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<center>'''Anyone who wants to contact me may do so at sam4557@gmail.com.'''</center>

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At present, I make edits to those things that I believe I can improve (mostly [[science]] and [[math]]) and stay away from those things that are utterly hopeless (like [[evolution]], [[creationism]], and why year 20XX is going to be the worst year ever for evolution or [[atheism]] or whatever.) I also (believe it or not, and some people don't) try to encourage well-intentioned new users, and try to make this a more orderly and friendly place. I also engage in a lot of good-natured banter with Cons. I also occasionally find myself amused by the way [[User:VargasMilan|some users]] seem to [[User_talk:SamHB#Apology|stalk]] [http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page&diff=1110822&oldid=1110821 me].

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At present, I make edits to those things that I believe I can improve (mostly [[science]] and [[math]]) and stay away from those things that are utterly hopeless (like [[evolution]], [[creationism]], and why year 20XX is going to be the worst year ever for evolution or [[atheism]] or whatever.) I also (believe it or not, and some people don't) try to encourage well-intentioned new users, and try to make this a more orderly and friendly place. I also engage in a lot of good-natured banter with Cons. I also occasionally find myself amused by the way [[User:VargasMilan|some users]] seem to [[User_talk:SamHB/archive_2#Apology|stalk]] [http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page&diff=1110822&oldid=1110821 me].

I am seriously "behind the curve" on the latest high-tech gadgetry. I own a laptop computer (several of them in fact) and am quite literate about actual computer science. I do not have "FIOS" or any similar things; just plain cable internet. I do not use things like Skype or Instant Messaging (or Tinder, or Facebook, or SnapChat, or Pinterest, or Twitter ..., though I have, under duress, used IM at work. However, I am capable of high-bandwidth communication with people through email, using attachments when the information transfer quantity requires it. People desiring to contact me are strongly encouraged to use the email account given above.

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{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#DC143C |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id=[[Image:Stop_hand.svg|45px]] |info=<center><big>This user has been blocked '''20''' times.</big></center>}}

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{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#DC143C |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id=[[Image:Stop_hand.svg|45px]] |info=<center><big>This user has been blocked '''22''' times.</big></center>}}

{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#039 |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id=SP |info=This user knows how to use "Show preview".}}

{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#FFA07A |info-s=8 |info-fc=#000 |id=[[Image:Atom.jpg|45px]] |info=<center>This user knows that '''[http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_01 evolution]''' explains the origin of species.</center>}}

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{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#FFBBBB |info-s=8 |info-fc=#000 |id=[[Image:UserCross.jpg‎|30px]] |info=<center>This user respects your right to be a fundamentalist, but does not necessarily accept whatever scientific conclusions you might draw from that.</center>}}

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{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#FFBBBB |info-s=8 |info-fc=#000 |id=[[File:Books.jpg‎|50px]] |info=<center>In addition to his Ph.D. thesis, this user has written a number of books, journal articles, anthology contributions, technical reports, and original wiki pages, in a variety of media, (hardcover books, print journals, internet pages), as well as some invited video presentations, on a variety of topics. None of them are YouTube videos, though this person has appeared in other people's YouTube videos on a few occasions.</center>}}

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{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#FFA07A |info-s=8 |info-fc=#000 |id=[[Image:600px-Albert Einstein Head.jpg|45px]] |info=<center>This user knows that [[relativity]] provides a good explanation for the result of the Michelson-Morley experiment.</center>}}

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{{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#FFA07A |info-s=8 |info-fc=#000 |id=<s>Breitbart</s> |info=This user does not support Breitbart News or its lies, bias, and [[fake news]].}}

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==Conservative principles==

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{{cquote|The most conservative of conservative principles is reverence for the rule of law.|||Liz Cheney<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/politics/cheney-house-floor-remarks/index.html</ref>}}

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==Inflating the statistics on COVID vaccination acceptance==

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A Mainpage-right article, placed at 18:28, 24 April 2021, says

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::'''The [[CDC]] and other [[health]] authorities are inflating the [[statistics]] on [[COVID]] [[vaccination]]''' acceptance. ''In fact, many fewer people are taking it than the CDC says.''

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The item links to the external page [https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2021/04/24/accountability/science/manipulating-vaccine-recipients-numbers-to-isolate-the-non-vaccinated-their-hyper-inflated-numbers-are-just-not-true/], which is an article by Bradley Dean on the "conservative news and views" web site. Since the claims in that posting are so utterly at odds with what every sensible person knows to be true, I decided to check it out.

