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  Pots and kettles

  Whenever Cuban policies that have led to universal education, universal health care, organic farming on a massive scale, safe neighborhoods, gender and race equality..., there are always answered  by two yeah buts.  
  The first is the treatment of dissidents.  The Cuban government doesn't like people who disagree with it and is sometimes mean to them.  I'm no supporter of government suppression of alternative opinions but it's hard to deny that the Cuban government does have more than a little reason to think that powerful forces are dedicated to overthrowing it.  Criticisms of those policies seem a little disingenuous coming from a government that arrests citizens wearing antiwar tee shirts at presidential love fests and puts serious social critics on death row on trumped up murder charges.  
  The second is lack of free elections.  Is an election free when black people are systematically dropped from the voting rolls, when voters in Democratic precincts wait in line for 8 or more hours while those in Republican districts sail through in a matter of minutes and the president of the company making the machines promises that it's his job to ensure that the incumbent wins?
  Just asking.On What the West's only communist nation has done right posted 3 years, 3 months ago 13 Responses

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  C'mon

  This certainly isn't news to people who try to reintroduce captive bred animals into the wild. Their biggest problem is to learn how to be surrogate parents and teach their charges how to find food sources in the wild and avoid predators.
  If you live with bears, you learn that some bears have been taught (by their mothers) to find their food from logs full of beetle larvae, from wild fruit sources, from spawning salmon in the fall, from the wild.  Others have been taught by their mothers to find their food from garbage cans and orchards.  
  I've seen donkeys teach horses how to eat thistle blossoms.  
  Of course we're different than any other species.  If there exists a nattering class in the genus Muridae, (mice) the members of it certainly have good arguments to support the thesis that God created the Universe with them in mind.
  There are even plants that release chemicals into the air to warn their downwind species-mates that they're being nibbled on, so the forewarned can start producing chemicals to make themselves less palatable.  
     On Ants are as smart as you posted 3 years, 10 months ago 2 Responses

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  Nukes as an answer

  The information about downwind of Chernobyl, if true, is certainly thought provoking.  I'd sure want to know who's finding that and what their    parameters and criteria were before I started quoting it.  I'm always hearing about what a wonderful thing the pipeline's been for the caribou.  And I remember when nukes would make electricity "to cheap to meter".  On It may be time to embrace nuclear power posted 3 years, 11 months ago 1 Response

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  Pattycake Robertson

  I say to the people of Kansas, when you need a science based answer to anything, don't expect your children to come up with it.  The good news is that your bright kids will be staying close to home, they'll never survive in a university level science program outside Kansas.  And you can be sure that the intelligent designer of any breakthrough in science or technology won't come from Kansas.On Uh oh posted 4 years ago 8 Responses