I believe religious people can believe what they want too. What can't be allowed is an environment where it's necessary for atheists to tolerate a hostile environment at their place of employment, for example, because refusing to participate in religious activities hosted by their employer will result in discrimination and probable hostility from their co-workers.

My aim is not to take away your right to free expression. It's to take away your undeserved religious privileges.

In the way you want, there isn't one.

Well, religious arguments are part of a class of arguments that rely on, at some point, empirically untestable arguments. If I tried to disprove transubstantiation by using scientific instruments to test if the wine, while it was used in ritual, turned in to blood, no Catholic would or or could be persuaded by the test results.

Which gets back to my point about religious expression and politics. Unlike the theory that aliens are living on the moon, religious arguments enjoy certain privileges from criticism that are easily abused.

Attila the Hun was smart. Doesn't take away from the fact that he was a barbarian.

Expanding the marriage franchise is not enlightened. It is even more backward. What the state needs to do is abolish marriage, because it privileges a conception of the good.

$11.8 million doesn't concern me a whole lot. Of course, I doubt he earned most of his money honestly, given that he is a big rent-seeking politician.

But, $11.8 million in assets is well within the range of what could be earned honestly. What's unlikely to be earned honestly is a billion dollars.  I will guess that at least 95% of billionaires are crooks who "earned" their money from anti-competitive privileges, no doubt given to them from collusion with the government.

Not that I want a billionaire beheaded.. But I would like to see every billionaire guilty of profiting from anti-competitive privileges (not including patents) to be imprisoned for life, and their wealth appropriated. However, I would be willing to allow their close relatives who are innocent of any wrong doing to keep up to $5 million.

So I favor imprisoning Barack and Michelle Obama for life, if a large portion of their money was earned dishonestly, but I would let each of their kids have $5 million, leaving $1.8 million to be appropriated.

Unfortunately, the tyrants are irrational. They'd rather fight each other for dominance than join forces and be equal shareholders in a monopoly on international power, which will both ensure their survival and maximize their profits. If they continue down their current path, they may end up destroying themselves at the worst.

Yes, give the Falklands to Argentina. Also, require Britain to surrender all it's overseas holdings, including the straits of Gibraltar. End the British Empire. No compromises.

This is good news. Aside from more frequent and intense heat waves, the U.S. will be fine. In fact, it sounds like we'll be able to increase agricultural yields, while the rest of the world becomes more dependent on us for their survival. This basically ensures America's dominance in the world, and the beginning of a new dawn.

All we need to do is protect our access to water. This can be easily done, with some no-brainer adjustments including reducing California's water supplies. They have plenty, they don't need all that water so every single family home can have a backyard pool.

Alternatively, you can do what I do.

"Racism is the belief that the human species can be biologically divided in to sub-species and races, some of which have profound differences in traits such as character and intelligence, and that discrimination and institutional inequality is justified on this basis. So unless you can prove I presently believe that, then I suggest you apologize and correct yourself or I will sue you for defamation."

and

"It's true, I dislike black people. But it's not because of supposed biological differences. It's that I disapprove of their pimp culture, their culture of irresponsibility. Want my respect? Stop listening to hip hop and rap, stop wearing oversized clothes, stop speaking ebonics, and start acting responsibly. This doesn't mean I dislike all black individuals, there are many black individuals who I respect and trust. What I don't like is black people as a class, and, yes, whiggers also share membership in this class. The class of glamorized stupidity and victim psychology. That's not racism, it has nothing to do with race. My contempt is for a culture, a culture that at least 70% of black people seemingly happen to be a part of. So long as black people, as an aggregate, share the values and practices of this culture, they will never be one of us."

Well, if there's an outbreak, you just have to live somewhere with low population density.

Kemp,

In U.S history, only one President has ever paid off the national debt and destroyed a national bank. And when elites threatened to secede, he threatened to march on them.

Andrew Jackson. Not saying he wasn't a scumbag in his own way, but only a leader who commands the love of the army can act independently of the so called "nobility."

And Petraeus is human. My guess is he tried to protect himself by reconciling with the Obama administration in some way, but his political acumen is so bad that he couldn't realize that they wanted to destroy him.