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First, I ignored the Bible quotes sprinkled through it. These quotes all predate the Coronavirus and the vaccine. Why some people sprinkle completely irrelevant Bible quotes into their writing is beyond me.

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:Ephesians 4:14

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:John 8:44

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:Deuteronomy 16:19

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:Leviticus 17:11, 19:19

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:Psalm 94:20

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:Romans 1:18

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Now one of the major points of the article seems to be:

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::The truth be told, the only ones that we can verify that are dying are the ones that have taken their vaccines (Leviticus 17:11, 19:19).

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The only ones that ''you'' can verify? Other people seem to be able to verify over 1/2 a million people in this country that aren't just dying; they have died. And most of them died before a vaccine became available, so they couldn't have "taken their vaccines".

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You shouldn't just make stuff up. Especially when it flies in the face of the reality that every sensible person knows.

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Another major statement is

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::I have a friend that is the main law enforcement officer in his county. One day, he voluntarily told me that we are being told that 75% of the elderly have been vaccinated by the mainstream media and yet, these numbers do not fit. He went on and said that we have 147,000 alone in this county. He said that he had the real numbers in front of him. And out of that 147,000 only 5,400 people had received their vaccinations. Friends, that is not 75%; that is less than 3%.

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:Who is this friend?

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:What county?

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:Who are "the elderly"? How is that defined? Isn't 75% a suspiciously imprecise number?

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:We are being told this? By whom?

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:"These numbers do not fit." You're probably right. But it would be good to know that the numbers actually are, and what they are supposed to fit with.

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:He has the real numbers in front of him? Good. Publish them. Just copy and paste them into the article. Internet space is cheap. That's better than telling us what an anonymous friend told you.

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==Pseudoscience==

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A very interesting web site:<ref>http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Pseudoscience.html</ref>.

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Thanks to [[User:Dataclarifier]] for bringing this to my attention.

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==Is [[Conservapedia proven right]] about relativity and other similar topics in science?==

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It does not appear so.

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The material below was removed by the site owner in mid-October, 2020.

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I restored it with the edit comment: ''Restore material that is carefully researched, well established, and widely accepted by experts in the field.''

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It was taken out again, by someone who is not known to have demonstrated any expertise in relativity: ''Undo revision 1697217 by SamHB (talk) only according to liberals who believe and accept pseudo-scientific hogwash''

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{| class="wikitable"

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!Date of ''Conservapedia's'' statement

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![[liberal claptrap]] in response

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!Result

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!Date of Result

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|February 27, 2011

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|"Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none have ever been found."<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=852797</ref> This was actually true at the time, but the implication was that gravitational waves would ''never'' be found.

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|The (perhaps overzealous) researchers at the "BICEP2" project claimed to have discovered evidence of gravitational waves from the "[[big bang]]".<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3985v1</ref> This was shot down in 2015: "Gravitational waves discovery now officially dead."<ref>http://www.nature.com/news/gravitational-waves-discovery-now-officially-dead-1.16830</ref> But in 2015 and 2016, gravitational waves from colliding [[black hole]]s were irrefutably detected by the [[LIGO]] instruments. See [[Gravitational waves]].

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|Confirmed.<ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>http://www.ligo.org/news/pressreleases.php</ref><ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20160211a</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160211v2</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/gravitational-waves-ripples-space-time-detected-first-time-n516566</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/it-wasn-t-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again-n593156</ref><ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-detect-second-gravitational-wave-einstein-predicted/</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160615</ref>

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<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160615v2</ref><ref>https://phys.org/news/2017-06-gravitational-insight-black-holes.html</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36472434#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</ref>

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|January 21, 2016

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==Speaking of Google searches==

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Apropos of [[Atheist_hospitals#Google_search_for_.22atheist_hospital_locations.22|this]], note this, from Google:

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No results found for "sensible creationist websites".

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==An address at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, 23 Sept, 2019==

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:"My message is that we'll be watching you.

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:"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!

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:"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

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:"For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

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:"You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

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:"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

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:"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.

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:"So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences.

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:"To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise – the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] – the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on Jan. 1st, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.

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:"How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just 'business as usual' and some technical solutions? With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 1/2 years.

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:"There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today, because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.

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:"You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.

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:"We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.

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:"Thank you."

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==Stuff Cons keeps vaping and re-creating (excuse me, resurrecting)==

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I don't want these pearls of wisdom to be lost, so I'm going to start saving them. Some of them are incredibly stupid "atheism and flyswatters" sorts of things, many are "atheism (or evolution) is going to have its worst year ever in 2014/2015/2016/2017/2018/2019", and some of them appear to be dialog with the folks at RitionalWaki [sp]. The latter often have the word "gentlemen" in the title. The folks at RW seem to refer to these things as the "red telephone".

