No I would not say entirely. I don't think, at risk of giving Beyond Saving a heart attack, that all rich people are out for their own personal fame or personal wealth. 100% of the time.

She is for minority rights and gay marriage. But I do think she truly believes a god exists which is why she made those stupid statements. Some of it sure is "Atheists equal ratings" yea sure. But I don't think that is all of it.

OH FUCK, I am a leftest commie who wants to end the free market, I am not supposed to defend wealth.

Yet, all your political beliefs rest on you believing the government will spend her money more nobly than she will. Have you noticed that the government is not for minority rights and has been fighting against gay marriage for decades?

As a result of this I've updated the Celebatheists entry for Carl Sagan to add some spirituality views. 

Added an entry for Diana Nyad, and stuck it to Oprah by labeling her a heretic with her god is awe nonsense. 

My devotion? Your breath smells  like Ayn Rand's dead pussy.

No no no don't equate him to Mitt. The climate Mitt's types created which most of the corporate world is full of created a 30 year domino affect that gave the honest players no choice. When someone says "put more money in workers pockets" they cant always do that, and most of the time it is because of the other greedy people who drag the rest of the business world into their mess.

I got two raises from my prior owners without even asking, they had to make cuts too because of the tanking economy, but they didn't go as deep and they sure as hell cared and after talking to them after they sold it to my new owner, who cut even worse, they are sorry they sold it to him.

I'd believe Nick more than Mitt. Now if you are saying they are both corporate vultures,(Ironic since you cheered for Mitt and predicted his win, funny for someone who brags about being great with numbers) and Nick is a liar, that still would not mean that he is wrong about putting more money in workers pockets. And I still gave you examples of other businesses that do just that too.

Climate is the problem, pay gap is the problem. You cannot have less government and "it is fine when I get everything I want, but robbery when the other guy wins", take a "fuck you I got mine" and expect those you fuck over not to use the same voting booth you do to explode that pay gap. Either the government is ours or it is not.

   . . cruel beauty of cultured Black Pearls (triple meaning)

 Link ::

 http://www.politicalcontext.org/blog/2012/04/black-pearls/

Why shouldn't we equate him to Mitt? He makes his money in an extremely similar way. Should he get a pass because of his political views? Should we hold him to a different moral standard? (I don't think either is immoral, but if you are going to attack one business model as evil I think you should be consistent.)

With Nick it had nothing to do with not being able to pay people more or hire more people but wanting to, the entire business model of Amazon.com- which is what made him a billionaire instead of a mere millionaire (he inherited the millions)- was designed precisely to eliminate jobs. Amazon is successful because it brings in massive amounts of revenue and uses relatively few employees, allowing them to sell books and all the other stuff they now sell, significantly cheaper than old fashioned brick and mortar stores. It really single handedly destroyed the retail book industry and drove many places out of business causing the many to lose jobs and a few to make a boatload of cash. It is EVERYTHING that you bitch about as an example of the terrible "climate" and the "race to the bottom" that you are constantly bitch about. And don't even talk about pay gap. Amazons pay gap is gigantic even among employees even before you factor in the billions made by the investors. Many of their programmers make hundreds of thousands a year while the low guys on the totem pole in the warehouses make shit. Amazon is absolutely guilty of everything you point out as a huge problem, and you seem to give Nick a pass for no reason other than you got a hard on over one of his speeches.

I spend every day shrinking the pay gap. I take my money and I give it to other people to help me make more money so I can give it to other people to go make even more money. What have you done to shrink the pay gap? You spend a lot of time bitching about problems but you do absolutely nothing to help solve them. Instead, you point fingers of blame and are under the laughable delusion that government is the solution. Hate to break it to you, government is never going to solve your problems, real or imaginary. 

No it isn't. You would never see a biologist refer to an alpha female as an alpha male. Never. Ever.

No, it doesn't. It is used to describe the animal that is the head of a social structure in which one animal is dominant and all the others are subordinate.

Wrong again. Among lion prides, one of the FEW species which features an alpha male, the alpha male is always alpha. 100% of the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That one male will remain alpha until he dies or is chased off by another dominant male (usually younger) at which point that male will never be alpha again anywhere, anytime and usually dies in the near future.

The alpha male of a pride doesn't kill the cubs and never fights with the females. The alpha is the head male that is accepted by the females. A new group of males that has defeated the old group of males becomes dominant by killing or chasing off all of the cubs and young males, which the females will resist. If the new group is successful at getting rid of all the cubs, and males in the tribe the females will accept the new alpha and breed. If the females are fighting against a male, he is by definition not accepted as the alpha yet. 

And in context, humans are not lions and our social structures are neither based on, nor particularly similar to lion social structures. Your simplistic characterization of humans as a simple dominant/submissive structure is completely absurd.

I have never said that. I have in fact stated the opposite dozens of times. I don't pretend to know what way works best, that is why I support businesses doing things whatever way they think is best.

Did you read what I wrote? Nope. In lions, yes the alpha male usually only keeps the role for 3-4 years before being ousted by lions outside of his pride, he is not replaced by a subordinate within the pride, he is replaced by another alpha. But again, you are wrong. The Queen Bee is ALWAYS Queen until she dies.

Which is what I said. But once defeated, the alpha is no longer alpha, by definition.

What does black and white thinking have to do with compassion?

I have never said that either. I think I should buy you an online reading comprehension course. If I paid for one, would you take it?

                I've  run into nieve types over the years who have tried to convince me I'm not realy an atheist {I am, well over 50  years and counting}, including frustrated fundies who believe it "takes more faith to be an atheist then a believer". Oprah has come under fire before by mainstream religions for promoting "spirituality" over organized religions.  I'm not a big fan of Oprah's but if she can irritate the religious she can't be all bad.