of concern?

    Truly amazing. I understand that "climate change" or "overpopulation" may be discussed as "problems" in some intelligent ways, but "Top 5 areas of concern"?! Like, before wars, terrorism, curable diseases that are not being cured, poverty, tyrannical governments, etc, etc, etc?!
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    New Reuters poll: Trump back in striking distance

    You are an incorrigible optimist.
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    Donald Trump savages Japan, saying all they will do is 'watch Sony TVs' if US is atta

    Re: Donald Trump savages Japan, saying all they will do is 'watch Sony TVs' if US is To be fair to Japan, specifically: Its pacifist Constitution was pretty much imposed by our occupation regime. And they are making gradual changes - prompted in particular by the murder of a Japanese...
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