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*[[User:SamHB/Cons_gentlemen_Jan_9_2019]] This one seems to be a dialog with someone named Ace at RW

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*[[User:SamHB/Cons_gentlemen_Dec_27_2018]] This one seems to be a dialog with someone named Mercian at RW

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*[[User:SamHB/Cons_Christian_victory_Dec+27+2018]] This delightful gem has a really cute picture of two children exulting over something. The caption implies that the children are ecstatic over reading Cons's [[Decline_of_the_atheist_movement]] article. When in fact the kids were playing a computer game. I guess children consider that more fun.

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:Cons has "un-vaped" the actual article; it is [[Essay: The_thrill_of_Christian_victory_and_the_agony_of_atheist_defeat|here]]. He has vaped the version in my sandbox, which is why it's a redlink above.

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==Essay: The thrill of Christian victory and the agony of atheist defeat==

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Well, gosh, that was fun while it lasted. That page, and its two charming pictures, were only up for a few minutes. But I did enjoy the cute picture of the two children in ecstasy over whatever they were watching on their computer screens. It's too bad Cons deleted it so quickly. Does he not take himself seriously?

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He's really been on a tear these last few months. Including changing the pixel size of an illustration [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay%3A_Atheist_PZ_Myers%3A_%22I_despair_over_atheism_as_I_watch_it_burn...%22.&diff=1476345&oldid=1396051 here]. Is this something to get higher web site statistics? Wouldn't giving the correct context for that quote (see about 10 sections below) be a better way to give Conservapedia a better reputation?

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I assume he's on a tear because he's going to make a New Year's resolution to stop this silly behavior, and lead a productive and focused year in 2019. I wish him well. I will also try to be more productive and focused next year. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 17:24, 24 December 2018 (EST)

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==20XX is/was/will be the worst year ever for evolution/atheism==

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*2012 - "Is 2012 on its way to be the Worst Year in the History of Darwinism?" and "Internet atheism has taken a fall in the last 5 years and in 2012

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"<ref>http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html</ref>

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*2013 - "You see atheists and evolutionists: 2013 is the worst year in the history of atheism and Darwinism - just like [sic] we predicted!"<ref>http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/07/christianity-is-taking-huge-bite-out-of.html</ref>

==John McCain, an American hero==

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*Knows absolutely nothing about respect for women.

*Knows absolutely nothing about the sanctity of marriage.

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==Patriotism==

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{{cquote|If people want to leave our country they can; if they don't want to love our country, if they don't want to fight for our country, they can.|||Donald Trump, who avoided service in the VietNam war by claiming bone spurs, July 17, 2019}}

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==Religion==

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{{cquote|The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!|||Donald Trump, Dec 20, 2019 [https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/12/20/trump-responds-christianity-today-editorial-no-president-done-ive-done-religion/]}}

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==More patriotism==

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U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman's comments on recent Ohio cases involving political violence, while announcing federal criminal charges against someone:

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:Now let me speak generally to those who are advocates for white supremacy, or white nationalism. I am talking directly to you. The Constitution protects your right to speak, your right to think, and your right to believe. If you want to waste the blessings of liberty by going down a path of hatred and failed ideologies, that is your choice.

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:Democracy allows you to test those ideas in the public forum. If you want to submit your beliefs to the American people and get their reaction, please be my guest. Keep this in mind, though. Thousands and thousands of young Americans already voted with their lives to ensure that this same message of intolerance, death, and destruction would not prevail - you can count their ballots by visiting any American cemetery in North Africa, Italy, France, or Belgium and tallying the white headstones. You can also recite the many names of civil rights advocates who bled and died in opposing supporters of those same ideologies of hatred. Their voices may be distant, but they can still be heard.

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:Go ahead and make your case for Nazism, a white nation, and racial superiority. The Constitution may give you a voice, but it doesn’t guarantee you a receptive audience.

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:Your right to free speech does not automatically mean that people will agree with you. In fact, you have an absolute God-given and inalienable right to be on the losing end of this argument.

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:What you don’t have, though, is the right to take out your frustration at failure in the political arena by resorting to violence. You don’t have any right to threaten the lives and well-being of our neighbors. They have an absolute God-given and inalienable right to live peacefully, to worship as they please, to be free from fear that they might become a target simply because of the color of their skin, the country of their birth, or the form of their prayer.

