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Pulling Rank: Best Ways to Determine That the Illuminati Is Emotional from Rumors to Complete Fallacy
In a question proposed by an audience member during a taping of the Donahue (1967-1996) show to Ayn Rand regarding the existence of the Illuminati and whether that played a factor in Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957), Miss Rand simply rejected anything like those “conspiracies.” As of late, the talk has resurfaced about secret societies running the Earth like Adam Smith’s invisible hand twirling the globe. But it was another Adam that fostered this whole debacle over what these behind doors groups do to the planet. Mr. Adam Weishaupt originated the name and the thrust behind the entire alleged organization. This includes, allegedly, the wealthy families of the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Bilderbergs, and other names that have sprung up over the last few centuries. These names represent the “masters of the universe” who shape history and the intellectuality of a given age. People put faith in Illuminati because it resonates with the non-thinker. It gives automatic, canned, digestible tidbits of half philosophy half faith.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Pulling Rank: Best Acts of Pardoning Bad Behavior in the Genre of Hip Hop Listed from Truce to Squash the Beef
The mea culpa within the hip-hop arena has been a mainstay. With all the lights and glamour that comes with the life in the studio, on the road, and among the rich and famous, things may not always be what they seem. You might look onto an Internet video and see a group of rappers jumping up down in unison, enjoying their new found glory and fame. The next thing that happens is there is a falling out and a severance of ties within the group. Now, there is a period of diss records leveled against each other. Finally, if nothing ends in violence as has happened in the rap world, the warring factions settle their differences and reunite either in the studio or in some other fiscal venture.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Beat
Pulling Rank: Best Strategies for Preventing Gun Tragedies in America Listed From Pick up a Tablet to Lift up the Nation
When shots rang out during a video game conference, the jovial, buoyant atmosphere turned to dread. Yet another shooting had rocked a sector of the United States. The Jacksonville, Florida NFL Madden Championship Series gaming tournament became the scene of carnage. Police sirens blared and officers patrolled the premises as medical professionals carted off the wounded and the dead. What stands as stark is the fact that more and more quotes from people at the scene reverberate about more gun control, mental health for the future perpetrators (the tourney killer took his own life), and the push for politicians to do all of this work.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Elegy for a Maverick of Mixed Premises
Most men are gray in terms of their convictions. They hold onto good and life-affirming ideals while also clutching toxins at the same time. Many men have exhibited this dichotomy much like the late Senator John McCain. As he espoused “Duty, Honor, and Country” during his lifetime, the words encapsulate the man’s entire outlook on politics and life as a whole. Two out of the three ideals show a sense of what is the worst in an individual, duty and country.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Pulling Rank: How Freedom of Speech Must Be Protected Listed From Silence to Say It Loud!
The word “censor” is sometimes reserved for radio and television busybodies who seek to curb the content that a program or presenter offers to an audience. Often the joke goes, “this won’t get past the censors.” But is this the case? The only censorship, as it is understood properly, that can be carried out is by the government. Private institutions cannot censor material. This task is left to the United States government to block material that is not offensive but could incite riots or worse. Private organizations may sift through, reject, or slap ratings on a given work, but that is not censorship. That is due diligence on the part of private individuals who want to bar pornography, graphic violence, or other material that they might find to be unworthy of posting or publishing. This is free speech. This is the act of discerning what a given platform has the liberty of disseminating to its audience. Big Tech corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet all hold the right to block any content that they deem to be beneath their standards for excellence.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Pulling Rank: Best Ways to Combat the Opioid Crisis Listed from Light Buzz to Overdose
Throughout American history, epidemics such as influenza and smallpox have ravaged various populations. Influenza and smallpox are illnesses among others that have plagued the Americas. But what is not an epidemic is opioids. It is, properly, a crisis. And it is also a crisis that ought to be fought by private means, exclusively. Chris Christie is chairman of President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Abuse designed to “study ways to combat and treat the scourge of drug abuse, addiction, and the opioid crisis.” At least here it is referred to as its proper nomenclature. Further down the article, the writer chooses to use the word epidemic. This is an error. Opioids are not an epidemic because no infectious disease is involved in the conscious decision to do harm to one’s own mind and body. It is not an issue of a spread of a virus or harmful bacteria that is at hand here. Choices cannot be constituted as a crisis. Abusers possess the ability to engage in the abuse of opioids and any other substance. And that is the root of this problem. The feelings of the abuser worsen the situation. The simple thought of an abuser ingesting powerful agents and expecting to be cared for by the government, no less, because of their own choices, is sick.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Why Are You Ranking: The American Dream as Described by Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Artists Listed from Hallucination to Fantasy
