Comments by "Fumble_ Brewski" (@fumble_brewski5410) on "PowerfulJRE" channel.

  1. “When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.” - Otto von Bismarck
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  2. The so-called “war on drugs” dates way back to June 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants. But what was this “war” REALLY about? A top Nixon aide, John Ehrlichman, later admitted: “You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or to be black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” That's our wonderful government for you.
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  3. “The continent of Atlantis was an island which lay before the great flood, In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean so great an area of land, that from her western shores those beautiful sailors journeyed to the South and the North Americas with ease in their ships with painted sails. Hail Atlantis! Way down below the ocean….”
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  4. Total, unadulterated bovine scatology. Joe needs to stick with a subject that he knows, like MMA.
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  5. Who is this guy Al Gorithm, and why is everyone so worried about him? Isn't he the same guy that lost in the 2000 Presidential election?
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  6. "No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven - the Son of Man." (John 3:13)
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  7. Sorry to be a wet blanket on Joe's program, but although today Atlantis is often conceived of as a peaceful utopia, the Atlantis that Plato described in his fable was very different. In his book "Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology," professor of archaeology Ken Feder notes that in Plato's story, "Atlantis is not a place to be honored or emulated at all. Atlantis is not the perfect society ... Quite the contrary, Atlantis is the embodiment of a materially wealthy, technologically advanced, and militarily powerful nation that has become corrupted by its wealth, sophistication, and might." Hmm...sounds like another modern-day superpower which shall go nameless. It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there are no other records of it anywhere else in the world. There are many extant Greek texts; surely someone else would have also mentioned, at least in passing, such a remarkable place. There is simply no evidence from any source that the legends about Atlantis existed before Plato wrote about it. Happy New Year.
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