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:Threatening to kill Jewish people, gunning down innocent Latinos on a weekend shopping trip, planning and plotting to perpetrate murders in the name of a nonsense racial theory, sitting to pray with God-fearing people who you execute moments later - those actions don’t make you soldiers, they make you criminals. Law enforcement doesn’t go to war with cowards who break the law, we arrest them and send them to prison.

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:As I said, this case was made by a concerned member of the public and a responsive police officer. That’s all it takes to stop you. The men and women of our community are allied with law enforcement. And every single member of law enforcement took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Many of us have taken that oath several times - as police officers, federal agents, prosecutors, military members, and elected officials.

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:Together, we represent the absolute best of what America has to offer. Our skin is every color you can imagine, our families come from a hundred different countries and a hundred different faiths. What makes us different doesn’t split us apart, though. Those differences are insignificant compared to what is the same about us - we are united in our commitment to each other, to our families, and to our communities. We are the living embodiment of everything you say is impossible.

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:Together, we are united to ensure that you commit no further acts of violence in the name of your beliefs. When you wake up tomorrow morning, no matter what time, I want you to remember something. You can’t set your alarm clock early enough to beat us out of bed. The men and women of law enforcement don’t wake up. We never went to sleep. We are always awake. And arm in arm with the public, when your hatred leads you to break the law, we will do everything we can to be there to stop you.

==Roy Moore==

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::"Well, gosh. Women don't seem to want to date me. I guess I'm ugly. I'd better join a Bible study group at my college. That will make me better-looking, and I'll get lots of dates."

*And then there's [[Essay:_Militant_atheism_and_short_man's_syndrome|this]] gem.

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::"Well, gosh. I'm kind of short. Most women I know are taller than I am, and seem not to want to date men shorter than they are. Maybe if I go to church regularly I'll grow taller. There ''is'' a causal relationship, isn't there? It's right in the essay: "Get over it little man, shortness is a causal factor for militant atheism!"

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::"Well, gosh. I'm kind of short. Most women I know are taller than I am, and seem not to want to date men shorter than they are. Maybe if I go to church regularly I'll grow taller. There ''is'' a causal relationship, isn't there? It's right in the [[Essay:_Militant_atheism_and_short_man's_syndrome|essay]]: "Get over it little man, shortness is a causal factor for militant atheism!"

*He has also been pointing out for several years and "20XX is going to be (or already is) the worst year ever for atheism. He even made a past-tense claim about a year that is still happening [http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page/Archive_index/166#2018_was_a_TERRIBLE_year_for_militant_atheists here].

::"Well, gosh. After all this, are atheists still around? How come I still see so many of them? Does the existence of God not depend on something someone once said in an elevator?"

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But taking the phrase "watch it [atheism] burn away allies" and turning it into "watch it burn" is the most astonishing act of quoting out of context that I have ever seen.

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:[https://youtu.be/5oyZJDBUzWc This clip explains the phenomena]

== Reinhold Niebuhr Quote (well, paraphrase)==

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{{cquote|And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.}}

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==Bible verse, Leviticus 19:33-34==

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{{cquote|And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.}}

==Late August, 2016, Do ants harvest? Do snakes hear?==

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At 15:04, 28 March, [[User:ConsMovies]] made an edit to [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=prev&oldid=1142798 the "Greatest Conservative Movies" page] correcting the italicization of the title of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', along with 3 other movies (''The Goonies'', ''God's Not Dead'', and ''Man of Steel''.) Cons blocked him 1 minute later. ConsMovies' edits in general were of a somewhat provocative and snarky nature, but movie titles are generally in italics on that page, and his edit was correct. Cons reverted the edit 3 minutes after that, so that those movie titles are no longer in italics.

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I complained about this on Andy's talk page on March 12. There was a long discussion on this topic, as seen [http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Aschlafly/Archive59#ConsMovies here].

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I complained about this on Andy's talk page on March 12. There was a long discussion on this topic, as seen [http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Aschlafly/Archive59#ConsMovies here]. (The discussion is reproduced below.)

An interesting (to me, at least, as a "Cons-watcher") thing to note about that discussion is that, from looking at the history log, Cons twice '''burned down (completely deleted) Andy Schlafly's talk page, and recreated it''', once at 23:21, 12 March, and once at 14:21, 13 March! He had apparently made some edits that he realized were inappropriate, and needed to cover his tracks. He has since then learned to use more sophisticated techniques to "vape" embarrassing material.

