Random Politics & Religion #25

Cause you dont comprehend basic common sense. If there was no Heliosphere. If there was no Magnetosphere.

Now the Scientist is Correct yet we know such does exist making that statement False and that Scientest. Incorrect.

You dont say. Didnt read to that part but yeah Edelstein is Wrong.

I understand common sense. I just can't understand whatever language you think you're speaking. You have more basic grammar errors than you have sentences, and we're supposed to believe that you alone hold the key to the mysteries of the universe?

I wonder which Canadian it was that proved him wrong...

We are running quite low on Simpsons gifs here lately.

We need some sanity in this insane thread!

Higgs boson, aka the "God particle," was allegedly confirmed to exist by CERN in 2013, but this complex idea -- an elementary particle that is key in explaining certain "mass" situations -- apparently was confirmed first by ... wait for it ... Homer Simpson?!

Yes, the same Homer Simpson you know and love from "The Simpsons."

In a 1998 episode of the long-running show, Homer draws an equation on the chalkboard that Dr. Simon Singh says "almost predicted the mass of the elementary particle," according to The Independent newspaper in Britain.

The episode is titled, "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace," and features Homer taking on a new persona as an inventor. The Independent spoke to Singh about the crazy coincidence.

“That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson” he said. “If you work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that’s only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is. It’s kind of amazing as Homer makes this prediction 14 years before it was discovered.”

Probably this guy.

That's my Uncle. .

(Newser) – Senators are back at work Monday, and their No. 1 priority remains trying to craft an alternative to ObamaCare. The problem is that Mitch McConnell's task of getting the necessary 50 votes seems to have gotten only more difficult over the holiday break, and that's raising a slew of stories about what happens if the GOP bill fails. Shoring up ObamaCare is one possibility, but another is the controversial idea of some kind of single-payer system. The long-shot concept, anathema to conservatives, is surfacing more and more in stories:

Definition: Under a single-payer system, "doctors and hospitals are mostly private entities, but are paid exclusively by the government," explains a primer at Mother Jones. "Canada is single-payer, with each province acting as the sole source of payment to doctors and hospitals. In the US, Medicaid and traditional Medicare are single-payer."
Tax hikes: Everybody would get core coverage regardless of income, job, or health status, explains Money, and people would no longer get insurance through their jobs. But paying for it would surely require new tax increases of some kind.
Sanders, and others: The concept is gaining traction among Democrats, reports the Hill. Bernie Sanders promises to introduce a bill when debate ends on the GOP ObamaCare alternative. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand back the concept, and in the House, a "Medicare for All" proposal by Rep. John Conyers has 113 co-sponsors. Warren, specifically, told the Wall Street Journal last month that "now it's time for the next step, and the next step is single payer."

Please, no: Putting bureaucrats in charge of health care isn't the answer, writes Sally Pipes at Forbes. "Single-payer systems have endangered lives and reduced access to quality care everywhere they've been implemented," she notes, citing "deplorable care" in Britain and Canada and arguing that if Republicans needed any incentive to make progress on their health bill, the prospect of a single-payer system should do it.
California: A bill to shift to a single-payer system stalled last month in the California Assembly, and the Los Angeles Times reports that a main reason is that it was "short on key policy specifics—most significantly, how to pay for it."
Partisan divide: A Pew Research Center poll finds that 52% of Democrats support the single-payer idea, but the overall percentage in support drops to 33 when Republicans are added, reports CNN. For that reason, both sides seem to love talking about it, notes the story.
Senate GOP plan: It's not dead yet, though the positions of conservatives and moderates within the GOP seem to have hardened in the last week, reports Politico. That makes McConnell's quest for a compromise acceptable to enough senators exceedingly difficult.

A bunch of wishes there Chanti.

Any Republican who votes for a single payer plan should be voted out, and quickly.

The biggest problem we have had up here regarding health care, are cuts from the Healthcare boards, because the CEO's have been giving themselves massive raises, capping proper payment for caregivers, and closing hospitals, or reducing hospital rooms and bed spaces in order to justify those raises, which had previously made over-all health care suffer.

Vera Rubin in the 1960s and 70s. She calculated that galaxies were spinning more quickly than they should. So quickly that they should tear themselves apart like a merry-go-round ejecting children.

Throughout the 1970s, however, they and other astronomers found the same pattern again and again, in galaxy after galaxy, until theorists had little choice but to reach a consensus: Galaxies are embedded within a vastly much larger, stabilizing halo of matter we can’t detect in any range of the electromagnetic spectrum—that is, matter that’s “dark.”

Which is something obviously going to happen when you have the most inefficient administrators handle pretty much anything and everything.

Want to destroy an industry? Have government run it.

-The End-

Do you mean it? Do you really mean it?