Why is there no Scottish Dream? Is it because it’s already a cocktail? Why is there no French Dream? Would that be too risqué? And a German Dream may have already been a nightmare. These are but a few of the nations that serve as examples of how only one country originated and still upholds this obtainable vision; it’s called the American Dream. Often, the definition of the American Dream vacillates amongst different sectors of the United States. In some regions, it’s all about finding out who you are as a person and enjoying the bountiful Land of Plenty.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Geeks
Why Are You Ranking: How Individualism and Capitalism Are the Only Antitoxins for Racism Listed from Powerful to Puissant
Racism is stupid. On a ranking of the most unintellectual, base forms of collectivism, it ranks high. This pall of viciousness has fallen on both the victim and the perpetrator. On the one side, the victim identifies with his or her “race” and seeks to defend it. On the other, the perpetrator destroys the victim using non-scientific beliefs. The perpetrator continues on his or her path of destruction based on non-scientific beliefs and a corrupt mysticism related to skin color. African male and female specimens were different from European structure. Today, there are plenty of boxes besides race to check on an identification sheet. Muslim, Lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, disabled, and other nonessentials all pile up like rush hour traffic collisions. But the one lasting idea that separates and has kept human beings from advancing is the pigment divide. Honest individuals, both melanin challenged and otherwise, feel that they have to tip toe around the subject so as to avoid being labeled a racist. Outright defenders of the thoughtless act of judging chemical makeup rather than character find alleged “pride” in their own skin. In blacks, they ascribe their own “intelligence” to the geniuses of George Washington Carver, Miles Davis, and Toni Morrison; while choosing to ignore the black morons at the other end of the intelligence bell curve. They fail to see that the long list of black morons have constituted the race as well. Since the days of slavery in the United States, the distinction that has been placed on people with a darker flesh and coarse hair would be laughable if the history of racism in this country had not been so horrific. Just for being a black man, an individual could be stripped, shot, stabbed, hanged, set on fire, and drawn and quartered. And that’s just a mob showing restraint. Not to mention the black women used as breeding stock by their owners. So open up your tablets to receive a fresh take on a form of collectivism for "Why Are You Ranking: How Individualism and Capitalism Are the Only Antitoxins for Racism Listed from Powerful to Puissant."
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Why Are You Ranking: Best Case for Medicine Free of Controls in the United States Listed from Healthy to Fit
To say that someone is “happy” to pay taxes on health care is like saying that someone enjoys having a pistol pressed to their temple. The money that is generated by Americans ought to belong to them. Each individual ought to be able to use his or her money at their discretion. With “Medicare for all” and “Obamacare for everyone” we tend to forget just from where those funds stem. Money has to be stolen from the United States citizens to pay for their neighbor’s tonsillectomy. Why should an individual use his smart earned dollars to see that their potential enemy has the “right” to an operation? Stealing is wrong in any context. No matter how many democratic votes that a committee receives, it still doesn’t change the fact that government run health care programs are evil. Health insurance to boot is in a dizzying tailspin. They are vicious because of the fact that the individual has no say in how his or her money is utilized. The beauty of the United States (as it was founded) are the principles that said that a life belongs to an individual to go about as he pleases and not infringe upon the rights of others—liberty holds that that person can go about without the gaze of tyranny holding him or her back—property, although it was omitted from the Declaration of Independence is not just stuff that someone owns, but their ability to dispose of such items, including their own body—and the pursuit of happiness means a man or woman going after their version of what brings them joy in this world. So, get your medical records for, Why Are You Ranking: Best Case for Medicine Free of Controls in the United States Listed from Healthy to Fit.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Why Are You Ranking: Best Solutions to the Education Crisis in America Listed from Smart to Genius