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:Breaking news: At 22:03, 7 February 2016, the page finally got fixed. Congratulations to [[User:Northwest]].

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== More about the ConsMovies incident ==

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::::''This section, and the one below, were recovered from [[User_talk:Aschlafly/Archive59#ConsMovies|an archive]] of Aschlafly's talk page. It is being brought out of the archive because it illustrates a few things about Conservapedia as of 4 years ago.''

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Hello. I have made this account for communicating with admins about my ban. I will not use the account for any other purpose.

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The account that was banned was ConsMovies with a block id of #193504. It was banned by one of the users of the User:Conservative account, and I think I know which one. I think it was whichever one I politely disagreed with about halal meat on a talk page, and I think the ban is personal. The reason given for the ban was "desperate parodist" and seemed to immediately follow the addition of the movie ''Evolution'' to [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies]].

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I can see that a case could be made for the movie actually having no message, and me reading too much into it. In that case it could have been reverted and the reason why posted to the Essay Talk page. It doesn't seem like a reason to block a contributor with a history of constructive edits and revert almost everything they did.

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Many edits were then reverted by this particular user of the User:Conservative account simply because they had my name attached to them.

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Robocop for example. Anyone who doesn't think that my description of what is wrong with that film is accurate has obviously only seen the poster and not the actual movie. From the title and tagline it looks like harmless silly action but it is silly in a far less harmless way than that.

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The user who reverted my edits even reverted my italicization of movie titles in [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies]] in line with the convention adopted by the rest of the article's table entries. What could he or she have against italics except for the presence of my name in the edit log?

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Additionally, my addition to [[Mystery:Why Do Non-Conservatives Exist?]] was reverted. I can't see what problem anyone is supposed to have with the addition, other than my name on the edit log.

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As you can see my ban was personal and nothing to do with proper running of the encyclopedia. I waited to see if the other users of the [[User:Conservative]] account would have a word with the errant one but they remain silent! Clearly they are a tight-knit group, and while that is not a bad thing in itself it should not take precedence over the correct running of Conservapedia.

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(signed) [[User:ConsMoviesAppeal|ConsMoviesAppeal]] 11:04, 3 March 2015 (EST) (ConsMovies)

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:ConsMoviesAppeal, create 10 solid new articles that are at least 2,400 words in length to show good faith. The articles must be articles that need to be written for the [[Conservapedia:Atheism Project|Conservapedia atheism project]].

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:Given your British IP address (a British atheist from London is obsessed with me) and your parodist type edits, I doubt you will take me up on this offer. (signed) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:12, 4 March 2015 (EST)

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::I have reconsidered. If he does an article on [[Lee Rigby]] and creates 2 new articles for the [[Conservapedia:Atheism Project|Conservapedia atheism project]] of at least 2,400 words in length and are of good quality, he can edit Conservapedia for the foreseeable future barring any subsequent ill-behavior. This is my final offer and no counter offers will be accepted. (signed) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 11:04, 4 March 2015 (EST)

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:::Conservative, I came here not to appease you, but to warn the other admins and other users of your account about you. I assume I am speaking to the same user who blocked me, who did so for personal reasons, and who can apparently do whatever he or she wants with the User:Conservative account while the other users of that account turn a blind eye.

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:::I have made no "parodist type edits." As I said, you reverted the edit where I fixed the italics in an article. Why? I can see no reason other than my name being on the edit.

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:::Also, you have failed to explain why you reverted my edits to the article [[Mystery:Why Do Non-Conservatives Exist?]].

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:::Additionally, have you actually seen Robocop?

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:::Anyone could be forgiven for thinking that the true conservative members of the group that uses the User:Conservative account are in fact no longer here, and that you are the parodist/parodists.

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:::(signed) [[User:ConsMoviesAppeal|ConsMoviesAppeal]] 14:47, 7 March 2015 (EST)

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::::Conservative, rather than answer my questions, which you can not do, you blocked me again. You can't explain the reverts that you did. You reverted good edits only because you have a personal grudge. And you call yourself a conservative! (signed) [[User:ConsMoviesAppeal2|ConsMoviesAppeal2]] 13:01, 10 March 2015 (EDT)

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===From SamHB===

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Andy: A serious case of abuse has unfolded just above on this talk page. It refers to the block, by Cons, of the user "ConsMovies", apparently relating to some edits made to the [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies]] page.

