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458 – Freedom comes at the back of a gun / Guns control / Sinful thinking / Heaven on Earth

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Jun 232016

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“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The tyranny which the Second Amendment was written to guard against can be seen forming quite clearly in the actions and goals of Democrats today. They’re gunning for guns, an agenda Democrats have worked towards since long before the tragic event in Orlando last week.

Consider it an object lesson in objects: While the left wails about the objects (weapons) used by criminals and terrorists, it refuses to acknowledge how it contributes to the conditions that make such events what some are now calling “the new normal.” But there’s nothing ‘normal’ about what happened in Orlando last week. Continue reading »

437 – Knowledge and causality

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Jan 282016

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Topics:
00:03 Just Wrote: feedback from Paul T – Murray – Rob – Trevor, our WBCQ sponsor Paul Lambert, skepticism, cause of feedback, cause of ship, introducing the four causal modalities – Formal – Material – Efficient – Final
17:15 No time for cause: integrated knowledge vs retention of facts, motivation of the left, John Macmurray on cause, natural law, the continuant, law of nature as pattern of continuance, time and the present, Leonard Peikoff on cause, entities vs actions, time travel fantasies
33:20 Necessity of choice: the inefficiency of efficient cause, cause vs motivation, from facts and stats to knowledge, significant knowledge, knowledge as source of morality and ethics, choice and knowledge
44:25 The sum of your experiences: life as an end in itself, predictions vs intentions, be cause, knowledge and eternity, first cause, God, existence
59:42 END

427 – Marchons! Marchons! / Submit to reason / CBC no evil / Islam – The elephant in the room

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Nov 192015

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00:03 Marchons, marchons!: Islamist attacks on Paris, political Islam, symbolism of the French flag, symbol of surrender and capitulation, literalists of the Koran, denying rational suspicions while stressing irrational suspicions, defining the enemy, enabling causes of Islamist violence, perfect storm for cultural collapse, ideas rule the world, the collective vs the individual, compliance to authority, shockingly lethal Submission
18:40 Submit to reason: the Fourth Reich, pressure to comply and submit, race is the collective, racist accusations represent submission to the collective, the true racists – campus activists, sympathy for Muslims, French national anthem
28:10 CBC no evil: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – terrorism enabler, suspicious of Christians but cautious of blaming Islamists, denial of evil, denial of discussion, distractions from the evil, war of ideas, terrorism’s after-effects
40:15 Islam: the elephant in the room: John Thompson CBC interview, John Rhys-Davies on Islam, Western cultural values, political correctness, incompatibility of sharia law with democracy, fighting ideas with ideas, Ayn Rand’s call for rational ethics
59:22 END — promo to 59:42

426 – Campus of the damned / The failure of success

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Nov 122015

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Topics:
00:03 Campus blahs: Yale campus disturbance, inter-cultural affairs committee letter on Halloween costumes, theory vs practice
13:10 Progressive deformity: zero tolerance for free speech on campus, John Dewey, Ayn Rand’s Comprachicos,deformity for political suppression, disconnecting the mind from reality through progressive education, anti-cognition as the standard of education, from structure and discipline to chaos and disorder, student activists as the modern comprachicos, abandonment of reason in favour of force
28:25 The failure of success: Harry Dent’s great re-set, predicting economic crashes, engineered destruction of capitalism in America, David Stockman, ‘Irrational Economics Summit’, government enterprises as successful failures
40:50 The success of failure: the economic re-set, no political re-set, inflation’s attractions, irrational fears of deflation, the relativity of inflation, quantitative easing, recognizing the crisis, system of socialism vs conditions of capitalism, ends and means 55:18 : END — promo to 59:42

392 – Political correctness / Capitalism? / Hydro monopoly

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Mar 192015

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00:07 Ignorance is strength: redefining terms of the debate, political debate, redefining words, Orwellian tactics, progressive goal is ignorance, freedom, general welfare, niggardly slur, from rape to sexual assault, progressive language agenda, prostitute, whore, gypsy, exclusion of man, fisherman to fisher, actress to actor, womyn, changing public mind set and attitudes, gay, homosexual
12:55 Watch your language! changing language standards, retarded to slow to challenged to gifted, crippled to handicapped to special needs, beyond Orwellian, hidden insults in political correctness, fear of offending, Oriental to Asian, Merry Christmas to Seasons Greetings, spelling of words, center and centre, Webster’s political spelling, language sovereignty, plow vs plough, alternative spelling system, ignorance is strength
30:20 Crook-ed thinking about capitalism: keeping capitalism unknown, Glen Pearson, Mark Carney, World Economic Summit, inequality in world’s wealth, economic capital vs social capital, economic inequity – good and bad, collective ownership is communism, market fundamental
45:00 Hydro just One: Ontario’s electricity monopoly, from Ontario Hydro to Hydro One, private monopoly vs public monopoly, profit motive, power at cost, profit is production, peak electricity rates to rise, saving money through price increases, illusion of monopolized choice
59:31 END

391 – The allure of the irrational / Contradiction / Superstition

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Mar 122015

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Topics: 00:07 Out of focus – the allure of the irrational: thinking about thinking, paradoxes, focus on the meaning, contradiction means a nothing, meaninglessness, stands to reason, logic and reason, thinking requires effort and focus, being out of focus, laziness, immorality, rationality is morality, faith vs trust, concept formation
12:50 Ill logic: contradiction, irrationality in theoretical physics, irrational politics, irrational climate change theories, from the innocent to the criminal, processes of reason, scientific process, ele-mental logic
27:00 Contradiction’s contradictions: contradictions in fiction, real contradictions, Star Trek’s Odo and changelings, the impossibility of rock-ness, feedback from Doug, Star Trek contradictions
41:55 Very superstitious: Green Acres – contradiction as humour, H.L. Mencken’s rational superstitions, fabricating meanings to avoid understanding, contradictory capitalisms, concepts and civilizations, H.L. Mencken’s guardians of civilization 56:45 END

385 – The case for sport hunting / Just say know to ‘affirmative consent’ with Guest: Paul McKeever

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Jan 292015

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00:07 The ethics of hunting for sport: status of animals, recreational hunting, sports hunting, ethics of hunting, spectrum of animal life, private and government jurisdiction, animals in the wild, predator and prey, nature of the beast
GUEST: Paul McKeever – leader, Freedom Party of Ontario
12:10 Negative to affirmative consent: re-defining concepts, the issue is consent, history of affirmative consent concept, verbal not conduct, absence of coercion a moot point, reversal of onus, Wynne government to teach consent in schools, when yes does not mean yes, college and university standards, effect of the law, creating distrust, cultural Marxist agenda and the rape culture
34:25 Know about no: a revolutionary step – affirmative consent, reversal of onus – guilty until proven innocent, allegations of sexual assault against famous people, Cidra Ladd’s allegation against Cosby, focus on creating distrust in the trustworthy, allegations are all you need to destroy critical thought, changing the language, social alienation
45:40 Dinosaur concept: Womyn of Antioch, making consent a dinosaur concept, looking into the collectivist future, concept of date rape, allegers without cases, selling consent to the public, affirmative consent a legal minefield 59:37 END