Back to the meat grinder, the children of America trudge to these government schools. They're tasked with not why or how they should think but what they should feel. Whole curricula are dedicated to emotionalism and not critical thinking skills. Though their name bears Progressive, the actual regressiveness involved is in the true nature of this collection of people. For over a century, regressives have been trying to warp the minds of the young people of the most moral nation in history, America. This approach to education has lead to the United States sliding down the lists of tests regarding mathematics, reading and comprehension, and science amongst a whole host of other subjects. As bureaucrats rush to say that “education is the key” and that we “need more education” and to “pay our teachers more,” they would be right. But the means by which they seek to execute these platitudes is to implement more government in schools, not less. The twisted irony here is that with the government education model in place, things have only gotten worse. Children have no clue how to conceptualize or formulate complete ideas. Teachers who just see their work as another paycheck show malaise as their salaries are determined by government bureaucrats, not free market performance. To add to this disaster would be like spraying napalm on an already roaring fire. There exist solutions to this problem and they involve government. Yes, in a free market, the government would be able to protect schoolchildren from threats at home, from abroad, and to settle their differences in court if they find themselves in a legal bind. So get your styluses and digital tablets for Why Are You Ranking: Best Solutions to the Education Crisis in America Listed from Smart to Genius
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Education
Why Are You Ranking: Best Ways to Avoid the Tax Man (or Woman) Listed from Gimme Some Money to Get Up, Stand Up
As of this writing, taxes, or payments for governmental services, are strictly enforced at the local, state, and federal levels. Taxes constitute for the majority of the goods and services used or purchased in this semi-free market system. To not pay them is tantamount to theft. The irony is that taxes, in this context, are theft. When an employee works 40 hours a week for eight hours a day, they expect to get every cent of the money that they worked smart for in that time frame. Instead, they see that their smart earned dollars have been siphoned into a Social Security fund that will never be the amount that is taken in the first place. It goes into the pockets of some bureaucrats, lazy folks who wish never to hold a position of employment, or to a whole host of alphabet soup organizations (DEA, OSHA, EPA, the IRS) that mean nothing and stand for nothing. This gulf between whether to pay taxes or not is one which requires the most amount of scrutiny. To not pay your taxes, you go to jail. To pay your taxes, you are an upstanding citizen who holds a grudge quietly knowing that what you are doing is harming yourself. Come time on or around April 15, you discover that you’ve been paying into system that is corrupt in its very nature. Governments are only good for protecting individual rights. That’s it. So, in order to satisfy the need for police officers, warriors, and judges, all that a constitutional republic needs is for these three agencies to fulfill that one task of safeguarding rights. So, get your tablet calculators and digital tax preparation sheets for Why Are You Ranking: Best Ways to Avoid the Tax Man (or Woman) Listed from Gimme Some Money to Get Up, Stand Up.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
Why Are You Ranking: The Best Ways Capitalism Aligns with the Morality of Life Listed From Death Sentence to Dying with Dignity
With the deaths of celebrities, politicians, authors, and other figures of note, the main reason why we see such outpourings of grief and emotion is because of the wonders of capitalism. It is because of the only moral social system that such figures are emboldened to live beautiful, bountiful lives. For the most part, people of renown live well past their seventies. A few exceptions due to overdoses, suicides, and other calamities remain. But the vast majority of the people who make impressions on the world the most experience longer, healthier lives. The most prosperous amongst us have the means to seek the care of the best doctors in the world to heal them of their ailments. Due to the capital that is pumped into life preserving medicines, treatments, and operations, great amounts of the people that make news headlines when they expire could’ve thanked the semi-free market system for carrying them all those years. Cancer can strike at any age. From childhood to senior citizen, the disease is still just as deadly as it was when it was first discovered as early as 1600 B.C.E. In an era where diagnoses can be made in advance and where people don’t have to suffer as much as past generations, illnesses can be discovered, treated, and possibly cured or at least go into remission. So many celebrity deaths are marred with murder, car and plane crashes, and other faces of death that younger people experience. As far as the more advanced in age, they have experienced longer lives due to whatever remnants of the Enlightenment persist to this day. So get your Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal books for Why Are You Ranking: The Best Ways Capitalism Aligns with the Morality of Life Listed From Wealth Can Buy Health to Dying with Dignity.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in The Swamp