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I'm not going to support or oppose those edits, as I don't watch many movies, and have probably not seen any of the movies involved. But, whatever the merits of the actual edits, Cons's actions are utterly inexcusable. They appear to be some kind of emotional outburst, the reason for which I don't understand (and I know Cons well.) He also seems to have reverted all of ConsMovies' edits, based entirely on the fact that they were made by ConsMovies and without regard to the actual substance. He even reverted some italicization of a few movie titles. The convention appears to be that movie titles are supposed to be in italics. A few were not, and ConsMovies fixed that. Cons reverted even that change. That can't be simply an accident; ConsMovies brought up that very issue in the section above, and Cons still took no action. I would have fixed it myself, but the page is locked.

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Cons's actions constitute a blatant abuse of his administrative powers. He is carrying out a brutish personal vendetta against someone for reasons that I don't understand. ConsMovies' edits may be worthy of a revert—I can't judge—but this is simply an abuse of power.

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A rather disturbing aspect of this has been the discussion that you can see in the section above. ConsMovies created a new account to appeal the block (against the rules, but there is no other way to do it, so it's a good thing that that rule is not enforced), and Cons issued some demands that are nothing but an abusive power trip. He demanded that ConsMovies write 10 articles, meeting certain demands on size, and '''demanding that they must be on a specified topic!''' In all my time here I have never seen a demand of that type. Furthermore, the demand was couched in particularly abusive terms—"This is my final offer and no counter offers will be accepted" that are reminiscent of the Postsdam Declaration of World War 2.

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But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this is Cons's demands that the articles (which of course ConsMovies couldn't create in any case since he is blocked) be in a topic category that is of particular interest to Cons. (The "Atheism Project", which is essentially owned by Cons.) Cons is effectively demanding that ConsMovies do his bidding, as a condition for being allowed to edit at Conservapedia.

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There are some very crude contemporary slang terms that are sometimes used to describe the relationship that Cons is demanding that ConsMovies enter into. I don't endorse the language at all, but one of the terms I can think of relates to a female canine, and the others relate to an extremely old profession.

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I have been trying to work with Cons both on his writing style and on his efforts to interact with others in a straightforward and sensible manner (see my talk page), but have made only slight headway. You need to intervene. Please unblock ConsMovies, and admonish Cons on acceptable standards of behavior for an administrator.

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Sincerely, (signed) [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 17:52, 12 March 2015 (EDT)

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:Hi, I'm a new editor here. I just wanted to let you know that I think [[User:Conservative]] is completely innocent. Thanks. (signed) [[User:ZDean|ZDean]] 19:24, 12 March 2015 (EDT)

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::You seem awfully new to be jumping into such a complicated issue. I assume you are familiar with the many dozens of controversies that Cons has been involved in over the years, many of which I am very familiar with. I also assume that, in what you wrote just above, that you were specifically referring just to the "ConsMovies" incident. And that you are aware that it is a more isolated and simple issue than many of the others. Why don't you, off the top of your head, render your opinions on some of the others?

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::Or perhaps you would like us to believe that you are another member of Cons's fictional "collective". You must know that that is not his ''modus operandi''.

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::Andy: Please don't delete ZDean's comment (or mine) above. People need to see this kind of stuff.

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::(signed) [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:36, 12 March 2015 (EDT)

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:::Whenever a liberal cannot pin anything on a conservative (or conservative organization), often they resort to calling the person/organization "controversial" (see: [[Liberal Style]]).

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:::Given SamHB's/Conservmoviesappeal's high words/substance ratio, I doubt Mr. Schlafly read their long screeds. At most, he skimmed them. (signed) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:18, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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::::Before I had even posted on Conservapedia I had contacted Andy by email to get his advice on anti-abortion and pro-life topics for setting up a pro-life project of my own. Andy invited me to post here and advised me, and I paraphrase "Do not take much notice about what is said on talk pages". Since then I have been blocked twice by Conservative simply for disagreeing with him, despite being told I would not be blocked. As I had misplaced Andy's email address I had no way of contacting him for advice I really did need. I have come to the conclusion that Conservative is always right, never bullies or intimidates people and never uses a high word to substance ratio despite publishing dozens of atheism articles, many of which are close facsimiles of each other based on one Barna Group report many years ago. Conservative holds the axe here and there is no point in opposing him if you do not want it to be bought down on your neck.--(signed) [[User:Tomqua|Tomqua]] 10:22, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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:::::To illustrate my point look at the deletion of my talk page[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Tomqua]. You will see that despite my posts being accepted and me showing some contrition I was still blocked. It does not show it here but after I had written "Ok, but so far my posts have been accepted" the next line was , again I paraphrase "You were warned". followed by the block. I can only conclude the real reason for the block was spite.--(signed) [[User:Tomqua|Tomqua]] 10:50, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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Tomqua, are you an atheist? Your past complaints at this wiki would indicate you are an atheist.

