Posted on 09/27/2005 12:36:32 PM PDT by Crackingham
I've always felt that our nation's epitaph will be, "Drowned in a tidal wave of ignorance."
CROCK alert! CROCK alert!
Any time anybody says something about knowing THE truth about something as complicated as global climate, he has an agenda behind his back.
PING for later reading.
this one looks like a keeper
Republicans and conservatives have always believed in and supported science and tech more than libs.
The libs came up with the mantra-like plaint of "we spend so much money to send a man to the moon when our own people don't have enough to eat" blah blah blah stuf.
There are a number here on FR, and I think Crackhead is one of them, who post only the same ol same ol propaganda that Bush and his supporters are ignorant superstitious rubes (or worse).
Somebody's smoking something.
Ping.
Just another shill for infinite federal grants for their prized "scientific" gurus. All the "global warming" scientists want is to be bought off with much bigger federal grants than they get now.
The fact is that scientific research is stifled by the endless scheming to get federal money.
Academic prestige and power consists of being a "rainmaker", getting lots of federal grant money, and very little else except preaching about "multiculturalism makes us strong".
The existing situation is probably hopelessly corrupt. Only very serious pruning may save the rootstock.
I find the name of the source ironic:
Christian Science Monitor
Three-for-one moonbat pun:
1. The article implies Republicans (in thrall to the Religious Right) is against Science, so there is a surface pun about "Christian Science".
2. There is a second pun about "Christian Science Monitor"--are they Christians who are monitoring Science, or are the publishers monitoring Christian pseudoscience? (*)
3. To top it all off, "Christian Science" is neither doctrinally Christian, nor scientific.
Ahhh, the power of words.
Cheers!
(*) E.g. Christian 'pseudoscience' might by YEC and Leftist 'pseudoscience' might be Kyoto treaty.
The Monitor has long been regarded as a pretty good newspaper. I'm not a mormon, but they are the only ones producing good music on TV.
They do seem to have more problems with the FAX machine connecting other MSM outlets to the DNC, if you catch my drift.
I was just having a good pun...
I guess when the left does it, it's "raising questions" and "creating awareness." When the right responds, well, then it's "politicizing science."
More and more the left is looking like "The Emperor's New Clothes." A bunch of third-rate useful idiots being led by pseudo-intellectuals, the whole lot of them blissfully unaware of how foolish they look.
(steely)
The so called "Christian" Science Monitor is more akin to Scientology world view than the Christian world view. Their name is a misnomer. They are neither represent true Christianity nor true science. Semi-pagan leftists, their theology similar to the Unitarians.
You guys really think this is worth a ping to the list? It's just an article promoting a book. I'll deploy the list if you want me to, because (think Lawrence of Arabia) ... I am a river to my people.
The left has been - and continues to be - against science, against rationality. Radical historicism has been where it's at for decades. It still is today, and anyone who insists the left represents "rationality" is either a pedant or a fool.
You're a gay, Arab-loving, motorcyclist? ;^)>
Didn't I just *say* that in point 3 of my earlier post?
;-0
Cheers!
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