1. There is nutritious food, but fat and sugar tastes better.
2. You're confusing ethyl mercury and methyl mercury.
3. Not sure what secrets you mean, but there are times when secrecy is important.
4. Education can and should be improved.
5. I agree that drinking water should be clean. And it is often clean.
6. Again, you're confusing ethyl and methyl mercury.
7. One study said popular music is becoming louder and less complex. I don't believe any other studies have bothered to confirm it.

Not sure what secrets you mean,** but there are times when secrecy is important.**

Nice try NSA.

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"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."

Peter Fenn

Did I ever say nothing should be open? No? Okay then.

What I meant was with such things as weapons technology, troop movements, and maps of the Pentagon, there's no need for the average person to need to know about them, and keeping them secret prevents the enemy from learning about them. If I may clarify my earlier statement, secrecy is important when used wisely.

I agree with your quote, we should be able to have frank and open discussions with our government about various matters and the government should not feel afraid to reveal their reasoning behind their policy. The government should feel pressured to create reasonable policy that helps the people, not lobbyists with large checks.

Thank you for the clarification. I wasn't trying to be a dick but your first statement sounded a bit sinister.

As well, I was not implying that the transparency is cut-and-dry in the context of government. However even the slightest amount of secrecy lends itself towards more secrecy and so on. When I was a child and stole cookies out of the cookie jar without my mother knowing, I became emboldened even more daring taking twice the amount next time.

Once a government operates freely behind closed doors, only bad things can come of it. Even secrecy used wisely is dangerous. For example, it would be wise/logical for the gov. to conceal the names of agents working in foreign territory. But the question then becomes, what are they doing there? But that question cannot be entertained, because the gov. already deemed the situation a secret.

I have always thought that if we cannot, as a country, operate in the open, what is the merit in operating at all.

edit: I am far too much of an idealist for these types of discussions

It's quite a dilemma. How can you know if secrets need to be secret if you can't know what the secret is?

There are supposedly agencies in place who evaluate the level of secrecy needed for various secret documents, but their actions are secret, so we go right back to the first question.

Getting paid by the word on not the post?

I can see you feel that it's easier to insult someone than to discuss their points, and I have tagged you as such.

Do not atribute to malice what can be just as easily attributed to stupidity.

Its funny/sad I was thinking the exact same thing this morning going into work. I almost feel like we're becoming cattle and we are doing it to ourselves. Look at the television shows we are watching watch 30 seconds of commercials on TLC (the learning channel what bullshit is that). Look at the food we eat. People are becoming lazy sedentary sloth people (those motherfuckers from wall-e aren't that far off dude). Look at the US (not to pick on the US I just see it the most blatent there but look around it's everywhere) Romny trying to steal the election like it's no big deal. Bush did the same things 12 years ago on the DL and people were PISSED now Romney is doing it so obviously and noone is saying SHIT like it's the thing to do. Fucking people shooting up people every other day it seems we see a story about someone who just snapped and shoots up a temple a movie theater a convention a church and office building. And people wonder why I fear for my childrens safty...

Wasn't there a study recently done that literally proved that music is dumbing down?

One of the best drummers ever lives in our era/generation.

A guitarist who was put even in the same light as Jimmy Paige also belongs to our generation.

Electronic Dance Music might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's certainly more complex than people give it credit for, it's just not an instrument.

Maybe a study that shows how bad the pop radio stations are? But you can blame the listener for that.

A guitarist who was put even in the same light as Jimmy Paige also belongs to our generation.

Who is this guitarist that is possibly as good as Jimmy Page?

My vote's for this guy.

please

We are talking about the guy that basically defined rock n roll and you link THAT?

No need to whip our dicks out and compare the size of our hard ons for Jimmy Page, I just wanted to share a modern guitarist I enjoyed.

Great, thanks. I didn't ask you!

Shrug, don't watch the video then. Believe it or not you're not the only one who can see the comments section.

Meh, it's too late for that. It's just a warning for anyone else tempted to make the same mistake.

Very noble.

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Try and stick with us here:

I asked bigglesxyz not jefewyatt

Is something about that especially confusing for you?

Sorry, I didn't mean possibly as good, just that people look at him in the same light.

No, I mean that I'm curious. Who are you talking about?

If it is even remotely true, there is a good chance I'll love it

I'm a huge fan of EDM and (good) dubstep (not the shit they put on the radio), I took this to mean something more along the lines of Justin Bieber, Rebecca Black, and Carly Rae Jepsen. Everything they create is pure garbage

Pop music doesn't even count as music. It's cheesy one liners to a beat.

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So what I said then? ;p

The most appalling part to me has to be the food situation and that is globally, especially in western nations. The complete disregard for proper education on what is good food culture is disgusting. Look at just about any suggested meals and you'll find tons of carbohydrates everywhere. This in itself is not harmful, its a natural product of certain foodstuffs like potates/corn/rice/pasta/wheat etc. The problem lies in that the vast majority of people that take part of this food culture have no idea what this does to them. Combine it with fatty products and the carbohydrates bind the fat in your body, essentially creating a barrier that prevents your body from burning through the fat until it has burned through the CH. And CH are way tougher for your body to process than fat (im generalizing here there are bad/good fats too) so unless you live a very physically active life you end up gaining weight, steadily.

Then looking at stuff you buy at your grocery store just about everything is loaded with ch, and if you want low-ch products you'll have to fork out extra for it.

Then take something like LCHF which is a diet sort of that picks out all products with medium-high CH and uses high fat products instead in your meals. End result? A much much smoother blood-sugar level(s) which have helped many diabetics normalize completely and get off the medications, weight loss to a great degree since you don't have to burn CH and can instead work on the easier fat.

But this is a way of life they don't want. It's bad for business. It makes you a non-participant in the fast-food culture and the constant drive to chow down huge portions loaded with CH that will turn you into a sad fatigued sloth.

edit: Oh and the propaganda is in full swing against LCHF as well. Apparently it kills you with heart-attacks, turns your blood to acid and ruins your sexlife too! Oh and it doesn't help diabetics, that's just them imagining things. Sigh.

There is poison in our food. in our air and in our water.

Things like BPA and arsenic are in the food. There's aluminum oxide and barium in the air and fluoride in the water. All are neurotoxins, brain poisons.

We are definitely under attack.

Don't forget IQ lowering Fluoride, and brain numbing pharmaceuticals.

So what I said then? ;p

Try and stick with us here:

I asked bigglesxyz not jefewyatt

Is something about that especially confusing for you?