tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post2336286644178735574..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: My Last Name Means "Slave"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-64914519105705068172015-03-29T05:58:48.403-04:002015-03-29T05:58:48.403-04:00There is legal slavery in the U.S.:
Amendment 13 ...There is legal slavery in the U.S.:<br /><br />Amendment 13 to the U.S. Constitution:<br /><br />"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."<br /><br />Also, if a divorced man does not (or cannot) pay child support, he can be jailed. So in effect, a divorced man is indeed in involuntary servitude, slavery.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-14219104989383570942013-08-16T13:28:59.884-04:002013-08-16T13:28:59.884-04:00Well as far as blacks and slavery go, I still unap...Well as far as blacks and slavery go, I still unapologetically use the term 'nigger' when it applies. I didn't get what I have because of white privilege, bad attitude and slovenly citizenship. I got it through hard work like everyone else. Theirs is a cop out, and nowadays they only have themselves to blame.<br /><br />As far as Canada's healthcare programs - ours is on its last gasp. Already people are dying in long line ups, and they are slapping duct tape on the welds and cracks trying to keep it going. Trust me, Obamacare isn't going to happen in the real world. Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-50457503690891282512013-08-16T11:12:30.553-04:002013-08-16T11:12:30.553-04:00I know about low birth weight/premie deaths in the...I know about low birth weight/premie deaths in the U.S. However, a lot of them are blacks and Hispanics. The Scandinavian countries are homogeneous (except for the influx of Muslims),higher IQ and much smaller.<br /><br />This is one reason I believe in smaller, homogenous countries - and the U.S. is anything but, much to our detriment. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-27569321142696274512013-08-16T11:08:31.372-04:002013-08-16T11:08:31.372-04:00(Anon from 11:04 again) "Number of deaths per...(Anon from 11:04 again) "Number of deaths per capita", of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-58938395536891581432013-08-16T11:04:58.227-04:002013-08-16T11:04:58.227-04:00In the Scandinavian countries they very rarely att...<b>In the Scandinavian countries they very rarely attempt to save premature infants. They put them off the side and lie them die.</b><br /><br />Don't take this as a defense of socialized medicine, but if Scandinavians are figuratively leaving their premature babies out in the woods to be eaten by wolves, one would not expect the number of deaths due to prematurity to be higher in the US than in Scandinavia.<br /><br />http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates_country/en/index.html<br /><br />Or visualized:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prematurity_and_low_birth_weight_world_map_-_DALY_-_WHO2004.svgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-79032967842574143722013-08-16T10:48:25.514-04:002013-08-16T10:48:25.514-04:00Slavery has an uphill argument in a financial much...Slavery has an uphill argument in a financial much less ethical sense. There is very little reason for 100-IQ English to try and enslave their Welsh IQ-peers.<br /><br />However, for people like Rachel Jeantel, a pledge of lifelong loyalty and servitude is candidly the only bargaining chip they have for dignified employment. <br /><br />In an anarcho-capitalist world, I think the institution of slavery would return. I've always found it interesting that for most of its history, the Church did not regard slavery as sinful.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.com