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Conservapedia is never going to whitewash atheism. (signed) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:13, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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:My religious views are not your concern.--(signed) [[User:Tomqua|Tomqua]] 15:58, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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::Given the [[Atheist population and immorality|folly and shamefulness]] of the [[atheist worldview]], I can understand your reluctance to admit you are an atheist. Many atheists are closet atheists and find it difficult to support their [[Atheism is a religion|atheist religion]] (see: [[Atheism and cowardice]]).

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::Jesus set the highest moral standards (Sermon on the mount, etc.) and there is an abundance of [[Christian apologetics websites|evidence supporting Christianity]], so there no reason for a Christian to be ashamed of being a Christian. (signed) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 16:17, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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:::It has nothing to do with cowardice. Think along the lines of your past record of bullying and belittling not just atheism but any form Christianity you find too liberal, see [[Liberal Christianity and marital infidelity]].--(signed) [[User:Tomqua|Tomqua]] 16:35, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

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::::I find that a strange remark, for a number of reasons. Only one of which being that the article doesn't strike me as a particularly vivid example of the point you were professing to demonstrate. (signed) [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] 17:01, 13 March 2015 (EDT)

==A note on the second law of thermodynamics==

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User "LowKey" was one of Bugler's frequent victims, and complained at length on his user page, before Bugler's fall. Lowkey's user page, as of 12 January, 2009, may be found [[User:SamHB/BuglerLowKey|here]]. I am saving it because it is in danger of being vaped.

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== No, I don't want to play ==

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On 28 July, one of the operators of the [[User:Conservative]] ("Cons") account, during an extensive nationwide controversy over the cleanliness of Baltimore, specifically referring to rat infestation, created the article [[Essay: The unfree city of Boston, Massachusetts and its rat infestation problem]]. The city at the center of the nationwide controversy was Baltimore, and only Baltimore. Boston was never mentioned, by Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, or anyone else in the news cycle.

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But Cons created an article about Boston, of all places. No other cities. That is rather peculiar. One could suspect that it relates to some playful banter that the Cons folks apparently like to engage in with me on the topic of Massachusetts and Boston, including the use of the word "unfree". One can see an example of this at [https://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:SamHB#Border_fence_for_the_unfree_state_of_Massachusetts]. (The use of the word "unfree" may be a reference to my past efforts to clean up "TAR".)

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Cons may believe I live in Boston; I don't. They may think this amuses me; it doesn't.

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Just to make sure that I was made aware of this invitation to play, the Cons folks brought it to my attention on my talk page: [https://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:SamHB#The_unfree_city_of_Boston.2C_Massachusetts_and_its_rat_infestation_problem]. This was rather peculiar. So much so that I put the following note on Mainpage talk. It was vaped by Cons at approximately 03:00 on 29 July, 2019.

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:So you went and created an article about rats and Boston???? Boston, of all places? I would have thought an article about rats and Baltimore would be more timely, since that issue has been in the news lately. Boston? No other cities? And you placed a reference to it on my talk page, and no one else's? As though you think I would be amused? And you used the word that you have used before in discussion with me—"unfree"? Do you think this amuses me?

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:This seems to be the social/interpersonal/emotional equivalent of an 8-year-old kid going to a neighbors house and asking the neighbor if he wants to come out and play.

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:*Hey Sammy! Wanna come out and play?

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:*Hey Johnny Z! Wanna come out and play?

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:*Hey Mercian! Wanna come out and play?

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:*Hey Ace! Wanna come out and play?

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:No, Kenny, I don't want to come out and play. I'm way too busy trying to correct misinformation about radioactive decay rates, and trying to keep the [[patriotism]] page from being deceitful.

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[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 21:09, 1 August 2019 (EDT)

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==Gay conversion therapy==

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I have no personal stake in this (I'm straight) but I've been aware for some time that there's this concept of [[Gay Conversion Therapy]], and that there's some controversy about it, often along political or religious lines. There has been extensive discussion of it here at Conservapedia.

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I haven't been paying much attention to the controversy, but something came up just last night on the [https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/09/03/conversion-therapy-center-founder-who-sought-turn-lgbtq-christians-straight-now-says-hes-gay-rejects-cycle-shame/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 Washington Post] news site about McKrae Game, one of the leaders of this practice, coming out as gay himself, and saying that he was wrong about the whole thing. People who don't want to accept the Washington Post's account can go straight to Mr. Game's <ref>https://www.facebook.com/mckrae/posts/10157639329596563</ref> Facebook page.

