We’ve completed another week, and it is time to choose another Comment of the Week. I’ve selected one comment from each of the past seven days (Mon-Sun) and included them below for you to review before you vote.
The winner, as selected by the Grokosphere, will have the option of contacting me (steve@granitegrok.com) to provide an address to which I will ship a ‘Grok goody. We will announce the winner on Wednesday.
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And wow, great conversations everywhere, but especially on Pedophiles and Psychos Employed at U.S. Youth Detention Centers, and this Evidence Suggests That Children Who Get No Vaccines … Have Better Health Outcomes.
Thanks to everyone who reads and comments. There were a large number of excellent remarks and exchanges.
When voting, you will select the Disqus Handle of the commenter you’d like to win this week in the poll below. The poll closes Tuesday at 8 pm.
Comments are as originally submitted.
Ian Underwood
Rights, or Permissions?
How about consent — which essentially reduces to the Golden Rule — as a shared value upon which to base both society and government? According to the Declaration of Independence, that’s the ideal upon which the need to form a new country is based.
Here are the things I don’t want anyone else to be able to do to me. Therefore, I agree to be punished if I get caught trying to do them to anyone else.‘
That captures all of the things that should be crimes (like murder, assault, and theft), without including the things that shouldn’t be (like smoking pot or paying for sex or gambling). And it eliminates using government as a tool for redistributing wealth.
Or how about Bastiat’s description of government as ‘nothing more than organized self-defense’?
These are the opposite of chaos.
What we have nowis chaos — a situation where 51% of the voters can force their preferences on the other 49% at the point of a gun; where 51% of the voters can treat the other 49% as ATMs, and so on; where every election feels like it could spell the end of the world as we know it, because a handful of voters in the middle could turn everything upside-down overnight.
TheOrneryNurse
Obesity: Eating Less is Out – Drugs and Surgery Are In
Watch this. #NoAmnesty
Jack
Maine Follows Vermont Down Another Disarmament Rabbit Hole
I believe the only reason our current regime and all it’s tools don’t want us to form militias is because they want to disarm us even though Article 1 titled: The Militia.. Clauses 15 and 16 give the federal govt. the power to call up and use state militias. Against us if Congress deems fit. And if they succeed they definitely would use militias against us.
Besides, if they eliminate our power to form them they will be able to form their own. Like the “Collectivos” in Maduro’s Venezuela.
First time I’ve heard that expression, had to look it up. Hadn’t heard that he was pushing “15 Minute Cities”.
As for “15 Minute Cities”, each “City” is supposed to provide/have available every service that a resident might want? Have you had a hip replacement lately? How far did you have to travel? Just the thought of training enough doctors to staff local clinics – not going to happen.
Returning to the European feudal village way of life, with a Lord of the Manor and his serfs. Just don’t get caught poaching the King’s deer in the King’s Forest – you will be transported to a north American colony.
(The last ‘official’ group of English convicts was landed in north America in April of 1776, 28 of them.)
NHnative
Vermont Tax Revolt Continues …
The fall of Vermont has been hard to watch because I love that state.
The older I get, the more I love the physical beauty of the state and the old fashioned quiet life that one can live in Vermont.
It’s devastating that the state seems to be on a suicide mission though..
They could use more people like us that desire to live simply in small towns without a lot of people around. BUT then they’ve made it impossible for us to move there..
To move there is to agree to be owned by the psychopaths in control, robbed by the government and driven downward- and a victim of crime in many areas!
So that ain’t gonna work!
Collcat
Pedophiles and Psychos Employed at U.S. Youth Detention Centers
Not challenging you and respect your opinion but analysts think roughly 25,000 victims have come forward across the country just between 2019-2024. Given the fact that most victims don’t come forward till 51, this number is likely going to grow into the hundreds of thousands.
States certainly are in the wrong but I agree with author and Senator Jon Ossoff, the Federal Government holds the largest liability in all of this. They listened to Quack Drs for decades and used these centers to test pseudoscience on kids. Pseudoscience attracts those who abuse children always has.
Victims should certainly file lawsuits against the state, but in NH the state is corrupt so what good is that? This won’t stop without the federal government taking accountability. Follow the money to find those who are to blame. The grants all came from the federal government.
LauraCondon
Evidence Suggests That Children Who Get No Vaccines … Have Better Health Outcomes
I’ve been at this subject for so many years that I have to remind myself that it was a journey for me and is likely a journey for most people. My journey started as a special ed teacher in the Autistic Unit at Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield decades ago when parents told me, “My child was fine, my child was perfect, my child was normal. Then they got the MMR shot and totally regressed, never spoke again, lost developmental skills, developed food allergies and seizures.” Media used to report on vaccine failure and harm back then with Phil Donahue talking about the DPT shot and 60 Minutes reporting on the Swine Flu shot causing paralysis. Then in 1986 when the industry got the federal government to pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that shielded vaccine makers from all harm from vaccines, the floodgates of vaccine development opened up and the aggressive vaccine mandates on children were militantly enforced.
But yes, like you I too once believed that some vaccines surely were good…I mean the smallpox one was good, right? But there were just too many, too soon, too close together. Best to pick and choose and space them out. But I kept reading and investigating as more vaccines were brought to market (meningococcal, and Hep B, and chickenpox and HPV, etc.) and even more “boosters” were added for vaccines that were now failing (polio is now 3 doses, measles is now 2 doses, even chicken pox is now 2 doses, mumps is 2 doses with call for a 3rd dose of this failed shot). I saw the harm. I saw the failure. And I met healthy, thriving children and adults who never had any vaccines. Over a period of years I realized I was wrong about the too many, too soon, and too close together. I learned that none of them were necessary and the vast majority are very dangerous. And smallpox and polio??? Those were the last ones I let go of. Lots of reading got to the truth.
So welcome to this journey. I hope that you will continue to keep an open inquisitive mind and that maybe you too will find that what you once thought was true is not actually the case. And good health to you!
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