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==Fox News, Tucker Carlson, and Adam Schiff's body fluids==

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On October 31, 2019, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, said, on his prime-time program:

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"Adam Schiff, meanwhile, the congressman from Burbank, was ecstatic. Schiff has spent years obsessing over impeachment like it was a young Jodie Foster. Colleagues say he has pictures of impeachment taped to the walls of his bedroom. He is believed to have written it steamy, unhinged letters, using his own body fluids. So, for Schiff, today's vote was thrilling, in ways that only a court-appointed psychiatrist could appreciate." <ref>https://www.facebook.com/TuckerCarlsonTonight/videos/2420222244700108/</ref><ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-gets-really-strange-adam-schiff-wrote-steamy-impeachment-letters-with-his-own-body-fluids</ref>

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==The "phony Emoluments Clause"==

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On October 21, 2019, while defending his (later rescinded) decision to use his own property to host the G7 conference, Donald Trump dismissed the emoluments clause:

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"You people with this phony Emoluments Clause"<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/21/donald-trump-mocks-constitution-emoluments-clause-phony/4055162002/</ref>

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The "Foreign Emoluments Clause" is:

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::No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

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It is Article I, Section 9, clause 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America, which is the principal instrument of government of the United States.

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According to Article II, Section 1, clause 8 of the Constitution, the President, at the time of his inauguration, swears (or affirms) that he will to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

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The preservation, protection, and defense the Constitution is about as conservative a stance as one can imagine.

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==Merry Christmas==

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Everyone have a blessed Christmas.

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{{cquote|God bless us, everyone|||Tiny Tim, in [[A Christmas Carol]] by Charles Dickens}}

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==Stupid YouTube videos==

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I think Youtube videos are for illiterate losers, and I generally pay them no mind, except insofar as they remind me of the intellectual level of a certain web site, and of certain people's approach to science. But this one caught my eye, relating to all the "15 questions that evolutionists can't answer" stuff, or whatever that stupidity is.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QSxe7TDF30

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Don't bother replying, or otherwise trying to engage me on the subject of evolution; I'm not interested.

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==Some inspirational quotes==

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(lifted from someone's user page)

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<nowiki>[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|center|"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." - [[Sun Tzu]] ]]

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[[File:Patton.jpg|thumbnail|center|200px|"After looking at the available evidence, when it comes to having a fit and trim physique, [[Jesus Christ]] most definitely won the Battle of the Bulge and the atheist and [[evolution]]ist [[PZ Myers]] was utterly defeated." - [[George S. Patton]]

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For more information, please see: [[Essay: Battle of the Bulge: Jesus vs. PZ Myers|Battle of the Bulge: Jesus vs. PZ Myers]] ]]

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The George Patton quote above is particularly prescient, since he died in 1945 and PZ Myers was born in 1957.

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Something from [[User:Conservative]] put on his incoming mail page. I'll have something to say about this soon, but for now I just want to save it, especially since Cons is fond of vaping his writing.

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[[File:Brick-wall.jpg|thumbnail|300px|center|[[User: SamHB]], my favorite two sentences of my recent essay: "And [[Essay: RationalWiki admits it has a weirdo, pansie infestation|your wiki's]] failure to identify my multiple sockpuppet posts at your website is another brick in the high wall of evidence I have provided that more than one editor has edited using the [[User: Conservative]] account. And yet, many of the prideful, godless men at your website continue to double down on their pigheaded denialism about this matter." See: [[User:Conservative's essays]]</nowiki> ]]

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==Real Men Know How and When to Kneel==

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(Lifted from the [[George Washington]] page.)

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[[Image:W-pray.jpg|right|thumb|''"I was riding with Mr. Potts near to the Valley Forge where the army lay during the war of ye Revolution, when Mr. Potts said, 'Do you see that woods & that plain? There laid the army of Washington. It was a most distressing time of ye war, and all were for giving up the Ship but that great and good man. In that woods (pointing to a close in view) I heard a plaintive sound as of a man at prayer.... To my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other. He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis & the cause of the country, of humanity & of the world. Such a prayer I never heard from the lips of man. "''.<ref>From ''Diary and Remembrances,'' by Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden (1770-1851), who received it from an eyewitness to the scene, Valley Forge resident Isaac Potts</ref>]]

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